A fresh coat of paint can make your home pop for the 2025 season – and you can do it without breaking the bank.
Research by paint company Dulux has found the new colours you’ll find in the most contemporary homes for the next year, released in their Colour Forecast for 2025.
Analysing global design trends, the 36 colours were selected to represent the need for warmer and more relaxing colours in a home, in response to outside stresses like the cost-of-living crisis.
‘Emerge’, one of Dulux’s three colour palettes for 2025, gives an eccentric but welcoming feel to your home. Picture: Dulux
The forecast is divided into three palettes: Still, Recollect and Emerge. Still represents a calming and soothing colour theme, while Recollect taps into deeper, nostalgic tones. Meanwhile, Emerge takes a brighter approach, with brighter colours across the palette while still retaining a muted theme.
Each palette is meant to connect to a different person’s style – but you should be able to mix and match the colours from each of them.
‘Recollect’ presents a reflective and cooler tone, but still has enough vigour to make your furniture stand out. Picture: Dulux
Often, people think interior design involves a complete redo of your house, repainting walls from top to bottom.
But Andrea Lucena-Orr, Dulux Colour and Communications Manager, said you don’t have to redesign your home to get on this trend: instead, you can start a little smaller.
“You can always paint furniture – especially if you’ve got an heirloom piece that you just wanted to get rid of,” she said. “It’s amazing how just putting colour and paint [into] it just brings it back to life.”
“A lot of landlords have becoming a little bit more open to people painting now … obviously painting the walls is going to give you the biggest impact. But painting large pieces of furniture [like] tables are always good for impact and colour as well, because you’ve got such a large surface.”
‘Still’ is for the people who want to keep their home minimalist, but still want a hint of the season’s relaxing and soothing colours around their room. Picture: Dulux
With the ‘dopamine decor’ trend on the rise, more and more homeowners are finding little items to customise and put in their home, helping their living space pop around them.
“It’s all about that reuse,” Ms Lucena-Orr said. “It does give people a lot of rewards when they’re bringing apiece back to life again, and also saving it from becoming landfill.”
But if you’re a little scared of making big changes to your house, there’s no harm in using one room to experiment.
“I think a lot of people feel a little bit hesitant because they’re worried about people judging them; because colour is such a personal thing,” she said. “If it’s in your bedroom space, that’s your personal space.”
“Once you use colour in a room … you connect to that space a lot better, and it’ll give you emotional qualities that you can’t get from a white space.”
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