Trending Color For Your Home. It's Color in a Nutshell.

What trending colors should I put in my home? 

What are the popular color choices for my home?

If you live in Charlotte, I can tell you the colors that I've been using here that are holding fast. Love this trending palette mostly in the Weddington, Marvin and Waxhaw area of Charlotte where the homes are large and have open floor plans. 

Why do these colors work for these homes? Because they have great room flow (transition well from room to room) and people are looking for colors that are soft yet still hold a bit of hue. Bye bye beiges!

As you know, it's that color forecasting time of year. Now I'm not a big fan of the whole color forecasting process because I just think ALL colors should be highlighted, not just a select few. Besides, when you think about it, how can the forecasters select just a few hues to represent so much? Well, we have to understand that they are just providing “color guides” and we as Designers or homeowners need to tweak them on an individual basis. Having said that, I'm going to share the trending colors that are going strong here in South Charlotte. 

YELLOW

It's soft and creamy but certainly not too bright. It's a feel good color and brings warmth and happiness to any room. I've been using this as a living room color. It looks great with dark wood furniture and brown leather seating. 

GRAY

The perfect sidekick to yellow. It's classy and in the warm tone can be a very cozy color which most of us don't associate with when we think gray. It's not 'shark skin' gray it's more like a warm, humid, foggy morning gray and the absolute perfect combo next to yellow. This color rocks with brushed nickel in the home and black accents. Stunning.

BLUE

Still the number one color choice for just about any room of the home from the Master Bedroom to the laundry room. It's soft and has quite of bit of gray in it. Yes you guessed it! When designing for homes with open floor plans, keep the gray somewhere fairly close to this blue. I used it as a dining room, and adjacent office color. They are friends - keep these colors together.

PURPLE

Fun color! Where do I use it? In the Master Bedroom. It's soft and also is quite gray - no Prince purples here.

BEIGE

Just about out of the color wheel now. Odd I know but people WANT COLOR. Gray seems to be the new beige which is fine with me.

 GREEN

Also a very popular color but certainly greens that contain quite a bit of yellow. So many to choose from here.

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So what do you think? Do you have any of these colors in your home? Would you like to have these colors in your home? Also keep in mind that these colors are very universal to most decors and would compliment many furniture settings and floorings. I love them!

If you live in South Charlotte and would love some new, trendy color for your home, contact me to schedule a color consultation.