The most fashionable new paint colours for your home
Make way for navy blue, refreshing green and a white that looks right in every room
Bleu Sarah, Hague Blue and Arras Red are all colours of the moment
With bank-holiday season in full swing, now is the time to decorate. Paint is one of the most cost-effective ways to transform a room and it’s been in more demand than ever during the lockdowns, as we’ve saved on holidays and high heels and spent on our homes; so much so, some brands reported increases in sales of 300 per cent last spring and summer. If you’re planning on giving your walls a new coat of colour, here are six on-trend shades to have on your radar.
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Carrie Symonds and the rise of the Soane ranger
Carrie Symonds is said to be redecorating 10 Downing Street, with Lulu Lytle’s Soane brand as the inspiration, but are you a Soanie too?
2 March 2021 • 7:35pm
Lulu Lytle’s Soane Britain brand is reportedly a favourite of Carrie Symonds
I may not have a Zoom hotline to Downing Street, but I could have guessed that if Carrie Symonds were going to undertake a redecoration programme in the Prime Ministerial quarters, then it would be to Lulu Lytle and the aesthetic she’s honed as co-founder of design label Soane Britain that she’d turn for inspiration.
Circumstances have compelled us to look at our homes anew, and we are not always liking what we see.
An outbreak of interior ennui is spreading, for which decor guru Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen blames the overuse of beige, or greige (grey-meets-beige) paint.
This neutral palette promises to deliver a chic Scandi look. But the result can be more mid-Eighties building society , according to Llewelyn-Bowen, a lover of exuberance in domestic style who is a guest judge on BBC2 s Interior Design Masters series.
Elegant: Living room walls in Invisible Green by period paint specialist Edward Bulmer
However, there are signs that a rebellion has begun against greige in all its guises, and the off-white and cream tones, plus what used to be the all-invasive magnolia.