Fall Colors Round Up

Remember my post in February about this fall's color trends?

Have you seen any of these colors around?  I sure have!

I see the Endive, Lagoon, Goldenglow, and some Oyster Gray in these Spanish Glass vases from West Elm.

I see some Purple Orchid and various shades of the warm Oyster Grey in these pillows from Etsy seller PipDesigns.



I see Goldenglow in this gorgeous plate from JennyBlasenPottery!  LOVE the lace design!



Accent pillow from KainKain with Coral, Endive and Oyster.

Fall 2010 Color Trends

Yes, I know it's not quite spring yet, but Pantone now has the Fall color trends available!  Can I tell you how excited I am about them?  By now you probably know that I LOVE color so the fact that the fall colors are not muted, but bright and bold make me giddy!  Aren't they just gorgeous?

If you twisted my arm to pick a favorite I'd have to say the living coral, oyster gray, and endive are some of my favorites.  But the others aren't far behind (except maybe the rose dust...not sure how I feel about it yet.)  What is your favorite color?

Benjamin Moore's Style 2010

Last night I had the opportunity to hear Mary Hoffman, a Color and Design Specialist for Benjamin Moore!  I heard a little bit about Benjamin Moore and their process for choosing their color palettes for the year.

This is one of their color palettes for next year.  I love the European feel to it!  Very clean, chic, and contemporary!

I absolutely love color theory and anything having to do with color.  I find it fascinating that they forecast the colors about 2-3 years out.  So yep, back in 2007 they forecasted that purple would be big this year...and sure enough, we're seeing purple everywhere now!

To choose the color palettes they come up with a theme (or a few themes).  The particular color palette above was based on Ingenuity.  They saw that designers would be using color in unconventional palettes.  Their other palettes were based off of New Luxury and Genesis.  The New Luxury color palette featured rich purples, yellows, oranges, and darker bronze neutrals.  Almost Eastern inspired.  Their Genesis palette featured a much more monochromatic palette which focused on colors found in nature.  Texture was a big factor in this particular color palette to provide some relief from the monochromatic colors.

She talked some about their paint (which I'll share later) but she hid paint chips throughout the store (Pottery Barn) and made it a game of finding them.  She was showing some colors that coordinated, and some new color palettes we would start to see next year.  Mary mentioned that along with more purple next year we'd start to see navy pop up again.  (You heard it here first folks!)  Here are some of the paint chips I found in the store:

We've seen a lot of yellow, grey, white color combinations, but pinks will be added to the palette next year too.

Love how this gorgeous green provides a soft feeling to all the dark wood tones.

Here's some more purple!  Love it with the neutrals and metallics!

Be sure to check out their site!  They've got lots of great resources and inspiration photos too!

Monday Redesign-You Pick

Ok, I'm going to try a little something new for Monday's Redesign!  I need your input!  I'd like to use one of the fall color schemes I put together to do the inspiration board for Monday.  Which one would you like to see?

Let me know 1 or 2!  I'll do an inspiration board based on the scheme with the most votes!

Fall 2009 Color Trends

I LOVE LOVE LOVE color!  If my accountant husband was a little more of a risk taker my house would have lots of color, but right now our compromise is to have be neutral overall with accents of color.  While it's not my first choice I've found that in a way it also caters towards my need for changing out color fairly frequently.  Case in Point:  In the 5 years we lived at our last house, the kitchen was painted 4 different times!  Our current neutral scheme keeps everything coordinated and then I can easily trade out a few pillows and accessories to make the space totally different.  I've been thinking about which colors to go with this fall and checked the color forecast.  I'm loving the palette this fall, especially the brownish greys.  Based on the Pantone Team's predictions here are the colors:

Which one is your favorite?  I'm thinking the earthy scheme would work well this fall for me.

(And yes this is the fashion forecast but look for these colors to display themselves in interiors too!)  This is also your way to be ahead and talk like the pros!  Next year watch for these colors to be huge in interiors, as interior design follows closely behind fashion design.