2008 Color Trends February 28, 2008
Color Trends - Color trends in fashion and home styles often cross paths. The thing to remember is that trends are always changing, changing with the seasons. Don’t feel pressure to change your home’s color palette every time fashion trends change! The natutral time to change your home colors will happen when you are ready. These changes over time will help create your own personal style. Over time you will have an eclectic look that you can be proud to call your own.
The ultimate source for color forecasting in fashion is Pantone. Click here for Pantone Fashion Color Report Fall 2008 and Pantone Fashion Color Report Spring 2008. My favorite color from the spring report is Cantaloupe!
Hot Colors
- Purple - in fashion and home, purple is the front runner of color.
- Yellow - Yellow is the new orange! Orange will still remain with a presence, but not quite as hot as yellow.
- Blues - varying shades from soft spa blues to robin’s egg blues to deep sea blues. Many nature inspired blues.
- Greens - with all of the buzz about the environment, natural greens are making their way into the home
- Browns -look great with other hot colors, especially the softer colors where black would be too harsh.
Home Accessory Trends - These trends allow you to maintain a conservative color base (neutral floors and walls) while playing with punches of color. These accessories can be replaced annually giving you a complete new look without a huge investment.
- Bright colors - yellows,deep spicy reds, deep sea blues
- Bold stripes - mainly thin multi stripes
- Large scale patterns - big bright oversized florals, animal prints are still hanging around
- Metallics - are still here contrary to previous forecasts. Perhaps the addition of pearl finishes and continued success of mirrored finishes are helping the metallic finishes stay around. Metal finishes are leaning more towards patina finishes rather than bright, shiny finishes.
Kitchen Trends
- Wall colors - either soft colors to compliment any cabinet color whether it be stained light finishes or dark finishes or painteds color or bright bold colors to add life and punch to your kitchen walls.
- Backsplashes - adding a backsplash can give you an updated and stylish face lift to your kitchen
- Cabinets - New multilayered finishes are taking center stage with painted finishes, distressing, glazes and rub through finish techniques.
Tile Trends
- Metals - copper and stainless tiles compliment appliances, countertops in traditional and contemporary kitchens and baths.
- Glass - glass accents from mosaics, to single accents, to full walls and backsplashes in glass tiles
- Faux hardwood tiles - these tiles are great for rooms with a lot of water and moisture where hardwood might not be the most practical choice.
- Window frames - a new trend is to remove a pictures window casing and replace with tile.
For more information on color trends including Kate Spade Noel Coal Pantone bags and 18 colors of Softbank cell phones, see what one of my favorite new sites COLOURlovers has to say.
Other trend reports:
Hunter Douglas reports on what’s in style for window coverings for this winter.
What’s new with Crossville Ceramics
Ann Hurley’s Trend Insights - 2008 on Flooring The Consumer
Sherwin Williams Lifestyle Collections: 2008 Color Forecast
HGTV Color Trends 2007: Comforting and Exciting Hues
Apple.com - In my opinion, they are as in touch as Marc Jacobs!
2008 Color Trend Podcast
MSNBC.com - I trust them as a Today Show junkie!
Flooring Trends Blog
There are great glass, faux wood, and metal tiles available at http://www.statementstile.com…their colors are right on par with the trends you mentioned. My favorite glass is called Flow Glass… they also have a mixed color circle glass that would be great for a backsplash -
Tiffany