Is repainting the interior of your home on your to-do list for the new year? For the 2012-2013 season, homeowners are predicted to take the leap into deep and vivid hues this year, according to PPG Porter Paints' Insider's Color Guide. They'll go for colors that stir the senses and set them in motion. Their choices will be the vibrant, optimistic colors that pack a punch and can't be ignored. Their spaces will be full of strong contrasts – heavy and weightless, shadow and light, hot and cold. Bold colors that help them stand out in a crowd and showcase their individual personality.
If you're shopping for paint to update your home décor, one of these four new color palettes may just fit your taste and lifestyle:
Local Revival
This trend is about unplugging from a complicated life and living more simply and in harmony with one's community. Materials are strong and honest classics: leather, wood, aged metal. Design forms are simple and familiar; antique-industrial and retro-mechanical. Folkloric patterns tell the stories of generations. The palette is a mix of red berries, stone gray and solid brown refreshed by a creamy white.
Beauty Queen
This palette speaks to the unapologetically confident. It's the return of glam with a disco sophistication. It's high-intensity color that can turn light and airy on a dime. Lush and mysterious, soft and fresh – the built-in contrasts sensation-seekers want. Ultra-slick surfaces like Lucite and mirrors capture the best spirit of the 70s. Sharp fuchsia pink and juicy purple are softened with cosmetic pink and freshened with this year's brighter teal and white.
Quiet Tech
It's impossible to unplug without a place to escape to, so minimalism is the foundation of this trend. Rooms have visual interest without complication. Details and embellishments are kept to a minimum. Pale and mid-tone wood tones don't overpower the space. Shapes are rounded and tactile to keep rooms from feeling barren or cold. In the palette, ink blues play with earthy and calming neutrals.
Deco Candy
Bringing together vibrant colors and fun design, Deco Candy transforms a home into an intensely joyful playground. A vivid harmony of citrus accented by this year's bright blue, clean green and tangerine, the color scheme is irresistibly optimistic. Stripes and color-blocking bring a sense of organization to what could otherwise be too boisterous a spectrum of hues.
For more information about choosing the right color scheme for your home, visit www.voiceofcolor.com.
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