I’m not one who usually pays attention to paint color trends year by year. Although with my husband being a graphic 
artist, I do know my way around Pantone colors or at least I pretend to. We like to play the game of “What Pantone number is that color”? The boys and I love to give him a hard time. But I digress. Last week, Pantone made news by sharing the 2021 colors of the year. If you think we are out of the “grays” think again. As we have done for the last nine months, we can blame the pandemic for this one also.
Pantone announced the 2021 colors of the year to be Ultimate Gray and Illuminating. Illuminating is a bright lemon yellow that adds some much-needed cheer and life to the ultimate gray that we are used to. According to Pantone these were chosen to exhibit “A MARRIAGE OF COLOR CONVEYING A MESSAGE OF STRENGTH AND HOPEFULNESS THAT IS BOTH ENDURING AND UPLIFTING.”
Not digging the Pantone colors for your next home paint project? Don’t fret, the big names in interior and exterior paint share their trends for 2021 also. There is definitely a commonality between the major paint brands for the year 2021 - think nature, comforting, calming, and inviting shades. Each major brand’s website that I visited had one or more of those synonyms in their headlines. After all, we survived 2020, I think we can agree that we could all use a space to refresh and nurture peace.
Which room will you be painting in the new year?