Top 5 Color Trends for Home Interiors in 2024
Which colors are “on trend” now? Find out the answer to this question as well as why it may be the case with the color and painting experts here at Groovy Hues.
Why Are Certain Colors Trendy and Others Passé?
There are several reasons why certain colors may be currently “in” while others are considered “out”.
It’s no secret that the color of our walls impacts our mood and mental health in subtle but important ways.
It’s also no secret that paint companies and interior designers benefit from homeowners who want to change things up. But more than that, is there something deeper at play?
Elle Décor’s Kristen Flanagan suggests that our collective nostalgia may be the answer. Further, she hypothesizes that “2024’s palette will be dominated by the chromatic hits of the ’90s and early aughts”.
So, while at first glance, taking a look at the list of colors we’re about to provide you might seem scattered between warm colors, cool blues, and rich neutrals, if you look at these trending colors from the above perspective, they make sense!
What’s more, now that we’re more than halfway through 2024, we’d say that her predictions were pretty accurate and that similar colors will remain popular through 2025.
What is the Trendy Color of 2024?
While peach fuzz is Pantone’s color of the year for 2024, here are some of the other top home and interior design color trends of 2024.
While you can certainly pick and choose how and where you use these colors within your home, we’ve provided what we hope will prove to be helpful suggestions for where you might want to paint them in your home.
For instance, brown or warm white are ideal colors to add warmth to a main living space. Blue, meanwhile, might lend a spa-like feel to a bathroom or calm crispness to a kitchen. Black for bedrooms is a particular trend that people have been curious about.
With that said, let’s dive right into some of the most popular trending paint colors for living rooms, bedrooms, and more in 2024 and beyond!
Top 5 Color Trends for Interior House Painting in 2024-2025
1. Browns & Beiges for Living Spaces
Do you remember how popular brown was in the early aughts? We certainly do. Brown kitchen cabinetry, brown carpeting, brown couches, and brown paint were all very in. Beige, too. And while we’ve seen cooler tones like grays enjoy popularity over the past decade or so, it seems that brown is making a comeback in a big way.
So how do you adopt this color trend without making it feel out-of-date? Designer Tara Pallay suggests pairing brown with white as opposed to other rich colors for a fresh and modern take.
Beige makes a fantastic wall color, but deeper, richer browns are ideal for use on statement or accent walls. Browns and beiges are two of the best trending living room paint colors due to the warmth and richness they add to a space.
2. Blues for Bathrooms & Kitchens
Does blue ever really go out of style? Maybe not. Still, variations of dusty blues like cornflower blue, steel blue, and Benjamin Moore’s 2024 color of the year, Blue Nova, are very much on trend right now. So are softer blues, like Shermin-Williams color of the year for 2024,Upward.
Blue pairs well with white, brown, gray, taupe, and most other colors used for kitchen cabinetry, making it a fantastic color for kitchens. Meanwhile, blue is one of the top trending bathroom paint colors because depending on the shade and hue, it can add a spa-like element to any bathroom. We suggest painting your kitchen or bathroom your favorite shade of blue in 2024 or 2025!
3. Black for Bedrooms
Behr’s 2024 color of the year is black pepper, a soft black that borders on charcoal gray.
While this is probably one of those colors you’ll either love or hate, evidence suggests that “black for bedrooms” is one of the top color-related searches people have been curious about specific to bedrooms.
House Beautiful offers up a reason as to why that may be: “The color is an approachable segue into the paint dark side as it melds into practically any design style”.
Like dark brown, Black Pepper can be used in a whole space or more strategically as an accent color.
4. Warm Whites for Any Space
If Jack Harlow’s 2023 song “Lovin on Me” is any indication, “vanilla” has been and will continue a popular color in the collective consciousness for the foreseeable future.
And maybe that’s a good thing!
Sure, the word “vanilla” has become synonymous with “boring” for some, and if you’re not someone who’d ever paint their space white, maybe Black Pepper or Blue or another color on this list is more for you.
Otherwise, you may not want to forsake a shade of white just yet, because white is more than just a ceiling paint color trend.
There’s a reason most art galleries paint their walls white: it’s a clean, neutral backdrop against which other colors can shine.
By painting your walls white, you can play around with more vibrant colors for rugs, couches, drapery, bedding, and other accessories.
For 2024-2025 and beyond, warmer rather than cooler, and crisper whites like vanilla, cream, and linen white are forecasted to remain popular.
5. Tone on Tone Pairings
Tone and tone pairing, otherwise known as color blocking, has been a popular paint color trend in interior design as of late.
Whether you pair a chocolate brown with a lighter mocha or an airy sky blue with a more saturated hue, there are a number of ways you could use this trend.
Need Painting Help? Trust Groovy Hues!
Whether you’re looking to paint your living space one of the above colors or are thinking of choosing another option, Groovy Hues can provide the painting expertise needed to get the job done right the first time.
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