2023 Seasonal Trends
How to style your home for summer
The Dulux Colour Forecast Revive palette has energising hues and graphic patterns combined with a playful disregard for decorating rules to welcome in lightness and joy this summer. Colours featured: Dulux Mairangi Bay (walls) and Diorite (trims).
Add curves to enhance flow
Whether it’s a curvaceous sofa, a chubby accent chair, or a rounded coffee table, this summer's look calls for exaggerated curves. Tapping into the latest coloured ceiling trend with selections from the Dulux Revive palette, the previously all-white living room now features a fabulous mash-up of futuristic and retro influences.
Styling tips
Textural contrast: Add depth and interest to your room's décor by mixing different textures, such as boucle armchairs, thick woven rugs, imperfect ceramics, matt finish joinery and touches of high-shine metallics in furniture legs.
Highlight interesting furniture shapes: Having a backdrop in a contrasting colour allows pieces like curvy, statement seating to shine.
Use colour to create warmth
Painting the walls in Herd Street added warmth and character while the lovely, soft blue of Breezy Half was perfect for brightening up this room and making the ceiling appear higher.
Move away from white
The soothing and immersive palette of this tween bedroom balances calm with a sense of fun, ideal for the summer season. With a selection of updated accessories, the room is transformed into a creative haven and unique retreat.
Styling tips
Draw nature inside: Ground your Revive room scheme by emphasising its natural connections; keep window furnishings light to let in light and views, splash out on fresh flowers, and dress your bed with bright, botanical-inspired bedlinen.
Be bold with pattern: Forget the so-called design rules on mixing patterns – have fun combining thick or thin stripes, geometrics, over-sized floral prints and more, all in the one space.
Try unexpected colour combinations
For something a little unexpected, Mairangi Bay was used on the walls while Diorite brightened the skirting boards, window trims and door, rather than traditional white.
Create a colourful vignette
The idea of ‘creating a moment’, whether it’s the perfect Instagrammable photo or a great video backdrop is heavily influencing design trends today. We’ve brought that idea in here with a simple but eye-catching vignette – a powder blue painted sideboard topped with a bright green vase filled with summer blooms that pop against the warm wall in Herd Street, complemented by bold artwork.
Styling tip
Keep artworks casual: Think unframed, abstract and digital artworks casually propped, even overlapping, on a shelf or sideboard.
Add personality to your home
Paint is the quickest and most effective way to add personality to your home – all you need is a few hours to achieve a fresh, summer look. It’s not just walls that can get the colour treatment, even something as simple as painting a door can breathe fresh life into your space.
Styling tip
Add colour in unexpected spots: The element of surprise can be a powerful decorating tool; consider adding colour to doors, ceilings, timber window frames, bookshelves, planters, frames or old furniture.
Wall
Ōkārito
Ōkārito is a crisp, fresh white that goes with almost anything. It is perfect as a main wall colour for exteriors as well as windows and trims. Ōkārito is a versatile white that suits almost any style of home. It is also the most popular white in the Dulux Colours of New Zealand range.
Explore the colours of summer
A vibrant and joyful palette with softer colours such as Breezy Half and Tūrangi bring life to a room and emerging colours such as Diorite and Pharaoh's Gem add a freshness to the palette while warmth is added with Herd Street, Tata Beach and Sergeants Hill. The palette works well with Ōkārito, a cool fresh white perfect for modern, open-plan spaces. Colours featured: Ōkārito, Tūrangi, Sergeants Hill and Tata Beach.
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Colours displayed should be used as a guide for your colour selection. To ensure best accuracy, test your colour choice at home by ordering Dulux Sample Pots and A4 Colour Swatches.