Surrey BC home painting trends, like fashion, experiences a ceaseless ebb and flow of changing trends. Influenced by media, movies, art, fashion, design, and culture, paint colour trends reflect what’s happening now and in the recent past. Because trends are just that, you might be wondering if it’s safe to use “trendy” paint colours. The answer is “Yes”, and “No”. Surrey BC painters, Blue Chip Painting, offers some tips and advice below.

Who Decides on Colour Trends?

The fashion world is influenced by the colour trend choice that Pantone Color Institute, Executive Director, Leatrice Eiseman, has made yearly for more than a decade. Eiseman is a colour expert, having authored numerous books on colour. The Pantone Color Institute is recognized as the leader in colour systems and has become a standard of colour communication, accepted across diverse industries.

Home or house painting colour trends are chosen by paint companies such Benjamin Moore, Glidden, Sherwin-Williams, and others. Each company selects a colour of the year and colour palette. Because they do so independent of one another, their trend colour picks are usually different.

How are Colour Trends Chosen?

Committees are usually comprised of experts from a variety disciplines. Committee members are influenced by what they see in the world around them from art, architecture, various visual media, and culture. They choose colours that they see cropping up again and again around the world.

Choosing Paint for Your Surrey Home
– Be Cautious with Colour Trends

When choosing your Surrey home’s paint colour, there are a few things you may want to consider:

  • Trends have a short shelf-life.
    Trendy colour palettes are often here today and gone within the next year or two. Because of a trend’s short life, it’s always safer to consider hues within the palette that are “safe” choices. Safe hues tend to be less saturated, less “in your face”. A classic palette of tried and true paint colours won’t seem “wrong” a year or two from now.
  • How should I use trend colours in my Surrey home?
    How you use a colour in your Surrey home is only one consideration; the other is “where” it is used. For home exterior painting, it’s safest to lean toward classic exterior colours. You certainly don’t want to be re-painting next year or two years down the road when that “hot” colour you once loved suddenly seems out of place.Using trendy colour palettes for interior painting is always safer. It’s much easier (and less costly) to repaint a living room than your home’s exterior. Even so, using trend colours sparingly for interior painting is also prudent. You may consider using touches of trend colours on feature walls, or as accents. When you tire of the colour, you won’t be kicking yourself for choosing for every room in your home, because you can easily re-paint the wall or accents.
  • Does Blue Chip Painting recommend home paint colour choices?
    Although we are painters and not designers, we do have a lot of experience with colour. Because colour is a very personal choice, we encourage home owners to research colour trends and view photos of interiors and exteriors. If you have questions, we are happy to provide feedback based on our experience. The advice we frequently give is “be careful with trend colour palettes” or garish colours within those palettes.

Google Searches that will Help You Make Home / House Painting Colour Choices

The following Google searches (particularly image searches) will give you a lot of information and opinions to consider when selecting your Surrey home’s paint colours.

The 2017 Colours of the Year

The following are the 2017 colour of the year choices made by Pantone, Benjamin Moore, Glidden, and Sherwin-Williams.

Pantone: Greenery
Greenery - home painting trend colour 2017		 Benjamin Moore: Shadow
Shadow
Glidden: Byzantine Blue
Byzantine Blue - home painting trend colour 2017		 Sherwin-Williams: Poised Taupe
Poised Taupe - 2017 home painting colour trends

Next month, we’ll look at the colour palettes of the year chosen by these companies.

Can’t Decide What Colour to Paint Your Surrey Home?

If you are having trouble deciding about paint colours for your Surrey house or condo, request a free painting consultation and estimate and be sure to find out more about our residential and commercial painting services on our Surrey painting services page.