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tip! Highlight bold colour in artwork and soft furnishings, and don’t forget to add versatility to the scheme with some additional hues such as blue, black or cream.
Dulux Autumn Forecast 2022 – Flourish palette. Styling: Bree Leech. Photographer: Lisa Cohen. Featured artwork: Connor Ives C by Elsbeth Shaw via Studio Gallery; and right, 2021 Serpent Series by Barbara Kittallides
AUTUMN INTERIORS – BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL This season, allow your interiors to provide comfort and connection to your home. As autumn sets in and we move towards spending more time inside the home, Dulux colour and communications manager, Andrea Lucena-Orr suggests using colour to enrich your
senses and create an inviting atmosphere. The Flourish palette – one of three colour palettes from the 2022 Dulux Colour Forecast – harmoniously blends the warm, natural
shades of Dulux Basic Coral and White Dune Quarter with the bold, rich tones of Murray Red and Discretion, to create a welcoming and comforting space where people can relax and retreat. “There are some really beautiful colours in the Flourish palette,’’ Ms Lucena-Orr says. To help showcase the palette and inspire the use of colour in interiors, Dulux colour forecaster and stylist Bree Leech undertook a makeover in an open-plan living and dining space using the Flourish palette. Used primarily for family time but also entertaining, Ms Leech incorporated soft pinks, warm whites and rich reds from the palette to help build on the room’s existing character and features.
“The space is a beautiful, light-filled modern extension in a family home with great architectural details. We wanted to showcase this by using the natural, muted tones from the Flourish palette on the wall as a tonal backdrop to the stronger accent colour and then punctuate the interior with bold, daring colours in the decor to create a more distinct look and feel. “The side table and cabinet feature Red Terra, which works with other red moments throughout to connect the adjoining areas. Adding blue and black accents also helps break up all of the tonality within the room, providing the dining area with a related identity to the open-plan living area.”
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