Pantone and Fashion Week’s in Cities all over have been gearing up and announcing the 2022 four seasons color palette collection to prepare and ready you to trend up. The same is true for the usual household name paint brands and interiors. As they duke it out for their creative interpretation to win 2022’s color of the year. Here is what they have declared as the winning colors:

• Benjamin Moore, October Mist
• Sherwin-Williams, Evergreen Fog
• Behr, Breezeway
• PPG, Olive Spring
• Farrow and Ball, Breakfast Room Green
• Valspar, Blanched Thyme

I think it’s going to be a refreshing and much-needed balanced zen-like color. Just when you’ve put your Zoom room-home-office-home-school-room just the way you want it, it’s time to repaint and make it your meditation yoga spa scream and let it out room. Everyone back to school! Back to the real office! Get out of my hair! The room is mine. Mine I say. (Sorry, had a moment). Guess I should go get some green calming paint. Those crystals aren’t working anymore.

Silliness aside, I think it’s a perfect choice. We need fresh. New. Calm. Breathable. And, energizing. Time for something new. Green is also a known color for representing communication. For you yogi-chakra-loving folk, depending on which teaching you follow, it’s the color for the heart. Psychic color expert, Dougall Fraser, states “It expands our innate ability to adjust and perceive things differently”, bringing green into your life “you’ll be more flexible to change and will easily find ways to adapt or make them better.”

From Food52:

“While the shades vary slightly in tonality, they all feel overwhelmingly similar in what they represent—a return to the simplicity of a bygone era; the soothing aspect of nature and time spent in the great outdoors; an invigorated focus on protecting the planet we inhabit. The 2022 Color of the Year selections speak to our collective outlook towards all that faces us in our post-pandemic life: a cautious optimism and hope for better days.

From a design perspective, green is about as versatile as it gets. Known to evoke notions of growth, renewal, and security, it can play well with nearly any decor vibe out there—from mid-century modern and traditional, to farmhouse rustic and Scandi-chic. Whether you turn to little pops of color or all-over hues, green adds a dose of considered elegance to our homes in ways big and small. If you’re not looking to paint your walls or cabinets right now, consider playing with the hue through accessories like throw blankets, pillows, and even lamps.

I sincerely hope 2022 brings us the year these colors represent: one filled with peace and tranquility, an appreciation for the little things, and a fresh perspective of the beauty this world offers us.

https://food52.com/blog/26707-interior-color-trends-2022

With colder days ahead, and our attempt to resume back to the holidays as normal, it’s a great time for those indoor nesting projects. Especially if you have future plans to sell your home in 2022’s Spring Market. Try sprucing up a room in your home with one of these colors to not only give it a refresh, but an on-trend, updated modern feel that many eager Buyers are seeking. Paint is a low-cost, elbow-grease upgrade that can easily add a little extra return in your pocket. It also doubles as a check-in to see if you need to repair any holes in the walls or chipping paint.

If painting the walls of the entire room is not in the cards, you could also try an accent wall that is now making a come-back. Here are 5 other simple things to incorporate on-trend color staging into your home:

• Replace old pillows and throw blankets with new fresh ones
• Try a DIY reupholster of an old chair for accent
• Upgrade bathroom and bedroom linens, or possibly curtains in the living room
• Dare to update the fireplace hearth and mantel
• And for bigger impact and return: go for the on-trend two-tone kitchen cabinets. Green below, white up top.

My personal favorite to incorporate green? Plants. As many of them, please!

If you have any questions about whether you should fix up your home, or sell as-is (and what that really means), I’m happy to do a no strings attached helpful expert-neighbor assessment of “should do vs. leave it the heck alone”. You can drop me a line here https://angeldrinkwine.johnlscott.com/contact

*Feature image: By Farrow-Ball