Pantone Peach Fuzz as the 2024 Colour of the Year
Builders Inspires with Unique Paint Solutions for Pantone's Colour of the Year
Outdoor Living is Bright and Easy with Plascon
Introducing colour into your spaces is both easy and inspirational is Plascon’s Colour Combination for 2024, a selection of aquatic hues that bring a sense of calm and optimism.
Trio of Blues Announced as Plascon’s Colour Combination for 2024
The Colour Combination for 2024 looks to the restorative properties of water in times when concerns for our health and that of our planet take precedence, bringing a sense of calm and optimism for a lighter and brighter future.
Colour A Productive Home Office
When it comes to choosing Plascon colours for home workspaces, there are a few handy guidelines that can be followed.
Paint Choices Make all the Difference in a Compact Home
An increase in interest rates and the higher cost of living is putting pressure on everyone to re-examine their lifestyle choices, with downscaling being one of the options.
Find Hygge in the Home with Plascon’s Winter Palette
Now, as temperatures drop, Plascon is introducing its Graphic palette, comprising a combination of monochromatic urban hues and sleepy darks that engender feelings of comfort and serenity.
Plascon Announces its 2nd Annual Colour Combination of the Year
They say home is where the heart is, and in the case of Plascon’s Summer 22/23 palette, home is where the paint is, too!
Plascon Announces its 2nd Annual Colour Combination of the Year
The ochre-hued Plascon Colour Combination 2023 brings joy to spaces with light, uplifting hues.
Downsizing your Home? Make any Living Space Look Larger with Colour
Here are some tricks of the trade that can make smaller rooms bigger.
Plascon Offers Tester Pots to Solve your Wall Colour Woes!
Plascon Tester Pots is a dinky-sized dose of paint choice relief and you can purchase a small amount of paint and create one or a few larger swatch patches on your walls before you commit to painting the entire room.
How To Hack Your Mood Using Colour
The paint on your walls doesn’t just function as fun mode of self-expression, but it can also deeply influence the mood of your guests, help decrease stress, and even improve your sleep patterns.
Decorate With a Touch of Green
Known for its ability to bring about a sense of calm, adding just a touch of green to your home interior will help you to feel restful and emotionally safe, despite all the turmoil that surrounds us.
What is the Most Popular Decorating Colour?
The most popular colour for 2021 has been used in kitchens, bathrooms, living rooms and bedrooms and it continues to gain popularity due to its vibrant freshness, cool hues, and its ability to complement other colours.
Plascon Colour Combination of the year for 2022
Nature is calling with the Plascon Colour Combination of the year for 2022, featuring earthy Africa-inspired hues
Choosing the Right Paint Colour for your Home Shouldn't be Difficult
If there is one thing that stumps everyone when decorating a home, it is getting the paint colour right.
Living space in White and Grey
There is nothing more neutral than white and the combination of white and grey creates a truly dream-like setting for any style of home.
Decorating With Black and White
The classic combo of black and white is a timeless look of elegance and sophistication and allows you endless versatility whether used on their own or in conjunction with other colours.
What Colour would you like for your Kitchen?
With painting a kitchen being the latest trend for a kitchen makeover, what colour would you like to paint your kitchen?
The Dark Side: Decorating with Dark Walls
Not everyone likes to decorate their home with white or light colours, many prefer the darker side with moody colours and dark hues.
Hues and Shades of Grey for Decorating Any Home
Grey has been a popular colour for decorating a home for some time and there are many different hues of grey that you can use in rooms that are cool or warm or to create a relaxing atmosphere.
Plascon’s Spring colour palette ignites the hope of new beginnings
Plascon has captured a feeling of optimism and created a colour palette to inspire and soothe as we embrace this season of fresh starts.
Decorate With A Neutral Colour Palette
Soothing, calming and relaxing, decorating with a neutral colour palette has its advantages for the modern home.
Why You Should Buy More Paint Than You Need
Today I learned a valuable lesson in why you must buy paint in batches - more paint than you need - and also why I should follow my own advice!
Plascon Winter Colour Palette
Snuggle up this winter and warm your home with Plascon’s new winter colour palette.
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As we head towards autumn and the evenings start to cool and leaves start to change colour, Plascon looks to Mother Nature’s Autumn guise for inspiration.
Is Greige Your Favourite Wall Colour?
As one of the most popular paint colours for walls in a home, greige provides a neutral backdrop for decorating with a cool or warm undertone.
Everything Is Sunny With Pantone's Colour Of The Year For 2021
Infusing the future with a dash of hope, Pantone's Colour Of The Year, two colours, in fact, will brighten your home and your mood with a sunny disposition.
How To Warm Up A White Dining Room
Despite colour trends, many homeowners still prefer to use white as the main colour when decorating a home, but how do you add warmth to a white dining room.
What Colour Should I Paint My Home?
From the Colour Of The Year to seasonal colour trends and more, everyone wants you to paint your house interior in a particular colour, but what if you prefer to use your own colour choices?
Summer hots up with Plascon’s palette of super-fueled colours
Now that those lazy, hazy crazy days of summer are on the way, things are getting hot and so is the latest Plascon colour palette. Plascon has put together a palette of sizzling colours that’ll warm up any interior…
Sophisticated spring colours
If it's time to give the interior of your home a new coat or two of paint, some wonderful paint hues are waiting to fill your home with brightness, warmth and fresh spring appeal.
Soothing Spring Colour Palette From Plascon
A soothing Spring colour palette is just what we need, says the Plascon Colour Advice team.
How To Decorate A Home Using Classic Blue
Pantone's Colour Of The Year - Classic Blue - is the perfect colour for creating a home that is fresh and cool for the hot spring and summer months ahead.
Does Exterior Paint Colour Affect Interior Temperature?
Did you know that the paint colour - or material - on the exterior of a house can directly affect the interior temperature of a home?
Use Colour Palettes – And Create Exclusive Interior Styled Spaces
Being in one space for an extended period such as lockdown, puts a spotlight on your surroundings and often stimulates new insights for creativity and the use of colour.
Creating a Sanctuary at Home
This winter, don’t be afraid of the dark when it comes to interior trends, says the Plascon Colour Advice team.
Be Smart When Choosing A Colour to Paint
Colour trends come and go every year, but a smart homeowner chooses a paint that looks good - for a long time!
Classic Blue - Pantone's Colour for 2020
With hues of blue on the cards for quite some time, it's no surprise that Classic Blue is Pantone's Colour of the Year for 2020.
Living Rooms Go Bold
If you are looking for ways to add pops of accent colour to your living room, read on...
Trendy Colours for Home Interiors
Choosing the right colours for decorating a home can be tricky... Do you want a cool, soothing palette prefer warmer hues?
Gorgeous paint colours for Spring/Summer 2019
With the arrival of spring, many homeowners are looking to refresh their home, and these are just a few of the gorgeous paint colours that are trending for Spring/Summer 2019.
Choose the perfect Colour Palette for your home
See how easy it is to select the perfect colour palette for your home interior based on mood and atmosphere.
Plascon's Golden Yellow - Beeswax Candle
Plascon’s sumptuous golden yellow Beeswax Candle (Y1-B1-1), part of their 2019 Colour Forecast’s Luxury colour story, is an autumnal hue reminiscent of the mid-century period.
Plascon Primary Hues to beat the Winter Blues
Plascon's Urban colour story’s wintry grey neutrals peppered with perky primaries is the ideal palette to beat the winter blues.
Shades of Autumn to Cocoon Your Home
Plascon’s Luxury colour story from their Colour Forecast 2019 provides the ideal palette to achieve this look and feel and it’s perfect for welcoming the Autumn months too.
Add a Statement to your Living Spaces
Barn doors are still a popular trend for homeowners, and in this feature we show you how easy it is to add a statement feature with a barn door finished with Rust-Oleum Coral spray paint.
Colours for summer interiors
This year trends are pointing towards glamorous, bold & stimulating interiors that relieve stress & enable better focus.
Go Nude this Valentine's Day!
Forget red this Valentine’s Day! This February we’re loving dreamy, optimistic Nutmeg Dust.
Steel yourself this year with Plascon Silver
Plascon have selected steely Silver (38) as our January colour of the month and the colour to prepare us for the new year.
Choose Paint Colour for a Home
If you've decided that this year is the year to give your home a makeover, how do you go about choosing the perfect paint colour for walls?
Living Coral - Pantone 2019 Colour of the Year
Living Coral is Pantone's 2019 Colour of the Year - a warm hue that gives a sense of comfort to any home.
Plascon and Dulux announce Colour of the Year for 2019
We've seen some drastic colour changes this year with Pantone's UltraVoilet and trend spotting Gen Z Yellow, but Plascon and Dulux have selected a muted neutral hue for their colour of the year for 2019.
Gen Z Yellow is the new Millennial Pink!
Move over millennial pink, it's time for Gen Z Yellow to take the spotlight.
Bold and beautiful - colour your home
Why settle for bland and boring when you can live in full colour. Be inspired by these colourful home interiors.
Warm up white interiors
Decorating a home in white is practical and timeless, but all-white living spaces can be monotonous. Here's how to warm up white with wood and metallic accents.
Add a touch of gold to your home
Gold, a warm and luxurious colour, is a winning choice for an interior update. Gold symbolizes extravagance, good health, and wealth. Add some gold to your life if you are seeking success, relaxation, enjoyment of life, or an increase in personal power.
Pantone Colour of the Year 2018
Provocative and thoughtful, Ultra Violet is Pantone's colour of the year for 2018.
Colour Mistakes to Avoid
When choosing paint colour for a room - or for your entire home - you want to get it right. But sometimes it can end up matchy-matchy, or bland more than monochrome. We asked paint experts, Prominent Paints, to give us a few tips.
Quick Tip: Confident with colour
Choosing the right colour scheme can be both exciting and scary. A well-designed interior incorporates a variety of colours, in the right proportions, for a good balance.
Decorate with Sage Green
Decorate your living spaces with sage green. It's a colour that is ideal for both warm and cool rooms and works beautifully with other hues.
Decorate With White
There are those that love to decorate their home with neutrals and there are those that prefer to use bold colours. But white remains the popular choice for decorating a home.
Spotlight on Copper
One of the most popular hues trending at the moment is copper - elegant, chic and bright. Rust-Oleum have a range of metallic spray paints that make it easy and affordable to add copper elements to a home.
Colours that sell a home
There was a time when it was recommended you paint a house white from top to bottom when putting up for sale. Nowadays there are a variety of soft, muted hues that give a home a fresh and inviting feel.
Decorate with black
Decorating with black is back, and what better way to add refined sophistication to living spaces.
Warm colours for Autumn
The cooler weather is on its way and we will soon be spending more time indoors. In this feature we look at how you can use colour to make a home feel warm and cosy.
Decorate with grey and pink
We love shades of grey, but decided to put a feminine spin on it by adding splashes of pink to a predominantly grey colour palette.
Shades of Grey to love this Valentine’s Day
Grey is an elegant neutral and really easy to work with in a decorating space. As a colour choice, grey has many virtues – one of which is its ability to hide flaws – smudges and fingerprints.
Greenery - Pantone Colour of the Year
Every year we feature Pantone's Colour of the Year, for 2017 Pantone selected Greenery as its Colour of the Year.
Summer colour... coral and teal
Coral and teal or soft aqua bring pastel colour to any home without the saccharine sweetness of many other pastel hue combinations.
Forget chevron... go with zigzags!
If you still haven't built up enough energy to paint walls with a chevron pattern - hurray! Chevron is out and zigzags are a fun way to use paint to add fun detail to walls, especially in a child's bedroom.
Blue-on-blue for spring looks
Last year's 'blue blocking' trend continues to be popular and is perfect for decorating in coastal style or simply for giving a home a fresh, new look.
Decorate with pink and blue
If you are looking for a way to add a touch of soft summer colour to your home, think about combining pink and blue.
Expert advice for painting a home interior
Paint is a simple and effective way to revive your home and give it a new look. Whether you choose neutral or colour, a fresh coat of paint instantly refreshes and updates a home.
Enhance metallic elements
If you are thinking about redecorating your home and looking at colour choices, we offer a collection of beautiful colours that enhance this year's trend for metallic accessories.
Colourful children's bedrooms
Children love colour, whether it's bold, primary colours, or more muted pastel shades. We put together some ideas for decorating a children's bedroom using both bold and pastel colours.
Pantone - Not one but two colours this year!
Every year Pantone chooses a colour of the year, but this year it presents two colours for 2016 - Rose Quartz and Serenity.
Don't be afraid to introduce colour to a home
South Africans tend to be very cautious about introducing colour into the home. By nature we tend to gravitate towards more traditional styles, but perhaps it's time to step outside your comfort zone and dare to be different.
Decorating with muted or neutral hues
I came across Urban Grace Interiors while researching for decorating with muted or monochromatic hues, since not everyone wants a home splashed with bold colours.
Keep your home cool in summer in shades of blue
If you decorate using colour psychology as your guide book you will know that blue is a colour that cools and soothes. We put together a collection of blue room; from bathrooms to living rooms, blue is perfect for our hot summers.
Fade to black... decorate with black
Not many would be bold enough to paint a wall in flat black, but black has a way of introducing a level of drama and impact that no other colour can do.
Use earthy colours and organic materials to warm up a home
During the autumn and winter months many homeowners find themselves looking for ways to warm up a home that won't increase the electricity bill and is easy to achieve.
Fluorescent hues for vivid colour
The Rust-Oleum range of fluorescent spray paints are easy and fun and can add instant colour to decor accessories, walls and trim, and even furniture.
50 Shades of grey
With the movie 50 Shades of Grey due to hit the circuit this weekend to tie in with Valentine's Day it seemed appropriate to look at how shades of grey don't have to be bland but can inject just as much personality as other neutral shades.
Pantone Colour of the Year
Pantone Colour of the Year, Marsala is a subtly seductive shade, one that draws us in to its embracing warmth.
Use colour to add personality to home
While I still love the look of neutral and monochromatic colour schemes, to me a room without colour is a room without personality!
Family home filled with colour
After living with a floor plan that just didn't work for this family, the walls between the tiny kitchen, dining room and sunroom were knocked down to create a large open plan space that is filled with colour and light.
Plascon colour palette for 2015
Everyone eagerly awaits the launch of the annual Plascon colour palette and this year was no exception. Crowds flocked to Decorex for the unveiling of the new Plascon 2015 colour palette and weren't disappointed by the beautiful displays for the new colour trends.
Fresh interior design ideas
With spring just one month away, I decided to revisit fresh white interior design for those who prefer a monochromatic or neutral colour scheme for decorating a home.
Ikea inspired designs - It's all about colour!
The Ikea catalogue for 2014 might offer products that sadly aren't available to us here in South Africa, but that's no reason not to take ideas and inspiration. The new Ikea catalogue is filled with colour, with colour-splashed furniture being the dominating feature.
Cool interiors with shades of blue
Whether you choose shades of pale blue, robin's egg blue, blue with a hint of green, or darker shades of blue, there's no denying that blue refreshes any room setting. Decorate with blue in any room in a home for an interior space that is cool and calm.
Decorate with shades of grey
Decorating with light shades of grey allows you to decorate in so many styles and with so many colour combinations, that grey should be the new white.
Let your home explode with colour!
Stroll through any fabric or paint store and you will discover a kaleidoscope of textures, styles and colours. Not for the faint-hearted, bold colour can be beautiful and exciting. But would you dare...?
Make This a colourful year!
Bring your life - and your home - out of the doldrums with a splash of colour. Whether you use paint or accessories, colour invigorates and refreshes a home and instantly gives you a boost.
Radiant Orchid - Pantone colour
Last year, Emerald was Pantone's colour of the year. For 2014 Pantone have selected Radiant Orchid. Express your creativity and originality with Radiant Orchid - a colour that inspires confidence and emanates great joy, love and health.
Add a coloursplash with painted furniture
You can transform dated or secondhand furniture into a colourful and practical piece for your home. Use bold, bright colours for a children's bedroom, add an ombre touch to a chest of drawers , or doll up a dark piece for a more modern touch.
Decorate with subtle colour
Keep your interiors cool during the hot summer months by selecting a colour palette that is fresh and inviting. We take a look at rooms designed by Muse Interiors, for a glimpse into how subtle colours work beautifully to create timeless interiors that stay fresh during summer.
Decorate in pink and blue
If you are looking for a way to add a touch of soft summer colour to your home, think about combining pink and blue.
Decorate with Second Nature
My favourite colour combination from Plascon's 2014 colour palette is Second Nature. This palette offers a selection of bright greens and blues that bring the vibrant colours of nature into the home. Be daring and paint a wall in your favourite colour!
Decorate with Urban Tribe
Add a splash of vibrant colour to your home with Plascon's Urban Tribe colour palette. This mix of contemporary brights, combined with pure gold and black accents, will add excitement to any home.
Plascon 2014 colour palette
Providing homeowners with a snapshot of what is happening in the worlds of design and interior decoration, the Plascon Colour Palette interprets the most relevant and contemporary colours into easy-to-use, inspiring palettes.
Decorate with your favourite colours
Decorating my own home in a rather eclectic style has made me realise that it isn't always necessary to follow the trends when it comes to colour. If you have your own favourite colours - there's no reason why you can't use these colours in the home.
Beautiful colour inspiration
I have found the most wonderful site - a creative mint - that displays the most beautiful visually colour images. Below are just a few examples of the visual creations you will find on this site, and it's well worth a visit just to see more...
Choose colours from nature
Design Seeds make it so simple to choose paint colours for a home or room decorating project. Print out and take the colours along to your local Plascon supplier and let them mix up your unique colour scheme.
Choose the perfect colour palette
We've put together a selection of modern colour palettes to make choosing the right colour for your home easier.
What's the right colour palette
Are you craving a colourful new look but are stumped about where to start? We asked a handful of designers to share the colour palettes they're using now to give rooms a refresh.
How to choose a colour palette
Choosing a colour palette when decorating a home can be a difficult task, but set yourself up for success by knowing the basics of the colour wheel and how different colour schemes come together to create a harmonious and stunning room interiors.
What's your favourite colour?
A dynamic reddish pink, Honeysuckle is encouraging and uplifting. It elevates our psyche beyond escape, instilling the confidence, courage and spirit to meet the exhaustive challenges that have become part of everyday life.
Use colour to your advantage
With a few tricks of the trade you can use colour to your advantage when decorating spaces that are too small, too high, too cold, etc.
Decorate with teal and lemon
If there are two colours that are meant for each other, it has to be turquoise and yellow - or teal and lemon. These two colours complement each other perfectly to create a fresh and invigorating combination that is calm and serene at the same time.
Plascon Palette
Every year I trudge off to Decorex for the unveiling of the latest colour palette, and every year I am awed by the colour combinations. This year was no different, but I am nicely surprised to find out my new decorating scheme ties in perfectly with the 'Dare' palette.
Choosing the right paint colour
Picking your favourite colour from a paint swatch is easy, but making it work in a real interior is far more difficult as colours do not work in isolation.
Decorate with yellow
With its sunny appeal and versatile nature, yellow is one of the most popular colours for decorating. It warms up a cool room and brightens a dark space, but you need to keep in mind a few guidelines when using yellow, so that it does not overpower.
Decorate with white
White is by far the most popular colour for interior decorating. Why? Is it because it is the colour of joy, hope, innocence and cleanliness. Or that it represents purity, optimism and enlightenment. Regardless of what’s in fashion, no colour is more universally favoured.
Decorating for those afraid of colour
Need a pleasing colour palette for your home decor? Just look around you! From works of art to stylish scarves, gorgeous colour combinations are everywhere. Choose a colourful piece by an artist or designer, and the work is done for you.
Decorate with orange
Orange is the most controversial of colours. Many consider it to be the gauche legacy of the freewheeling '70s. But what an unfair reputation that decade has!
Turquoise - Colour of the year
Combining the serene qualities of blue and the invigorating aspects of green, Turquoise evokes thoughts of soothing, tropical waters and a languorous, effective escape from the everyday troubles of the world, while at the same time restoring our sense of wellbeing.
Decorate with purple
The paint colours you choose for your walls sets the tone for the decor in a home. If you haven't recently decorated, give your home a new look. Pretty purple accessories can add a punch of liveliness to any room.
Classic decorating colours
Colour palettes may change each season, but classic colours remain true favourites. These are colours that can be used in a home that will not age over time.
The art of using accent colours
Certain colours innately evoke different memories, thoughts or moods. If your home is laced with walls that are too white or overbearingly dark, details in your décor can change everything.
One room - three different colour palettes
Southern Living transformed one room using paint colour and accessories to give three completely different looks, showing just how much difference colour can make to any room in a home...
Decorate a home to sell - choosing colours
When decorating a home for sale - or staging a home - one of the most important rules of thumb is to view your home from a buyer's point of view. Apart from furnishing, the wall colours you choose have a big impact on how a room feels.
Using the 60 30 10 principle for decorating
The paint colours used in room settings always seem so perfect. Interior designers and decorators make use of the 60-30-10 principle...
Decorating for the colour blind
Need a pleasing colour palette for your home decor? Just look around you! From works of art to stylish scarves, gorgeous colour combinations are everywhere.
Tips on how to use a colour wheel
Choosing paint colours can be a confusing experience, leaving you racked with indecision as you peruse paint swatches and try to figure out which colours will look perfect on your living room wall.
Picking The Best Paint Color For Your Home
Experts have found out that 60% of our decisions to objects are based on their color, and choosing the right paint color for your home is essential.
3 Paint Trends For 2021
If you are thinking about painting the interior of your home and you're not sure which colors to choose, we've compiled a list of three paint trends for 2021.
The Best Colors for These 5 Rooms and Why
It turns out that there's a reason specific colors match interior spaces like the kitchen, bathroom, office, etc.