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Dulux Colour Trends 2018 – Essential Palette. Styled by Bree Leech. Photographer: Lisa Cohen.

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Green lounge and marble fireplace - Reflect

Dulux Colour Trends 2018 – Essential Palette. Styled by Bree Leech. Photographer: Lisa Cohen


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Fluffy chair. Dulux Colour Trends 2018 – Essential Palette. Styled by Bree Leech. Photographer: Lisa Cohen

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Dining room in Dulux Wash&Wear® Forbidden Forest from the Colour Forecast 2018 Reflect palette. Dining room with black marble mantle and fireplace, black dining table and high ceilings

Smoky Quartz

The organic light khaki of Herbalist provides a sense of comfort in your home with its warmth being especially great for main walls and living areas.


Herbalist

The deep rose hue with a pinking undertone of Terra Rose can brighten up a space and add some life. It can add to an opulent and tastefully elegant colour palette in your favourite room. It pairs well with the moody Biro Blue and classic warm White Exchange Half.

Terra Rose

For more details on the products and colours featured in our 2018 colour trends, read our digital magazine.

Want to see more of the Kinship trend?

The Escapade trend channels a tropical holiday vibe with a heady combination of saturated colours, thrown into relief by cool mints, deep teals and powdery pinks.

Escapade Colour Palette

Escapade Palette

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Dulux Colour Forecast 2018 – Kinship Palette | Dulux

Dulux Colour Trends 2018, Balance. Kinship. A rich, earthy palette to fill your home with warmth and positivity. Bring the latest Dulux Colour Trends into your home.

Dulux Colour Forecast 2018: Kinship

Purple bedroom wall with white marble fireplace 

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Pip Brett of Jumbled re-imagines the Escapade look with bold block colours and clashing patterns.

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Vivid White™ is a pure clean white that is perfect for creating a clean, contemporary look. It is the ultimate choice for modern interior walls and trims and is also ideal for exterior features such as fretwork and window frames. The crisp freshness of Vivid White™ will brighten any space and give it a luxe modern vibe. 


Vivid White™

Dulux Wash&Wear® is ideal for all interior walls including high traffic areas such as hallways and family rooms and where minimal light reflection is desired. Wash&Wear® 101 Barrier Technology® creates a hard-wearing finish that allows you to wipe away most common marks, scuffs and stains with a wet cloth so your walls will look freshly painted for years.

Orange can radiate warmth and energy and is quite stimulating and thought-provoking. Orange is available in many shades and tones. Burnt orange looks great in formal areas and the lighter orange shades of apricot or peach work beautifully in bedrooms and living spaces.


Tangerine Flake

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Soft Fresco 

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Don’t be afraid to use deep moody blues to add sophistication and elegance to your favourite room.

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Bruised Burgundy 

Spanish Olive is a silvery-grey with beautiful green undertones is a perfect colour for living spaces and bedrooms. It is ideal for creating a lovely neutral scheme and pairs well with warm whites such as White Exchange Half and reddish-brown Clay Court.

Spanish Olive

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Rose Pink Villa

Pinks are versatile, uplifting and easy to decorate with. From serene and sophisticated to deep and jewelled, pinks can brighten up a space in your home. Muted soft, powdery and subtle pinks are perfect for creating a tranquil space in nurseries and bedrooms or as an accent in a room whilst dusty pinks can add interest and work beautifully as a feature wall colour. Hot pinks can be bright and cheerful, great for features inside and out. Deeper pinks are ideal for highlighting key details and perfect for your front door.


Cuticle Pink

The moody opulence of Forbidden Forest makes it the perfect deep jewel tone to set off an elegant look. It is also a great starting point for graduating through its colour family with the inclusion of lighter shades such as Magnetic Green, Aqua Frost Quarter and Aqua Frost Half.


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Colour Forecast 2018 - Reflect. Living area in plush colours, glass side table, gold candleholders and purple glass decanter

1. Table and chair, Stylist’s own 2. Lume Small Vase, Country Road 3. Zanat Touch Tray, Hub Furniture 4. Blume Timber knife & spoon, Country Road

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Dulux Ceiling White provides a flat finish with excellent hiding power, ideal for use on ceilings. The flat finish minimises reflection and therefore reduces the appearance of surface imperfections. Dulux Ceiling White is a low VOC water-based paint and tintable to lighter colours. 

Bondi

The age of intelligence may be upon us, but our romance with the past lives on. As smart technology reshapes our lives, we take the opportunity to reflect on the design icons of our past. Visiting history’s best moments with fresh eyes, we borrow from the legacies of our luminaries to refashion our future.

Colour Forecast 2018

This dark warmer grey with a subtle olive-green undertone is a perfect addition to a moody scheme if you're seeking to transform a project with tasteful elegance. 


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Rose Pink Villa draws on the splendour of jewel tones to contribute to an elegant colour palette. Create an opulent space with main or feature walls or even add to enhance a fusion of eclectic classic style. This sophisticated dark pink is the perfect backdrop to sumptuous furniture and glam decor. It pairs beautifully with the lush Dark Strawberry and muted soft pinks of Bunny Pink Quarter and Bunny Pink Half.

Flooded Gum is a beautiful warm greige that is perfect inside on main walls, accent walls and trim as well as a stunning option for exterior weatherboard and render surfaces. The softness of Flooded Gum pairs well with cool and neutral whites and charcoals. 


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White sofa in a lounge room in Dulux Whisper White

Splendid Coral

Clay Court

Knight Of The Realm

A black dining table upon a blue rug, captured in the shade of a grey wall

A slightly warmer white, Casper White Quarter is a great neutral white that can be used as a main wall colour, trim or an exterior colour. This soft and flexible white works well with many colours including bold dark and lighter shades.


Casper White Quarter

Biro Blue

Dieskau is a welcoming greige with a warm, slightly mauve undertone. Soft and subtle, Dieskau is perfect for any space inside the home and ideal if you're wanting to achieve the Hamptons look with trim in crisp white such as Lexicon® Half or Vivid White™. For exteriors, Dieskau can be used for walls or trims when using darker greige/greys. This tranquil colour also schemes beautifully with the warm dark grey of Klavier and warm mid-based greiges of Teahouse and Stepney.

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Purple Balance

Solution is ideal for creating a holiday feel at home, all year round. This oceanic green colour pairs well with Purple Balance, minty Soft Fresco and the solid blue of Bondi to make feature walls, cupboards and shelving really pop. 


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Interior stylist and writer of The Design Chaser, Michelle Halford, creates a warm, cosy space with the Kinship trend.

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Take a colour vacation. A playful clash of colours helps to brighten your space and feels as good as a holiday.

A blue ottoman on a tiled floor with pinkish rug, maroon wall in Dulux Carmen and striped feature wall in Dulux Cuticle Pink, Bombay Pink, Friends and Carmen. Trims and ceiling in Vivid White.

The stunning grey-violet of Purple Balance adds a light regal touch to your home. It can make feature walls, cupboards and shelving really pop and pairs well with the soft teal of Solution, minty Soft Fresco and solid blue of Bondi.  


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