Summer colour trends
Create a natural, warm and positive space in your home this summer with colours from the Dulux Colour Forecast 2024 Solstice palette.
Explore our summer trends 2024 for fresh colour ideas for your home.
Add new life to your home with colour
Looking to introduce colours from the Dulux Solstice palette into your own home? Be inspired by the home updated with Dulux Colour Forecast 2024's predominantly white and neutral palette. Dulux transformed a teen bedroom and living room using colour to breathe new life into a family home.
Teen sanctuary
This bedroom features the soft and joyful Jodhpurs, a muted creamy yellow shade that’s ideal for a teenager’s sanctuary.
To create a sense of fun we added coloured bedding with patterns such as checks with features like fringing and embroidery. Quirky lamps and scalloped rug detailing show how using objects provides another way to add pops of colour and texture to your space.
Adding warmth
The perfect sandy neutral of Lama on the walls adds interest to this living room without being overwhelming, making it perfect for open-plan living, especially when combined with Light Rice Half for an interesting highlight on the ceiling.
Reddish-brown shades on furnishings and the cabinetry in Potter’s Pink add extra warmth and make the room feel cosy. Elsewhere, soft blue accents highlight textures and styling pieces, including cushions, the rug, artwork and sculptural vessels.
Mix and match
The Solstice palette has been curated for you, so you can use the entire palette for inspiration and have fun mixing and matching colour. The palette perfectly captures rich warm hues with a freshness and lightness that is perfect for the summer months ahead. Select larger proportions of colours you love and add accent or tonal shades through furniture and decorative pieces.
Dulux colours featured below: Lama (wall) and Potter's Pink (cabinetry).
Transform your home with the Solstice palette
Embrace immersive colour
The hues in the Solstice palette are designed to be immersive, so colour was used for the whole space in this home. Architectural features, cabinetry, ceilings and decorative items were highlighted with contrasting or tonal colours such as pale blues, muted yellows and reddish-brown accents to add contrast.
Walls & Ceiling
Handmade Linen Half
Handmade Linen Half is a warm creamy neutral with yellow and green undertones. It's a great choice if you are looking to add warmth and brightness to a room. Pair it with warm whites such as Natural White® or rich warm browns such as Empty Stage.
Growing confidence
We predict the key Dulux colours over the summer season are set to be Lama, Jodhpurs and Potter’s Pink as Australians become more confident with colour and embracing warm, tonal hues in home decor and fashion.
“Whilst these shades are well suited to bedrooms and living rooms, the hallway or entrance to your home is another great area to invite colour into your home on a smaller scale. This is the first space that guests see and sets the tone for your home. Small changes like painting a plant pot or adding colour behind a beautiful piece of art along the hallway can make a huge impact.”
Lauren Treloar, Dulux Colour Manager.
Choose curves
Soft accents and textures
Warm sun-soaked shades work especially well when accented with refreshing pops of lemon yellow such as Ripe Lemon and sky blues such as Pure Blue and Ocean Surf. Also try decorating with soft and lighter textures such as linen and cotton in bedding and textiles, including throws and cushions, to complete the look.
Trying to visualise your new look?
The fastest way to sample colour is with the Dulux colour visualisation tool available on select colour pages. Instantly visualise new colours, browse different palette options and explore how you can bring your next paint project to life.
Visit the colour pages of our beautiful Solstice palette such as Natural White™ to view the colours in our home gallery for inspiration and get started!
Love your colour
Dulux Authentic Colour®
Only Dulux colour mixed with Dulux Wash&Wear® paint gives you exact colour accuracy to create Dulux Authentic Colour® palettes that look fresh in your home for years.
Deciding on the right colour can be difficult. To help you take on your next painting project, try Dulux colour in your home with sample pots, stickers and A4 colour swatches.
Our expert support team can help with everything from choosing colour, what product is the most appropriate for your job or troubleshooting when something hasn’t gone your way.
