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

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interior green hallway bench seat and shelf.

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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.


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

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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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Kinship

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

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The popular soft ultra-pure white of Southern Alps is the ultimate choice for interiors and exteriors. It is ideal for walls, ceilings, trims and features such as fretwork and window frames. The freshness of Southern Alps will brighten any space and give it a luxe modern vibe.


Southern Alps

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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Create the Look | Essential | Dulux Colour Forecast 2018

Natural materials, finishes and textures that carry a modern, understated vibe are at the core of successfully creating the Dulux Essential look with inspiration from interior designer Bruce Summers.

Dulux Colour Forecast 2018- Create the look: Essential

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Bruce Bay is a beautiful warm greige that is perfect inside on main walls, accent walls and trims as well as a stunning option for exterior weatherboards. The softness of Bruce Bay pairs well with cool and neutral whites and charcoals such as Ōkārito, Mt Aspiring and Fernhill.


Bruce Bay

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

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Martinborough

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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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

Whakakī Lagoon is a popular soft and muted minty green. Try pairing it with darker greens such as Heaphy Track, crisp white Ōkārito or soft pinks such as Trentham.

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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

Marine Parade is dark moody olive green. It works well with muted grey-greens such as Ōhai and Mangakino as well as soft whites Wairākei and Wairākei Double.

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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.

Bruce Bay is a beautiful warm greige that is perfect inside on main walls, accent walls and trims as well as a stunning option for exterior weatherboards. The softness of Bruce Bay pairs well with cool and neutral whites and charcoals such as Ōkārito, Mt Aspiring and Fernhill.

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Clay Court

Knight Of The Realm

Neutrals are a beautiful grounding colour. They vary in tone and shade and can be dark or light. These versatile colours are warm and inviting and work well both inside and outside the home.

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Ōhaupō

Roys Peak is a welcoming greige with a warm, slightly mauve undertone. Soft and subtle, it is perfect for any space inside the home and looks great when paired with a crisp white such as Ōkārito or Southern Alps on the trim. For exteriors, Roys Peak can be used for walls or trims when using darker greiges and greys. This tranquil colour also schemes beautifully with dark colours such as Rāwene and Glenbrook as well as warm mid-based greiges such as Northlake.

Roys Peak

Purple Balance

Manu Bay is an oceanic green colour that is great for creating a holiday feel all year round. It pairs well with the crisp white of Ōkārito, soft yellows such as Tōtaranui and rich deep blue-greens such as Port Jackson.

Manu Bay

Biro Blue

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

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