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Bring an uplifting and joyful mood into your own space this summer with colours from the Dulux Colour Forecast 2025 Emerge palette.

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Sunny inspiration

Offering inspiration on how to use this palette and bring a sunny mood to your own space, the Dulux team with Bree Banfield, worked their styling magic on a family home. Focusing their attention in the living area, hallway and bedroom which were predominantly white, neutral spaces.

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An abundance of natural light made the bedroom feel open and beautiful. Still the addition of warming brown-based pink of Nile Street on the walls and summer-embracing decor completely transformed the space.

A sense of relief and casualness was introduced to the space from the simple still-life artwork to the beautiful Vintage Lilac painted on the cabinetry under the bay window.

Pops of light yellow in the cushions inspired by Emerge palette colour Hagley Park offset the window and ceiling in Waiau Bay Quarter. As a result, the tonal transformation emits a feeling of pure joy without overwhelm.

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Dulux colours featured: Nile Street (walls), Mechanics Bay (drawers) and Waiau Bay Quarter (ceiling and inside window).
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Joyful colour is key for summer

The light-filled living room was made for entertaining, which allowed the team to create spaces filled with character and connection by painting the walls and ceiling in Piglet.

The adjacent wall provided an opportunity to introduce another burst of colour, so the muted, golden brown of Kereta was chosen to help ground the space and encourage the demarcation of different zones in the room.

Adding contrast to the neutral backdrop, Banfield used bolder colours from the palette in furnishings, curved ceramic objects and coloured glass vessels, including warm, murky greens and muted blues and purples.

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Evocative entrance

To add some character and connection to the rest of the home, the team added colour to the hallway using Hagley Park on the ceiling and Cornstalk on the walls and decorative architraves at the end of the space.

“As a home that’s designed for entertaining, introducing colour to this space was an obvious choice to instantly evoke a sense of fun and wonder, draw you into the inviting space and complete the sunny transformation.”

Davina Harper, Dulux Colour Specialist.

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Opt for relaxed individuality

Create a relaxed, inviting environment with striped patterns, floral still-life artwork, cushions, and side tables alongside free-flowing lines and organic curves. For individuality, add boucle-textured furnishings, modular furniture, and hand-crafted vessels.

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Ranging from soft subtle tones right through to bright pinks, these happy colours can transform a room by creating a sense softness or energy depending on the depth of the colour. Explore the beautiful range of dusty rose pinks to brilliant and dark moody tones to find your perfect colour.

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Ranging from soft subtle tones right through to bright pinks, these happy colours can transform a room by creating a sense softness or energy depending on the depth of the colour. Explore the beautiful range of dusty rose pinks to brilliant and dark moody tones to find your perfect colour.
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Mix and match

Any mix of colours from the palette can be used to capture the trend of Emerge palette. However, a good starting point is to use larger portions of the warmer shades to inspire wall and ceiling choices and bigger furniture pieces. For accents, reference cooler colours within the palette throughout decorative objects, cushions and artwork.

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Whether you’re thinking of using colours from the Dulux Colour Forecast 2025, or just looking for the right white, we know that choosing colours can be tricky. Why not try one of our Dulux colour services to help you with your decision and give you confidence in your colour choice.
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