Which color is the leading color at the moment? Peach Fuzz, the Pantone color of 2024? Hints of peaches and melons are picking up some interest in interior design. Some walls are getting those colors, and some vases and lampshades pick up the color, but nothing major. Is Sherwin Williams right, Benjamin Moore, Glidden? Kona? All these companies are all over the place with no consistency in their recommendations. 

The trend is making a little curve: who says that it has to be one color that is the winner? I would dare to say that at this moment we don't have one color that is the leader. What we do have is Color with a capital C! Last year's Pantone color was Viva Magenta, and I wrote in a blog at that time that it probably wasn't going to be so much the color Magenta that was important. Important was "Viva". That has become the case indeed. After years of super clean whites and overused grays, we were ready for color! We can't keep the house as clean and uncluttered as during the Covid years. All those houses and walls looked the same. Now there is room for some personal style again, some collectives, some decorations that make your home yours. The swing is being made in full: The trend at the moment is multi-colored. Busy, Bohemian, eclectic, moody colors and it all comes together in the marketing with the use of bookcases. Library look. All these books have different covers, you see bits and pieces of colors,  and together the patterns of the bookcase are busy! Yes, it is a unit, the shelving holds all these books together. Who cares if these books can collect dust? They also can introduce you to hours of relaxing in a comfortable chair, travels to interesting places, and the complicated lives of others in the past and future. Books have and can bring life knowledge. And so we see the change. Busy and multi-colored is coming from flat and neutral. Wallpaper with designs takes over solid walls. Tiny prints are taking over solids. and one light-dominant color is being replaced with a palette of much darker colors. It also will mean that all the more monochromatic colored quilts are becoming a little bit more dated. For years we have made Bargello quilts moving from for instance teal into blue with close steps, making the blending as perfect as possible.  The newest quilt patterns are looking for a much more outspoken contrast.

It just hit me how much we are going for this in fabric because take a look at the colors of this bookcase nested in those warm beige walls. It has very much the same feel as the new Field Cloth collection by Sew Kind of Wonderful for Free Spirit, a collection that I pointed out to you earlier because of its tiny prints that are being used in big blocks. Sew Kind of Wonderful is so good at where the trend is.

Two weeks ago Motley by Guicy Guice shipped to stores interested in carrying trendy fabrics. I wrote about the tiny designs 2 blogs ago. Here now you see the most important new colors together in a collection and combined with a tiny or minimal design. Fabulous job, Guicy Guice!