Colour Trends For 2025

Each year a team of top international design experts come together to discuss world wide trends. This is then translated into a colour scheme, then they compile a colour of the year with supporting colour palettes. They have selected a range of colours they think will be the trend throughout 2025.

What Is The Trend Colour For 2025

The colour of the year 2025 is…… 40YY 49/546 (also known as True Joy™).

“Inspired by local cultures around the world, our proud colours are created to celebrate the rich heritages that make us unique from one another. From the deep reds in Chinese culture to the dark greens of Africa, each colour allows us to feel rooted in our identities. A place where anyone can feel at home. ” 

“THIS YEAR
This year, there’s a growing sense across the world that life must be better elsewhere. In times like these, there’s a desire to break free, press reset and welcome in the new.
This change allows our imaginations to run wild and gives us the chance to create something new and exciting.
Everyone just needs to believe it’s possible. That’s where our Colour of the Year and three new
colour palettes come in.”                     

Quote from Dulux.

You can see more of this years colour schemes here:
See more of this years colour of the year and colour schemes.

Paint Calculator

If you would like to use the colour of the year (40YY 49/546) or any other colour you need to buy and need to work out how much you need to buy, use my Paint Calculator.

Other useful links

Here are some further reading links:

• • Past years Colour trends from Property Decorating
  • Dulux Trade Expert True Joy™.
  • COLOURFUTURES™ 2025 brochure
  • COLOURFUTURES™ 2025

  Video from Dulux YouTube channel.

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Painting And Decorating in and around Southend For 30 Years

March 2023 sees the 30^th year of my decorating career. It was thirty years ago this month that I first picked up my paint brushes and rollers and started painting and decorating. I have worked in a few places around the UK during this time, but I prefer to stay close to home, here in Southend on Sea and the surrounding areas.

Over the past 30 years of painting and decorating I have seen a lot of changes, not only in the painting industry but the economy also, as we all worry about the current living costs here in the UK, and further afield the war in Ukraine. And of course how the pandemic, Covid-19, changed many things for us, including work practises and day to day living. We have all had uncertain and hard times, but I’m still here and ready to decorate your property. So if you would like some work done, contact me for an estimate.

I have undertaken commercial work as well as residential work in my career and painted properties from warehouses to high street shops, to mansion houses, but most commonly I decorate residential properties, just like yours.

Styles and fashions continually change, and over the past 30 years there has been styles come and go, and come around again. Colours change as fashion does, and if you want to know the colours for 2023 have a look at my colour trends for 2023 post .

Painting And Decorating Website And Blog

Over the past eighteen years or so my website has had many designs, and my blog has grown and grown with many posts explaining how to decorate, how things are done and product reviews, with now in excess of 120 posts.

I also created and written the code for four materials calculators, a wallpaper calculator, a ceiling paper calculator, a tile calculator and a paint calculator, these have proved to be very popular with lots of hits per day with people working out their materials. These are used not only by DIYer’s but tradesmen also.

I enjoy writing blog post’s, although I don’t blog as much as I did for several reasons, but I like helping people who want to do painting and decorating or DIY jobs around the house but are not sure how to go about it. I find this very rewarding.

New Media

I continue to use social media, you can find me on Facebook, I also have a LinkedIn page, also a YouTube channel.

I can’t believe it has been 30 years, I would like to thank my past, present and future clients for their custom and continued support.