Forecast 2009: Colors for Your Home Benjamin Moore

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Benjamin Moore has released their 2009 color forecast called "Colors for Your Home". It's a line of 18 trend colors and according to their experts these hues represent "a craving for simplicity in our lives as we search for refuge from the rough and stormy economy". They add "There’s clearly a trend for homes to be simpler, pared down and offering relief from the pressures and anxieties of the outside world".

Paint Colors Used, from left to right:

1) Dining Room: Black Satin

2) Fireplace Wall: Hodley Red, Dried Mustard & Gray

3) Bathroom: Blue Nose, Blushing Red & Bronze Tone

4) Living Room: Gossamer Blue, Black Satin & Brookside Moss

5) Sitting room: Chantilly Lace, Hazy Skies & White Sand

More Info: Benjamin Moore Colors for Your Home 2009

Comments (18)

I love the rug in that second pic - just makes me want to walk barefoot all the time! Sources?????

That brown, orange and grey painted fireplace is horrible. Please tell me those horrible circa 1975 colours are not making a comeback... the only thing missing is avocado green.

I'm in love with that black dining room and the 4th and 5th rooms...

...but #2 ain't so hot (Who would paint a brick fireplace Brick Red?) and #3 is pretty awful.

Eek, I don't know. This feels like a major miss, Benjamin Moore. In particular that striped bathroom is nasty.

Now how does one make that wonderful wooden chandelier, 5th picture.

I agree ... two and three are been-there, '70s awful!

How is that bathroom simple or pared down? It is the depiction of pressure and anxiety.

That bathroom is horrendous!

We just used brookside moss as an accent color on a wall in the bedroom and on the fireplace, and I love it. (It's two shades up from their avocado and, at least in our rooms, doesn't really read 1970s, or retro.)

Ugh! I wish I wasn't a renter so I could paint a room black!!!

How is black a refuge from the rough and stormy economy? I can't imagine a more depressing room, especially paired with those chartreusy curtains. Five no's from me. Shame, because the furnishings, window and the fireplace in room 2 are spectacular but the colors are heinous.

Dried Mustard = worst paint-color name ever.

agree re 'dried mustard' how about crud for a paint colour?

i'm scared of colour - just did a post on my blog about it. click if you feel inclined and please 'scuse the self indulgence.

http://www.reddoorread.blogspot.com/

The first 4 seem to be there to make you feel RELIEF when you see #5!

If I didn't know (?) that BM was a great paint company, I sure wouldn't be able to guess from these rooms (#5 excepted).

Oops.

love the chandelier on pic #1!!! any ideas on who designed it or where i can find it ....

I love the Black Satin in both the living room and dining room pics. I can see it being soothing, too. It's less austere than bright white, to me.

And hey, my guy likes it too, which is more than most colours I like can say, so I'm rather inspired by this, actually.