Dulux Easycare
The Dulux Easycare range will breathe new life into your home. Get a fresh, colourful and trendy new look for any room in your home. Read on for inspiration on how to do just that below.
New Easycare Palettes
Breathe new life into your home with the stunning new range of colour palettes designed by the Interior Colour Team at Dulux. Each palette has been designed to bring something special to your home and give you the freedom to try new colours and shades, alongside some of your trusted favourites. Choose from vibrant 'Eclectic Melody', regal 'Royal Flush', elegant 'A Time of Innocence' or opulent 'A Gilded Age'.
Not sure where to start? Try using a special object; a beloved cushion or painting, as inspiration. With a focused starting point, you’ll be able to plan your palette with ease.
Introducing Wild Wonder
Nature is at the heart of Dulux's new colour of the year – 'Wild Wonder'. Inspired by the Irish landscape, 'Wild Wonder', and its complementary palette of co-ordinating colours, has been designed to flow harmoniously across the entire house. The five colours in this palette are subtle and comforting, creating the perfect quiet and supportive feel for your home.
You can use these natural shades as a jumping off point for the design of the rest of your space, as base tones for example, that will blend well with stronger coloured kitchen cabinets, bright cushions or even timber ceilings or doors. Hopefully 'Wild Wonder' inspires you to create a calm flow through your home and helps you capture the magic of nature.
Bring Colour to Your Workday
With more and more people working from home, the home office can no longer be an afterthought. This is a space that needs to help us to concentrate and be creative. Productivity is something we all crave from our workspace and certain colours can have an impact on our mood and mindset.
Dulux Easycare colours like 'Modernism', 'Papyrus' and 'Freshwater Pearl' bring a feeling of calm to an office space. While adding zones of colour such as 'Faded Indigo' can make it seem fresh, functional, and contemporary. Dulux Easycare range is specially formulated for high traffic spaces, and is both stain repellent and washable. This makes it perfect for a busy home office!
Decorating a Kid's Room
These top tips for painting your child’s room are so clever and fun, you’ll be able to create a perfect space for your little one in no time.
- Choose a scheme not a theme. Children grow out of phases quickly, so keep that in mind before you add stickers or paint characters on your child’s wall. Choose a colour scheme that they will enjoy as they grow. 'First Cuddle' is a great choice to start with.
- Picture this. Add some drama with a mural that will suit a child of any age and can be created easily with low tack masking tape, such as a skyline, using black paint as a silhouette and 'County Blue' for the evening sky.
- Colour between the lines. Skirting and trim is a great place to add colour. 'Pretty Pink' mixed in Diamond Satinwood is a perfect match with 'First Cuddle'.
- Create more space. Remember, warm colours advance and cooler colours recede. If you want the effect of a higher ceiling, opt for Easycare shades such as 'Calm Cloud' or 'Dapple Grey'. These cooler colours will make your interior feel more spacious.
- Get an expert opinion. When it comes to what they want, your child is the expert. Get them involved in the process, listen to their likes and dislikes, sample the colours together and more importantly enjoy the experience!
The Easycare Kids range is stain repellent and washable. So, it’s the perfect paint for a child’s bedroom where mess and spills are pretty likely to happen!
A Quick & Easy Weekend Job for Your Bathroom
As the smallest room in the home, bathrooms often need a little TLC. The right colour choice can help you to not only liven up your bathroom, but also create a sense of more space. Bathrooms are traditionally a white space. However, adding a touch of green or blue, such as 'Celestial' or 'Nordic Breeze' can transform this room to a more modern and tranquil zone.
Make sure you keep a sense of harmony by sticking to one or two colours. Paint a neutral such as 'Moon Sand' or 'Savon Grey', and choose your bathroom accessories to add continuity. All of these cool, receding colours help add space where there is none. The Easycare Bathrooms range is moisture and mildew resistant, it covers well and is washable. Dulux's Easycare Satinwood range is designed for wood and metal. So, it's ideal if you want to paint the side of a cast iron tub.
Breathe New Life into a Room with Your Doorways
Your doors are touched by every person who enters your room, so they can sometimes need a little extra attention. You can give your room a brand-new look by following these simple steps and updating your door:
- Step 1: Remove all knobs and handles. Protect the hinges, glass and floors with masking tape and sheets.
- Step 2: Wash your doors with sugar soap or a strong detergent solution. Wipe them down with a damp cloth.
- Step 3: Sand your dry door with fine paper (you can skip this step if you have melamine or high gloss surfaces). Fill imperfections with a good quality ready mixed filler and sand again.
- Step 4: Apply a wood primer using a small roller depending on the surface.
- Step 5: Paint your door in your chosen colour. Dulux Quick Dry Satinwood is the ideal paint for this. Water-based and quick drying will leave a finish with a subtle sheen that’s easy to clean and touch-up.
- Step 6: When the second coat is completely dry, carefully remove the masking tape, put the knobs and handles back on and admire your new door.
Chic & Stylish Kitchens
Dulux colour palettes are inspired by trends around the world. For the Easycare Kitchens range, Dulux uncovered the most popular colours in walls, floor tiles and cabinets. A recent rise in darker kitchen cabinet colours, such as black, navy, and deep green, has seen warm brass/copper/gold accessories being used instead of cool chrome. If you have chosen kitchen units in a dark colour, a bright wall shade can make it pop. Colours like 'Warm Stove', 'Apron Grey' or 'Chef’s Hat' are ideal.
A rich hue on kitchen walls contrasts but balances white and off-white cabinets. 'Split Stone' and 'Sea Smoke' are perfect for the walls of these kitchens. If you have a natural wood or warm white kitchen, consider using 'The Pantry', 'Pistachio' or 'Tea Shop'. Cool colours tone down warm woods and add a spacious, airy feel to the room.
Glossy surfaces, such as high gloss cabinets, reflect light. So, don’t be afraid to use deeper shades here, such as 'Sea Smoke,' or one of the new darker colours. Easycare Kitchens is grease resistant and washable so the perfect fit for the busiest room in the home. Remember, any of our colours can be mixed into any of our finishes. For example, think about a deeper colour like, 'Sapphire Salute' or 'Stonewashed Blue' mixed into 'Diamond Matt,' for an extra durable finish.
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