Top Interior Paint Colors for 2013

Continue turning your home into a warm cocoon with the soft and comforting interior paint colors of 2013. The hues are gentle but not pastel, soothing without being boring, and will help you create a relaxing oasis in any room of your home. Inspiration for the paint colors come from your favorite ski cabin, the Art Deco period, nature, upcycled materials, escapism, organic forms, vintage materials, mystery, raw materials, opposites, and electronics.

Winter Cabin Fever

Turn your living or family room into a modern ski lodge. You don’t have to look for log cabin wallpaper or get a bearskin rug. Embrace a natural palette with a mix of warm and cool hues. Pair a pine tree green with deep pinkish red, light gray, mossy elf green, and a Caribbean teal.

Folk Song blue (Behr)
Deep Forest Pine (Glidden)
Gnome Green (Behr)
Mountain Stream blue (Sherwin-Williams)
Pine Cone Pass (Behr)
Pomegranate (Benjamin Moore)
Raw Garnet (Dutch Boy)
Rockwood Dark Red (S-W)
Rustic Red (S-W)
Ski Patrol (Behr)
Soothing Green Tea (Glidden)
Symbiotic green (Dutch Boy)
Teal Lake (Glidden)
Timber Town gray (Behr)
Unusual Gray (S-W)

Steampunk colors

Don’t be fooled by the name. These colors are warm, endearing, familiar, yet hold mystery and more importantly, possibility. They’re mechanical and embrace technology, old and new.

Chamois (Sherwin-Williams)
Cursor Green (Dutch Boy)
Floppy Disc (Dutch Boy)
Gadget Gray (Dutch Boy)
Loyal Blue (S-W)
Matrix beige (Behr)
Plum Orbit (Behr)
Mink (S-W)
Olde World Gold (S-W)
Outerspace dark gray (S-W)
Plum Brown (S-W)
Rare Gray (S-W)
Roycroft Bottle Green (S-W)
Silver Strand (S-W)

Energize!

There are usually a few shocking colors in any paint color trend palette. A bright color or two like bright red, reddish orange, bright teal, lime green, yellow can be tempered by black and white. These colors exude energy!

Calypso (S-W)
Dovetail gray (S-W)
Electrify blue (Behr)
Exuberant Pink (S-W)
Eye Catching yellow (S-W)
Feverish Pink (S-W)
Flirty Ensemble yellow (Dutch Boy)
Frank Blue (S-W)
Gladiola red (S-W)
Ink Blue (Dutch Boy)
Peony pink (Benjamin Moore)
Purple Pencil (Dutch Boy)

Vintage Hues

The 1920s always seem to bootleg their way into paint color trends. Beige-like pinks and peaches paired with light jade greens fare well in 2013. If you have a retro bathroom or kitchen, don’t cover it up, embrace the style with color.

Bee’s Knees (Behr)
Chlorophyll Cast pale yellow (Dutch Boy)
Epidermal (Dutch Boy)
Faded Mint (Dutch Boy)
Feather Lite gray (Dutch Boy)
Flapper Dance (Behr)
Jazzy Jade (Behr)
Lemon Sorbet (Benjamin Moore)
Shanghai Peach (Behr)

Colors also nod to the 1950s with pearly pastels and dusty purples, paired with layered whites and soft blacks.

Aloe (S-W)
Awesome Violet (S-W)
Bathe Blue (S-W)
Darkroom black (S-W)
Gauzy White (S-W)
Independence Gold (S-W)
Obi Lilac (S-W)
Radiant Lilac (S-W)
Rosedust (S-W)
Rosy Outlook (S-W)

Soft, Artisan Colors

In a world where craft fairs and Etsy rule, colors that evoke handmade, artisan items rule. These colors also mimic the textures of leather, suede, and naturally weathered materials like stone and wood.

Herbal Wash (S-W)
Poolhouse grayish blue (S-W)
Primordial Beige (Dutch Boy)
Roycroft Suede (S-W)
Safari (S-W)
Smokey Topaz (S-W)
Spiced Cider (S-W)
Tan-gent brown (Behr)
Totem Tauple (Dutch Boy)
Twilight (Behr)
Unusual Gray (S-W)
Water .02 (Yolo Colorhouse)
Wickerwork (S-W)

Neutrals for 2013

Black Magic (S-W)
Darkroom black (S-W)
Extra White (S-W)
Heavy Sugar white (Behr)
Ultra White (Dutch Boy)

Sources

Benjamin Moore Color Pulse 2013 Webinar, April 2012
Behr Process Corporation, http://www.behr.com
Dutchboy, http://www.dutchboy.com
Sherwin-Williams, http://www.sherwin-williams.com
Yolo Colorhouse, http://www.yolocolorhouse.com