This season’s design trends bring a breath of fresh air that will add a calm energy to your home, with soft, earthy hues and handcrafted textures. What’s on your horizon? Here are some inspirational insights from the experts.
The Spring + Summer 2021 Lookbook from ShawFloors offers product suggestions — plus coordinating paint palettes from Sherwin Williams — to help you view old and new spaces with a fresh perspective.
TIP: Small-scale patterns will help your room feel more calm and inviting

Pantone has added a curated collection of 315 new colors to their Fashion/Home/Interiors cotton and paper formats.
The PANTONEVIEW home + interiors kit — which includes a comprehensive forecast for 2022 — features 17 individual palettes supported by trend story, correlating imagery, color harmonies, chromatic overviews, and much more. Pantone’s predictions:
- Traditional architecture might guide us to organic materials and natural hues, even as vivid colors and synthetics shape new interior and exterior experiences.
- Healthier living and the comforts of simpler pleasures take center stage as does a desire for clarity and a less-is-more approach to design.
- Sculpted metallics and repunk’d brights break boundaries and embrace technology.

Benjamin Moore’s Color Trends 2021 palette nourishes the spirit with soothing, sunbaked hues — including their top pick, Aegean Teal.

Valspar’s 2021 Colors Of The Year feature hues that help you feel more cozy and comfortable.
New York Fashion Week’s palette for Spring/Summer ‘21 emphasizes ingenuity and inventiveness. These versatile colors — including Pantone’s Color of the Year “Illuminating” — transcend the seasons, facilitate originality and easily flex for our increasingly fragmented lifestyles.