Staying True To Classic Blue – Everything You Need To Pull Off 2020 Pantone’s Color of the Year

You’re going to be seeing a whole lot more blue this year. Here’s how to make the most of it.

About 6,000 years ago, people discovered the glorious shade of blue. Mainly prepared from semi-precious stone – Lapis, blue emerged as a rare symbol of power, trust, royalty and opulence. As we step into the next decade, Pantone’s pick of Classic Blue opens the door to using this beautiful colour in new and imaginative ways.

Long associated with feelings of peace and calm, the colour of our most hopeful skies is one of comfort and dependable tranquillity. “We are living in a time that requires trust and faith. It is this kind of constancy and confidence that is expressed by PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue, a solid and dependable blue hue we can always rely on,” says Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute.

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While it can seem like a safe choice, blue can be the perfect anchoring element when it comes to thinking about styling your home. Shades of blue encourage us to look beyond the obvious and Pantone seems to have their insights aligned with the flow of creative interiors showing a resurgence of glossy blue velvets and taffetas. Classic ideas perhaps, but there are many new twists in the plot to look forward to.

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As one of the most stable foundations from which to build an interiors palette, blue works seamlessly across different materials, textures and finishes. This year’s shade is meant to add a punchy confidence that can entirely transform various spaces through tonal variations and texture play. Make a bold statement with blue in Geometrics, try your hand at abstracts or take on the rarest colour in nature with liberal uses of blue.

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Make an unconventional start with a blue rug that can act as the base for introducing pops of the colours around the room. This is particularly helpful if you want to try out the shade without an expensive paint job. Add a blue quilted velvet couch, and you’ve got a coupling that’s fit for royalty.

But, if art is more your speed, pick a textured blue fabric to and mount it inside a frame to show your allegiance this 2020’s colour trend. Invite blue into a bedroom with stylish abstract printed bedlinen, a gilded headboard or a comfy armchair or ottoman with a blue cushion or soft throw.

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The art of quilting is seeing a resurgence too, and this might be the perfect time to try a patchwork quilt in shades of blue with varying textures and trimmings. For the conservative amongst us, adding little glimmers of blue through lightweight blue table linen, candles and placemats can be an effortless way to layer in this chic colour trend.

Nothing says timeless elegance like this year’s shade of blue reminiscent of the sky at dusk. There’s a kind of subtle charm that can be dialled up or toned down, depending on how and where you choose to use it. But overall, we say go ahead and embrace this inspired colour trend. You might find yourself pleasantly surprised at how much you love the results!