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Color Journeys 2018 palette of the year

Supported by para paints and general paint with dealers across canada.

The Canadian Sherwin-Williams Consumer Brands Group — including Para Paint and General Paint — has named Serenity as their palette of the year.

The palette allows homeowners to explore the rejuvenating feel of Scandinavian design in their home with the soft delicate tones of Glamour (405A), balanced by the darker stone Malachite (405E). The statement is completed with the freshness of White Design (WH01) and embraces wood stains such as pickled oak, or dark walnut.

This quiet palette of modern neutrals awakens the feeling of calm, cool, sophisticated serenity with the meditative sounds of water trickling through a stream over rocks and the natural woods to ground the nature-based designs and colours. You may not be able to get away to the spa to recharge in luxury, but now you can create this harmonizing palette in your own space.

The Serenity Palette was designed with Scandinavian sensibility and sustainability in mind. Our homes are our sanctuary, our place of serenity. Tap into your inner peace in your living or work space with the simplicity of colour.

Glamour is a delicate, minimalistic tone with lavender notes, Malachite is a slate stone colour with nature balanced textures and White Design is a fresh white that is perfect for trim. The Color Journeys palette also includes trending wood stains that help to create a grounding effect in your space. Pickled Oak reveals cool tones and textures and a sense of minimalism and Dark Walnut adds a sense of luxury and warmth.

“The palette takes cues from our natural surroundings. Rich, royal Malachite can fade into the soft lilac-grey of Glamour or morph into Quartzite. Indulge yourself in nature and let the 2018 palette of the year set the tone of your home or work space- this palette is that flexible,” said Jennie Roarty, associate brand manager General Paints.

The 2018 Serenity palette was unanimously selected by Color Journey’s designers, specializing in design and fashion. These experts study consumer insights and global design trends to select a colour palette that is reflective of ongoing trends and consumer demands. This palette helps to create a space used to unwind; layering balanced tones of neutrals as a foundation with whites and soft pastels will help to design a meditative minimalistic room with a unique statement by adding customized wood stains and cozy deeper jewel tones which intrinsically add luxury and opulence.

“Connections with this colour palette evoke feelings of nature, they are the foundation of new neutrals that flow infinitely through designs with great rhythm and purpose , ” said Garry Belfall, brand manager Para Paints. “Our goal was to choose colours for our palette that are both calming and liveable to give your home a sense of inspirational design.”

The New Colour System

Color Journeys allows you to search for unexpected colour combinations that will inspire your design palette. It has curated an expansive colour system of the most refined hues to complete every planned project and each imaginative endeavour.

Color Journeys has catalogued its palettes into five collections — Color Chronicles, Color Directions, Color Solutions, Contractor Solutions and Six to Mix — created to honour a different purpose, time period or style. Color Journeys is the true north for how-to visionaries, the road map for each of your independent design expeditions. It steers you to the right colour for any project and any design endeavour.

This new colour system is the route for trend-setting explorers, the springboard for all your creative ideas. It invigorates your search for the most current, finely tuned palettes. Color Journeys is the destination for further inspiration, it is a carefully selected collection of new concepts for your distinct style. For more information visit the website below.

Confidently enter into the new dimension of design’s new colours, finishes, textures and materials for design exploration. To explore the new Serenity Palette, or any of the 2018 Color Journeys trend colours on your walls, try the new online colour visualizer before visiting a paint store or lifting a brush. The visualizer offers advanced technology to apply any colour to an uploaded photo of your room.

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As we move into fall and begin to wrap up the exterior painting season, consider some of the top 25 trending interior neutral colours. When customers are looking for a colour that can work throughout their house, a simple pallette is the best way to meet their needs.

The Color Journeys™ system – available at all Co-op locations where paint is sold – makes choosing the right paint colours easy. From the core colour cards showcasing exterior and interior colour pallettes to the Six to Mix (a tool to find colours that can all work together in one home), Color Journeys has plenty of ways to effectively co-ordinate colours for your customers. We also created five Contractor Solution colour cards targeting specific professional criteria: health care, multi-family, education, new residential and commercial. This concise tool gives your customers the ability to choose the right colours with confidence and in a quick turnaround time.

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• Paint comes in a variety of sheens and is designed for specific needs. Gloss, semi-gloss, satin, eggshell and flat are the most popular choices in paint finishes. The right choice can come down to the area of home that you’re painting. For example, if you are painting an area that is high-traffic, satin or semi-gloss finishes for the walls are better options to ensure cleanability and durability.
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Color Journeys Announces 2018 Colour Palette of the Year

Supported by para paints with dealers across canada, explore the rejuvenating feel of scandinavian design in your home. 2018 launches the soft, delicate tones of  glamour (405 a) , balanced by the darker stone  malachite (405 e) , the statement is completed with the freshness of  white design (wh 01) , and embraces wood stains such as pickled oak, or dark walnut. this quiet palette of modern neutrals awakens the feeling of calm, cool, sophisticated serenity with the meditative sounds of water trickling through a stream over rocks, and the natural woods to ground our nature-based designs and colours. you may not be able to get away to the spa to recharge in luxury, but now you can create this harmonizing palette in your own space. book your getaway with color journeys..

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This 300 Year Old Book Is a Guide to Every Paint Color Imaginable

Browse through color swatches from the 17th Century

Mary Beth Griggs

Long before paint swatches lined the walls of hardware stores, people were still fascinated by color. In 1692, one person from the Netherlands spent what must have been an eternity handwriting and hand-painting a stunning book detailing exactly how to make watercolors of different shades. 

The book caught the eye of Erik Kwakkel, a Medieval book historian from the Netherlands.

From Kwakkel’s blog : 

In over 700 pages of handwritten Dutch, the author, who identifies himself as A. Boogert...describes how to make watercolour paints. He explains how to mix the colours and how to change their tone by adding “one, two or three portions of water”. To illustrate his point he fills each facing page with various shades of the colour in question...To top it he made an index of all the colours he described, which in itself is a feast to look at...In the 17th century, an age known as the Golden Age of Dutch Painting, this manual would have hit the right spot. It makes sense, then, that the author explains in the introduction that he wrote the book for educational purposes.

As the book was painstakingly handwritten, it’s unlikely that many people saw it when it was first created. But now all 700+ pages of the book (including the covers) have been scanned and can be viewed online  at e-corpus, a collective digital library. 

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