Thank Goodness, Sherwin Williams has released their color predictions for the next year. Coronavirus has changed all our lives, as we all know, and keep on knowing, and being told, no matter how much we all try to move on to other subjects and interests, and it turns out that being stuck inside for ages makes people want…well, color. I guess. I guess that’s what they’re saying. I read the thing twice.
But they’re wanting the colors that designers mean for them to want, of course, with lots of fancy names and rattan. Check out these color combinations, that someone who probably went to school in order to be competent enough to put together, but I would say that maybe they shouldn’t have bothered. There are four: Sanctuary, Continuum, Tapestry, and Encounter. Each one made me shudder in its own special way–a sort of mash-up between camo and the 80s. Pity they couldn’t have just laid in a lot of actual tapestries and considered what the word “sanctuary” really means. Also, how can a set of colors be called “encounter?” HOW. Someone explain how.
Anyway, we’re still in the “rich earth tones” and “fresh modern hues” and “happy jewel tones” that they predicted last year, except that if you look at the pictures it looks like the flipped the names around. I don’t think of charcoal gray as a jewel tone, but I suppose that’s one of the things that’s wrong with me. Click through to find no less than 18 ways to embrace eclectic elements of BOHO style in your home. I confess I did persist through the lengthy slide show, looking for some gem of something to revolutionize me decorative life, but all the pictures look like the same rooms of five minutes ago.
I know, of course, that the ‘rona has changed everything, but one of the things it hasn’t changed for me is my sense of taste. Sure, I’ve finally cleaned out all my cupboards and done the Great Summer Clothes Changeover in time for the fall, and I’ve reorganized all my china and arranged one shelf of books by color just to see what it would be like (I know, I’m sorry, it is awful, I admit it), but other than that, all I’ve acquired is a new sense of gratitude for all the stuff that I already had.
I think the main thing that covid has taught me is that I need stuff to be comfortable, that I shouldn’t just throw everything away, but I should throw some things away, that minimalism is too expensive a way to live and…wait, never mind, I literally knew all this stuff before! Guess we didn’t need covid for us to teach us anything.
And on that note, I am literally going to pray for the people feeling their homes from the threat of fire. My goodness, 2020, just stop.
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