Listen up, interiors addicts! Our friend Mr Jason Grant, stylist extraordinaire, wants to know which kind of colours you’d like to see in his next paint collection for Murobond.
His previous three collections have been hugely popular and captured the colour trends of the moment. You could be a part of helping him shape the next collection by sharing the kind of colours you’d like to see included. He knows, of course, that interiors addicts have great taste!
The Block judge and Selling Houses Australia co-host Shaynna Blaze is also colour consultant to Taubmans. I asked her some questions about using paint and colour in your home. She reveals how she once painted her living and dining rooms emerald green, that she hates painting ceilings (don’t we all?) and she’s currently loving grey walls with pops of colour.
What do you think are the biggest paint colour trends for 2012? Currently, I am loving greys and tinted neutrals such as Taubmans Abracadabra or Taubmans Silvertop and dark shades such as Taubmans Sheffield Grey and Taubmans Invincible. Teaming grey with hints of tangerines, limes and yellows is also very popular at the moment. As we move towards the end of the year and into 2013, ‘grown up’ pastels are becoming increasingly popular and introducing a dark grey to complement these will take the edge off. Accessories are still bold and exciting, with a few more neutrals sneaking in there to balance it out.
(Image: This room is painted in Taubmans’ Tightrope)
One of my favourite paint companies has announced some fab sounding colour workshops for the next few months, headed up by Melinda Ashton Turner. Not only does she have an uber impressive career as a stylist, she recently started her own blog all about colour, so who better?
Using paint can be one of the cheapest and easiest ways to create the most dramatic effects in a room but there’s so much choice, many people don’t know where to start. Either that or they play it safe with one of the countless off-whites out there. In recent years people have gone crazy for the feature wall, but interiors folk remain divided on whether it’s a must-have or a big no-no that has fallen out of fashion. What do you think?
Anyway, if you’d like to learn more from someone with heaps of experience, you should try one of these workshops. They’re for a maximum of eight people so spaces get snapped up fast. The workshops aren’t just generic talks about paint and colour schemes so you can expect to learn a lot and take away a healthy dose of inspiration. Choose from:
Find out more and book here.
After originally training as an interior designer, Melinda forged a successful career as an interior stylist and art director and recently returned to Sydney after 11 years in the UK. Her high profile career has seen her work on publications including Vogue Living, Homes & Gardens (UK), Elle Decoration, Living Etc and Belle. She has worked on advertising campaigns for the likes of Jo Malone and Harrods.
Murobond stocks paint ranges by our favourite Mr Jason Grant (who is currently working on his latest colours and promises to show us soon!) and Sibella Court’s The Society Inc range.
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Bondi boy Mr Jason Grant loves summer and the beach and his second paint collection with Murobond consists of faded fun colours. Titled Road Trip, the collection is all about a summer getaway.
These photos were shot on location in Avalon NSW with a super cute kombi van, one of Jason’s dream cars.
“I LOVE colour so have included some fun bursts of colour mixed with some cool neutrals,” he says.
Drawing inspiration from the everyday and the hundreds of photos he takes, each colour has a story and a reference from his adventures. ‘Short Shorts’ came from a perfectly faded pair of shorts a friend wore over to his house, ‘Smoothie’ is the perfect shade of soft yellow (Yay! A yellow!) just like a classic banana smoothie, ‘Happy Days’ is just like a clear blue sky and ‘Porch’ is like a perfect weathered piece of timber.
The collection is available as of tomorrow (Saturday 5 November 2011) and I can’t wait to attend the launch!
Read my interview with Jason, former Real Living style director here.
Photos by Felix Forest