These are the hottest paint trends for autumn 2022

telegraph.co.uk:

so familiar, one doesn’t even need to reference the brand when identifying them. Take a straw poll of middle-class British homes and it’s likely there will be a fair few Railings front doors, Stiffkey Blue kitchens and French Gray sitting rooms.The last colour drop came in 2018, when shades such as De Nimes (a dark denim-blue), Bancha (an olive-green) and Sulking Room Pink (a moody plum) captured the national imagination, steadily making their way on to walls and woodwork everywhere.

And, of course, much has changed since then.The new collection, available from September 29, comprises 11 colours, ranging from Tailor Tack, a delicately pale pink, to Hopper Head, a deep, dark charcoal (devised specifically to work with Crittall doors – and what, after all, could be more middle class than that?).Yet, while Farrow & Ball is famous for spearheading the grey trend, the new colours collectively signal a shift to warmer, bolder tones, partly due to their arrival in the post-pandemic era. “It’s the renaissance of earthier tones – essentially, getting away from grey,” says Joa Studholme, the company’s colour curator, who not only devises the paint colours, but also carries out at-home paint consultations to give customers advice on how to use them. “Everybody wants something a bit warmer now,” she adds. “If you spend a lot of time in your house, as we all have done in the past couple of years, you start to think you’d quite like it to give you a hug.”It’s not the only paint brand moving into stronger, warmer colours this season.