2016 is now in session, and the color trends for the year was announced last year.  Sherwin Williams Paint color of the year is Alabaster SW7008. Director of Color Marketing Jackie Jordan states 

“Alabaster represents a straightforward and necessary shift to mindfulness.  It provides a oasis of calmness, spirituality and ‘less is more’ visual relief.  Alabaster is neither stark nor overly warm, but rather an understated and alluring white.”  At first I was like this is not a color it blah.  But, I’m not surprised either,  I’ve been seeing the trend since my inspiration trip to Maison Objet Market in Paris a few years back.  Colors have soften and greyed.  After all white is the best selling window treatment, towel and sheet color.  I think we are wanting visual relief, we’re inundated with noise from our tech lives

Benjamin Moore also chose a blah color Simply White OC-117.  White is transcendent, powerful and polarizing – it is either taken for granted or obsessed over” Benjamin Moore Creative Director Ellen O’Neill announced.  White is a safe color if you are not sure how to use color. It can be a blank canvas for you to add color with your accessories.  We’ll see how this color plays out, will it be a focal color or just the color of the trim?

I will be watching with excitement and may have to pull out my paint brushes and try it on my walls. I would like to know your thoughts on their color of the year choices.

Lori