Colour trends 2024 - Graphenstone creative ways with colour and pattern

Launching a new colour for the winter season - Gilded Apricot

Above: walls in Cinnamon, plinth in Samurai and Enamel Blue

Graphenstone, the world’s most certified eco paint company has launched a range of easy to achieve but effective ‘ways with colour’ for Autumn Winter 2023.  From stripes to squares to clever paint effects to add drama to artworks in the home and a new colour on the Graphenstone colour chart – ‘Gilded Apricot’ – providing a flattering golden glow that warms any space this season.

Betsy Smith, Graphenstone colour consultant says “Paint is one of the best ways to introduce pattern and colour into your home with minimum disruption and expense. Gilded Apricot is our new colour for the season – it’s a versatile hue that is having a moment across fashion and art and provides an earthy, warm addition to a space. Creating pattern with paint is a great way to increase the feeling of size in a room as your eye travels through it and beyond making the room feel less enclosed.  Graphenstone is clean and green and has no smell so it’s also a healthy option and highly pigmented providing a colour rich opportunity for you to be endlessly playful and experimental and has the power to alter perceptions.”

Embrace the check

Above: Graphenstone marble white on the walls, Indian Terracotta and Periwinkle on the fireplace

Painting the floor, ceiling & walls the same (Marble White) blurs the edges and corners of the space, making it feel boundless and infinite.  

We have grounded the room by creating a single focal point - the fireplace and used an overlay of checks in Periwinkle to create a whimsical pattern. 

The miniature artwork and vase displayed above are intentionally small to not compete with the fireplace and add a further playful note to this bedroom narrative.

Indian Terracotta is a beautiful hue for a bedroom; it has a warmth that feels calm and comforting. Here, the pattern in Periwinkle adds contrasts but also connects harmoniously due to both hues containing a hint of red.

 Unify a space by colour blocking

Above: Graphenstone Sienna with marble white and Kombu

A band of Sienna sandwiched between a marble-white floor and ceiling provides an Autumnal glow into the room.

Unifying a fireplace with a single paint colour will transform it - making it feel more sculptural and contemporary. It takes on a plinth-like quality, allowing objects or plants to become the focus of interest.

A salvaged chair has been given a new lease of life painted in Kombu, a rich mossy green, which connects to the other analogists’ colours, tying the elements together to create a calm, cohesive space.

 More tips and ideas to follow…. for images and quotes please get in touch: hello@byrnecomms.com

About Graphenstone:

Graphenstone meets the highest environmental and manufacturing standards (Cradle to Cradle, Eurofins) which provides consumers, regulators, and industry peers with a clear, visible, and tangible validation of the manufacturers’ ongoing commitment to sustainability.  Products are made from natural elements rather than chemicals and packaging is derived from 100% recycled materials which are fully recyclable too.

Graphenstone paints contain Graphene - the strongest material now known to science. It was discovered in 2005 by two Nobel Prize winners at Manchester University. It is a highly inert, innocuous, nontoxic pure carbon. Graphene’s inclusion in paints, coatings and other building materials exponentially enhances hardness, durability, compression, tensile strength, elasticity, and coverage.        

The vapour open nature of Graphenstone’s lime and graphene-infused coatings ensures that walls can breathe. This improves air quality and reduces humidity and condensation. Microorganisms and microbial growth of bacteria and mould are deterred from rooms where Graphenstone paints are applied due to the high alkaline pH of the lime and the paints’ ventilating properties. Indoor odours, as well as biological and chemical pollutants are diffused, and allergens are reduced. The low odour and non-harmful characteristics of Graphenstone paint allows rooms to be occupied within a few hours of application. Clients include The Eden Project, Facebook, Grosvenor Estates, Historic Royal Palaces and Rose Uniacke.  Graphenstone UK is based in Norfolk https://graphenstone.co.uk/