Behr Paint’s 2024 Color of the Year May Surprise You

Behr’s 2024 Color of the Year, Cracked Pepper (PPU18-1), has arrived! Staying on theme with final 12 months’s choose — a flexible off-white shade known as Blank Canvas — the favored paint model has chosen a mushy black that’s supposed to lend character and a contemporary aptitude to only about any house, indoors and out.

Behr, which is offered completely at The Home Depot, introduced its Color of the Year to life outdoor at an intimate media preview at Napa Valley’s Stanly Ranch, a luxurious resort set on 712 picturesque acres. With the property’s ranch land and vineyards because the backdrop, design editors and content material creators had the chance to discover kitchen, eating room and front room vignettes, all showcasing the great thing about the traditional hue. From the kitchen island and cupboards to the partitions that framed the outside house crafted particularly for the occasion, the great thing about Cracked Pepper was on full show.

Behr celebrated its 2024 Color of the Year, Cracked Pepper, by designing a number of outside vignettes, together with this kitchen setup, at Napa Valley’s Stanly Ranch.

“People have been working with gentle, heat neutrals for the previous few years, and Cracked Pepper is a shade that may create a cushty ambiance,” Erika Woelfel, vp of shade and inventive companies at Behr Paint Company, instructed Good Housekeeping. “It’s a daring, sturdy shade that could be very adaptable and simple to convey into any decor type.”

The evolution of customers’ preferences has loads to do with this 12 months’s Color of the Year selection, too, based on Sarah Fishburne, The Home Depot’s director of development and design. “Our analysis reveals that householders are extra open to darker colours,” Fishburne instructed Gold Housekeeping. The firm’s current survey revealed that greater than half of Americans (57%) consider a darker wall shade is design-forward. What’s extra, two-thirds of Americans (65%) observe {that a} darkish shade makes a room really feel daring.

But what in the event you’re extra snug with lighter paint colours and really feel reluctant to take a design threat with Cracked Pepper? Woelfel recommends beginning small relatively than wrapping all 4 partitions with it. “Paint a chunk of furnishings, a ceiling, replace an island in a white kitchen or use it for inside doorways,” she says.

Don’t overlook its potential outdoor as properly, Fishburne famous. From the outside of a captivating bungalow to a contemporary setting or coastal property, Cracked Pepper’s heat, natural nature has no bounds. Fishburne even used it for the gutters of her crimson brick house. “Sometimes white gutters may be very daunting, however this shade could be very forgiving,” she says.

In different phrases, the selection is yours!

Senior Home Editor

Monique Valeris is the senior house editor for Good Housekeeping, the place she oversees the model’s house adorning protection throughout print and digital. Prior to becoming a member of GH in 2020, she was the digital editor at Elle Decor. In her present position, she explores all the pieces from design developments and residential excursions to life-style product suggestions, together with writing her month-to-month column, “What’s in My Cart.”