Color Specialist

We designer types tend to use the Benjamin Moore paint when we are specifying paint colors. Their paint has more depth of color than other brands and covers very well.

Doty Horn, director of color and design for Benjamin Moore travels the land in search of trends. She works on color trends for two full years in advance. PowerPoint Presentation Doty popular events collected worldwide showed any chairs that look like nests of furniture made from PVC pipes melted. Doty distills all these wacky, out there on the movement patterns of colors usable for real life. Horn analysis identifies the colors that will be popular in everything from cars to appliances to home accessories and interior decoration.

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According to Benjamin Moore Color Pulse 2009, there are four main color trends that will be dominating our environment next year and beyond.

Raw: Horn says this palette is derived from the push toward minimalism, pairing life reduced to its most authentic. Horn said this palette is derived from the raw wood, concrete blocks and other "make-do" materials and includes shades of white, sand and gray.

Benjamin Moore "Raw" colors: Chantilly Lace OC-65, Mascarpone AF-20, Collector's Item AF-45 Fossil AF-65 Frappe AF-85 Hush AF-95, Jute AF-80, Tucson Winds 1024, Sterling 1591 Storm AF-700, 2121-20 Steel Wool, Grey 2121-10

Urban Silence Horn said this group of colors reflects the changing boundaries between life in the city and life outside the city. "That's where the trees become houses and houses become trees," she said.

In more urban buildings incorporate rooftop gardens and shipping containers are converted into living spaces, the city becomes softer, more livable. Horn said this palette reflects these changes by mixing the gray tones of urban life with bright colors like green, organic, rust and terra cotta.

Benjamin Moore's "Urban Silence" colors: dark gray 2125-40, Lapland AF-410 yellow tone 370, Wasabi AF-430, Winding Vines 532 Old Gold 167 Gold 301 Glen Ridge, rattan AF-375 Rustic Taupe 999, Abbey Brown 1225 Bronze Metallic Bronze-30 (Studio Finish), copper metal copper-40 (Studio Finish)

Simplexity: To understand the color palette, think of the pixels that make up a computer screen: thousands of tiny dots in different colors coming together to form a whole. These are colors that have more to them than meets the eye.

"The colors here are very complex, they have much depth to them, but they are easy to use, so that some of the simplicity of this" Horn said. For example, she says, think of a color looks black, but it's really purple. "It is almost black, but it has a blue background and red continues to do so and it just has a rich texture and a rich landscape, and how the light hits it, you begin to see the nuances of how those colors flip underneath. "

Benajamin Moore "Simplexity" colors: Thunder AF-685, AF-395 Meditation, Amsterdam AF-550 Carob AF-160, Caponata AF-650, Merlot Red 2006-10, 2085-10 Arroyo red, dry mustard 2158 - 10, 2068-10 Majestic Violet, Hidden Falls 714, butter Yam AF-230, 1546 Gargoyle

Private Identity: Identity "Private" palette, Horn said she and other experts thought patterns of color on how we express our individuality in such an overwhelming, world population. Here, the colors are bright, bold and unexpected.

"You are your own person, so you're going to put together a personal color," said Horn. "You could do a bright red mixed with a powder blue and gold make a bold against him. So you have this contrast of very bold color and then a very light color and gives it an unexpected twist. "
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