Using Forecasted Colors in Your Home

The Color Marketing Group (CMG) meets twice a year to forecast color in both residential and contract worlds. As the leading universal system for specific color, PANTONE is the reference tool for all industries when they work to match the forecasted hues. If you’re looking to add the forecasted color—or any other shade—to your home, work with Altra Home Décor serving Phoenix and surrounding cities. We’ll help you match to the specific color you want.

PANTONE Inspired by Entertainment’s Minions

For the first time ever, PANTONE color uses character-branded Minions from Universal Pictures and Illumination Entertainment’s Despicable Me franchise, using their playful yellow to coin “Minion” Yellow. The custom PANTONE Minion Yellow color will be included in the next color addition in the Fashion, Home+ Interiors color palette.

So Why PANTONE Minion Yellow?

Just as the sun’s rays lift our spirits and mood, so does the forecast color of PANTONE Minion Yellow, termed “The Color Of Intelligence.” Using Minion Yellow will help make us feel that way!

How Should You Use the Forecasted Colors?

Let’s look at Minion Yellow and the color combinations that work best.

• Minion Yellow is a vibrant tone, and if you match it with purple, you will have a perfect complementary color combination.
• Add the achromatic brown, and you have another look.
• If you want to combine colors, you could keep a balance of 60%-30%-10% to make sure you don’t create competition of color. A soft look would be a brown room, with yellow as the 30% and purple as the 10% accent color.  Or play with it to create the look and feel you want.
• A more dramatic look would be yellow, indigo, magenta, and black, creating a split complementary combination.

If you don’t like the forecasted color, you could use it as an accent or not at all. When you use colors you don’t like, it tends to make you focus on areas you would otherwise to avoid. Don’t use the colors in rooms where you want to feel your best.

One Last Tip

when selecting colors for your room, choose the colors you love. Trendy colors come and go, and unless you have tons of money, you should go with what you love and not what you feel you need just because it’s stylish. Remember, color forecasting is strictly to keep all manufacturers’ specifying the same colors to help the consumers coordinate and create a beautiful space. It is a guideline, and popular colors may vary in different regions.

Finding Great Color in Phoenix

Altra Home Decor is your source for window treatments, custom drapery, flooring, and more! We serve the greater Phoenix area, including Peoria, Sun City West, Glendale, and Scottsdale, with a showroom in Surprise. Stop by our locally owned store to view our full-size window treatment displays and sample books. Contact us today to schedule an in-home design consultation!