Behr Paint 2025 Color of the Year

Behr Paint 2025 Color of the Year

Behr Paint has unveiled its 2025 Color of the Year,  Rumors MQ1-15 , a deep ruby red that adds warmth and elegance both in and outside the home. Looking back, it’s close to Epoch, Graham & Brown COTY 2021, in intensity but warmer in hue. Rumors has an elegant, muted presence that surprisingly yields a balance of vibrancy and subtleness.

It’s a little too early to identify any overarching color patterns from 2025 Color of the Year selections, but if Behr’s pick is any indicator, consumers might be taking a deeper, moodier design approach next year.

Behr Rumors Coty 2025 swatchHow to use Behr Paint 2025 Color of the Year

With white kitchens being showcased almost everywhere we look, using Rumors as a cabinet color adds a touch of luxe to an otherwise typical space. Pick a sheen that suits your personal style – whether glossy or matte.

Behr Rumors Coty 2025
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Create a happy space by layering Rumors with other juicy tones from the red family.

Behr Paint 2025 Color of the Year
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“Rumors is undoubtedly a color that inspires creativity while being versatile enough to transform a space through large and small projects.” -Andy Lopez, senior vice president and head of marketing for BEHR

For exterior projects, try Rumor on shutters and other accents such as window boxes for an eye-catching statement.

Rumors COTY 2025

To help inspire new, trendy designs, Behr provides recommendations on how to mix their COTY choice. On its website, users can select each color’s detailed view to see recommended combinations, as well as similar color options.

 

A Palette of Possibilities for Interiors in 2025

Palette Inspiration Pantone Interiors 2025

PANTONE VIEW Home + Interiors Forecast 2025

What’s ahead in 2025?  Lee Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, and the director of the Eiseman Center for Color Information and Training, has shared insights on the home color trends that will be popular with consumers in 2025.

Just as different people have different tastes in music, they also have different tastes in color…so there’s color inspiration for almost everyone within the seven newly release color palettes in the PANTONE VIEW Home and Interiors 2025 forecast.

“Harmony is a beautiful word that conjures up certain pictures in your mind…being in tune with ourselves and with others within our immediate surroundings and the greater world around us.” – Lee Eiseman

Harmony in color unifies all the disparate elements of a product or design and helps ensure the right mood is being set. While the paths to harmony are many, they all center around our desire for balance and unity in our surroundings and the feeling of peace and cohesiveness it engenders.

Just as harmony is associated with combining different complementary musical notes, each of the seven Pantone color palettes has a musical name to describe the complementary colors.

Palette Balance for Pantone Interiors 2025
Blended Notes
  • Blended Notes – Described by Eiseman as “healthful and tranquil,” this palette features cool naturals, icy tones and refreshing blue-greens. It’s gently stimulating, like a breath of fresh air.
  • Easy Listening – “This palette is all about serenity,” said Eiseman. “It says ‘Let’s relax. Let’s unwind.” It features a variety of soft and light-hearted pastels “with a gentle fizz.”
  • Tempo Timing – Inspired by kinetic energy and youthful athleticism, this palette is polished and crafted. Dark conveys a sense of power, Eiseman explained, so this palette includes several dark tones. But it also contains a few lighter ones like off-white and peach so it’s not too dark.
  • Staccato – In what Eiseman called a “different kind of mix,” Staccato can be described as representing “sweet and sour.” It incorporates bright colors that can be used in color blocking, and evokes feelings of design as play.
Palette Stage Presence for Pantone Interiors 2025
Stage Presence
  • Stage Prescence – Retro 1970s stylings and smooth jazz are influences in this earthy and eclectic palette that can easily be used in bold patterning. It features strong colors like tan with a little orange in it, but it’s still smooth, said Eiseman.
  • Perfect Pitch – Some might call this palette “gothic” Eiseman said, but she described it as “smokey and high-brow with colors that appear to have a powdery finish.” It feels cinematic and mysterious, while conveying a feeling of sophistication and luxury.
  • Crescendo – Like its name conveys, Crescendo includes colors that seems to make noise. Though Eiseman called it “not quite as bold as Staccato,” this palette also features vibrant tones that seem to build toward a joyful journey. It has influences in both technology and music.

Source: The Inspired Home Show 2024