Bringing 2021 Colors Into Your Home with Hardware

Every year, the Pantone Color Institute and major paint brands like Sherwin Williams and Benjamin Moore release their “Colors of the Year.” These colors represent the color trends they expect to see in homes, branding, fashion, and industrial design. After the challenges 2020 brought - and thanks to all the time we’ve spent in our homes - experts are predicting we’ll be reaching for vibrant shades, bright happy yellows, notes from nature, and colors that reflect hope and optimism.

Hardware is a perfect way to bring pops of these shades into your home without committing to a major change like a fresh coat of paint or new upholstery. Here are a few ways to incorporate 2021’s trending colors into your space with hardware.

Sherwin Williams - Urbane Bronze

In their words, Sherwin Williams’ pick for 2021 represents “Nature at its simplest and most elemental — embodying the richness of the Earth’s stone, metal and wood — forges a feeling that’s grounded, meditative and serene.”

Bronze is a beautiful classic tone that helps create a warm, welcoming space in your home. It’s a great complement to other natural elements like wood, leather, and natural stone.

Dark Brass Horse Chestnut suite with Urbane Bronze paint

Renaissance Etch with Acanthus Appliance Pull in Dark Brass

Delaney's Rose with 3 enamel colorways on Dark Brass

Chateau knob and pull in Dark Brass

Queensway knob and pull with Acanthus Appliance pull

Benjamin Moore - Aegean Teal

All of Benjamin Moore’s 2021 color picks are meant to celebrate the warmth and wellbeing of life’s simple pleasures. With a blue-green hue and gray undertones, they call Aegean Teal “intriguing, balanced, and deeply soothing” - words we’d all like to describe our homes!

Royal Palms in Pale Blue blend beautifully with Aegean Teal paint

Pantone - Ultimate Gray + Illuminating

These coordinating gray and yellow hues are Pantone’s picks for their ability to convey practicality and solidity, but also warmth and optimism. Reflective of the challenges 2020 brought, Pantone says this combination of colors is “a message of happiness supported by fortitude. The combination of PANTONE 17-5104 Ultimate Gray + PANTONE 13-0647 Illuminating is aspirational and gives us hope. We need to feel that everything is going to get brighter – this is essential to the human spirit.”

This combo of a classic neutral and a bright sunny shade is an accessible way to add a pop of color to your space.

Pewter Poppies, Yellow Butterflies with Illuminating and Ultimate Gray paint

Hope Blossom in Pewter and Dianthus knob in Saffron

Looking to incorporate 2021’s trending colors into you or your client’s home? Reach out - we’re here to help you find the perfect piece!