Dulux Reveals Its Colour of the Year 2027 as ‘Soulful Sage’ – Designed to Create ‘A Lighter Home for a Lighter Life’

Dulux has announced its 2027 Colour of the Year as ‘Soulful Sage’. Calming, restorative, and oh-so-versatile, this light and uplifting green offers an exciting glimpse at the colour trends set to dominate in 2027.

Soulful Sage sits at the heart of three new curated colour stories by Dulux: 'Glow', 'Light' and 'Lift'. Anchoring all three colour collections, Soulful Sage is described as 'an ethereal, soft and silvery green designed to help us ‘Live Lightly’'.

Marianne Shillingford, Creative Director and Colour Expert at Dulux, says, 'Our overarching theme, ‘Live Lightly’, reflects what we feel people need from their homes right now. With increasingly busy lives, information overload, and a world that can often feel quite heavy, our homes should provide a counterbalance – somewhere we can switch off, reconnect, and make room for moments of joy. Soulful Sage captures that feeling beautifully; its soft, silvery quality brings a sense of lightness while retaining that reassuring connection to the natural world.'

Proving the enduring influence of the natural world on interior design trends, Soulful Sage celebrates nature's restorative, calming power and highlights how our homes can be designed as places of sanctuary and calm. Embodying a sense of ‘innocence, freshness, and rejuvenation,' the beauty of decorating with a green tone such as Soulful Sage is that it can effortlessly integrate into homes of all ages, styles, and sizes.

Marianne continues, 'Soulful Sage can feel warm and nurturing alongside earthy tones, peaceful and restorative with quieter shades, or fresh and energising with more joyful colours. That adaptability made it the perfect shade to sit at the heart of our three colour stories, Glow, Light and Lift – giving people different ways to create a lighter home for a lighter life.'

A colour that represents healing, freshness, balance and nature, Dulux's Soulful Sage signifies the importance of creating a restorative and relaxing home in 2027.

As part of the Soulful Sage Colour of the Year announcement, Dulux has launched three accompanying colour stories: Glow, Light and Lift. These easy-to-use palettes offer different inspiration for how to decorate with Soulful Sage in your home. From being paired with contrasting, warming earth tones to similar light and understated shades, the colour collections have been created to bring 'a versatile foundation for creating interiors that feel warm and nurturing, quiet and restorative, or joyful and inspiring.'

We explore the three different looks below.

The Glow Colour Palette

The Glow palette has been designed to enrich Soulful Sage with cosy and warm contrast. 'Clay, terracotta, stone – these have been the building blocks of home for generations, and their colours feel authentic, familiar and comforting. Our Glow colour story combines these warm earth tones with uplifting lilac and the ethereal Soulful Sage to encapsulate cosiness.'

Shades in the Glow palette include: Belgian Chocolate, Clay Walls, Pebble Sea, Cinnamon Sprinkle, Violet Storm, Waxed Wood, Sunbaked Cherry, Spiced Honey, Slumber Seed.

The Light Colour Palette

The Light palette has been designed to create a grounding and healing space, matching the light and breezy feel of Soulful Sage. 'Airy and understated, these neutral browns, greys and blues make the perfect backdrop for a simple, visually uncluttered scheme in any home. Our Light colour story combines these quiet, pale tones with darker shades and Soulful Sage for a pared-back, healing feel.'

Shades include: Double Espresso, Nordic Waters, Earl Blue, Volcanic Sand, Arctic Pebble, Faded Indigo, Whispered Blue, Ashen White, Slow Living.

The Lift Colour Palette

Rich with vivid and bright tones, the Lift palette has been designed to work with Soulful Sage to create a joyful and bold scheme. 'A mix of yellowy ochres and soft pinks, with the ethereal Soulful Sage, our Lift colour story is optimistic and uplifting. These positive tones can help you create an inspiring, light-hearted feel and fill your home with a little bit of wonder.'

Shades include: Taupe Pink, Hemp Cloth, Faded Damson, Moss Agate, Fern Forest, Hushed Grey, Potter's Clay, Honey Bear, Smokewood Taupe.

What Does Soulful Sage Mean for 2027 Colour Trends?

Dulux's 2026 Colour of the Year, a palette of three paints named 'Rhythm of Blues', also took inspiration from the beauty of the natural world. However, Soulful Sage offers a lighter, more subtle expression of nature for 2027.

Elegant and calming, and far from intense or domineering, Soulful Sage brings a sense of lightness and tranquillity to the home, reflecting a growing desire to create spaces that feel calm, simple, and connected to the outdoors.

As we continue to adapt and rethink our interior spaces in response to the world around us, the launch of Soulful Sage suggests that creating a sense of calm at home will remain a key design priority for next year's trends. It speaks to our desire for spaces that feel restful yet uplifting – interiors that offer a welcome sense of escape while still feeling fresh and contemporary.

Colours with connections to nature have long endured in the world of design, but as we look towards 2027, it will be interesting to see how decorating with green evolves, with the launch of Soulful Sage marking a shift towards a quieter, more understated approach to green room ideas.

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