Moody Blues
Dulux colour of the year – Denim Drift
Our Denim Drift Moody Blues mood board
Using the colour of the year from Dulux – Denim Drift for inspiration, our latest moodboard is for colour trend lovers that are not totally swept away by this years passion for all-things-green.
Although this moody grey/blue can work well in a contemporary style – for this moodboard we have given it a cosy country meets mid-century-modern look, with painted furniture, natural stone and handcrafted ceramics.
Since I have discovered this Mid-century-modern range by Rose and Grey – I really have fallen in love with their rocking chairs. I ordered several samples of Denim blues and greys for the moodboard and eventually decided to feature Dark Denim – a deep grey/blue. They also have matching sofas and coffee tables in this range if you do decide to go for a full on Mid-century-modern style.
This sofa is a relaxed style from Love-your-home. It comes in several sizes, fabrics and colours and from the samples they sent I chose a Linen fabric in Cerulean Blue as it was such a great match. The addition of the brass casters on this sofa give it that period look – but Love-your-home also have several modern sofa designs that can be covered in a wide range of Linens and Velvets, so you can chose a design to make the style that you are looking for.
A natural wood furniture would work well with the Moody Blues colour pallet – but once I had found this range of painted furniture from Angel and Boho – it had such a great selection of paint shades to choose from, that I felt it was ideal for creating the tone on tone look that Dulux were all about this year. There were several shades that I found would harmonise quite beautifully on the board and decided on Graysilk as a lighter tone to contrast.
These handcrafted ceramics are by Ali Tomlin a designer/maker that I met at The British Craft Fair last year. Her porcelain forms are thrown, unglazed and sanded to give them a delicate paper-like quality. As they are all made by hand – each piece will be slightly different and make a unique sculptural feature. The colours she has chosen for her hand painted finish – work perfectly with the Moody Blues pallet.
Thanks for advice, most helpful.
Seems to be a calm, soothing scheme but would it look a bit dull without a contrasting colour? Would this colour scheme be more suited to a sunny, south facing room or wouldn’t that matter?
Hi Angie thank you for your comments -Dulux are featuring this as a tone-on-tone look using different shades of greys and blues to compliment each other – very harmonising. I think this would work well in either a north or south facing room- just take into account that it will appear cooler in a north facing room. If you would like to add a contrast why not consider a tan colour or muted burnt orange. I hope that helps, feel free to ask for any more advice on our contact form.