I’m not really going to talk about the country of Switzerland here. But I do want to chat about what Switzerland is….neutral. This is a buzzword in home décor and is often a misused word. Everybody says, “the house should be neutral if you want it to sell”; “neutral colors are so soothing”; etc. Neutral is a great thing, but somewhere along the way, neutral wrongly started to equal beige. My goal today is to help you understand that neutral is a whole lot more than beige!
Some of the BEST neutral paint tones are blues and greens. This year’s most popular shade of paint happens to be a smoky lavender hue and it is NEUTRAL!
These definitions of neutral describe best my point: 1. matching well with many or most other colors or shades, 2. inoffensive. House Beautiful published a great go-to list for neutrals in last year’s edition of 500+ Favorite Paint Colors, here’s a sampling of that list:
C2 Paint Sorcerer
Benjamin Moore Mesquite
Benjamin Moore Horizon
Sherwin Williams Determined Orange
Benjamin Moore Glass Slipper
Benjamin Moore Wenge
Pratt & Lambert Deep Jungle
Benjamin Moore Peace and Happiness
Some of these are a little bolder than others but they still neutralize a space and work well with a slew of others colors. Happy neutralizing!
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