Trend colours for 2006 - 2007 |
| Fashion emphasises individuality and personal choices; colours can be selected according to your own style and mood. To make the choice easier, Tikkurila compiled a collection of 12 trend colours. These colours have been picked from the Tikkurila Symphony 720-series and divided into four 3-colour groups: Salonki, Aika, Matka and Puutarha. The light colours in the collection are suitable as general colours for a room. The dark colours can be used on walls for a special effect or on individual items. With these colours, you can divide your dwelling into separate areas, perhaps according to furniture groups, or you can paint the walls as you please. Salonki (Salon) - a finely decorated living room The colours in the Salonki series take you on a journey to ballrooms decked with chandeliers. The colours glow with silk and velvet and cool granite-grey. It is OK to party on a weekday; there is nothing wrong with spoiling yourself. The style can be theatrical or excitingly surreal.
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Salonki (Salon) - a finely decorated living room |
 The colours in the Salonki series take you on a journey to ballrooms decked with chandeliers. The colours glow with silk and velvet and cool granite-grey. It is OK to party on a weekday; there is nothing wrong with spoiling yourself. The style can be theatrical or excitingly surreal.
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Aika (Time) - a journey into the past |
 Warmer, spicy colours create a homely atmosphere. Red can tend towards a hot orangey shade or an earthy reddish-brown or copper. The colours from the Aika series take you back in time. In these colours, rust red and yellowed paper are reminiscent of the 1930's and 40's. Warm-tinged white is a timeless addition and is a suitable accompaniment for many colours.
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Matka (Travel) - the whole world on a plate |
 The internet brings the world closer to the interior decorator: things can easily be acquired from all over the world; the buyer has the whole world on a plate. In these colours, a yearning for distant lands is satiated by aquamarine tinged with dark turquoise, and by bright orange, like the sun shining through an awning. Light grey-turquoise is reminiscent of dry equatorial winds. Combine aquamarine with fresh white, black or warm brown shades, or apply a fashionable contrast coat onto a lighter undercoat. A little dash of orange is enough, maybe in between kitchen cupboards. Light turquoise-grey is a suitable background for bright objects and furniture.
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Puutarha (Garden) colours also for interiors |
 Earthy brown shades go a long way in interior colours, creating the illusion of the real thing, and the same goes for the different shades of green, from light green to very dark forest green. Blue shades bring a feeling of space even to cramped urban dwellings, just as new windows do. Blue tends to turquoise or a warmer reddish blue, a crimson and a midnight blue.
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