The colour is perfectly on trend for using
chalky pastel tones to brighten up our homes.
Look for
chalky pastel paints which are made with natural pigments and contain fewer chemicals than the average paint brand.
Pink sits beautifully with other
chalky pastel tones, or combine it with strong colours such as deep, inky blues, black and grey or industrial finishes like concrete and zinc to take it from pretty to pretty cool!
If this works out I will probably go crazy on other things around the house and we will have
chalky pastel everything!
Update the look by painting in a modern
chalky pastel.
So now I'm considering a dark rinse, a bleached blue, or maybe one of
these chalky pastel colors from Talbots.
Chalky pastels are a big colour trends for this season, making this a great buy.
Chalky pastels work well with natural weaves in this classic living room.
Choosing a combination of colours for scatter cushions on your sofas is a simple way to add interest to your scheme, just be sure to choose colours that share the same tone, for example
chalky pastels, muted neutrals, deep jewel shades or primary brights.
Not exact matches
It's not powdery or
chalky like most other
pastel shades, and it leaves behind a gorgeous glow.
At the heart of this exhibition are three new such series: a line of five
pastels, treated like a kind of reverse sculpture, with fat sticks of
chalky pigment ground back to dust and worked into thick pages of handmade paper; a sequence of 18 watercolours in which pairs of pigments are dissolved into each other, layer over layer, into veils of translucent light; and a series of ten tall, vertical sheets of waxed butcher's paper, carrying oil paint dissolved into skins of solid and liquid colour.
It doesn't look
chalky or infantile like some
pastel rooms can.
Pastels are set to be huge this year and we can't get enough of those
chalky hues.