April Color Of The Month: Country Air (DET581)

Why Country Air Is April's Color Of The Month

Elon Musk and Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez had a Twitter tiff over it and the Duchess of Cambridge attended a royal event in it. We’re of course talking about the color periwinkle, which brings to mind our April Color of The Month, Country Air (DET581)—a traditional blue with a hint of periwinkle. The color blue is a notoriously difficult to find, naturally occurring color. In fact, historians have concluded that the word "blue" did not even exist in Greek times. And while today we identify the sky as blue, one theory asserts that before humans had words for the color blue, they actually saw the sky as another color. Blue’s rarity is all the more reason to covet our April Color of the Month.

Light blues like Country Air and periwinkle blues represent serenity and calmness. When April’s Color of the Month, Country Air, is paired with White Blossom (DET677) and Gunnysack (DET674), this gorgeous blue paint color will be sure to make you feel relaxed and refreshed year-round.

Why Blues Are Trending For 2023

You’ll also find our April color of the month as part of our 2023 color + design trends forecast. Country Air is a part of our Well Intentions story color palette. It is a palette that explores the new duality we find ourselves in—the desire to heal the earth and, at the same time, to escape terrestrial constraints. Through color, this palette tells the story of greater wellbeing and coexistence with nature by way of design. And we’re not the only ones highlighting the healing and calming nature of blue paint colors in design. Architectural Digest has pinned soft and light blues as one of the ideal bedroom colors for 2023. You may even find that Country Air is the perfect starting point to curate your very own Coastal Grandma aesthetic, a design trend that’s got staying power for 2023.

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