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2022 Paint Color Trends: Best of the Best Picks

The new 2022 best indoor paint color trends have been announced from all of the major paint brands: Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, Valspar, Behr and PPG!

UPDATED: 2023 Paint Colors

Not ONLY did they pick the 2022 Color of the Year (click to read that post) or my deep dive on 2022 cabinet paint color trends.

With a background in textile color matching, 5 years in the paint industry, and the gift of color memory paint colors are my expertise.

For years I’ve shared the annual best of the best picks and they are my most popular blog posts:

This year is NO exception because I LOVE doing this analysis to help narrow down the selections.

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I’ve combed through 127 paint colors to see what paint color trends are emerging in 2022.

Plus find the most USEABLE paint colors for you!

Sometimes the paint color of the year isn’t your favorite or work with your home, right?

I’m here to help!

Not only will I be sharing my 28 best of the best paint color picks, but also will narrow the trend color palettes further to give you the BEST:

  1. Neutral paint colors
  2. Blue paint colors
  3. Green paint colors
  4. Pink and Red paint colors
  5. Violets and Berry paint colors

Yep I dug deep this year to give you the colors you need!

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The Number One 2022 Paint Color Trend: Green

Out of the 5 paint brands I’ll be covering, guess how many picked green as their color of the year?

4 of the 5 brands chose a green, so it can’t be ignored!

Valspar doesn’t choose a single color, but you can be assured they have one in their trend palette too!

2022 Paint Colors of the Year

Here are the colors for:

  • Benjamin Moore
  • Sherwin Williams
  • Behr
  • PPG

Make room for creativity. Evoking the silver-green stem of a flower, October Mist creates a canvas for other colors and your imagination to blossom.

Benjamin Moore 2022 Color of the Year

“Evergreen Fog SW 9130 is a versatile and calming hue, a chameleon color of gorgeous green-meets-gray, with just a bit of blue.  It’s a simple but sophisticated wash of beautiful, organic color for spaces that crave a subtle yet stunning statement shade.”

Sherwin Williams 2022 Color of the Year

Breezeway “A relaxed and uplifting sea glass green expressing peace and tranquility for forward movement.”

Behr Color of the Year 2022

Olive Sprig is a mid-tone, neutral, lush green with an organic green undertone. It is a perfect paint color for any interior space.”

PPG Color of the Year 2022

See what I mean? Green cannot be ignored in 2022.

You can expect the home furnishing manufacturers to start offering more accessories in these types of colors.

You heard it here first folks!

2022 Paint Color Trends

Now let’s do a deep dive into all of the 2022 trendy paint colors from the major paint companies.

This year they are SO many pretty house colors and a lot more variety versus 2021.

In 2021, we said goodbye to grays and hello to greige, which is a warmer gray.

Plus started seeing warm colors in general enter the scene.

I called it last year in my paint color trend analysis that warm rose was the new pink, along with blues and greens leaning on gray and yellow undertones.

In 2022 Sherwin-Williams paint colors, I see new color trends emerging…

Image Courtesy of Sherwin Williams

The top 7 PAINT COLOR TRENDS in 2022:

  1. Greens with gray and yellow undertones dominate.
  2. Blues are turning more green, with gray undertones.
  3. Warm pinks are developing into peach and deeper brick tones.
  4. Deep berry, violet and lilac are new on the scene.
  5. Primary and clean bright colors are popping up as accents.
  6. Moving on from white and gray to warmer toned neutrals.
  7. Coffee and charred wood tones are replacing black.

In 2022, there are more USEABLE PAINT COLORS.

“As trends change, paint color is truly the most inexpensive way to update your home and refresh the look.”

Porch Daydreamer

That is great news for all of us, as we look for new colors to decorate our homes.

I was happy to see one of Benjamin Moore’s trend colors is my bedroom color!

Right on trend 🙂

2022 Best of the Best Paint Color Trend Picks

Now it’s time to share with you the 28 top colors for 2022.

After looking at 127 colors, these are my picks for the colors that are most useable for your home.

Each manufacturer provides unique paint palette collections with colors reflecting the major trends.

Paint Color Collections of 2022 by brand:

It’s a LOT to consider and why I narrowed it down for YOU!

Porch Daydreamer®

2022 Paint Picks

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Click each link to be taken to the specific color on the paint manufacturer’s sites.

1. High Reflective White | 2. Steam | 3. Morning Dew | 4. Shoji White | 5. October Mist | 6. Evergreen Fog | 7. Rosemary | 8. Castle Stone | 9. Lullaby | 10. Quiet Moments | 11. Moody Blue | 12. Vining Ivy | 13. Orchid Ash | 14. Aleutian | 15. Mountain River | 16. Mysterious | 17. Light Lavender | 18. Hint of Violet | 19. Gooseberry | 20. Blackberry | 21. Pink Shadow | 22. Sunset Curtains | 23. Lingonberry Punch | 24. Red Bay | 25. Agreeable Gray | 26. Loggia | 27. Oyster Shell | 28. Iron Ore

Are you looking for a specific color group for one of your decorating projects?

2022 Paint Picks by Color Type

To help you I’ve narrowed down into even more specific groups of colors in neutrals, greens, blues, pinks, reds and violets.

Best Neutral Paint Colors – best beige paint colors 2022

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1. Shoji White | 2. Collector’s Item | 3. Alabaster | 4. Steam | 5. Morning Dew | 6. Agreeable Gray | 7. Accessible Beige | 8. Loggia | 9. Oyster Shell | 10. Intrigue | 11. Fired Earth | 12. Iron Ore

As you can see the neutrals are shades of off-white, cream, and greige.

They progress into deep dark browns and coffee colors.

Gone are stark white walls!

Best Blue Paint Colors

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1. Winter’s Breath | 2. Lullaby | 3. Quiet Moments | 4. Moody Blue | 5. Vining Ivy | 6. Ocean Abyss | 7. Orchid Ash | 8. Mountain River | 9. Mysterious | 10. After Rain | 11. Dark Cobalt Blue | 12. Frank Blue

The blues this year are really pretty! Plus you see the primary blues too.

I didn’t list it in my trends because it is subtle, but there are other blues emerging without the green undertone.

Next year we may see cooler blues with a red undertone.

These are really nice office paint colors in 2022!

Best Green Paint Colors

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1. Breezeway | 2. High Park | 3. Rosemary | 4. October Mist | 5. Evergreen Fog | 6. Castle Stone | 7. Blanched Thyme | 8. Sustainable | 9. Gloucester Sage | 10. Cucuzza Verde | 11. Guacamole | 12. Basque Green

The greens are primarily yellow based, which can be hard when decorating a room.

Think avocado green from the 1960s!

If you don’t like the yellow undertone, use a green with a gray undertone instead.

Best Pink and Red Paint colors

1. Pink Shadow | 2. Wild Flower | 3. Sunset Curtains | 4. Lingonberry Punch | 5. Sunwashed Brick | 6. Sierra Redwood | 7. Rose Tan | 8. Red Bay

Another primary color is red showing up in 2022.

Rust is another color that we saw last year as well and here it is again!

The rest of the pinks are leaning toward orange and are very warm with a peachy feel.

Best Violet and Berry Paint Colors

1. Lite Lavender | 2. Hint of Violet | 3. Ancestral | 4. Blackberry | 5. Tea Time | 6. Gooseberry | 7. Rosé | 8. Dynamo

The pastels are so pretty in this group and I can see them used in bedrooms because they are so soothing.

Then the berries are VERY pretty and would look great as an accent color in a room.

The last two colors shown are cooler and brighter in nature, which may not be best for an entire room but just a wall instead.

“My hope is you feel well informed on all of the 2022 paint colors trending in the coming year.”

Porch Daydreamer

Are you planning to use one of these paint colors in a new project?

Let me know in the comments your favorites!

Here are a couple of paint color posts that may help once you decide or if you haven’t found that perfect shade in the annual picks:

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PORCH DAYDREAMER

Tracey

2 Comments

  1. I’m so excited by the colors for 2022! Just purchased October Mist (Benjamin Moore) for family room…store manager said I was the first one to purchase the new color of the year! Planning to use Hint of Violet in small bathroom…..this is
    w-a-y-y-y out of my comfort zone but this new palette has taken hold of me 💕. ???? Also thinking Quiet Moments for my bedroom???? This is a bit toned down from my current blue.

    1. I’m SO glad you are excited and on the cutting edge of paint colors. I LOVE Quite Moments in my bedroom. It was a little dark for my room, so I cut the tint strength by 50%. A nice option too 🙂

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