5 'Anti-Trend' Color Combos That I Think Will Always Feel Timeless — And How to Make Them Contemporary as Well as Future-Proof

Modern living room with blue sofa and green sofa and armchair with timber floors, large artworks, square timber coffee table, radiator on the wall, floor lamp, and pendant lights.

Underneath it all, we all have the decorator’s fear. What if we get our colors wrong? What if, in only a handful of years — maybe even months — this beautiful color palette, which we have plotted over and truly love, adds up to a shameful, out-of-date space?

Not today. There are certain combinations I, as a color expert, can confidently say will never go out of style; combinations that cannot help but somehow just work together, anchoring a space and feeling impactful yet not overly dominant. These combinations are almost meditative, as if soothing music is floating all around you and you’re suddenly at peace with the world.