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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Sophia Pouget de St Victor

Have you heard of Little Greene's Portland Stone? British designers swear it's the perfect neutral paint and it's quietly launched stateside with rave reviews

A neutral sitting room with orange sofa.

It goes with the territory that in my role, I speak with a lot of interior designers regularly to chart the emerging trending colors and get the inside scoop on the best paint brands and colors on the market. The color that crops up time and time again, always seeming to win over the hearts and minds of designers, is Portland Stone by Little Greene.

Unless you’ve been in a time capsule since 2015, you will have noticed that the tide has most definitely turned against the once-essential neutral colors of the recent past. Once, cool whites and graphite grays were the dependable, go-to staples in any home renovation project. There has been a hiatus from cool-toned colors, though, and we have seen a shift toward earthier, more organic hues, and neutral paints have become the new go-to shade. As these color trends shift a gear, the market follows suit, and it has become saturated with different iterations of beige paint.

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