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Sara Hesikova

Interiors experts reveal the 4 living room colours going out of style in 2026 – and the new go-to shades replacing them

A living room with high ceilings painted pink and and the ceiling covered in a floral wallpaper.

Trends come and go. As we become infatuated with a new look or in this case colour, be it butter yellow or cherry red, other previously loved colours will fall out of favour. To help you keep ahead of the colour trend cycle I asked four colour and interiors experts what living room colours are going out of style in 2026, and these are the four that kept coming up.

These were once among the go-to living room colour schemes, but in my experience, changes in colour trends are rarely a complete U-turn. Instead, they are a steady evolution to new tones and shades.

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