Lick's Color Edit for 2026 is bringing back primary colors – but not as you know them

Left image: a blue bathroom with white freestanding bath and a circular mirror above. Middle image: dark green living room with built in shelves and a statement yellow chair. Right image: dark red living room with a marble fireplace.

When you think of primary colors, I bet your mind wanders back to learning the basic colors at school. Bold reds, garish yellows, and a pretty basic bright blue. That's my first experience anyway, and when I think about it, it's probably tainted the way I approach decorating with primary colors in my own home now. But as we all get bolder with color and leave the sad, beige days behind, primary colors are making a quiet, far more sophisticated comeback.

Lick Home has always been one to advocate for being bolder with color, and whenever I speak with its Director of Interior Design, Tash Bradley, I always come away feeling inspired to ditch my white walls and try a soft blue or a buttery yellow instead. So I was hardly surprised when she revealed to me Lick's Color Edit for 2026, which is filled with 'grown-up' variations of primary colors.