A plain contemporary living room with yellow furnishings

Living room Colour Schemes using Dulux Colour of the Year 2025

01 October 2024

Our Colour of the Year, True Joy™ (Gold Curry 40YY 49/546) and three easy-to-use palettes give you the flexibility to create any number of exciting and energising schemes for your living room.

Now, more than ever before our living rooms need to fill us with optimism, pride, imagination and a creative energy. The Dulux Colour of the Year 2025, True Joy™ (Gold Curry 40YY 49/546) is the perfect living room paint. Why? Not only does it work beautifully on its own, adding optimism and warmth to any living room, but also as a spontaneous accent colour, it brightens up any space.

Around it, we’ve created three colour stories – Bold, Human, Proud Colour Story allowing you to experiment and play with what feels right for you. And in addition, our CF25 Yellows palette, in which we showcase all the yellow shades from the three palettes to celebrate our Yellow story! Find out how you can energise your livingspace by simply choosing one of our palettes…

Make a joyful leap into the unknown

Feeling brave? Create an adventurous space with our Bold Colour Story. Bright and zestful colours framed by True Joy™ (Gold Curry 40YY 49/546) create a living room that feels active and exciting. And if that wasn’t enough, pops of coloured furnishings can add even more energy to your room, wherever your eyes wander.

On the left: the back of a canvas has multicolored balls in it with a plate and paintbrush. On the right is a bright orange living room with bold coloured furnishings.

True Joy 40YY 49/546

Coastal Beige 90YR 51/109

Autumn Walks 48YR 26/519

Celebrate the hand-made

Want to keep it simple? Create an artisanal space that makes you feel grounded and in touch. The earthy tones of our Human Colour Story create the perfect backdrop for True Joy™ (Gold Curry 40YY 49/546) to bring a natural glow of sunshine to an open-plan living area. While hand crafted furnishings made from natural materials connect us to the beauty of imperfections.

On the left: A canvas with lot of natural materials in it like stones and wood chippings. On the right is a neutral living room with a strip of yellow.

True Joy 40YY 49/546

Wild Wonder 50YY 49/191

Quiet Hideaway 81YY 81/016

Re-embrace your local culture

Want to make it personal? Create an eclectic space layered with individual influences that make us feel us proud of our roots and all that we are. Reflecting the unique cultures around us, these colours from our Proud Colour Story create a living room that feels warm and cosy. Somewhere anyone can feel at home.

On the left there are painted balls in the back of a canvas with objects from around the world. On the right brown coloured wall with white sofa with boy walking in the living room

Brave Ground 10YY 30/106

True Joy 40YY 49/546

Brave Olive 24YY 28/384

Our Colour of the Year

Feeling the vibrant yellow of our Colour of the Year? Be confident, feel proud of who you are. As well as working perfectly as an energising accent colour, True Joy™ (Gold Curry 40YY 49/546) can also be used as a bold feature wall to energise even the biggest of spaces.

No matter how you use our Colour of the Year 2025, just remember…

If you dream it, you can create it. You just have to believe it. Close your eyes and…

#justleap