Colours for the Harvest Festival by Kansai Nerolac

Celebrate the festival of Baisakhi with colours from Kansai Nerolac
Chandigarh, April 5, 2016: Baisakhi is a vibrant festival celebrated in North India which marks the beginning of the bountiful harvest season. On this auspicious day, give your home a refreshing new look with colours from Kansai Nerolac’s Spring Summer Collections 2016.
Festivals are an apt time to make new beginnings or even do the same things differently. Renovation is on everyone’s mind. Changing the furniture at home, however can be expensive and tedious. However, you can completely revamp the look and feel of your home by simply changing your rooms paint colours. Repainting a wall, a room, or your entire home today is as simple as buying new curtains or upholstery! Opt for the bright colours of this season like red, yellow, green and orange.
Add more zest to the décor by putting up diyas, candles, flower decorations, string lights and rangoli. When it comes to Baisakhi, the ideas to decorate home interiors and exteriors are endless.
Keeping the colours of this festival in mind, here are a few colour trends from Kansai Nerolac for re-inventing your home this Baisakhi:
Colours for this season inspired by the emerging decor trend – Global Traveller
People today do not refrain from speaking their heart out about their ideologies and beliefs. They are willing to experiment, eager to travel and are eager to explore new cultures and traditions resulting in the emergence of a Global Traveller. This is now reflected in our homes, where familiarity and comfort remain key aspects in terms of decor, but uniqueness in sourcing the decor elements and juxtaposing them in an unusual manner feels imperative.
An expression of this lifestyle trend demands a blend of shades and colours that express individualism while retaining an ethnic connect. This theme celebrates an eclectic mix of shades and textures. Colour combinations that go well with this theme include pastels off set with white. Light yellows with green and peach/ pink accents and blues and sea greens. These light yet bright colours are a great way to beat the summer heat, while maintaining a cosy feel.
Colours for this season inspired by the emerging decor trend – Ethnic & Traditional:
This theme demonstrates perfectly how filing homes with things that you love and those that have meaning for you, work so incredibly well. Ethnic colours and patterns, collections of accessories that are familiar, all sit happily together, creating an impression that is both dramatic and intimate.
Typical Indian colours for are being used within homes and complemented with the use of traditional motifs carved wooden furniture and cane/ jute work.
This trend is characterised by a blend of modern finishes and traditional, folk and handmade elements that are highly emotionally evocative. The colour palette that best reflects this trend is a perfect blend of rich traditional Indian patterns and a fresh bright pastel palette.
Colours for this season inspired by the emerging decor trend – Lush
Lush represents the nature lover in you. It represents refreshment, revitalization, and harmony Modern accommodations in cities with limited access to nature have kept this trend in the forefront where will continue to remain since it’s all about bringing the outdoors, indoors!
The colour palette that best reflects this trend is a woodsy with lots of soothing earth tones and lush greens.
Colours for this season inspired by the emerging decor trend – Classic:
If your goal is to make a grand statement in your home, look no further than the Classic Style. Of all the styles, this one is by far the prettiest and the most elegant. The grandeur is wonderfully nostalgic of the romance the past. The emphasis is on light, texture and imagery
The palette that brings this trend to life is characterised by Organic textures, powdered neutrals, and mid-tone materials. Use of darker backdrops. make this theme simultaneously understated and elegant.