Ideas & How to

Inspirational ways to use our Heritage colours, plus easy-to-follow decorating tips.

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Colour Confidential: Style it Dark

You might assume that a dark colour palette is a no-no for your home. But actually, darker shades have the power to make a space feel cosy and dramatic... or even make your room feel more spacious.Read more

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Colour Confidential: Think pink for sophisticated spaces

Discover Dulux Heritage's range of pink paint colours. Find the perfect shade for pink your home including Potters Pink, DH Blossom and Coral Pink.Read more

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Colour Confidential: Discover our go-to whites

Discover the luxurious Dulux Heritage shades of white paint that can transform a home. Explore our favourite shades of white today!Read more

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Tasting Notes: Country Sky™

Sometimes, it’s periods in time or the things around us that inspire the classic colours in the Heritage Collection, but other times it’s simply moments.Read more

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Tasting Notes: DH Blossom

A classic colour in our heritage collection, DH Blossom is inspired by the pretty flowers that once bloomed in the fabulous gardens of Victorian cottages.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Olive Tree

Inspired by its namesake, Olive Tree is a classic shade in the Heritage Collection, and was a favourite in Georgian homes flooded with sunshine.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Quartz Grey

Happy in any room in the house, Quartz Grey is one of the most flexible neutrals in the Heritage Collection, and is the epitome of understated elegance.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Raw Cashmere

It’s not often you can say that a colour works with every other colour, effortlessly, is it? But that’s exactly what Raw Cashmere, a refined mid-tone neutral, brings to the table.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Rosemary Leaf

Combining the calming qualities of both blue and green, Rosemary Leaf is one of the most therapeutic colours in the Heritage Collection, used to create restful rooms in classic and contemporary homes.Read more

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Colour Confidential: Soothing, Serene and Sophisticated Shades of Blue

The Dulux Heritage collection features a beautiful choice of blues that can refresh any room in your home.Read more

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Colour Confidential: Warm Neutrals for a Cosy Home this Autumn

If you want to add warmth and comfort to your interiors, whether you’re curling up on the sofa or hibernating in your bedroom, we can help turn your home into a snuggly sanctuary.Read more

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Colour trends 2022: What shades will shape how you decorate next year?

Drawing on the same expertise used to predict Dulux Colour of the Year, we have cherry-picked the hottest colours for 2022 that define the mood of the moment. Be the first to try them with Heritage.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Dark Stone

With all the character of a classic house in the Cotswolds, sandstone has become synonymous with timeless style, and Dark Stone in the Heritage collection delivers in spades.Read more

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Tasting Notes: DH Indigo

Sitting somewhere between blue and violet on the colour wheel, DH Indigo is an inspiring choice for your interiors, and proves that purple tones are firmly back in fashion.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Blue Ribbon

Clear, crisp mornings. Calm, still seas. Blue Ribbon evokes some of nature’s most relaxing moments and has the power to recreate them from the comfort of home. Dive right in...Read more

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Colour Confidential: How to choose the right Dulux Heritage grey

Add a modern yet neutral look to your home with our grey room ideas. Discover our favourite grey kitchen, grey living room, & grey bedroom colour schemes!Read more

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Tasting Notes: Indian White

Pure and optimistic, Indian White is an inspiring choice of colour for all kinds of interiors, from period properties with characterful features, to new-builds with sleek surfaces and sharp angles.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Red Sand

Red Sand is deep and earthy, and creates a warm and welcoming atmosphere wherever it’s used. With its connection to nature, it’s a cocooning colour that can feel cosy and autumnal.Read more

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Tasting Notes: DH Grass Green

Evoking all the beauty of botany, the soft, elegant DH Grass Green calls to mind nature and the world around us, creating a feeling of vitality and wellbeing wherever it’s used in the house.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Waxed Khaki

Waxed Khaki is one of the most versatile colours in the Heritage Collection with a muted grey-green hue that makes it the perfect choice for any room in the house. Read more

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Tasting Notes: Pebble Grey

Pebble Grey offers the best of both worlds in a mid-taupe that’s one of the most usable colours in the Heritage Collection. Softly muted and wonderfully warm, the shade is seriously easy to live with.Read more

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Tasting Notes: Sage Green

Sage Green is a blue-based green that takes its name from the medicinal herb, the mid-tone has become a modern classic for interiors, and works in both period properties and contemporary builds.Read more

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Colour Confidential: Light Vs Dark Colour Schemes

As with most things, there are benefits to decorating with both light and dark colour schemes. Struggling to decide between the two? Ask yourself these three questions…Read more

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Colour Confidential: Feel-good shades to lift your mood

The feel-good colours in the Heritage Collection can help to boost your mood, from invigorating brights to inspiring bolds, crack open a can of creativity and get those endorphins flowing…Read more

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Colour Confidential: Express yourself with colour accents

Sometimes, choosing a dominant colour to decorate with can be seriously daunting, especially when considering all four walls of a room, so why not test the waters and experiment with accents?Read more

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Colour Confidential: Influencers who are inspiring us with white

White provides an unfussy canvas for experimenting with colour elsewhere, and is one of the most flexible hues there is – working in any room and with any colour.Read more

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Colour Confidential: Be inspired by the ice-cream shade trend

Inspired by the colours and flavours of our childhood, sugary-sweet pastels have been given a grown-up edge. This new-wave of pastels is refreshing – explore our round up of these whimsical colours.Read more

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Colour Confidential: Sunny shades to transport you to warm climes

Some of the sunniest shades in the spectrum – and indeed, the Heritage Collection – can evoke all the exoticism of warmer environs.Read more

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Colour Confidential: Calming colours for bedrooms

We share Marianne’s favourite calm paint colours for bedrooms and the techniques you can follow to create your own soothing sanctuary.Read more

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Colour Confidential: The rules for using neutral colours for bedroom walls

From golden sands and soft greys to warm taupes and earthy browns, there are endless ways to drape your bedroom walls in these familiar hues. Read more

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Colour Confidential: Introducing True White

Dulux Heritage True White is a clean & luxurious, white paint. The perfect blank canvas for any project, available in Velvet Matt and Eggshell.Read more

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Masterclass: 4 Ways To Use Green Paint Inside Your Home

Create a stunning home with these 4 great green ideas. From sophisticated green living room ideas, to tranquil green bedroom ideas and earthy green kitchen ideas, green paint can work in every room.Read more

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Masterclass: Woodwork Paint Finish with Heritage Eggshell

Choosing the best finish for your woodwork can be daunting. In this handy guide we will go over what is eggshell paint, what is eggshell paint best used for and how to apply eggshell paint.Read more

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Masterclass: 4 ways to add colour to your hallway

Bring style to your home with our hallway paint ideas. Be inspired to add a dark & daring or fun & bright hallway to welcome you home everyday. Learn more.Read more

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Masterclass: 4 ways to decorate the dining room for at home entertaining

Whether you want to style it dark for a touch of drama or prefer to make things calm and cosy for your guests, you can create a beautiful backdrop with the timeless and luxurious Heritage range.Read more

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Masterclass: Cosy up with colour

The days are getting longer, and the nights are getting darker, which means your home calls for a cosy update with colour.Read more

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Masterclass: 4 ways white can transform your home

In the Dulux Heritage range, we have an entire spectrum of stunning, sophisticated white shades, from cool, crisp whites to soft butter creams and warm cosy hues.Read more

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Masterclass: How to achieve panelling perfection

Panelling has made a mighty comeback. What was once considered a dated interior trend, has returned to our homes in the most chic and contemporary fashion.Read more

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Masterclass: How to get your guest bedroom styling just right

Be inspired by our guest bedroom ideas, from panelled walls to warm neutral paint, in this Dulux Heritage Masterclass. Discover how to style your bedroom today!Read more

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Masterclass: Discover the Dulux Heritage paint shades to match your style

Explore different shades of paint and colour scheme ideas to match your style, in this Dulux Heritage Masterclass. Discover how to design your home today!Read more

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Masterclass: Be Bold with Beige

Think beige is boring? Think again. Trendy new takes are putting a twist on the traditional colour – characterised by a greyish-tan – to make it truly contemporary for modern-day homes.Read more

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New year, new project: the ultimate painting and decorating planner

Why not kick-start 2022 by putting that much talked-about paint job top of the agenda? Consider this your expert planner to make refreshing your rooms one resolution worth keeping.Read more

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Masterclass: Create spaces for wellness

Look at creative ways to consider wellness in your home, using colour to enhance your health, with a renewed focus on looking after both our bodies and minds.Read more

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Masterclass: How to create a coherent colour scheme

With a little of our colour expertise, you can easily create a scheme that feels coherent. Here, we spill the secrets the industry has been desperately trying to keep under wraps…Read more

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Masterclass: Get a new kitchen… without getting a new kitchen

Kitchens are the heart of the home, and you don’t need the budget of a banker for a beautiful transformation, a lick of paint and a little creativity is all that’s needed. Let’s cook up a storm…Read more

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Masterclass: Nailing the Ultimate Neutral

As the ultimate neutral, white can be used as a blank canvas for colour and quirk elsewhere. Here, we reveal how to get white, right…Read more

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Masterclass: Create boutique hotel vibes from the comfort of home

Explore the design secrets that hoteliers have long been keeping to themselves, and show you how to harness them in your own home. It’s time to check-in and check them out…Read more

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Masterclass: Be connected to nature with the biophilic trend

The biophilic trend has never been bigger. Learn how to select shades rooted to the world around us, sure to bring you comfort and joy.Read more

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Masterclass: Brilliant ways to beautify your bathroom… without breaking a sweat

Bring your bathroom back from the brink with the clever use of colour. We’ll show you how to beautify your bathroom, quickly and easily – a lick of paint is all it takes.Read more

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Masterclass: How to lighten and brighten your home for spring

With Spring on the horizon, a chance to get creative with colour at home, and welcome the new season with sunnier tones. These ideas are sure to fill you with all the joys of spring…Read more

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Masterclass: Tap into the ‘broken-plan’ living trend

‘Broken-plan’ living is a more practical spin on how we use our homes – for work, play and everything in between. Here, we show you how to create a space that’s as practical as it is stylish.Read more

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Masterclass: Spruce-up your bedroom for the best sleep of your life

Tap into the psychology behind picking a colour for your bedroom, from restful pinks to soothing blues and laid-back purples.Read more

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Masterclass: Elegant shades for entertaining this spring

Just in time for spring, we’ve created the ultimate guide to styling-up your space for the new season, from the colours to choose to the rooms you makeover.Read more

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Masterclass: How to master neutrals in different lights

Explore the science behind neutrals, understanding the impact light can have on these shades so you can master your neutral décor.Read more

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Masterclass: How to decorate a north facing room

Decorating a north facing room is no mean feat. The lack of natural light entering the room will dictate the paint colours you use and how you’re going to style the space.Read more

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Masterclass: Small living room paint ideas

A small living room can be a decorating conundrum for homeowners. Discover our paint ideas for small living rooms to create the stylish and functional space that you’ve always wanted.Read more

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Masterclass: Colour ideas for small kitchens

What your kitchen might lack in space, you can more than make up for in style. And that’s where our small kitchen colour ideas come in.Read more