Create a Calm Office with Dark Shades of Green - Colour of the Year 2024

In today’s hybrid working world, people are demanding more from their workspaces than ever before. To encourage employees into the office, companies need to embrace a more people-centric approach, creating environments that put their employees’ needs first. ¹

Providing spaces where people can relax in busy, digitised offices shows consideration for workplace mental health and helps boost productivity. In fact, one in five office workers agree that having a space to relax at work is the key to increased productivity. ²

Echoing the shades of nature, our calm colour story of blues and greens combined with Dulux Trade Colour of the Year 2024, Sweet Embrace^TM, has a calming and clarifying effect. These office paint colours can also help offset the sterile feel of a tech-dominated space, creating an environment employees want to spend time in. 

¹ _{From An interview with Gensler co CEO Diane Hoskins, McKinsey.com, Feb 22.} 

 ² _{1 in 5 office workers agree that having space to relax at work is the key to increased productivity - 4 simple ways to boost workplace productivity, Dale Office Interiors research.}      

Mixing dark shades of green with blues and lighter neutrals, our calm colour story can bring a feeling of simplicity and serenity to an office. Here, the combination of forest-inspired greens, natural wood, and Dulux Trade Colour of the Year, Sweet Embrace^TM, creates a welcoming entrance. 

The nature-inspired greens and blues in our calm colour story can help a streamlined exterior feel part of the surrounding landscape. Here, cladding painted in combinations of these office paint colours helps a modern, high-tech exterior feel at home in the natural environment.

The soothing greens in the Dulux Trade calm colour story can help to soften a tech-dominated, open-plan office. Here, a combination of a deep green colour with Sweet Embrace ^TM brings a sense of simplicity and freshness, helping create a space where employees can focus.

The balancing shades in our calm colour story can create striking contrast without overpowering a space. Here, a wall painted with different coloured stripes helps to define the front desk and meeting area. Meanwhile, the use of Dulux Trade Colour of the Year 2024, Sweet Embrace ^TM, on the other walls holds the scheme together.