Pantone Paint, the premium brand of Noroo Paint, has proposed four interior examples for DIY interior design and home styling based on 'Living Coral,' Pantone's Color of the Year. 'Living Coral,' chosen by Pantone as the Color of the Year, is a color that conveys warm and lively energy and is highly versatile for spring interior design. It is a bright orange inspired by the coral reefs that provide food and shelter to marine life, with a color tone that sits midway between the crimson and scarlet of coral. As a vibrant yet soft color, it offers a warm, full feeling and relaxed vitality to modern people living amid rapidly changing environments. It also carries the meaning of protecting the natural environment, in a reality where coral reefs are disappearing worldwide as a result of global warming. Pantone Paint introduced four interior spaces—a bedroom, kitchen, living room, and children's room—featuring the Living Coral color so that modern people can find comfort and vitality in a harsh society marked by economic recession and other challenges.
△Living Coral Children's Room Interior Recreating the Mystery of the Deep Sea — If you want to express Living Coral in a lively way, we recommend the 'Under the Sea' color palette, which mixes and matches pastel colors with primary colors. By reinterpreting the colorful underwater environment where coral reefs and tropical fish come together, you can create a children's room that nurtures imagination and creativity. Adding furniture with soft-looking rounded details can double the charming, cozy feel.
△Cozy Bedroom Interior in Living Coral & Brown Tones — A color scheme mixing Living Coral with beige, pink, and brown can complete a bedroom with a classic mood that is both calm and cozy. Matching red-brown—which can otherwise look old and dull—with vibrant Living Coral creates a look that is both trendy and substantial.
△Lively, Pop-Up Living Coral Kitchen Interior in Vivid Tones — Let's decorate a joyful kitchen interior with an optimistic mood of color play. Painting done with tone-on-tone or color-blocking techniques adds fun to the space. In the dining room, various high-saturation vivid colors such as purple, blue, and green were used alongside Living Coral to create a retro-modern style. Choosing vintage kitchenware lets you bring out a red mood without going overboard.
△Urban and Sophisticated Living Coral Living Room Interior — This is the best Living Coral palette for completing an urban yet refined mood, harmonizing cool-toned green and gray with Living Coral in a sophisticated way. Dividing the wall paint colors diagonally can create an even more intense and edgy feel. Mixing and matching various materials such as velvet, marble, and steel completes a modern-chic styling.
Pantone is a global color specialist founded in the United States in 1963, and since 2000 it has announced its 'Color of the Year' at the end of each year. Pantone's Color of the Year has a major influence not only on fashion and beauty but also on product development and marketing across various industries such as home appliances, accessories, packaging design, and interiors, as well as on lifestyle and consumer psychology. Recently selected 'Colors of the Year' include 'Greenery' (2017) and the elegant, mysterious 'Ultra Violet' (2018). Beyond creating global color standards, Pantone also carries out △customized color consulting for brands and products, and △a B2B licensing business that allows use of the Pantone color database. Noroo Paint signed a licensing agreement with Pantone in 2011 and has been offering 'Pantone Premium Paint.'
Noroo Paint has operated a color research institute since 1987—the first in Korea's paint industry—and has provided differentiated color services across various fields including automobiles, home appliances, architecture, and color design. In addition, in 2014 it launched the Noroo Pantone Color Institute (NPCI), and through technical partnerships on paint colors and customized color consulting in key industrial design fields such as architecture, automobiles, home appliances, fashion, and interiors, it is expanding a high-level color solution business and creating new markets. Noroo Pantone Paint analyzes color trends together with color and interior experts and consistently provides styling know-how on how to effectively use color in interior design through the Pantone Paint blog and social media.