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promote-positivity

Promote Positivity



With vacation season ending, and back to school around the corner, this month’s palette explores colours for educational environments. Focusing on preschool and elementary school spaces, a palette of primary and secondary colours is our choice. Bold and confident, a blue, yellow, red and green are grounded by an easy neutral hue. This functional palette is perfect for promoting playfulness, positivity and stimulation.


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Dandy Lion
B18-2-0829-4


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Florida Waters
A26-1-0599-3


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Pebblebrook
D26-5-0224-0


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Endless
Possibilities
A21-2-1081-3


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Wildness Mint
C32-2-0724-3



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Ideal for preschool and elementary school classrooms, create an encouraging learning environment with bold colour. Using a colour-blocking technique, natural Pebblebrook is combined with primaries, Dandy Lion and Empower for classroom walls and wooden chairs and desk tidies are painted in Wildness Mint, Florida Waters and Empower to enhance this fun and positive mood.




​For an instantly welcoming and cheerful appearance, why not invest in bold colour schemes for educational exteriors and child-friendly environments? Play areas are given a colourful makeover with path-finding shapes in Dandy Lion, Florida Waters and Wildness Mint. Here, the palette is used to transform a school’s façade. Neutral Pebblebrook is used as a base with eye-catching window frames in the palette’s primary and secondary hues.





​For those looking to home-school this academic year, creating a designated area for your little ones to learn and have fun in is a great way to help with work-life balance. Playful wall murals are also a brilliant way to enhance creativity. Use true blue, Florida Waters as your key paint colour and create a starry-night theme with stenciled stars in Primary red, Empower and neutral Pebblebrook.

 


School corridors are given a colourful update with walls in cheerful yellow and lockers in a combination of bold blue, red and green. Sports halls can also benefit from this colour confident palette through painted wall murals. This not only offsets an uninspiring white wall, but can also be a creative activity to involve the students in. So, this September let our inspiring colour tips support you in making interior paint choices to enhance children’s engagement and mood in the classroom and beyond.





Inspiration is always handy

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