Get ready to see a lot of blue in 2020.

Have you decided to renovate your home next year? Regardless of the room you focus on—living room, kitchen, or bathroom—adding a new color to the coverings, furnishings, or floors, the Pantone color of 2020 is Classic Blue: an elegant shade in its simplicity.

After a year of Living Coral, we move to an evocative shade like the sky at dusk, the reassuring PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue that stimulates reflection, highlights a desire for reliability and stability on which to build, as we cross the threshold into a new era.

“We live in a time that requires trust. It is this kind of feeling that is expressed by PANTONE 19-4052 Classic Blue, a “solid” shade we can always rely on,” said Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute. “…Classic Blue encourages us to look beyond the obvious, to expand our knowledge; it challenges us to think more deeply and broaden our perspective.”

The Pantone fashion colors for 2020 are perfectly aligned with the gradual return of interior design to a traditional style; blue unites different furnishing genres, suggesting very reassuring living situations.

What goes well with Classic Blue? There may be no more beloved pairing than blue and white.

This combination continues to be a popular choice for design, and it’s no wonder the duo is so popular worldwide: when blue, calm and relaxing, and white, clean and simple, are together, you get a serene, tranquil, and sophisticated space like the bathroom below, where we used Lilac marble, characterized by particular colored veins in blue shades on a homogeneous white background.

And you? What do you think of Pantone’s color choice for 2020?