There's something about this time of year that makes you want to look ahead. The 2027 forecasts have started landing, and they're pointing somewhere genuinely interesting: less trend-chasing, more feeling. Colour that does something to a room rather than just sitting in it.
We've pulled together what the forecasters are actually saying, what it means for the walls in your home, and which pieces bring each idea to life. Some of these you'll recognise from 2026 because the best trends never arrive overnight. Others are brand new. And a couple, we'll be honest, we're still watching.
A quick note before we dive in: Dulux Australia hasn't released its 2027 Colour Forecast yet. When it lands we'll update this page. In the meantime, the 2026 forecast is still the most useful local reference, and we broke it down in our guide to the Dulux Colour of the Year 2026.
Luminous Blue Is the 2027 Colour of the Year
The headline call belongs to Luminous Blue, named by WGSN and Coloro. It's electric, saturated, and much closer to cobalt than the soft dusty blues we've all been living with for the past few years.
What we love is the story behind it. It's a heritage pigment, the colour originally ground from lapis lazuli and used by painters for centuries. It's also, apparently, a colour of the future: cobalt is the ingredient in the batteries powering the energy transition. Old and new in the same shade. That's a lot of meaning for one blue to carry, and somehow it does.
In a real room, a blue this saturated behaves differently to the muted versions you're used to. It doesn't recede into the wall, it holds its ground. Which is exactly why it works best as one considered piece rather than a whole scheme. Hang it opposite a window and watch it shift from morning to afternoon.
Our pick of the range: Ocean Blues Canvas Art Print and Blue Lagoon Canvas Art Print both carry that clarity of pigment, while Sombre Seas Canvas Art Print gives you the depth without the electricity, perfect if your room already has plenty going on. Browse the full blue wall art range, or go deeper with navy wall art and teal wall art.
One styling tip: Australian light is bright and unforgiving, and a truly luminous blue on a north-facing wall in February is a lot to ask of a room. Go for the pigment rather than the intensity unless you've got a space that can carry it.
How to style Luminous Blue
Give it a wall of its own and keep everything around it quiet. Warm neutrals, timber and linen stop a saturated blue from feeling cold. If your room already has a strong colour in the joinery or the rug, hang the blue where the two cannot be seen in the same glance.
The Supporting Cast: Orange, Pink, Green and Clay
Luminous Blue doesn't arrive alone. The 2027 forecast pairs it with four supporting colours under a theme of interconnectedness, and honestly, this is where things get wearable.
- Energy Orange. Courageous and optimistic without tipping into novelty. Orange has been quietly rebuilding through terracotta and burnt sienna for years, and this is its more confident moment.
- Pop Pink. Playful and empowered, and expected to show up mostly in soft furnishings rather than across whole walls.
- Meadowland Green. Balanced and slightly grey-leaning, with none of the acidity of a brighter botanical green. The forecasters call it nourishing, which is a fair description of what most of us actually want.
- Clay. Dependable, warm and designed for the long haul. The colour everything else sits against.
Orange is the one we'd handle with a little care, and also the one with the biggest payoff when it lands. It's a small-dose colour: one piece will lift an entire neutral room, three and you've committed to a theme. Farewell Canvas Art Print and New Horizons Canvas Art Print both carry that warmth without shouting, and Fire Opal Canvas Art Print sits in the same family but grounded.
Meadowland Green Keeps Nature in the Room
If we had to bet on one 2027 colour landing properly in Australian homes, it's this one. Green has been the steadiest performer in our range for years, and it plays beautifully with almost everything already in your house: timber, rattan, linen, brass, black steel.
Topaz St Canvas Art Print and Palm Canyon Canvas Art Print both sit in that grounded register. Moss Growth 4 Canvas Art Print leans abstract if you'd rather have the colour without a literal landscape, and Cacti Canvas Art Print is the more graphic option. Start with green wall art, or head to floral and botanical art if you want the botanical read specifically.
How to style Meadowland Green
Green is the most forgiving colour on this list, so let it repeat. Echo it in a cushion or a ceramic rather than matching it exactly, and keep at least one raw natural material nearby, whether that is rattan, jute or an unfinished timber edge.
Pop Pink, All Grown Up
Pink's framing has shifted, and we think for the better. The 2027 forecasts describe it as playful and empowered rather than sweet, and expect most of it to land in cushions and throws rather than across a feature wall.
That matches what we see. Pink art sells beautifully, but the pieces that really work in a living room are the ones where pink is a component rather than the whole story.
A Hint of Spring Canvas Art Print is the clearest example, using pink as light rather than as a statement. Swoop Canvas Art Print and Decadence Canvas Art Print carry more of it, and Lunch with the Girls Canvas Art Print is the confident end of the range. Browse pink wall art, or if you'd rather test the water first, our homewares range is the low-risk way in.
How to style Pop Pink
Treat pink as a warm neutral rather than a statement and it will behave. It sits beautifully against clay, camel and soft white, and it works best where the light is gentle, which is why bedrooms suit it more than a bright north-facing living room.
Clay and the Grounded Neutrals Do the Heavy Lifting
Here's the least fashionable section on this page, and probably the most useful. The language around Clay in the 2027 forecast is all about designing for longer lifespans, which is a polite way of saying we're all a bit tired of replacing things.
Clay, terracotta and the warm mineral neutrals are what everything brighter sits against. Moab Canvas Art Print is our pick of the moment, all rust, cream and mineral movement. Ochre Canvas Art Print and Trilogy Canvas Art Print live in the same warm band. Browse brown wall art and neutral wall art for the wider palette, and if you're building a whole room around it, our guide to brown and earthy wall art covers how to keep it warm rather than flat. Styling with travertine is the companion piece on the furniture side.
How to style clay and earthy neutrals
Layer tones rather than matching them. Three or four shades of the same warm family, from cream through to deep rust, will always read richer than one flat colour repeated. Add texture wherever you can: limewash, sisal, unglazed ceramic.
Pantone's Seven Palettes for 2027
Pantone takes a different route. Its 2027 Home and Interiors forecast is built around seven palettes under the heading Sense-Abilities, with the idea that colour at home should engage more than just your eyes. The overall mood they're describing is respite and joy, a deliberate counterweight to a noisy world.
Strip back the language and it's genuinely useful, because each palette maps neatly onto a way of shopping:
- Delight. Summer at its softest, in the muted tones of a meadow. Look to floral and botanical art.
- Allure. Dramatic and elegant, inspired by old Hollywood glamour. Try moody artwork.
- Lucid. Blues and greens carrying the quiet magic of daydreams, all clarity and transparency. See blue and green wall art.
- Hush. Quiet light and muted midtones built around wellness and calm. Head to calming wall art.
- Honest. Warm browns, reds and oranges, the colours of comfort food and home baking. Browse brown wall art.
- Grounded. Organic, earthy shades that mix easily with what you already own. Start with neutral wall art.
- Elation. Contrasting, playful and vibrant. This one belongs in eclectic wall art.
If you take one thing from Pantone's framing, make it this: choose art for how you want a room to feel, not how it'll photograph. The two aren't always the same thing.
Texture Gets Layered
Texture appears in every 2027 forecast we read, and it's the prediction we'd make most confidently, because it's already happening in real homes. What's changed is the ambition. It's no longer one texture per room, it's several, layered.
Think grasscloth on the primary walls, fluted timber panelling on a feature wall, acoustic panels in a grid, and artwork that has genuine physical depth rather than a flat printed surface.
There's a practical reason this keeps growing, and it's one we talk about a lot. Texture photographs badly and lives beautifully. A flat print looks its best on a screen and slightly underwhelming on your wall. A textured piece does the exact opposite, which is the right way round for something you'll look at every day for a decade.
Midnight Blooms Canvas Art Print, Papillon - Cascade Canvas Art Print and Silent Ruby Canvas Art Print all carry that dimensional quality. Explore the full textured wall art range.
How to style layered texture
Pick one hero texture and two supporting ones, then stop. A fluted panel wall plus a bouclé chair plus a chunky wool throw is layered. Add a fourth and it starts to feel like a showroom. Side lighting is what makes any of it read, so place textured pieces where light rakes across them rather than hits them straight on.
The Handmade Comeback
Running alongside all of this is a real appetite for things that feel made by someone. Mass-produced perfection is losing its shine, and handcrafted detail, visible brushwork and the perfectly imperfect are what people are reaching for instead.
You don't need a shelf of ceramics to bring that feeling in, either. Art carries it just as well: a piece that mimics the earthy glaze of a ceramic surface, layered brushstrokes you can actually see, or a hand-painted work where the maker's hand is obvious.
Browse hand painted wall art, or read our guide to wabi sabi for the philosophy underneath the whole idea.
And one we're deliberately sitting out. Several 2027 forecasts are calling collage as the next big format, and they may well be right. But we've only got a handful of pieces that genuinely fit that description, and we'd rather tell you that than pad this page out with something we can't back up. When we can do it properly, you'll hear about it.
How to style handmade and crafted pieces
Let the imperfections show. Hang crafted work where you will pass it closely, in a hallway or beside a reading chair, rather than high on a distant wall. The detail is the whole point, and from six metres away you lose it.
Oversized Art Is Still the Anchor
Some trends arrive, some just refuse to leave. Oversized art has been the most reliable styling move going for several years now, and nothing in the 2027 forecasts suggests that's changing.
The logic is simple: one large piece gives a room a focal point instantly, where five small ones give it visual noise. Here's what scale actually does for you:
Instant focal point
Hang one oversized piece and the room knows exactly where to look.
Makes a room feel bigger
Counterintuitive, but true. A large piece stretches the eye and gives walls a sense of openness.
Personality without the chaos
One confident artwork tells the story that twelve little frames struggle to.
Balances big furniture
A generous sofa or long dining table looks unfinished without art that matches its scale.
The rule we keep coming back to is two thirds: aim for roughly two thirds the width of the furniture beneath. Above a standard three-seater around 220cm, that's an artwork or grouping around 140 to 150cm wide. Most people go smaller than they should. If you want a piece with real presence at that scale, Mina Mina Jukurrpa VII by Warlukurlangu Artists Aboriginal Corporation is extraordinary hung large, its banded rhythm and fine dotwork holding a tall wall the way very few pieces can. Explore more Aboriginal wall art, and read our guide to styling Aboriginal art respectfully at home. Spray Canvas Art Print and Araceae Canvas Art Print also hold a wall on their own. See large and oversized wall art, and our complete wall art size guide has the room-by-room numbers.
Gallery Walls, Looser and More Personal
Gallery walls aren't going anywhere, but the rigid grid of nine matching frames has had its day. What's replacing it is far more relaxed: mixed frame finishes, deliberately uneven sizing, and pieces that are there for a reason rather than because they came as a set.
This suits how people actually live. A grid has to be finished to look right, which is a lot of pressure. A looser arrangement can grow over years, and that's rather the point.
For mixing, Epoch II Canvas Art Print, He & I Canvas Art Print and Good Foundation Canvas Art Print sit together beautifully without matching, which is exactly the effect you're after. Eclectic wall art is the right place to browse. Our guide to creating a gallery wall covers spacing and layout, and the dos and don'ts of hanging wall art sorts out the height rules most people get wrong.
How to style a looser gallery wall
Start with your largest piece slightly off centre, then build outwards, keeping a consistent gap of around 5 to 8cm between frames even when the frames themselves do not match. Lay the whole arrangement on the floor first. It takes ten minutes and saves a wall full of holes.
Art That Sets the Mood
The thread running through every 2027 forecast is emotional rather than visual. People are choosing art for how a room should feel, and that plays out very practically in where things go.
Calm, low-contrast work belongs in bedrooms. Something with more energy earns its place where you work. Great Barrier Reef Canvas Art Print and Candy Canvas Art Print sit at opposite ends of that range. Browse calming wall art for the quiet end and moody artwork for depth, and our room guides go further: bedroom wall art ideas and home office wall art ideas.
How to choose art by mood
Ask what you want to be doing in the room, not what you want it to look like. Low contrast and soft edges settle a space for rest. Higher contrast and stronger shapes lift one for work. The same rule applies whether the piece is abstract, botanical or photographic.
How to Buy Into 2027 Without Regretting It in 2028
Trend forecasts are wonderful for understanding where the mood is heading and terrible as a shopping list. Here's how we'd actually use everything above.
- Buy the piece, not the palette. One Luminous Blue canvas in a room of warm neutrals is a considered choice. A whole blue room is a commitment to a forecast, and forecasts move.
- Let the expensive things stay neutral. Sofa, rug, cabinetry. Art is the easiest thing in the room to change your mind about, which is exactly why it should carry the trend.
- Trust texture over colour. Texture has been building for years with no sign of reversing. A colour of the year has a shelf life built into the name.
- Buy what you'll still like. The most durable test we know: if you'd hang it happily with no idea it had been forecast, buy it. If the forecast is the only reason, wait.
Every piece on this page is made to order. If you'd rather see the whole range than just our picks, start with wall art or narrow by format with canvas art.
2027 Art Trends FAQs
What is the colour of the year for 2027?
Luminous Blue, named by WGSN and Coloro. It's a saturated, electric blue with a heritage lineage in lapis lazuli pigment and a contemporary association with the cobalt used in battery technology. Four supporting colours sit alongside it: Energy Orange, Pop Pink, Meadowland Green and Clay.
What are Pantone's 2027 colour palettes?
Pantone's 2027 Home and Interiors forecast is organised into seven palettes under the theme Sense-Abilities: Delight, Allure, Lucid, Hush, Honest, Grounded and Elation. The idea is that colour at home should engage the full sensory experience rather than just how a space looks.
Has Dulux announced its 2027 colour forecast?
Not yet. Dulux Australia releases its forecast annually and the 2026 edition, built around the Ethereal, Elemental and Evoke palettes, is currently the most recent. We'll update this page as soon as the 2027 forecast is published.
Is textured wall art still in style in 2027?
Absolutely, and it's the trend we'd back hardest. Texture has grown steadily over several years rather than arriving overnight, which is usually the sign of a lasting shift rather than a passing cycle. For 2027 the move is toward layering several textures in one room.
Are gallery walls still in style?
Yes, though the format has relaxed considerably. Mixed frame finishes, uneven sizing and personally chosen pieces have replaced the uniform grid. The advantage is that a looser arrangement can grow over time instead of needing to be perfect on day one.
How big should wall art be?
As a general rule, around two thirds the width of the furniture below it. Above a standard three-seater sofa that means roughly 140 to 150cm wide. Our wall art size guide has room-by-room measurements if you want to be precise.
