We love the way color evolves in home decor. The upcoming year presents a chance for us to refresh our homes–adding new color, or even a new palette. All of the major paints and brands have spoken–their 2026 colors are here! Each selection sends its own message of optimism for what color can bring to our lives. We’ve selected a few to share with you, ideas for the home and how window coverings can play into the equation.
The Colors of 2026
Valspar: Warm Eucalyptus
Warm Eucalyptus invites calm. It’s a sage-soft green with muted gray undertones. For anyone seeking color that doesn’t dominate, this quiet green delivers. Made popular ccross kitchens, laundry rooms, and home-office built-ins, the design world can’t get enough of this soothing tone.
Where It Works with Window Coverings
Soft green is often considered a neutral, allowing it to be present in any space. Draperies dress the window in every shade of green and weight of fabric. Window shades are available in green tones for almost every collection, from woven shades and rollers, to roman and cellular shades.
Sherwin Williams: Universal Khaki
A modern classic, Universal Khaki balances poise with warmth. This color, a beige-tan with green-gray undertones, creates a gentle foundation–ideal for the walls of any room, or even the whole home. It’s subtle, allowing other elements, like furniture and artwork, to stand out.
Where It Works with Window Coverings
Neutrals are quite popular throughout every collection of window treatments. Today’s design trend is neutrals with texture or monochromatic patterns. Look for this in roller, romans, cellular shades and sheers. Woven wood shades invite natural fibers to play a role, with the woven materials creating dimension at the window.
WGSN & Coloro: Transformative Teal
This year’s color brings optimistic vision and easy energy to home design. Transformative Teal reads as a modern classic. It’s uplifting by nature, composed and full of hope–an ideal color to bring into your home. This blue-green fusion will show up across artwork, decor, and in fabric accents or wallpaper details.
Where It Works with Window Coverings
The balance of blue and green is a beautiful choice–one that can be displayed in fabrics as solids and patterns for drapery and custom roman shades and rollers. We also expect to see soft tones of teal at the window in all of our collections, from sheer shades to cellular shades and beyond.
Benjamin Moore: Silhouette
With Silhouette, brown returns in a modern way: Soft, velvety, and confident. It can skew dark, yet natural light reveals a refreshed, layered quality so it’s important to know how your home interacts with the light. We expect to see statement walls and sophisticated dark wood stains with this luxurious tone.
Where It Works with Window Coverings
The wood tones of shutters and blinds beautifully display the brown color family, and this cottage-inspired color-way of Silhouette is no different. Many sheer shades, woven woods, romans and roller shades can make dark tones work, standing out with elegance.
Provenance® Woven Wood Shade
Behr: Hidden Gem
A jewel-toned smoky jade, Hidden Gem offers serenity with a bit of intrigue. A green color that leans teal, with soft gray undertones, it feels plush and smooth–a welcoming color. Ideal for bedrooms and bathrooms, it also works beautifully as an accent in upholstery, decor, and art throughout the home.
Where It Works with Window Coverings
Custom draperies in jewel-tone colors are a beautifully rich way to frame the windows of your home. Think luxury fabrics–velvets and jacquard–adding softness and dimension. With shades, teal can be a gorgeous color for roller shades and roman shades in solids or within the patterns and detailing of the fabric.
Custom Drapery & Roman Shade
PPG: Warm Mahogany
Full of elegance, Warm Mahogany presents a rich brownish-red, offering bold design. This color can shine as a simple accent, pairing beautifully throughout many color schemes, a sophisticated note to furniture, artwork, and trims. Or as the star of the show with color-drenching, the art of painting all walls and ceiling within a room the same color. Regardless of the use, this color will lead to a dramatic statement.
Where It Works with Window Coverings
The red color family is a dramatic statement at the window. Red-toned fabrics work with custom drapery, roller shades and romans–in a wide variety of fabrics, from solids to patterns and prints that offer splashes of color.
Sonnette® Cellular Roller Shades
Do You Have Plans for Color in 2026?
A new year is upon us! Are you considering adding color in your home? Painting walls is one of the quickest ways to refresh your home and make it feel like a whole new place. But it’s the window treatments that play a huge role in the comfort and atmosphere. Control the light, improve the privacy and increase energy efficiency–all with help from the team at Custom Shades of London. Stop by one of our showrooms to see all of our products in person. Then, schedule a free in-home consultation to invite us over. We’ll take professional measurements, help narrow down your choices and give you advice on which window treatments will create style and function in your Ontario home.