Holiday Best Of Home Design Chat with Nancy

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Nancy Hugo shares favorite design moments and reveals the new color forecast for 2026 with Sherwin-Williams expert Lori Clark.

It opens as holiday filler. Nancy is taking a short break, so she pulls a favorite design conversation for easy seasonal listening. Then the calendar barges in. She ties the replay to November 10, Thanksgiving pressure, and that quick tumble toward Christmas. The subject is color, because homeowners want a peek at new shades before they commit to a remodel. Lori Clark is back, and Nancy introduces her as being with Sherwin-Williams before settling into their annual color talk. Lori does not hand over a neat list and call it a day. Her point is that color forecasting works more like a pendulum than a reset button. Reds make the idea easier to see. Orange-leaning reds can lead for a while, then bluer reds start to feel right again. If that sounds a little abstract, Lori gives the kitchen-table version: put one red next to another and the undertone shows itself. Trend colors still get their turn. A bright hit like chartreuse can show up, feel fresh, and then disappear from the next palette. Nancy asks the homeowner question everyone wants answered. Can Sherwin-Williams already tell which 2026 colors are selling and which ones are duds? Lori is careful. The company tracks popularity internally, but she does not have the figures and says they probably would not share them. The loneliest color comes up too, framed as a clue about what is not catching on. Nancy closes by sending listeners to her design sites, inviting email questions, thanking Lori, and bringing it all back to Thanksgiving, Christmas, and the next color year.

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A warm holiday pick that turns color forecasting into practical remodeling advice.

Holiday Best Of Home Design Chat with Nancy makes seasonal listening feel like a tidy lesson in how color trends actually move. Nancy Hugo asks Lori Clark of Sherwin-Williams about the new colors for 2020, and Clark explains the forecast as a slow pendulum between warmer and…

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You get a color forecast and a practical question: what still works after the yearly palette moves on?

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