Living room interior with Domino coloured walls and aged wood book shelves

Charcoal chic

White and light-coloured neutrals are a firm favourite in Australian interiors - but there are many reasons to expand your thinking, beyond these fail safe options. By Lucy Feagins – Founder, The Design Files. Photograph: Caitlin Mills. Colour featured: Domino

Kitchen and Dining room with grey colour feature wall, white side walls and vaulted ceilings.
Bringing deeper colours into the home adds instant atmosphere, and makes cavernous spaces feel cosy and inviting. Bold blues, deep greens and even warm browns are all excellent choices, but if you're a little hesitant about adopting a darker palette, charcoal grey is a great place to start. Charcoal offers depth, whilst still acting as a neutral base which easily complements existing accent colours, artwork, and furnishings.

In this contemporary country sanctuary in regional Victoria, with its floor to ceiling windows and high vaulted ceiling, Dulux Malay Grey creates atmosphere, and complements leafy views to the surrounding lush gardens. Using a deep charcoal here ensures residents feel cocooned and cosy in their modern farmhouse, whilst complementing the rustic, utilitarian details in the home.

Kitchen and dining area with Grey feature wall and Vivid White side walls. Rustic and retro furniture decorates the space.

Charcoal grey is also excellent at unifying a space, softening any imperfect edges, and bringing together different stylistic references under one roof. In this expansive warehouse-style home in the Northern Rivers region of NSW, the rustic kitchen is painted using Dulux Domino, which helps to cover up a patchwork of corrugated iron and give a unified aesthetic, in what was originally an old pig feeding shed!

Kitchen window with Domino coloured walls, aged wood cabinets and shelves and concrete look bench tops.

Of course, there's also the robust and rugged quality of deep grey - the perfect smokescreen to mask mess and grubby fingerprints! In this NSW home, grey presents a hard wearing base for teenagers' loft bedrooms, lending a moody, intimate feel to the sleeping zones, and a warmth that is accentuated through the use of reclaimed timber and vintage finds.

Interior stairs with Domino coloured walls, aged timber beams and tiled pattern steps.

The aesthetics of this rambling home are heavily influenced by barns and cabins in the mountain regions of the United States. The result is a 'rustic ranch house', that’s perfectly at home in coastal NSW!

Kitchen and dining area with Domino coloured walls, aged wood cabinets, tiled floors and splash back and concrete look bench tops.

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