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A RESOURCE FOR
COLOR AND CREATIVITY

STIR is the resource that explores the connection between color and cutting-edge design. It examines the many facets of color to help you bring a fresh perspective to your work. STIR is an e-newsletter for design professionals.

A RESOURCE FOR
COLOR AND CREATIVITY

STIR is the resource that explores the connection between color and cutting-edge design. It examines the many facets of color to help you bring a fresh perspective to your work. STIR is an e-newsletter for design professionals.

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Tranquility, Usefulness & Color: Trends to Watch in Bathroom Design

Explore the current trends defining 2024’s most beautiful bathroom designs, like nature-inspired harmony, bold patterns with painted wainscoting, and innovative products.

Account Executives: Your Behind-the-Scenes Experts for Every Project

Hear about how Sherwin-Williams Account Executives can provide support with color resources, specification assistance, and so much more.

Colormix® Trends and Influences: A STIR® Exclusive

Read all about the stories, movements, and influences that inspired Terra, our 2023 Colormix® Forecast. 

Commercial Color Trends for 2023

Q&A with Emily Kantz discussing industry trends and the forecast for different commercial settingsQ&A with Emily Kantz discussing industry trends and the forecast for different commercial settings

The Making of a Color Forecast

Read all about the stories, movements, and influences that inspired Terra, our 2023 Colormix® Forecast. 

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Healthcare Design & the Power of Healing Spaces

Hear from commercial designers specializing in healthcare design about their recent projects, the latest trends, and how to inspire healing, calm, and positivity in spaces where they’re needed most.

Aimee Walker on Color, Comfort & Connecting Through Design

We asked the owner of Aimee Walker Interiors about one special client whose inspiring story and strength influenced the bold palette and thoughtful details of a not-so-typical home build.

Blue, Green & the Significance in Between

Join interior design experts as we venture through the soothing and invigorating realms of the decade’s most defining color families—blues and greens.

Get to Know the 2023 Designers of the Month

Learn more about the Designers of the Month we’ve featured this year, their passions and partnerships, and what they’re looking forward to in the year ahead.

Designing for the Senses

Explore how designing with all the senses in mind can encompass the full complexity of human perception and create one-of-a-kind sensory experiences. 

Strategies for Future-Proofing Design

We asked two designers to share their insights on slow design, sustainable sourcing, and the secrets and strategies of truly future-proof designs.

Powerful & Productive Coworking Space Designs

Shared coworking spaces are more essential than ever. Discover how design can create a sense of community and an environment that fosters creativity and productivity. 

Jubilant Colors for Joyful Designs

We’re spotlighting spaces that bring joy—throughout the creative process, with each completed project, and in the personal relationships designers make along the way.

Trending Upward: Our 2024 Color of the Year

Join us for an exclusive conversation with Director of Color Marketing Sue Wadden about the story and symbolism behind our Color of the Year for 2024.

Finding Harmony with the 2024 Color of the Year

Learn from Sherwin-Williams color and design experts about creating cohesion and color harmony in your designs, especially when featuring our 2024 Color of the Year, Upward.

Anthology: The Evolving Colors of Colormix®

Through a closer look at the recent evolutionary shifts in color trends, delve deeper into the four key color groups and 48 stunning hues of Colormix® Anthology: Volume One.

Colormix® for Commercial Spaces

Explore these curated hues and their growing importance when designing for commercial, hospitality, education, healthcare, multi-family, new residential and beyond.

New Residential for a New Era

Lee Crowder, National Director of Design and Model Experience at the leading home builder Taylor Morrison, shares her expert perspective—and predictions—on modern new residential exteriors.  

The Power of Partnership in Design

When it comes to design success, strong partners are key. We chatted with designers and Account Executives to see just how big of a difference the right relationships can make.

Full Spectrum Possibilities: Project Spotlight

From wood to walls, floors to fireproofing, see some of our quality coatings in action with this roundup of recent projects.

Nuances & New Trends in Shades of White

Read how our finest paint formula, Emerald® Designer Edition, brings to life the most beautiful qualities of this eternal favorite color choice.

The Impact & Influence of Sheen

Go deeper into understanding paint sheen and how the right choice can have a significant impact on the look, the feel, and the function of a space.

Collaboration with Christian Siriano

Learn more about the collaboration behind our exclusive, limited-edition Christian Siriano x Sherwin-Williams® Color Collection.

Making a Difference Through Inclusive Design

We’re exploring some of the most meaningful developments in adaptive, inclusive design—and how we can all benefit when we design with empathy.

Designing for the Heart of the Home

We’re serving up a selection of delectable kitchen trends to inspire your projects in 2023.

Closets Are the New Self-Care Sanctuaries

Step inside some of the dreamiest designer dressing rooms we could find—and learn why high-end hospitality design is coming home.

The Art of the Great Escape

Kellie Sirna of Studio 11 Design gives us her expert take on modern hospitality design, celebrating the spirit of a place, and creating space for memory-making.

Style Snapshots: 2022’s Top Hues in Review

Our Colors of the Month are carefully chosen from among the top trending hues of the year. Take a look back over a few of our favorites from 2022 in the form of satisfyingly styled moodboards.

The Best Interior Design Glow-Ups of 2022

We asked you to send us your most jaw-dropping before-and-after space makeovers, and we're sharing all the astonishing remodels and reimaginings to inspire you into the new year.

Fearless Colors, Fabulous Designs

Get inspired by our readers’ projects featuring designs destined to cure a common case of chromophobia.

Designing a Hub in the Heart of High Point

The brilliant minds at Barbour Spangle Design in High Point, NC, have masterfully revitalized a historic-yet-homey hub in The Commons at Congdon Yards.

Redend Point and the Rise of Nourishing Hues

As trends shift from cool to warm, we embrace the magical ways that rich and earthy colors are transforming our spaces—and our states of mind.

Colormix Trends and Influences: a STIR Exclusive

Read all about the stories, movements, and influences that inspired Terra, our 2023 Colormix Forecast.

The New Neutral for Performance Coatings and Beyond

Hear from our experts in performance coatings and commercial design how Redend Point will play out in beautiful inventive applications.

Commercial Color Trends for 2023

Join us for an exclusive Q&A with Emily Kantz, our lead designer for the Commercial Colormix Forecast, on trends in the commercial design world.

The Making of a Color Forecast

Our Color Forecast Team gives us the inside scoop on the color trendspotting (and trendsetting!) process.

Designing for Kids: Creating a Place for Play

We’re spotlighting clever and contemporary kids’ spaces, plus a chat with the design geniuses who put the “fun” in functional at grOH! Playrooms.

Designing Al Fresco: Exterior Residential Trends

Take a walk with us through the current trends—and the colors of the Commercial Colormix® New Residential palette—defining the next era of exterior design.

Emerald Designer Edition: A Gem in the Paint World

A flawless finish and the sophisticated colors you’ve asked for—there’s so much to love about our made-for-you designer paint and color collection.

In Conversation with Bari J. Ackerman

Known for her bold use of prints, patterns and colors, artist and designer Bari J. Ackerman gives us her take on how to make maximalism manageable.

7 Designers’ Signature Sherwin-Williams Colors

Some colors speak more loudly to us than others—see what design and color experts consider to be their “signature” shades.

The New Age of Nostalgic Design

The world of interior design is embracing the styles and shades of the past to create spaces that are comforting, familiar, and fresh.

Redefining Real: The Future of Phygital Design

Explore the new frontiers of mixed reality, advanced tech, digital renderings, and designing remotely in a fully phygital world.

The Colors of Comfort

From blissful, barely-there tints to dramatic, dark-as-night deeps, we’re showcasing a beautiful spectrum of hues that soothe.

Designing for Wellness at Work

Explore the many ways that workspitality design invites the WFH world back into the office.

A Dash of Optimism: Colorful Trends in Kitchen Design

Modern kitchens are the ideal place to add a little design flavor and a pinch of positivity.

From Waste to Wanted

Learn more about six companies that are transforming waste materials into beautiful and inventive products to serve modern spaces.

Making Room for Wellness

From home gyms to spa-inspired spaces to zen zones—take a closer look at the trends that give new meaning to the phrase “well designed.”

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