How To Embrace Benjamin Moore's Warm Color Of The Year For A Cozy 2025

If you're looking to redecorate your home for the new year, it's likely that you'll want to investigate current and predicted trends to ensure that you don't redo your space with things that are soon to be out of style. Enter Benjamin Moore's Color of the Year. The paint company puts meticulous effort into helping you pick the perfect shade of paint for the new year. That means finding hues that they predict will soar in popularity, using "everything from consumer behavior to global influences in art and design," the site boasts. This research is condensed into a palette of colors that coordinate with each other, all centered around "one special hue that defines the palette," Benjamin Moore says. And for 2025, that special hue is Cinnamon Slate. 

The Cinnamon Slate selection is a cozy and neutral paint color that warms a room, which corresponds nicely with the recent trend of making homes feel welcoming and comfortable. Benjamin Moore describes Cinnamon Slate as "Enduring style meets modern sensibility," a nod to the fact that this deep brown color is timeless and trendy all at once. "A delicate mix of heathered plum and velvety brown, this nuanced color brings a smooth familiarity to any design," the site explains, giving light to the purplish undertone that makes this color unique. Whether you're ordering containers of Cinnamon Slate, color-matching it with products from other trusted paint brands, or simply incorporating it into other furniture and décor in your home, there are plenty of ways to hop on the Color of the Year. 

The easiest (but not necessarily the lowest energy) way to embrace Cinnamon Slate in your own home in 2025 is by acquiring the paint itself. You can spruce up your home with new paint either in an entire room, on an accent wall, or with an accent feature like an arch. Before you commit to this, consider making sure that the trendy brown tone is a good match for your space. Browns tend to look the best with other neutrals and earth tones, and certain shade of reds and purples, so be sure to account for the flooring and furnishings already in your home (including carpets, expensive couches you don't want to replace, and other décor elements) to make sure Cinnamon Slate won't clash. 

When it comes to color matching, you should also put great consideration into the fact that Cinnamon Slate has a purple undertone. This can make it less compatible with reds, oranges, and yellows, and more suitable with lighter browns and purples. The undertone will show up differently depending on the lighting of your room, so be sure to paint a sample area and watch how it shifts throughout different times of day. If you decide that this exact hue isn't right for you, you can always look into other trending brown colors by looking at your paint shop's brown color family swatches and sampling some of the ones that better match your home décor. 

Instead of simply identifying one singular color and calling it at that, Benjamin Moore's Color of the Year campaign builds out an entire palette. Other hues in the 2025 selection include Leather Saddle Brown, "an enveloping hue, inspired by the depth and character of well-worn leather," and Chowning's Tan, a "rich tan" that was made by "blending 18th century white and yellow ochre pigments." Both of those shades are different types of brown that pair with Cinnamon Slate, but can also exist on their own. So, you can still achieve the brown look even if the purple undertones are not right for you. 

The 2025 palette also offers blues and greens, which can help you transition out of the whites and grays that trended over the last decade and have since become less desired over the past few years. Swap your grayish walls with a color like Rosephine, with "hints of gray [that] bring versatility and depth to this forest green," or Stained Glass, a "captivating teal." These shades will fit into a home designed around green or white, while offering a fresh, calming stray from outdated grays.