Colour plays a crucial role in setting mood, expressing personal style, and transforming a space into something truly extraordinary. This is why home interior colour design can be so important in decoration.
Adding a pop of colour is an excellent way to inject life, energy, and character into any room or space. This is true whether it’s a living area, bedroom, kitchen, or even a home office.
And while painting is a popular method to add colour, there are numerous alternative approaches that can achieve equally stunning results.
By incorporating artwork, accent walls, and other creative elements, for example, you can effortlessly introduce colour to any room without the need for traditional painting techniques.
If you’re looking for more ideas on infusing spaces with colour, you’re on the right page. Today, we’ll inspire you with endless possibilities for it!
Statement Furniture Pieces
One of the best ways to add colour to a space is to introduce a standout furniture piece in a bold colour or unique design. The beautiful thing about it is that it also gives you an instant conversation starter!
For example, you can get a fine coffee table painted in standout colours and use it as the centrepiece for a space. You can even pick a striking live-edge wooden table with yellow undertones to bring out blue undertones in paint and upholstery.
Or you can find furniture sets upholstered in a bold pattern to contrast with plain walls. If your walls are done in pure white paints, for instance, get upholstery that offers stunning designs and a pop of colour.
You’d be astonished how much of a difference this can make. Even just one piece of eye-catching, bright furniture can be enough when you need colours to brighten a dark room!
Decorative Pillows and Throws
Decorative pillows and throws come in a wide range of colours, patterns, and textures. This versatility allows you to easily experiment with different combinations and switch them out as desired, making them a flexible option to refresh your space.
By incorporating pillows and throws with bold colours or interesting patterns, you introduce visual interest and depth to your furniture and overall decor. They break up solid colours, add dimension, and create focal points.
This can help you make the space more visually appealing. Even just the space feel can be changed – say if you choose bright pillow colours for dark rooms, or warm yellow for cold ones.
Plus, pillows offer an easy and flexible solution to elevate your decor and create a vibrant and inviting atmosphere in your home. It’s a cost-effective way to stay on-trend and refresh the look of your space.
The trick is to find a pillow that will suit your existing decor or furniture. What pattern or colour will go well with your sofa? What colours stand out most against it? That’s what you should ask.
Tips for Finding the Right Pillow and Throw Fabrics
We get so many questions about how to choose pillows and throws that we’ve added a guide here for it! Here’s how we ourselves find the best ones for our desired room feel.
- Use a colour wheel. The wheel is a great way to find complementary colours easily. Why skip out on using a ready-made cheat sheet?
- Use a consistent colour palette or theme. Be complementary or harmonious. Don’t go for a clashing-hue look.
- Balance colour with neutrals. You never want to overwhelm your space when choosing hues. Consider them against the neutrals in the room before making decisions.
- Strategically place colourful items for visibility. Colourful throws and pillows aren’t meant to be hidden. Imagine them where they can easily be seen – like living rooms or entryways – when selecting.
- Consider rotation. Want to keep your home interior colour design fresh throughout the year? Plan for rotations of your throws and pillows with the seasons.
- Stay true to your style. Colour palette ideas for home decor should always reflect the homeowner’s personality. Don’t go for something because everyone else is doing it. Choose what’s truly you!
Artwork and Wall Decor
Art is also a great way of introducing colour and pattern to your home, as well as injecting some personality into it. Plus, it looks particularly good when paired with areas that are mostly in neutral shades to start with.
Try putting up bold and bright colourful artwork, prints, or tapestries on your walls to instantly inject pops of colour into the room. Opt for pieces that complement the existing colour scheme or choose bold, contrasting colours for a striking effect.
Mix an array of artistic styles for more powerful effects. And don’t forget the frames, which can be just as colourfully varied!
This is also your chance to show off your taste and personality, mind you, so choose a piece that also speaks to you. After all, you’ll pretty much see and appreciate it every day!
Colourful Drapes and Curtains
Use curtains in a pretty accent colour to dress up your windows. You can choose curtains in a vibrant shade or go for patterns that incorporate multiple colours to bring life and energy to your space, depending on what approach you’re after.
There are some general rules of thumb here, though. Typically, curtains & walls should be one shade lighter or darker than each other, or be complimentary colours.
Remember too that light or dark curtains can influence the mood of a room, so if you’re going for a specific feel for the space, keep that in mind.
A particularly nice point to using curtains to add colour to a room, by the way, is that you can “control” how much colour you add even post-installation. This is because you can draw the curtains to show more of the colour and open them to show less.
Displaying Accessories
Now here’s a good way to dress up your plain sideboard (or other empty surfaces)! Empty sideboards, shelves, and even console tables create the ideal space to exhibit a colour-coordinated display of trinkets and small decorative items.
Try incorporating colourful items such as vases, sculptures, or decorative trinket trays throughout your home. This will let you add pops of colour and create visual interest.
And as we recommended earlier in our section on throws and pillows, consider rotation! Going seasonal with your accessories is easier than going seasonal with paint colours, after all.
Try rotating pieces based on the seasons or holidays. Use themes, like bright colours for celebratory times of year. You might be astonished how much little yet colourful home furnishings can do to refresh a look.
Playing with Patterns and Prints
Consider patterns and prints that you can apply with removable wallpaper and decals! It’s a spectacular way to add colourful patterns or designs to areas that may be a bit forgettable for your taste otherwise, like walls, cabinets, and doors.
The interesting thing is that you can even apply patterns and prints through things like fabrics and upholstery. So, it’s possible to experiment with different styles and change them up quite easily!
Rugs are also easy ways to bring a pop of colour to interior design. Some rugs are even light reflective, so they can brighten up dark spaces aside from adding patterns.
Our popular (aptly named) Flame Rug from the Tropical Collection is an example. The irregular, flame-edge patterns on it also imbue rooms with a sense of movement.
But what if you want something even more noticeable against a very neutral, cool-toned room? Well then, try a rug like our Lapis from the Corak Collection. It’s so brightly dynamic, it almost brings its own artificial lighting into a space!
Plants and Flowers
We already mentioned vases earlier, but what are vases without flowers in them? Plants and flowers are excellent options for adding colour, not least since they also tend to breathe life into a space.
Don’t just think in terms of colourful blooms either. Think of going green with botanicals too, as they can still brighten up an area.
The natural touch plants and flowers provide is something that just strikes a chord with most people. And if you’re worried about them wilting, remember that there are always preserved flowers and the like!
Accent Rugs and Carpets
We mentioned this earlier, but it’s worth taking up as its own tip because it’s so effective! Rugs are a good way to add bold colours or patterns and create a focal point in a room.
They can instantly add warmth and personality to your floors. For example, you can get a rug in bright colours and set it in the middle of a neutral-colour-dominated room.
This is actually one of the most popular techniques for decoration today. Area rugs generally draw the eye, so they’re naturally suited to statement decoration in this way.
Besides, because rugs and carpets typically take up so much space, they really are perfect canvases for displaying patterns or hues you want to emphasise. And that’s without being forced to move your other furnishings. They’re the convenient way to liven up already furnished rooms!
By the way, we offer bespoke rug consultations at The Rug Maker if you can’t find a rug that suits your purposes. Our services include custom rug design and creation, and even professional rug care and cleaning.
Get the perfect pop of colour for your home today
As you can see, there are so many options for adding colour to the spaces you inhabit. And of course, in the process, you can really leave your mark on the spaces too!
Take note that if you want to do something unique for this, you can try bespoke decor. For example, you can use custom-made rugs if you want to liven up your floors while putting your own brand on them.
As it happens, we specialise in that. At The Rug Maker, we’ve crafted countless custom rugs for people based on their specific needs and spaces. We can do the same for you.
If you’re interested in that, simply contact us. We can design and make your own bespoke rug for your first home… and even give you more decor tips along the way!
