Ideas to give color to your house

by Jazmin · June 12, 2017

The saying goes. For tastes, colors and in the decoration much more. Some prefer to leave everything in more neutral tones or who opts for vivid and intense tones. Others choose combinations between the two alternatives. Or maybe there will be someone who likes everything completely white.

Few things are so personal. However, today I dare to propose some ideas to fill your house with color and joy. You can use some for the decoration of your home or maybe they serve as a starting point to find that customization you are looking for. In any case, I hope you like them.

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Color in the kitchen

Sometimes we focus too much on certain stays and forget others. It is the case of the kitchen, which allows many decorative possibilities but we do not always have so much in mind. To give color to your kitchen you have many options.

You can simply change the countertop and put it in some vivid, eye-catching color, contrast with the more neutral furniture, paint the walls or place colored decorative elements such as crockery, lamps or textiles. You can even combine these ideas if you fancy a blast of color. My favorite motto you know is: less is more.

The rule of 60-30-10

In decoration there is known as rule 60-30-10 that can help you to know how to combine colors in a room. It’s as simple as this. It is a question of choosing three shades and using them in those percentages. One color will be the main one (60%), another the secondary one (30%) and the third will be for the small details (10%). They are indicative figures but at a given moment they can serve as a guide.

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Use complementary colors

A more general idea that can guide you if you want to give color to your home is to use complementary colors. They are the ones who, in the color wheel, stand in front of each other. Although a priori seems to have nothing to do, they can give a very cool result if you combine them well. For example, choose a soft blue for the bedroom walls and leave some detail in white and some in orange, which contrasts a lot. If you look at the rule before, the main one may be blue, the secondary the white and we would leave the live and intense for the third.

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A full color furniture

Color can be used in many ways. On walls, in textiles, in decorative accessories, in furniture … I cannot imagine a house with all the colorful furniture, but I love the idea of betting on one, only one, and that it looks with an incredible color. It will be the true protagonist of the stay and will give a lot of personality and color to your decoration.

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Textiles

If you do not feel like to paint or to change furniture I propose to you the simplest idea that exists to give color to your house: through the textiles . You only have to buy new covers for your cushions, a rug or a quilt and you will see how quickly the stay in question fills with joy and vitality. Especially if you bet by intense tones. For small details, they work very well if the base is neutral, for example.