Quick and easy tips for adding colour to your home

[AD] Adding colour to your home may be something that feels daunting at first, but adding colour is a great way to create a home that your family wants to spend time in.

When it comes to adding colour to your home, you could follow the 60-30-10 rule, which isn’t a rigid framework that you need to follow, but more a flexible guideline that can help you to unleash your creativity when adding colour to your home.

In practice, this rule means that you’d add a primary colour to 60% of a room, usually walls; 30% of a secondary colour usually furniture; and 10% of an accent colour to décor items, such as cushions or rugs.

This post focuses on how you can add 10% accent colour to your home, which focusses on adding colour with décor items, which not only gives your home a personality, but also creates a home where children want to stay indoors and do kid friendly indoor activities.

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Seating

Your accent colour could be applied to seating within your home, so you could add a pink armchair if pink is your accent colour, which would contrast nicely with the rest of your furniture, making it stand out.

Or your accent colour could be cream colored dining chairs in a room that predominantly features dark colours, such as navy or deep green.

It could also be brass-legged bar stools in your kitchen, or a bold colour reading chair in your bedroom.

Seating is a great place to add accent colour without it being too overbearing, and still allowing you to keep a simplified home.

Fittings

Fittings include items such as door knobs, cupboard handles, light fittings, and light switches, which can be made into accent colours by using black, white, silver, or gold fittings within your home.

Fittings can often be overlooked when adding colour to your home, but they make a make a huge difference to the look and feel of your home.

Soft furnishings

One of the more common ways people add their accent colour to a room is by adding accent colours to soft furnishings.

You don’t have to make all soft furnishings in your home your chosen accent colour, simply selecting a few soft furnishings works really well.

For example, you could add green cushions to your sofa or bed to contrast with a pink colour scheme, or a white colour scheme. Pink also works with navy, grey and white.

Picking a few small items, maybe a rug, light shade, floor lamp, or throw blanket, in your chosen accent colour, will finish off the look of your home, enabling you to better enjoy your time at home.

Adding colour to your home – a recap

Adding colour to your home doesn’t have to be daunting, one of the easiest ways to start is by adding an accent colour to your home’s décor.

You can do this by adding colour to seating, which may mean purchasing a seat, dining chairs, or kitchen stools in your chosen accent colour.

You can also add colour to your home by updating fittings, or by adding colour with cushions, rugs, lighting, or throw blankets.

Adding colour to your home will not only allow you to add a bit of personality to your home, but will create a space the whole family will want to spend time in.

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