One of the easiest ways to give a new look to your Living or Family Room without major work, is to accessorize them correctly. Now, we all know that in each season we have at least (2) hot colors, and that trend changes continuously. Look at your space. Is it light or dark? Colors vary so much depending on the light you'll get during the day. So how do we chose the right accessories like a designer would? Here are a few guidelines depending on the kind of person you are:
Monochromatic / Gets tired from color very easily.
If you are this kind of a person, you most likely will have this scenario:
- Your walls are white, and your furniture has a dull color (we also consider any variation of gray or beige a color). Do you have an accent in the room? Maybe a chair that has leather, or wood,... Then you want to select (2-3) colors for your pillows : A color from your art piece (usually the color your eye goes to the first time you look at the piece), and either the same exact color or a slight variation from the accented piece of furniture. If your drapes / shades do not match the color of your furniture, accent furniture or art, you probably would like to add that color to the mix with a couple of pillows or a blanket. The visuals below show how the described scheme works:
- Your walls are white and your furniture is white. The only colors you conceive yourself purchasing when it comes to furniture are white and beige because you are afraid you'll get tired of them. That doesn't mean that you hate color, just that you are not ready to enter into a long relationship with any hue. Then I would recommend you to play with gradients of the whites and beige, use the natural wood color you'll have around the house (it is provably all matching as well), and pick only on the same gradient chroma / intensity a color that relates to the focal point of the room (Art or fireplace). See examples below:
Hue Lover / Not afraid of color.
If you are this kind of a person, you most likely change your wall color every couple of years, and will have this scenario:
- Love color but only on your furniture, and not on your walls. That gives you more leverage to change your space by seasons, to accessorize accordingly with every theme party, or you have kids that like to use the walls as an art canvas. You provably love one color, and are willing to apply every single shade of it on your space. Well, that is actually a great way to chose pillows too! I like to select a lighter tone than the one applied to your furniture, so that the pillows feel embraced by the room. If the piece of furniture has a light color applied to it, then you need a statement ( intense pop of color from art, a deep chocolate that relates to the wood finish around the room, or maybe a color relating to the metal finish you have in the room). Please see examples below: I personally love the second visual because the colors are beautifully combined, but I do believe they are missing a couple of brown textured pillows above the lounge chairs (maybe fur or sweater knit style).
- You love color. You love it so much that there are so many colors going on, but you are afraid that your "eclectic" style got lost in between too much character. Ok, I am not telling you to change everything to "a decorator has been here" style, but you can still be consistent having many colors in a room. Your walls are probably a color, and your drapes are probably a different color than your walls and furniture. You might even have blinds on a different hue. Well, you have it easy to play around with! If all the colors featured in your room are different than your art, this is one of the few cases I would recommend you to ignore the art. Select your favorite 3-4 colors going on in the room, and mix and match using them as contrasts. See examples below:
Of course there are many other situations to the ones quoted above, and I apologize for not tackling all of them. However, I believe these are the most common examples, and most of them follow the same guidelines when it comes to accessories.
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