How to Use Bold, Trendy Colors with Balance
10 ideas to transform your interiors with bold and interesting colors
We’ve seen how light colors help to visually maximize the space of a small room. And while you are busy planning a color scheme, don’t forget to consider their bright and colorful partners.
Bold and cheerful colors have made a major breakthrough in 2018. Experts and creative designers also recommend a splash of bold colors to your interiors to uplift the spirit of your home. Moreover, they are an incredible way to reflect your personality and revamp the mundanity of your routine.
So, don’t’ be afraid to experiment with a few accent colors, even if you are dealing with a small room. You have all the right to treat your rooms like a piece of jewelry with a few striking tones. Read on to find out more about how you can change your perception about a bold color palette.
- Pick a Primary Color Scheme
The thing about using bold colors is understanding how to use them to their best potential. And a primary color scheme of red, blue and yellow is anything far from ordinary.
Experimenting with the right tones of these colors can create magnificent results for your room. A bold shade of blue for the wall complemented with furniture and accessories in shades of red and yellow in moderate proportions transforms the overall personality of this room. However, make sure you have selected at least one color that gives direction to the other two, without overpowering them.
2. Using Accent Colors
Accent colors are simply shades that bring life to your existing color scheme. When whites can be used to balance out bold and darker hues, the other way round is just another possibility.
If you are not comfortable painting a room completely with bright bold colors, accents are a great way to support your decor.
You can a either paint a single wall, introduce vibrant elements with soft furnishings, furniture or artistic decor balanced with rugs or pillows that come in brighter tones.
3. Play with a Contemporary Color Palette
The color wheel is your absolute guide to pick the right combinations and it’s unlikely that you can go wrong with it. Complementary colors can seem daunting at first but, trust us when we say it has some of the finest outcomes for a color scheme.
For instance, a mix of the regular blue and orange in darker tints is absolutely stunning. They make a vibrant pair to create a rich and bold style statement. Balance these two colors with a few neutral shades of brown, cream, beige or white for an astonishing soothing effect.
4. Energize with Eclectic Colors
Fuchsia and Navy can be daring colors to use but can turn out to be extremely charming when used in the right percentage.
Colors play a huge role in energizing your ambiance and lifting up your spirits. And there is just more than one reason why you should try balancing these colors in your room for an impeccable experience.
This rich velvet couch in navy paired with bohemian cushions in fuschia colors have been well balanced with the muted tones of the light peach wall and the grey rug. A collection of various art prints also gives the room a very informal and eclectic vibe.
5. Consider Size and Proportions
A very small room painted in dark colors can ruin your space. A bold color palette does need some attention to detail in order to bring out the best in them.
Too much of any color in such cases can make your room overwhelming rather than speak of a style statement. For medium and small sized room, using dark colors for an accent wall is the right move whereas a larger room can definitely enjoy more of them.
Instead of the usual solid accent walls, you may also try adding a few bold stripes to give extra height, dimension, and personality to your room.
6. Balance with Neutrals
While you set on the adventure of bright colors, don’t forget to balance them out with a neutral color palette. This is will save you from transforming your room into a riot of colors.
Whites bring in freshness to bolder hues. While they do act as accents, they also prevent stronger colors from overpowering and spoiling the show.
Besides contrary beliefs of running the wall trims in white, you can also swap them for the ceilings or door frames to complement with darker walls. If painting isn’t your option, then furniture and soft furnishing in neutrals are your friends.
Subtle shades of beige, cream and browns also do wonders in balancing out their stronger counterparts.
7. A Mix of Colors and Patterns
Infusing your decor with trending colors and patterns is a smart alternative to a huge project like painting your room. You can revamp the decor and the overlook look of your room by adding bold and bright colors through drapes, decor accessories, soft furnishing, and even accent pieces of furniture.
Trending floral patterns, bohemian prints, paintings in pop-up colors can also be your game-changer without having to spend too much.
8. Try Reverse Colors
We’ve spoken enough about accent walls, bold stripes, and royal furniture but how about switching turns for the colors?
Take a look at this brilliant concept of black and whites, where the walls have been painted in muted tones and the door trims are strikingly bold in shiny black. This technique is out of the norm and adds a contemporary flair to the room.
9. Abstain from Muted Tones
It’s common and easy to be carried away with muted tones if you are experimenting with colors for the first time. Muted tones have a tendency to make a small room appear even smaller.
If you want to have fun with darker colors stick to bright and vibrant tones and use muted colors only for the purpose of accents.
10. Don’t Overdo
The key to any successful design plan is maintaining the right balance without going overboard. Too many bold colors beyond proportions spoil the focus of the room. Always harmonize a strong color scheme with neutral variations.
Similarly, too many furnishings and decor elements in vibrant colors also make the room appear clumsy and cluttered rather than stylish.
While choosing patterns, avoid prints that have too many things going on in them. They are visually unpleasant and also pretty unaesthetic. Instead, use metallics like gold or silver, smaller patterns, textures or single bold prints that would speak for their value.
