Decorate Spring Bright – Bold Accents and Conservative Neutrals Brighten the Winter Blues
Feb 3rd, 2010 by admin
Moving out of winter white means bright spring colors with bold accents and clear strong neutrals to anchor a family living design creates instant change from winter blues. Whether you bounce color off the walls or chase pillows around the room, setting color into motion brings a room to life.
Warm Up a Color Scheme with Hot Yellow Brights
There was a reason for the yellow daffodils in the garden. The hot yellow bright color warmed up winter white in one bold stroke of genius planted at least one season before the need arose. Way back when people thought ahead for more than a year, perennial flowers grew in the same garden year after year, for the same family. Purple crocus and yellow daffodils were an instant wakeup from winter’s sleep hibernation.
Inside, rooms come to life painted the color of a bold yellow green leaf, or sunshine yellow, or even crocus purple.
Conservative Neutrals Anchor the Space Providing Restful Allure
Dress accents, woodwork, and heavy furniture in neutrals to give the eye a restful place to linger when the colors might get too bold. Floors and ceilings in pale beige, crepe paper tan, or rice paper gray offer a hint of conservative drama to the brilliant colors of springtime. Keep the colors lively, by providing a crisp outline of neutralization.
Accent with Delicious Fruit Colors and Risky Bursts of Over Bright Surprise
- Linear metal frame tables painted watermelon red, lamp bases painted jolting orange, or curtain panels in a jolting shade of sunshine yellow make a statement in a bold green room softened by neutrals.
- Sky blue lampshades and grassy green voile curtain panels blowing in spring breezes bring light to a richly purple room, while a brilliant yellow throw turns up the heat.
- Crisp green lines on accent tables covered in bold floral print fabric dress up the sunshine yellow play room just enough to let checkered blues and reds dance to the rhythm of family living.
Looking for a cure for the winter blues and can’t find the way out of enclosing white walls, beige floors and boring vertical blinds that blend into the furniture, add a jolt of color and see if the solution doesn’t appear. Quickly interview family members and gather their favorite colors into a color scheme that works with neutrals as the foundation.
By using one color as the high intensity foundation on walls and grounding the scheme with neutrals in a bold wheat color, other colors create a jolting sensation of personality and pleasure as they dance through a room filled with family heirlooms, priceless memories and daily activities. Provide storage containers for each family member in their favorite color and toss any belongings that get left behind in their container. When it’s full, they have to empty the container.
Living Well with Color
Trendy decorating colors blended with gentle neutrals make living with color easy. Significant amounts of black and beach colored sandy colors in a room can meld even the most radical color scheme into a simply adorable color palette. The old rules of color schemes haven’t totally disappeared, but migrating away from the set standard allows family living to be the basis of the design.
The best part about increasing trendy use of color in living spaces is that family color preferences blend together in a loving family home. That makes living more fun!
