Subtle wall colors can help transform, as can inspiration from artwork and nature
Using color in a home environment can help improve someone’s mood, studies show. It can be done with simple additions of bright hues in unexpected areas, like this window nook. Gwyneth Paltrow’s beige-on-white California mansion. Cream-colored bouclé chairs for sale at big-box home stores such as CB2 and Pottery Barn. Taupe and gray on, well, everything in home makeovers by the Property Brothers and Chip and Joanna Gaines. So far, the designs of the 2020s seem stuck in neutral.
Instead, try less intense shades. Test any color you’re considering by tacking up painted pieces of poster board — or larger sample stickers — on the walls. “I often push clients toward a bright painting or print, even if a space is more neutral,” says Nicole Lanteri, an Arlington, Va.-based designer. “Art isn’t the largest piece in your home. You don’t sit on it. It just pops, and you see it for what it is.”Lesser-seen, lesser-used areas of your home can be great places to experiment with bright touches. “If neutrals are safe comfort food, then color is the spice, the thing that brings flavor and life to a home,” says Charles M.
Pulling colors from a dominant piece of artwork can inject color into a living space in ways that don’t overwhelm the room, as seen here with draperies and pillows. Though a solo strand of turquoise beads looks beautiful against a simple black or white blouse, adding one jolt of a saturated hue to an otherwise neutral room can seem jarring. “It’s easy to have an all-gray living room and just throw some royal blue pillows on the gray sofa,” Elliott says.
In rooms with colorfully painted or upholstered furniture, keep the wall paint subdued. “If furniture is more vibrant, it will pop better if it isn’t competing with strong, saturated wall colors,” Boggs says. “Choose wall colors that complement the pieces but which are less saturated.
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