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Accent colors are always welcomed in environments with neutral (white, beige, cream, gray, or even brown) walls. They mean the same to your room as jewelry does to your outfit, which is why you should choose them carefully.
Adding accent to a neutral interior with color is the easiest way to personalize a room, and it can be done on almost every element disposed in that room. Let us give you few examples:
Playful rugs
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Nothing looks as cozy and warm as a soft, colorful rug that will attract interest in the least expected places. Besides, rugs cover dirt and debris, and they keep your feet warm. Basically-they are a must!
Artwork
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Even the least expected color combinations will look amazing if applied with taste. A good way to break the neutral dullness and to pop color in your interior is to hang colorful art pieces in an interesting manner.
Black accents work with every interior
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Regardless of the palette you’re using, black will never be a bad choice. Black accents are used to ‘pull the place together’ and to create visual harmony. The best thing about them is that they apply to all sorts of accessories-lamps, curtain rods, frames, or even larger furniture pieces.
Accessorizing
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Choose accessories in your favorite color and use them to add a dynamic vibe to your place. Those could be bowls, vases, photo frames, candles or every other item you like being surrounded by.
Flowers and plants: a natural choice
Flowers and plants decorate rooms perfectly, but their main purpose is to add a fresh breeze, and to attach an organic feeling to your home. The good thing is that they also come in almost every color, and they can be repositioned easily to make the place look different.
Accent walls
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Accent walls are modern homeowners’ favorite design feature, because they find them to be a practical surprise that doesn’t look neither overdone nor overpowering. You are absolutely free to choose any color you like: for instance, electric blue is perfect to add energy and excitement.
Throw pillows for warmth and comfort
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Throw pillows are ideal for accenting neutral spaces because they are available in all colors, patterns, shapes, and sizes; and can be displayed in literally every room. They are affordable and easily replaceable, which means you could refresh your place whit new ones whenever you decide.
Dramatic color choices
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If your interior is neutral and lacks excitement, you should choose a vivid and bold color to introduce a dramatic vibe. We recommend strong shades of pink, purple, orange, lime green, or turquoise.
A ‘soft’ beginning
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Even if you prefer bold to soft colors, start by applying careful doses of subtle shades. Peach, mint, pale yellows and blushes are ideal for a calm background that can actually tolerate the striking pops you’re about to apply. Besides, soft works for every decorative element; and you can apply it on rugs, faded textiles, or accessories.
Eye-catchy chairs
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Chic solutions rely intensively on painting furniture, which is how we arrived to the idea to suggest you accent chairs. Applying the same color on the chairs and the walls never fails to introduce harmony in your space.
Art walls
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Art walls are a fashionable and beautiful wall painting solution, which aims to balance between fancy tones (Russian green, Prussian blue, or even Burgundy red) and cheerful, saturated shades in unique combinations.
Subtle and soft colors
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Instead of using a single striking color, you can design your own painting scheme with multiple soft hues of your favorite shades. We encourage you to use all the pastels and muted hues you like, ideally combined on thin, centered wallpapers on the focal wall.
The power of saturated textile
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Who said that a single colored or patterned surface is not strong enough to revive a neutral environment? You can attract attention easily by choosing striking throws and blankets. Besides, textile is inexpensive, and it will help you redecorate without draining your budget. Awesome, isn’t it?
Connectors
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Grassy green and burnt orange are known to be the best shades capable of connecting different styles, elements, or room solutions. For instance, the orange flowers drawn on your kitchen walls will remind instantly of the accent orange wall in your living room.
A single color block
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No wonder color blocks are favorite accent elements of runways and public spaces trying to achieve a modern appeal. Instead of playing with multiple pieces or paint surfaces, you can choose a single oversized element to make a jaw-dropping statement. An impressive coffee table positioned in the centre of a completely neutral room is an excellent start.
Colorful lights
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Even if the palette is not as vivid and bold as you’d like it to be, you can achieve the same effect with a unique light fixture. Think about colorful lampshades, for instance-they disperse dozens of colorful beams around the room, and make even the smallest space look airy and spacious.
The ‘smooshing’ technique
Smooshing is another cheer-up technique that provides for unique wall painting, and helps you convey a powerful statement through original decor.
It can be done in the following way: choose your favorite bold nuance, and paint the wall. Let the paint dry, and apply a layer of natural glaze on it. While the glaze is still fresh, cover the wall with a plastic drop sheet, then wrinkle the sheet as much as you can, and take it off. You will be amazed by the unique, new marble looks of your old and dull wall.
Contemporary contrasts
Yes, they are sometimes dull, prone to stains, and difficult to maintain, but white walls can also be the most positive decorating tool you have at home! You can work with black canvas, or go for a braver color choice (chartreuse, for instance) to make stunning contrasts that will make your place memorable.
Decoration
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There are many decorative tactics that incorporate vividness in a living space. Most of the time, you can dress up your rooms with nothing but creative color pops: flowers, butterflies, geometric shapes, and similar spicy elements.
Curtains
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Window covers are the perfect surface to make upbeat experiments, and to individualize space. The perfect solution is to hang curtains/drapes in your favorite colors, or to opt for a simple pattern that doesn’t look overwhelming.
Ceilings
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Imagine how effective a vivid ceiling can be, when surrounded by neutral and serene walls? This is definitely a great choice for accenting your room, assuming that you’ve chosen colors wisely, and painted a small portion of the ceiling instead of its entire surface.
While lighter tones could be good to fill the ceiling, bold ones are accompanied by a serious risk of making your place overwhelming.
Tapestry
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Tapestries compensate for the walls’ lack of texture, and are a more sophisticated solution than paintings and posters. It can either be a souvenir from your last trip, or a piece you related to pleasant memories. The most popular tapestries are boho ones.
Trim
You don’t have to hold to the classic white-trim solution, and you can choose a vivid color to delineate walls in a more adventurous fashion. Besides, vivid trims rejuvenate the space, and they spread positive mood wherever they are being applied.
Hanging murals
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It is not always necessary to bother with exclusive wallpapers! The same effect can be achieved with a more manageable solution, namely murals that are easy to stick and peel, meaning that they won’t do any irreparable damage to your walls.
Painted floors
You may not be familiar with this trend, but it is certainly gaining popularity. Floors painted with bold colors are enough to make a room lively even without introducing any other accent element. Needless to say, they are a unique solution your home would be remembered by.
Bold couches
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Instead of investing in creative art wall or a painted floor that you’d miss for the rest of your life, you can buy a bold piece of furniture to take with you as you go. Colorful couches, for instance, make for the perfect accent element for every living room, and they can be easily coordinated with all colors and patterns.