Adding New Color to Your Home

Do you agree that you can use items already in your home? Children use watercolors in their artwork, women use colors for their eyes, everyone can use colors in life!

Why not try using your child's artwork by using a thin black frame and a clean white mat. You can create a look that is ideal to showcase color and art. You can develop multi-colored baskets or boxes that you can display in bedrooms, hallway, and dining area.

I tried a vibrant colored paint for my room and I was surprised by how it added vitality to the whole room. I used an orange color to give strong look in my usual living room and used a trick from a designer to leave strip of the original wall colors to soften the bold new color. The strips also act as a frame and add to the daring mood of the room.

To pick which color would work best for you and your home, consult magazines and decorating books for ideas. Focus on the color schemes used in the rooms featured and not the furniture. You want to choose colors that you like, so maybe you can pick one that also matches your furniture.


I think the secret is to think about the overall feeling you want to have in your home. If you want your living and dining areas to feel formal and sophisticated or inviting and casual to your guests, then opt for the neutrals, or if you want your sleeping areas to feel bright and more energetic, then go bright and vivid.