How To Incorporate Living Coral Into Your New Home
Living Coral is a warm, vibrant colour that instantly adds energy to a room. As a single accent, it can add a hint of glamour. In larger swathes, it creates a friendly, inviting space.
Try out a few of these tips to decorate your new home with this fun, playful colour.
All Out Bold
Make a bold statement and use Living Coral on walls, floors or ceilings, or a full wall of shelves or cabinets. Make it the surface colour to give this vibrant colour its due. Using it as a main colour needs careful thought, based on the style of your home because this colour doesn't blend or fade into the background. Done right, this colour could be the best part of your home's design scheme and really bring some ooh's and aah's from guests, friends and family alike.
Pattern It Up
The best way to break up a dominant colour is to introduce a pattern or prints. Introduce Living Coral into your home without the commitment of a flat wall of colour. Patterned wallpapers, 3-piece or large artworks, curtains or other upholstery on furniture can be used as pieces to showcase your love for this colour in your new home. This colour definitely adds a richness to patterns, giving your room a plush feel automatically.
Pop Of Colour
This year's Pantone colour really takes centre stage in this style of decor. This lively and playful colour really comes into its own when placed where you'd least expect it. A statement chair or ottoman, an accent wall, a quirky light fixture in a mostly neutral themed room for that pop of coral colour, where the browns, greys and blacks tone it down, and add this overall warmth to the scheme. When put in an all-white home, this colour can be the eye-catching piece you're looking for, making your guests sit up and take note.
Mix, Match, Contrast
Apart from the fact that living coral is an aquatic-inspired colour and does well with blues and greens, it is also complemented by these tones on the colour wheel, a home decor basic. From a pure jade or mint green to aqua blue or serene teal, it follows the terracotta and teal pairing that was a whirlwind trend last year and really hits the spot with pastel colour combinations. Mustard is another colour that is nicely set apart by coral when pastel blues and greens get too Tumblr for you. If subtle is more your thing, blush pinks and nudes infused with coral make for a fresh colour scheme that works well, especially in rooms that don't get a lot of natural light, and can warm up any room.