Home Decor: Bold Hues and Bright Tones Regarded as Key to Elevating, Enhancing, and Attracting Attention to Your Living Space
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Rich colors, characterized by deep, saturated, and often jewel-toned hues, are becoming increasingly popular in interior design. These colors, which include tones like burgundy, emerald, navy, charcoal, burnt orange, and jewel tones such as deep blues, dark purples, and emerald greens, convey a sense of opulence, warmth, and depth.
One of the key characteristics of rich colors is their ability to suggest luxury and a high-end feel. For example, burgundy paired with coral and golden yellows creates a bold yet cohesive and elegant look. Charcoal tones with textured finishes add understated opulence while being modern and timeless.
Deep hues such as emerald, rust, or navy bring warmth and depth, especially when paired with natural materials and cozy fabrics. These hues are often chosen to create intimate and grounded atmospheres.
Using rich colors on large surfaces like walls and ceilings can envelope a room, unifying the space and giving it strong character without breaking up volume. For instance, painting both walls and ceilings in burgundy can create a striking and enveloping effect.
Rich colors work well with softer or lighter hues as accents or foundations, allowing for a balance between drama and lightness. For example, making the lightest tones dominant and using rich colors as accents can soften the overall effect while retaining richness.
Successful use of rich colors often involves layering different tones and incorporating varied textures—such as velvet cushions, metallic hardware, polished brass, rich woods, or marble—to complete a tactile and harmonious palette.
The appearance of rich colors can change based on lighting conditions and room orientation. For example, warmer tones suit north-facing rooms while cooler tones work well in south-facing spaces. Testing swatches in different lighting is essential to achieving the desired richness without overpowering a space.
A green marble table, like the one from Pietra, can add a stunning touch when decorating with rich colors in unexpected ways. Amy Krane, an architectural color consultant trained by Frank Mahnke, explains that rich colors create an immediate and strong visual impact that draws the eye.
Warm grays, beige, cream, and white tones can help prevent a space from feeling too heavy when using rich colors. Color drenching is one way to maximize the impact of rich colors, such as painting an office or powder room in Farrow & Ball's Hague Blue.
Emerald green bookends from Ligne Roset can upgrade your bookshelf decor when using rich colors. Oxblood red can be used in an unexpected way through a red table, such as the AM.PM table. Amy suggests using rich colors sparingly, such as for a sofa color or part of a pattern in curtains.
Oksana Zavarzina, a Russian interior designer who founded design studio, Lake and Walls, in 2016, recommends choosing one rich color and using it boldly on a statement piece. She also suggests mixing textures such as velvet, silk, wood, linen, and metal when decorating with rich colors.
Ochre yellow rugs, such as those from Nordic Knots, are a fabulous way to introduce rich colors in a way that can change and shift with evolving design styles. Burl wood decor items, such as picture frames, are a unique way to use rich yellow and orange hues without painting the walls.
In the design world, 'rich' is often used to describe a combination of dark and somewhat saturated colors. Rich hues evoke strong emotions and visually set the tone of a space, and are not necessarily bright or dark. A saturated olive green, especially in velvet finish, can scream luxury when decorating with rich colors.
Rich hues would look amazing as a sofa color or part of a pattern in curtains, and would be great in a den or a library on the walls with saddle colored leather seating. Amy Krane regularly contributes to interior publications on color and hosts the design podcast, "Let's Talk Paint Color." Oksana Zavarzina explains that rich colors evoke strong emotions and visually set the tone of a space, and are not necessarily bright or dark.
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