Using Pillows to Bring Color to your Room

A vibrant throw pillow can transform an entire room's decor and deliver a bold color statement. Discover ways to bring a pop of color into your home with beautiful, bright throw pillows.

Natural Palette

Green, yellow and brown decorative pillows brighten up a solid tan couch with a natural — but lively — color palette.

Classic Red

Designer Elizabeth P. Clarke uses a crisp red pillow against a cream chair for a splash of color.

Sea of Turquoise

These eye-popping turquoise pillows are especially noticeable among light furnishings and pastel accessories.

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Chic Pink

Small hot pink accent pillows can add a playful touch of color against white pillows and taupe walls.

Gold and Bold

A large gold decorative pillow brings a touch of unexpected color to this small seating area. Design by Erinn Valencich.

Orange Peels

Designer Ammie Kim spices up a simple beige living room with orange throw pillows.

Mellow Yellow

Designer Velvet Hammerschmidt uses bright yellow accent pillows to pop against the crisp white sofa and to complement the pale yellow walls.

Touch of Pumpkin

Pumpkin-colored pillows add a lively visual to the neutral-toned space. Design by Andreas Charalambous.

Neon Scene

An all-white bedroom is bursting with color from vibrant blue pillows and fluorescent yellow accessories.

Rainbow Hues

This white living room gets its burst of color with an array of vibrant decorative pillows on the window seat and couch. Design by Natalie Umbert.

Using Color Easy by Sherwin-Williams From HGTV

These paint color collections make it easier than ever to decorate one space or to create room-to-room harmony throughout your entire home. Courtesy of Sherwin-Williams

The Colors Work On Many Surfaces

Walls, ceilings, trim, floors, furniture, cabinets and accessories — no matter what you're painting, the colors, expertly selected for each collection, work beautifully together.

Coordination Boosts Confidence

"More and more people are becoming confident in their ability to create designer-look rooms all on their own," says Jackie. "Painting walls vibrant colors can be a way for your home to reflect your personality — and it's easy to try something new."

Inspiration Translates to Color Choices

What catches your eye? The sky, a seashell, a car, an outfit, flowers? What's your favorite place? Take note and a pattern will emerge. Notice the colors you love, and then choose the palette(s) in this collection to make your home your favorite place.

You're Not Stuck in Neutral

Each collection features neutral options, but quiet background choices don't have to mean boring spaces. You have the freedom to choose as few or as many and as calm or as bright colors as you wish. No matter how you combine them, you'll always have a perfect palette.

The Color Collections Are Design Guides

Colors within each of the eight collections work beautifully together, no matter how many or how few you select. Pull the hues into window treatments, pillows, fabrics, area rugs and accessories or update the look of furniture with a fresh coat of paint.

You Can Start Small

Paint a dresser, chairs, desk, bookcase or picture frames with a color you love, but are afraid to use in large doses. Or, experiment with a new wall color in a small space like a foyer, powder room or laundry room. Small steps into the world of color increase your confidence.

The Collections Simplify the Simple

Paint color is one of the simplest ways to change the atmosphere of a room — and to have fun with it. It doesn't take an expert to reinvigorate a room with color. Depending on the new shade(s), a room can be dramatically different or simply refreshed. Even a new coating of ivory or light gray over a white wall can make a big difference!

Decorating Updates With Using Fabric : Easy Tips

Give your home a bold new look in just one weekend with these easy designs and fabulous fabrics ,
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Three Fabric Panels

Large rectangles of pretty fabric can also do double duty as a headboard. In this room, we stretched fabric pieces over three artist's canvases. Pull the fabric taut and staple in the back. Hang behind a bed.

Slipcovered Chair 

Old wooden armchairs can be found for a cheap price at most thrift stores. Buy one and give it a new look. Upholster the back and add a frilly slipcover for the seat.

Window Frames 

For a new outlook in your bedroom, find old window frames that measure about the width of your bed. Remove the glass and cut fiberboard to fit in the openings. Cut favorite fabrics to fit each section and adhere them to the fiberboard with spray adhesive. Install the fiberboard in the frame openings, and install the window frames above your bed.

Patterned Bliss 

With easy-care cottons and bold designs, there's no mistaking these modern fabrics for the harvest gold and avocado green so popular in the 1960s. The mix-and-match patterns in yellow, rust, brown, and shades of green may be retro-inspired, but they're up-to-date in this living-area makeover. Mixing modern and traditional elements gives this space the look of comfort and style.

Revamped Lighting 

If you love your lamp base but the drum shade not so much, give it a facelift with a modern fabric. Choose a pattern from your pillows or throw for the body and then band the top and bottom in the same fabric or go for contrast with a companion print. Working with a drum shade allows you to use almost any textile; a shade with an angle looks best with a small overall print or a solid fabric that doesn't require a pattern match.

Quick-Patch Tablecloth

This great tablecloth requires next to no measuring. Use one width of the fabric for the center and one quarter width for the perimeter. The charm of this set is twofold big blocks of color reduce assembly time and give you a look that's new and fresh.

A Pattern-Filled Bath 

Peaceful and private retreat, a bathroom may be the smallest room in the house, but there's no need for it to be boring. Pretty colors and lively patterns make this bath a joy. The key is determining what your guests see first when they open the door. In this case, it's the shower and tub that run across the entire width of the room. By making a patchwork curtain the focal point and then accessorizing with companion towels, a window panel, and wastebasket trim, you'll ensure the space feels open and inviting.

Quick Napkins

Dress up a multipattern tablecloth with coordinating napkins made from mix-and-match fabric scraps. Keep the setting lively by changing the patterns from front to back and napkin to napkin.

Hanging Panels

Instead of hanging fabric panels right on the wall, hang them on hooks. Decoupage the fabric to artist's canvases or plywood. Staple sturdy ribbon to the panel backs for quick hanging.

Cupboard Door

Turn an old cupboard door on its side for a wall hanging. Place pieces of fabric in the open spaces. Position the fabric in such a way that the pattern continues between frames. Adhere the fabric to the frame with double-sided tape or fabric glue.

Using Natural Elements To Decorating your home : New Ideas

Here are some ideas to get  natural , trendy, organic look in your home.
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Aquatic Accents 

Nature reigns in this living room, making the walls between the indoors and outdoors seem like a formality. Designed with a subtle aquatic theme in mind, the space relies on natural elements to blur the line between nature and reality. Casual, shore-inspired furniture with wood and woven finishes act as neutrals in the room. Sandy beige and watery blues mixed with beachy textures mimic a relaxing seascape. Found elements, such as piece of driftwood and wispy beach grass, provide natural finishing touches.

Cottage-Style Beauty

Whitewashed wood paneling and seagrass floor covering lighten the living room and add texture. Shutters, wicker furniture, and gingham draperies give the room beachy style, while natural accents such as a tray of sea-inspired plants add fresh personality.

Woodland Escape

Give a traditional bathroom a contemporary twist by going big with natural elements. Ethereal wallpaper, a reclaimed mirror, and a wood slab countertop combine for a beautiful textural bath with all the right touches.

Collection Makeover

Give your sand collection a makeover with an elegant twist. Portion out your sand into antique jars and label each one with the location and date. Layer in coral and dried sea plants for an ocean-inspired scene.

Resourceful Recycling 

Recycle a collection of glass bottles into an eye-catching mantel display. Gather interesting greenery from outdoors and place each piece in a different jar. Stagger jars according to shape and height, then place a mirror behind the collection to reflect light.

Subtle Botanicals

Botanicals never look anything but elegant. Paired with traditional furnishings, they bring pastoral sophistication to a room. Frame and mat botanical prints and hang them in a grid. Don't be afraid to take over an entire wall -- the ivory mats and simple colors of the prints keep the look subtle.

 Decorating with Diversity 

The beauty of decorating with nature is that the relics complement your keepsakes and flea market gems. Embrace decorating diversity and pair serving trays with shells, photographs, and nature prints.

Easy Tabletop Touch

Bring the garden inside -- create a mini tabletop terrarium beneath a pretty cloche. Here, a small glass cloche is also a practical way to protect potted plants from being knocked over.

Getting Greener

Moss topiary balls introduce a natural look and add texture to this arrangement of elegant objects. Incorporating natural touches, typically seen as casual, does not diminish the formality of a traditional space. Rather, it adds another layer of personality. Opt for subtle additions and you'll maintain your room's sophistication.

Conversation Piece

Shelves filled with keepsakes become a cabinet of curiosities, sure to spark conversation with any guests. Cover books with white parchment paper to give them a uniform look. Then pile shells, coral, and apothecary jars on top of and around them for a display with dimension.

Creative Ways to Make a Curtain Hardware by Using Household Items

With a little imagination and a few simple DIY tricks, create one of a kind hardware and tiebacks for your curtains from everyday objects.

By : Brian Patrick Flynn

Braced With Bracelets 

Many women's bracelets and men's cuffs are the right size for cinching single-width drapery panels. Put bracelets and cuffs to creative use as tiebacks by placing them around drapery panels and hanging freely, or create a more permanent look by attaching them to the wall with Velcro.

Branching Out 

Sometimes the perfect object for a lightweight drapery rod may be sitting right outside your window. Branches can make for excellent, sculptural drapery rods with a few simple do-it-yourself updates. Search for a branch with the proper length and width to fit above a window and handle the weight of the chosen drapery panel. Next, cut it to size and spray-paint it in a color which contrasts well against the wall. Lastly, secure standoffs, ready-made drapery rod brackets or L brackets directly to the wall using plastic drywall anchors, then attach the branch with screws or bailing wire.

A Touch of Menswear 

When draperies need to be pulled back from or tied back in the middle of a window, neckties are a stylish solution. While freestanding tiebacks simply require a proper Windsor knot slipped up along the bottom of a drapery panel, fixed tiebacks are created with Velcro placed along the back of the neck loop and attached directly to the wall.

A Nod to Nautical 

Sisal rope has endless uses when it comes to decorating. To add a nautical touch to windows, consider adding small two-by-two-inch wooden blocks above a window. Then, after cutting a spool of rope to size, knotting each end and sliding drapery rings or panels directly onto it, attach rope securely to blocks with decorative screws and washers. Depending on how tight the rope is pulled before being secured to each block, a more tailored or relaxed look can be achieved.

Fashion Forward 

Add a fashionable touch to your curtains by repurposing an old leather belt into a stylish and preppy tieback. Wrap the belt around the gathered drapery panel and add an additional hole to the belt using a nail and hammer. Secure the belt to the wall approximately 10 inches in from the front edge of the belt buckle. Wrap the belt around the drapery panel and buckle in place with the brand-new hole.

Stylishly Sporty 

Bring an unexpected touch to a man cave with golf-club drapery rods placed above small windows. In order to use the golf club successfully, pick up C hooks from a home improvement store, secure them into the wall above and alongside the window, slide panels onto the clubs, then secure them to the C hooks.

Nifty Necklace 

Get those seldom-worn accessories out of the jewelry box and in plain sight by using necklaces as curtain tiebacks. To ensure the proper effect, stick with necklaces large and thick enough to be seen from different vantage points in the room. If thin pieces are used, they may lose impact and look more like clutter than decorative tiebacks.

Design Home Run 

Bring the ball game to a boys' room or grownup guys' space with baseball drapery rod finials. To turn the baseball into a finial, use a paddle bit slightly larger in diameter than the rod, drilling directly into one side of the baseball. Next, position the baseball directly along the end of the rod, securing a tight fit by hand.

Toy Story 

Many finials made specifically for children's rooms are branded, themed or too trendy to withstand the test of time. Put a classic spin on a colorful, kid-friendly space by repurposing wooden blocks as finials with wood glue, a drill and paddle bit. Once the proper hole is drilled into the side, secure the blocks to the end of the drapery pole with properly sized screws or bolts.

2014 Best Ideas for Using Color in a House

An old Colonial Revival home gets a second life, thanks to an infusion of color. See how the homeowners paid homage to the home's roots while adding modern touches.

Old homes imbue a certain character and charm but don't require period decor to retain those qualities. This 1920s Colonial Revival was brought into the 21st century with a fresh color palette and a mix of antique and contemporary pieces. In the living room, peacock blue and golden green add spark to the classic furniture pieces. Hints of silver on the sleek lamp and stool and the animal print throw pillow also update the space.

To maintain a restrained yet colorful scheme, use a vibrant color for accents and a lighter, less intense version for paint on the walls. Turquoise vases add the pop to this living room, while a soft sky blue envelopes the room in calm sophistication. The turquoise also ties the fireside sitting area to the other arrangement of furniture with the peacock blue chair.

In a light filled room, softer colors will come off as warm, whereas vibrant colors might come off a bit harsh. The sunroom adopts a less intense version of the living room’s color scheme, which helps blend the two adjoining rooms. All of the colors in the sunroom originate in the floral patterned pillows on the sofa. Watery blue takes charge on both the striped sofa and the chair cushions, while muted citron plays a supporting role on accessories. Choosing one color to dominate ensures that the room doesn’t become too visually busy.

An entryway can be the optimal place to introduce the home’s color palette, as it is the first thing visitors see upon entering. Bathed in white, this formal foyer retains classic characteristics of the home's roots, such as the beaded board and the traditional stair spindles, but throw pillows on the bench and the striped rug give a hint of what’s to come in the home. Plus, these coordinating accessories can be used elsewhere in the home to give a room a new look.

A den across from the living room and on the other side of the entryway retains the brown used in the living room but introduces more hues to the home, creating a subtle yet united shift. Using a similar decorating philosophy throughout a home will also bring about unity. Here, the old with new strategy that was used in the living room plays out in the den in the form of a traditional sofa and elegant mirrors, with a contemporary lamp and animal prints as modern accents.

Giving classic pieces a boost of modern color is another smart way to fuse yesterday and today, as the simple white drapes trimmed in orange and the étagère in the same citrus hue do in the den. Bright colors help enliven a dim room without much natural light or a room painted a dark color.

Using white is a nod to both classic and contemporary. This neutral is a mainstay, especially for kitchens, for its crisp and clean look. In this home, the bright white kitchen is a change of pace from the adjacent chocolate brown den. The traditional cabinets and materials, such as the marble backsplash and wood countertops, are spruced up by accessories and blocks of color.

Color bookends the white kitchen, making the large space feel more cozy. In the breakfast nook, the orange hue from the den is used on the walls and chairs. The floral Roman shades marry the den to the living room by using the same shade of blue.

Blue acts as the bookend on the other end of this kitchen. The traditional breakfront is an updated focal point thanks to bright blue paint along the back, which matches the turquoise accessories in the living room.

The family room adjacent to the kitchen brings all of the colors and styles together. Chocolate brown, turquoise, and citron from the living room meet up with the coral orange used in the den and breakfast nook. All of the colors are used in small doses for balance. Modern furniture the L-shape sofa, geometric stools, tables, and chairs bring freshness to the room’s classic architecture.

The fireplace wall is comprised of modern necessities wrapped in traditional style. Bifold doors clad in beaded board open to reveal a recessed TV, and a storage unit beside the fireplace houses more media components. The flagstone fireplace is a nod to the home's historic roots as well.

Upstairs, the master bedroom transitions to another color palette but retains the lower level's chocolate brown and crisp white scheme. An introduction of soft gray imparts a calming effect and coordinates with the gray-blue background of the area rug, while the rich, deep brown velvet headboard grounds the space. The introduction of a new color, fuchsia, distinguishes the bedroom from the rest of the home.

The adjacent master bathroom is an oasis, thanks to a monochromatic color palette that takes its cue from the white built-ins and gray blue area rug in the bedroom. In a space filled with cool blues and grays and metallic finishes, a slightly off-white will warm up while still retaining a clean look.