If you’ve been reading here a while, you’ve probably worked out by now that I’m not really a huge fan of colour when it comes to decorating our home.  I prefer a more neutral colour scheme and anything that’s colour overload tends to give me a bit of a headache!

Click here if you’d like to read more about our dining room

But lately I’ve been adding a bit more colour throughout the house and today I thought I’d share with you how I’ve done it.

How To Add Colour To Your Home

1.  Stick to the 80/20 rule

Yes, that is a thing.  Apparently, if you have a home that’s 80% neutral and 20% colour, you won’t feel overwhelmed by the colourful side of things.  It also means you don’t need a lot of colour to be able to say you’ve added colour to your home, so that’s a win!

I’ve now added a bar cart (click here to read all the details of that project) to our dining room, which has added the perfect pop of colour to that particular area of our home.

2.  Get creative with the walls

Walls aren’t just for photos and canvases anymore.  Thanks to the magic of 3M hooks, you can hang pretty much anything on a wall or even just prop things up against a wall.  Which, just quietly, I love doing.  

It’s the perfect solution for decorators like me who are a weird combination of lazy mixed with a side of decorating ADD….I can’t be bothered hanging things on walls so propping them up against a wall is the perfect solution yet I love to move things around all the time, so again, propping them means I can move them easily.

In this photo I’ve hung a tea towel using a cheap plastic hook (which I must replace because it is U.G.L.Y) and a wooden poster hanger I bought online from Typo.  It adds a pretty pop of colour to the kitchen AND covers up a light switch underneath it.  

Around the corner is the bar cart with a painting above it that Bailey painted when he was 8.  I’m always rearranging what’s on that cart (See!  Told you I had Decorators ADD!) and it’s just enough colour to not induce a migraine, so that’s a win!

This is the table in our hallway.  The canvas was a cheapy from Kmart ($12), the print is available from my shop (click here to have a look around the virtual shelves), the anchor is from Target, Pam gave me the pineapple candle & the cute little glass bowl.  The whale was a purchase in Hawaii and the basket is from Freedom.

Leaning the print and the anchor up against the wall means I can move them whenever I feel like it, although surprisingly, they’ve both stayed there for quite sometime now, which is a bit of a record for me!

3.  Add interesting, colourful items to your coffee table

Books and magazines are my go-to items for colour on a coffee table.  Everything else is pretty much neutral, but books help to add a pop of colour.  What sort of things do you have on your coffee table?

4.  Group colourful items together

Now interior decorators would call this a Vignette.  Personally, I think that’s just a fancy way of saying ‘put all your stuff together in a group and display it where people can see it.’  Adding books helps with height (it would be a bit meh if everything was all the same level) and grouping things in threes is another ‘rule’ that makes things look prettier, or something.  

To be honest, I’m not really sure, but I do know that things look better when grouped in uneven numbers, so 3 is the magic number for me!

5.  Accessorise with cushions

Cushions are a great way to add a bit of instant colour to your home and the best bit?  If you get sick of the colour, you can quickly remove the cover and replace it with another one!  

And there we have it.  My top 5 tips for how to add colour to your home.

Do you have any other tips to add?  How do you feel about colour in your home?  Do you embrace it or are you more of a neutral lover?