Whether you love on-trend sage green, sophisticated navy or bolder brights, when it comes to decorating you want shades that make your heart sing when entering a room. But if painting walls has you shuddering, there are still plenty of ways to fill your home with colour – and we’ve got some ideas to get you started...
FeatureLAURIE DAVIDSON
MAKE IT ART
Colour comes in many forms, but one of the easiest ways to introduce multiple shades into your spaces is with artwork. Using prints and posters, paintings and framed postcards, or even memorabilia, you can design your own gallery wall around furniture, up stairwell walls or along a hallway.
Prints, from a selection; Anyday Spindle desk, £199; Whistler chair, £99; Issie table lamp, £35; Checkerboard rug, £300; Bisley filing cabinet, £199, all John Lewis & Partners
PICK PAINT & PAPER
ADD UNEXPECTED ACCENTS
Colour isn’t only for the walls… your furniture, window frames and ceilings all offer ways in which you can bring in colour, too. While it would have been easy to paper just the walls in this room, the ceiling has also been given the floral treatment, with the deep, apple-green shade picked out in the cabinets and window frame.
Spring Flowers wallpaper in Garden, £127 per roll; window frame & cabinet doors painted in Hopper Intelligent Satinwood, £88 per 2.5ltrs, Little Greene
TOP TIP
Select colours from your wallpaper or fabric as accents for woodwork and soft furnishings
DESIGN A MURAL
Fancy something unique on your walls? Why not think about painting your own design on a wall to act as a backdrop? You could try anything from a landscape to a pattern, or a favourite slogan or quote. Here, sunny yellow stripes set the scene in a dining room, with their freehand lines giving it a playful feel.
Furnitureland Hamilton extending dining table & four chairs, £1,299; Remi alcove shelving unit, £499, all Furniture Village
THINK ABOUT INSIDE DOORS
What better way of showing off a favourite shade than on doors or full-length solid shutters? This distinctive electric blue room divide creates a pop of colour, with the shade taken through to the bathroom beyond.
Custom Colour solid shutters, from £461, measuring & fitting included, Hillarys
CHOOSE A THEME
If you want to mix patterns and colours, selecting a theme (such as florals, stripes or geometrics) can give you a common thread that holds a busy scheme together. In this bedroom, the wallpa
