Decorating with neutral colours is safe, timeless, and chic. But sometimes you may want to add just a little something to your mainly white, beige, and grey space. Scared of going too bold? Don’t be! Below we’ve listed nine ways to add colour to your space, from simply adding in a plant — for the total scaredy cats — to creating a balance with multiple saturated hues.

Opt for a Colourful Rug

Incorporate a rug with a colourful pattern or detail to add some interest underfoot. An area rug with a coloured component will help hide dirt and debris and is a good way to ease into more colourful décor. SHOP NOW

Choose Bright Accessories

A grouping of like-coloured accessories can add an impactful and non-permanent pop of interest to your space. This grouping of ceramic lanterns will give a neutral room some personality but, should the homeowner later decide green is more their thing, the pieces can be easily switched out. SHOP NOW

Get Artistic

If you prefer to keep your furnishings and accessories monochromatic, introduce colour into your space through artwork and photography. Keeping the surroundings simple will allow your artistic pieces to take center stage and create a gallery-like environment of little outside distraction.

Go With a Saturated Textile

A single patterned or coloured piece can make a real statement in a neutral space. Opt for a single, attention-getting throw or blanket to inject personality without having to completely redecorate.

Choose a Single Statement Piece

If you’re brave, but really do just prefer a neutral space, bring in colour and make a statement with a single saturated piece of furniture.

Start with Soft Hues

If you’re ready to move on from a totally safe colour palette, start working in soft colours in small doses slowly. Peach, blush, mint, and pale yellow will add a different perspective to your space without seeming too out of place with your room’s existing calm neutrals. Incorporating faded rugs, textiles, and accessories is a good place to start.

Limit Your Colourful Components to Two Distinct Accents

If you want to incorporate colour into your space through accents and accessories but are afraid of getting carried away, limit yourself to two different hues to prevent your space from becoming disconnected and abrasive. 

Gray combines well with almost any colour. Grey can be elegant and cool and if you used the right shades and colour combinations you can have a sophisticated, contemporary, traditional or any other style of design. Gray has so many shades, that it may be a real challenge to choose the right one. Anthracite gray, silver gray, slate gray, moss gray, pigeon gray, mouse gray…well over fifty! Deeper and darker shades of gray are suitable for more formal interiors as they are associated with strength. Lighter gray shades are more elegant, sophisticated and can be used in many design styles.

In many gray living rooms, the color is used as a basic color or as a neutral background. Gray can be introduced in the interior as a wall color, floor or ceiling, or as a trendy gray sofa, even as a carpet. In fact, gray can be one of the most difficult colours in the interior. In case you are not sure which shade is the right one for you, it is much better to a specialist as experienced designers will pick the right shade and will combine it with other colors. Gray living rooms can look stunningly beautiful even if the space is limited. Again, it all comes to the choice of the right shade and color combinations. It is advisable to choose light gray shades and combine them with cream, antique white, cappuccino or other soft neutrals. Such combinations visually enlarge small spaces and the rooms look brighter and airy.

Look through our grey decor pieces and area rugs to add the right grey to your space.