Colour scheme in your home

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Do you have certain colours in certain rooms at home, like the kitchen is green so all accessories are green or decor is one colour with another colour for soft furnishings?

I have numerous colours in my sitting room and kitchen and wonder if that's what makes it cosy or maybe it looks chaotic to others! I buy stuff I like and don't reply factor in its colour.

I mostly don't have a colour scheme as such but I do consider colour when buying stuff for rooms and whether it will go.

For example my living room, I have navy sofa/armchairs, cushions and throws in burgundy, a lighter red and some neutral greys and browns. They are different patterns too, some have black/white/grey mixed in. Grey rug and curtains currently but I want to change these, they're old and not picked for this room.

I could add other colours and they would fit right in, eg a mustard, bottle green, burnt orange. But I wouldn't add say... hot pink or sky blue as it wouldn't go.

One bedroom we have the walls in pale pink, wine coloured bedding, and lots of texture in pale neutrals (cream fluffy rug, light wood, etc).

I'm not a fan of really rigid colour schemes, e.g white walls, grey furniture and a single accent colour.

I have a blend of colours in each room and then maybe an accent colour to lift the whole room.
A mix of different colours in one room is fine, but if you are questioning whether they work or not, it may well be that they don't.
Try taking all the items in question out and then just add some back and see how they look - keep juggling until you find an arrangement you like.
Maybe in the sitting room you could get a rug /blanket/cushion that has all the colours in so that there is a link together that way

Very much so. It isn’t that other colours are banned, but things end up in the room they look best and aren’t chosen if they won’t look good. I find rooms feel calmer and less cluttered that way.
I use a lot of wood and natural neutrals as well, plants and so on.

Looking around my bedroom, for example, it’s teal with wood, cream and gold/bronze.

Not at all. I like bold colours and don't particularly relate the walls to the rest of the stuff in the room.

Every room has different coloured walls, I hate white and other neutrals.

Yes my whole house has them one off white colour. Then the sitting room and bedrooms have an accent wall…
the only room that has a full different colour is the main bathroom and that’s because it has a neutral tile.

I dont think my stuff clashes but I dont have all the same colour accessories intentionally.

But looking round my living space its mainly cream, teal, red and green.

My living space has 2 bookshelves so the books are all sorts of colours. The art is a mix of colours too.

We aren't big on cushions or ornaments

(Each room is different)

I do have a palette of colours that run through the house, yes. I change how I use them - so the wall colour in one room may be an accent colour in the next. It really helps the whole feel harmonious - and I have only three internal doors in my place. Also I can move furniture and accessories around the house and they work everywhere.

I'm all about neutrals and soft colour. My hall and landing is in white to make it feel bigger. My living room is in cream with a dark green accent wall where the TV is to blend it into the room, I have lots of plants in here to continue the green and cream. The girls picked their own colours so have dark green or pink but to make the rooms feel bigger, I only painted the colour on the bottom half of the room and choose an off white that would match.

Interesting to hear how others have their homes. I have a lot of green, pink and blue with wooden furnishings, not matching furnishings though. We have a lot of plants and some individual art too.

some people have a real knack on decorating their homes and it all ties in without looking ridged.

We’ve just done the dark green/moss wall behind the tv. It’s tidied that end of the room up dramatically. Pot plants etc. looks great, really pleased with it.

Yes! I do have a house-wide palette! But not all rooms will have all these colours while the elements are connected. The palette was inspired by a painting of one my favourite artists. It's colourful but muted in tone. Very earthy and cozy. That said, I collect art (nothing fancy, but just in the hope one day something will be worth something) and not all the paintings and prints in my collection talk to each other and neither talks to the palette. Which brings an element of controlled chaos in my living area, which I love as they are very unexpected. With my upcoming renovation, most of the art will be placed on a single wall, so the living room will look more cohesive.

No. We have a very eclectic mix of stuff/colours we love and somehow it all works together (imho, anyway!)

We're currently mid renovation of our new (200 years old) house which we bought last September. So, not many rooms are done yet - just two of the bedrooms and parts of the kitchen and living room (which we've swapped over).

The closest we've done to matching stuff of the same colour in one room is in our bedroom where we've colour drenched everything in F&B De Nimes and chanced upon a perfect sized vintage chest/cupboard that happened to have been repainted in De Nimes. It seemed meant to be so we bought it.

The wool rug is terracotta/blue/turquoise/sand, the curtains (vintage fabric) are a coral/grey blue mix, bedding is navy or olive depending on which set we use (although we have mad patterned pillowcases and throw). We have mis-matched lamps - one brass, one green - with coral/orange shades and the art is multicoloured. Wardrobe and bookcase are brown furniture.

I’m working on this right now across the whole house. I like a bold, playful mix of colour but I’m trying to repeat colours in different ways so it’s not so chaotic.

So I’ll use one colour for walls in the lounge, then repeat it in the wood work in the cloakroom. Lightish blue walls & ceiling in the hallway, a darker shade of the same blue in the cloakroom. I’m planning on using the same colour on my lounge built in cupboards & on my staircase. Using a crazy aqua on accents - a door & picture frame in the kitchen, side table in the lounge, plant pot in bathroom etc.

Sounds a bit mad when I type it all out.