Fuchsia accents make a sophisticated addition to any room.
Colors like pink and fuchsia can sometimes get a bad rap. Often considered unsophisticated and better-suited for a child or teen's room, they are ignored when it is time to decorate an adult space. But fuchsia can be very mature when used in the right way. Whether you want a bold or subtle look, fuchsia may be just the color for your space.
Bold
If you want to go bold, consider painting an entire wall in your bedroom fuchsia. This technique works best if you choose a smaller wall or a wall behind a bed so the color won't overwhelm your decor. Paint the wall solid fuchsia, or wallpaper it with a fuchsia and white patterned wallpaper. In the rest of the room, focus on neutral colors like a mixture of gray and white. For instance, paint the rest of the room white, and use gray and white on the bed and window coverings. Add furniture that is either painted gray or manufactured in a gray metal like brushed steel. To tie things together, place a few small accents of fuchsia in the room, like a single fuchsia throw pillow and a fuchsia picture frame.
Subtle
Use fuchsia in a subtle way in your space. Paint the walls a neutral color like gray and select white furniture. Choose neutral colors for the major items in the room such as bed coverings and furniture upholstery to create a neutral palette on which to base the rest of the design. Add a few pops of color by hanging window coverings with small amounts of fuchsia in them, and add a pillow or two to your bed in the same fabric. Add a fuchsia-themed picture, a solid blanket and a fuchsia rug. Keep everything else completely neutral to draw the eye to the color in the room without it taking over.
Colorful
Although you may want to just stick with one color when using such a bold shade, adding other colors can actually help tone down the brightness of fuchsia. Light blue, coral and olive green work particularly well for this purpose. Let your secondary colors, along with some neutrals, become the basis for the room, and add fuchsia in throw pillows, wall art, small rugs, lampshades and as a small part of the pattern in the window and bed coverings. For instance, paint the ceiling white, use light blue on the walls, select white furniture and use a bedspread that is light blue with white in it and then toss in a few fuchsia accents.
Avoid
Fuchsia is a bold color, so it is best used in small doses. Don't be lured by the temptation to go overboard by using fuchsia in more than one large element in your room. The key is to keep the amount of fuchsia in the room to less than one-third of the total color. At the same time, too little can seem accidental. When designing the room, think of fuchsia as the spice in a recipe: Too much can make the meal taste awful, but not enough leaves it bland. Avoid youthful prints like polka dots or paisley and stick to more mature fabric options like damask or a chevron pattern.
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