10 Stunning Drawing Room Colour Combos
Here are mesmerising living room colour combinations that are fresh, contemporary and perfect for your modern home
Charcoal, terracotta, tangerine, blood orange, turquoise, fuchsia, grey, indigo, yellow … vibrant hues are waiting to cheer up your living room up. You thought beige was safe? Shake off the ‘safe’ and ‘goes with everything’ hangover and wake up to colour palettes that are like coffee for your modern home. Fresh and breezy, dark and moody or colourful and vibrant: check out 10 colour palettes that are new to the eye, sported boldly and add oodles of character to your living room.
2. Tinted grey, neutral, salmon and a dash of orange
If light and fresh is your thing, ditch white and beige and steer towards greys with green or blue undertones. This room would be quite a plain Jane if not for the striped accent wall that adds so much fun to the space. While this living room uses touches of warm browns, neutral through natural materials and a splash of orange to make it cheerful, you could also use furniture in lighter shades to create a beach house look.
Note the patterns on the carpet. Because it’s a small area and there is so much going on on the walls, the carpet has been kept in muted tones of salmon with small patterns and repeats.
If light and fresh is your thing, ditch white and beige and steer towards greys with green or blue undertones. This room would be quite a plain Jane if not for the striped accent wall that adds so much fun to the space. While this living room uses touches of warm browns, neutral through natural materials and a splash of orange to make it cheerful, you could also use furniture in lighter shades to create a beach house look.
Note the patterns on the carpet. Because it’s a small area and there is so much going on on the walls, the carpet has been kept in muted tones of salmon with small patterns and repeats.
3. Teal, pink, red & magenta
Teal is made the hero of the room here as the accent wall, with touches of reds to bind it all together. The grey sofa and the carpet along with the bits of white provided relief from the colour and ground the whole space.
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Teal is made the hero of the room here as the accent wall, with touches of reds to bind it all together. The grey sofa and the carpet along with the bits of white provided relief from the colour and ground the whole space.
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Tip: To create your own palette from our list, pick and choose one image and let the colours change their roles according to your personality and your home’s. This image, for example, celebrates magenta as the base colour with teal and wood tones – an image that reverses the main and accent colours of our ‘teal, magenta, natural wood accents and white’ palette. Similarly, you can use white as the base colour and accentuate it with teal, magenta and wood accents.
4. White, cream and black
If you are like me, who absolutely adores white, you’ll love this – the timeless living-room colour combination of white, cream and touches of black. You can also bring in pastels to include some colour and break the monotony. Introduce layers to your white decor with rich textures in upholstery and fabric and also by mixing patterns.
Note: This works really well if your furniture has a vintage look.
If you are like me, who absolutely adores white, you’ll love this – the timeless living-room colour combination of white, cream and touches of black. You can also bring in pastels to include some colour and break the monotony. Introduce layers to your white decor with rich textures in upholstery and fabric and also by mixing patterns.
Note: This works really well if your furniture has a vintage look.
5. Ivory, ebony and earth tones
Ivory and ebony are winners together: add some earth tones like red clay as an accent and there you have a living-room colour palette that can stand the test of time.
Tip: Earth tones are a colour scheme that draw their palette from earth essentials like clay, mud, rock, moss and more to give you a palette of browns, tans, warm greys and greens. So instead of a clay-coloured wall (as shown), you can use grey or moss green and it’ll still look drop-dead gorgeous. The key is to play the monochromes well.
Ivory and ebony are winners together: add some earth tones like red clay as an accent and there you have a living-room colour palette that can stand the test of time.
Tip: Earth tones are a colour scheme that draw their palette from earth essentials like clay, mud, rock, moss and more to give you a palette of browns, tans, warm greys and greens. So instead of a clay-coloured wall (as shown), you can use grey or moss green and it’ll still look drop-dead gorgeous. The key is to play the monochromes well.
6. Dark grey, red, pink and black
I love this living room for its bohemian feel. What sets off this essentially grey-and-white area is the huge sofa that’s upholstered with 18 vintage Peruvian blankets in brilliant shades of predominantly pink and red. A touch of green and a bit of black pulls the look in.
I love this living room for its bohemian feel. What sets off this essentially grey-and-white area is the huge sofa that’s upholstered with 18 vintage Peruvian blankets in brilliant shades of predominantly pink and red. A touch of green and a bit of black pulls the look in.
7. Rust, cream and black
Rust is my all-time favourite colour – there is so much you can do with this shade. While I love how rust plays off indigo and green, I don’t need to add that mix to this cream, rust and black theme – it works perfectly as it is. The black little furniture legs and vase break the quiet of the two tones and give the right injection of freshness.
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Rust is my all-time favourite colour – there is so much you can do with this shade. While I love how rust plays off indigo and green, I don’t need to add that mix to this cream, rust and black theme – it works perfectly as it is. The black little furniture legs and vase break the quiet of the two tones and give the right injection of freshness.
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8. Beige, purple, gold and green
Purple, gold and green. Think it’s straight out of grandma’s book of best colours? Think again. With the clever use of patterns and textures in both purple and green, one can weave a fantastic living room around off-white, white and beige. Note the use of the same shade of purple in various patterns and ways (ottoman, upholstery and cushions) to create a harmonious look.
Purple, gold and green. Think it’s straight out of grandma’s book of best colours? Think again. With the clever use of patterns and textures in both purple and green, one can weave a fantastic living room around off-white, white and beige. Note the use of the same shade of purple in various patterns and ways (ottoman, upholstery and cushions) to create a harmonious look.
9. Natural wood and all kinds of blue
A personal favourite and inevitably so. I love how moody this living room is – and one that challenges the phrase ‘feeling blue’. The walls get some de-saturated blue love while natural, varnished wood complements the colour throughout the room. To break the dominance of blue, more blue – in indigo and navy – is employed through patterns and textures in soft furnishings.
Tip: You can bring a vibrant contrast by using artwork or accessories in other bold colours: red, in this case.
A personal favourite and inevitably so. I love how moody this living room is – and one that challenges the phrase ‘feeling blue’. The walls get some de-saturated blue love while natural, varnished wood complements the colour throughout the room. To break the dominance of blue, more blue – in indigo and navy – is employed through patterns and textures in soft furnishings.
Tip: You can bring a vibrant contrast by using artwork or accessories in other bold colours: red, in this case.
10. No reservations
Want a living room that feels like summer all year round? Then let the colours flow. Citrus colours like yellow, orange and green set the theme in an accent wall for this cheerful little living room while a comfortable teal sofa against it turns the room into a conversation starter. Most would be shy to add more patterns but not this designer. The striped rug and the geometric cushions are bold and funky while the simple chest and the ochre chair balance the whole. Note the table lamp in tangerine, and of course the teapoy with vibrant yellow legs. No one can stay glum here, that’s for sure.
This story was last published on Houzz India in 2017
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Want a living room that feels like summer all year round? Then let the colours flow. Citrus colours like yellow, orange and green set the theme in an accent wall for this cheerful little living room while a comfortable teal sofa against it turns the room into a conversation starter. Most would be shy to add more patterns but not this designer. The striped rug and the geometric cushions are bold and funky while the simple chest and the ochre chair balance the whole. Note the table lamp in tangerine, and of course the teapoy with vibrant yellow legs. No one can stay glum here, that’s for sure.
This story was last published on Houzz India in 2017
Read more:
Colour Me Bold: 11 Ways to Energise Your Home
Bedroom Colour: The Secret to More Sex and More Sleep
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Got a living room colour palette that you swear by? Talk to us! Go to Comments below.
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I am in love with charcoal – it screams elegance from every angle. Though the photograph is of a very western space with the fireplace and all, I can’t see why the colour can’t find use in an essentially Indian setting, as well. Charcoal, brass, copper and terracotta are a match made in heaven that encompass a lot of Indian accents right there. Add a few antique lamps, a few good houseplants like golden pothos (Epipremnum aureum, commonly called devil’s ivy or money plant}, Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata) and ficus (Ficus lyrata, commonly called fiddle-leaf fig) and accessorise with bright kantha (hand-stitched quilt) throws. There you have a dreamy little Indian vibe to attract your tribe. Charcoal really is the new black!