You love holidays and like the festive look of holiday decor but how are you supposed to tie the pastels of Easter into a home with warm jewel tones? Or for that matter, the reds and pinks of Valentine's Day? Oranges and blacks of Halloween? Also, how do you keep your decor sophisticated when so much of what is out there is cheap and more like party decorations than anything else? Ok that last bit was a little snarky. Lol.
For one thing, you certainly don't need to stick to any particular color scheme for any holiday. That's one pretty obvious answer. But that limits you quite a bit. I usually run into this dilemma around this time of year. My home definitely changes from time to time... my friends joke that it looks different every time they come over. But that's not because I'm a shopaholic and am constantly buying new stuff. I rotate things around (ok, so I do have a lot of things) but I make new things (on a budget) and I make simple changes to accomodate the seasons. I'm going to share a few of those tips with you for Spring and/or Easter decor. Because my home is not conducive to pretty much any color scheme you see this time of year. My home has a lot of warm and jewel tones and bright popping colors. So to add in white feels blah to me, and to display pastel things feels wasteful, because I don't really like pastel colors all that much, plus they are too "cool" against my warm colors!
My tip for tying in different color palettes is to start with determining your most common color or color group in your home, and in the new color scheme you want to introduce. For me, at this time of year, that would be blues/yellows/greens. They crossover into the pastel palette, but don't clash with what I have going on in the rest of my home, even though they are in much brighter shades. As much as I love a little pink, and as popular as it is this time of year, it just doesn't work in my house (except of course in my daughter's room!) - so I stay away from it.
Here are some examples of how that fits into my home... all these pictures are taken in and around my kitchen because that is where I tend to focus the majority of my holiday decorating. It also happens to be one of the "brightest" spots in my home, as far as color goes. You'll notice that I round things out with a lot of neutrals. Can never go wrong with neutrals!
Here's a big picture of my kitchen. I have a lot of oranges/citrusy colors in there. I cleared off my counters (which also housed a lot of red and turquoise to compliment and give dimension to the citrusy colors on top of my cabinets), and focused all my lighter Spring decor down on that level, separating it from the citrusy pallette up high. So, separating color schemes as much as you can is one way of tying several color schemes together.
For one thing, you certainly don't need to stick to any particular color scheme for any holiday. That's one pretty obvious answer. But that limits you quite a bit. I usually run into this dilemma around this time of year. My home definitely changes from time to time... my friends joke that it looks different every time they come over. But that's not because I'm a shopaholic and am constantly buying new stuff. I rotate things around (ok, so I do have a lot of things) but I make new things (on a budget) and I make simple changes to accomodate the seasons. I'm going to share a few of those tips with you for Spring and/or Easter decor. Because my home is not conducive to pretty much any color scheme you see this time of year. My home has a lot of warm and jewel tones and bright popping colors. So to add in white feels blah to me, and to display pastel things feels wasteful, because I don't really like pastel colors all that much, plus they are too "cool" against my warm colors!
My tip for tying in different color palettes is to start with determining your most common color or color group in your home, and in the new color scheme you want to introduce. For me, at this time of year, that would be blues/yellows/greens. They crossover into the pastel palette, but don't clash with what I have going on in the rest of my home, even though they are in much brighter shades. As much as I love a little pink, and as popular as it is this time of year, it just doesn't work in my house (except of course in my daughter's room!) - so I stay away from it.
Here are some examples of how that fits into my home... all these pictures are taken in and around my kitchen because that is where I tend to focus the majority of my holiday decorating. It also happens to be one of the "brightest" spots in my home, as far as color goes. You'll notice that I round things out with a lot of neutrals. Can never go wrong with neutrals!
Here's a big picture of my kitchen. I have a lot of oranges/citrusy colors in there. I cleared off my counters (which also housed a lot of red and turquoise to compliment and give dimension to the citrusy colors on top of my cabinets), and focused all my lighter Spring decor down on that level, separating it from the citrusy pallette up high. So, separating color schemes as much as you can is one way of tying several color schemes together.
