Garish. Lurid. Loud. Brassy. All can be used to describe the bold and vibrant use of color in decorating that crosses over the line of eccentric and into downright crazy. All can be used to describe a room that looks like no other room in the house of anyone you know. Really want to make an impact when decorating your house? Be less wary of offense and more inviting of crazy.
Blood Red Bathroom Wall
The bathroom is the ideal place to start entertaining garish colors in your decorating scheme. No other room in the collective residential philosophy of America is more in need of something startling than bathrooms. All that sterility based on some outmoded idea about the appropriateness of white! And when a bathroom isn’t white, it’s some other light shade of a soft color. Well, find the deepest, most striking and lurid color of red you can and choose just one wall in which to paint it. The dramatic contrast between that decidedly out of place introduction of red into a bathroom otherwise documented in the niceties of a relaxing palette will astonish you.
Over the Ocean Blue
The spectacularly beautiful blues associated with water are normally reserved for a marine theme and even then the blue is mostly found above the floor. How many times have you ever come across a floor painted the color of the ocean? Yeah, that’s I what wrote: painted. Whether hardwood or concrete or any other material that can withstand the adherence of paint, you should try it out. Just to hear the reaction of all those visitors to your home who say something along the lines of “I’ve never seen a floor painted blue.” You know why you’ll hear that? Because nobody else will have done it. The more the blue hurts your eyes to look at it, the better.
Peachy Keen Kitchen
Peach is a color normally associated in the man-made world with a soft shade of orange. In the real world of delicious fruit that stream juice down your face when you bite into them, the color of peaches covers an astonishing range. Examine some real peaches that are vibrantly colored to the point of being brassy and then take that peach to a professional paint supply store with a mixer experienced enough to recreate it. You won’t find the more garish shades of peach so described in cans of paint tagged as peach. You will either have to find a matching shade already existing or find that master mixer to customize your shade. The next step involves applying the loud fruity color to your boring kitchen cabinets.
Hot Pink Heat
Used delicately and pointedly, few colors are more capable of making an impact than hot pink. One of the best ways to make first time visitors to your home literally stop dead in their tracks is to transform your fireplace into an external symbol of the high heat delivered inside. A hot pink fireplace set off against a brightly colored wall is enough to make some people think you’ve lost your mind when it comes to taste in décor. And what could be better than that?
