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How to Add Color to a Room Without Painting the Walls {Part V: Accessories}

by Lindsay Ballard on April 11, 2012 10 Comments

In the excitement of being outdoors to finish the playscape and the front yard landscaping, I couldn’t bring myself to spend the hours on my computer that I normally do each day.  It’s really hard to be stuck inside all day when nature calls.  Okay, not nature calling like THAT, but you know what I mean.

I postponed (in my mind, but didn’t tell you guys) the last post in my series on Adding Color to a Room Without Painting the Walls.  I wanted to post them all back to back, but then the gorgeous Texas weather came along, and it just didn’t happen.  So here we are again.

If you think of your furniture and textiles as the clothing that dresses your room, you need to think of your accessories as the perfect necklace or a great pair of earrings.  Just like in your own wardrobe, the “jewelry” in your room should add unique character and charm while not detracting from the overall appearance.

“Okay, Lindsay.  That sounds all well and good, but how do I make it happen?”

This is the fun part!  One easy way to add color is to create a great gallery wall, like the wall Rhoda at Southern Hospitality created.  I love her mix of neutrals with the aqua bird cage and the painting above it.  Those pieces really do the talking and let the neutral pieces take the backseat.  It allows you to fill the wall and not be overwhelmed with color.

Another way to add color to a room is through your lighting choices.  Traditionally, lamps and fixtures will be silver, gold, black or white?  Why not red?  Or green?  Or blue?

Crate and Barrel Zing Lamp

Don’t want to buy a new lamp?  Try spray paint!  A lacquer or high gloss spray paint might change your life.

If you are particularly married to your silver lamp, why not give it a new shade?  Try Cost Plus/World Market for some really interesting patterns, textures, and colors.   Occasionally, Target will even have an interesting shade or two, like this scrolly yellow version.

If you need some personality to your end table (and no, your husband’s empty PBR can doesn’t count), why not pick up some junky statuettes at garage sales or the dollar store and hit them with a can of lacquer?  There’s a great old post at Apartment Therapy about this.

Of course, there’s always the tride and true brightly colored picture frame.  Even if you don’t hang a dozen of them all on top of each other, you could always add a few to your fireplace mantle or console table behind the couch.  Remember, not every picture frame needs to be neutral!

What ways to you like to add color to your room through your table top accessories?  Talk to me, Goose.

About Lindsay Ballard

Lindsay Ballard is a former college mascot turned political geek turned roller derby playing, DIY fanatic.

Lindsay chronicles her projects, design ideas, and lifestyle tips here at Makely, where she shares tutorials and inspiration. Her DIY designs are bold and graphic, while her spirit is fun and full of color.

Lindsay lives outside of Austin, Texas with her husband (Tom), children (Zack and Emma), and dogs (Duke and Jill). She plays roller derby for the Rockin' City Rollergirls out of Round Rock, Texas.

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Comments

  1. Maria @ All Things Luxurious says

    April 11, 2012 at 8:29 pm

    Love that yellow shade from Target — my hubby and I have that in our bedroom! 🙂 Thanks for sharing, Lindsay; I love the idea of spray-painting quirky finds from thrift stores. 🙂

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  2. Painted Maypole says

    April 11, 2012 at 9:27 pm

    Ha. I recently spray painted a lamp yellow, and bought THAT EXACT SHADE which I love, love, loved to put on it… unfortunately the shade was too open at the top for how low the lamp sat, so I returned it and am just using a white shade that I glued ribbon stripes on (but I think I may take the ribbons off, they seem like too much) (i may wait till the shade goes on sale and buy it for my two floor lamps, though. because I really did love it)

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  3. Ritu Dua says

    April 12, 2012 at 4:09 am

    Hi
    I found your space quite inspiring and the ideas here are easy to execute… Especially love the gallery…

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  4. blueevey says

    April 12, 2012 at 5:58 pm

    I found that lampshade at target on a recent guilt free shopping spree! I could only find a matching blue one and couldn’t justify the price. I took a picture of it and now it’s on my to do list for two lampshades that are too boring.

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  5. Jenna, SAS Interiors says

    April 13, 2012 at 11:52 am

    This has been a great series, Lindsay! O and I’ve been meaning to tell you, I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new look of Living With Lindsay. It’s so you with the colorful chevron. Gorgeous. Great post and always love your blog 😉 xo Jenna

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  6. Camille says

    April 17, 2012 at 4:26 am

    Thanks for sharing, I particularly love the gallery wall, it looks great!

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About Makely

Lindsay Ballard is a former college mascot turned political geek turned roller derby playing, DIY fanatic.

Lindsay chronicles her projects, design ideas, and lifestyle tips here at Makely, where she shares tutorials and inspiration. Her DIY designs are bold and graphic, while her spirit is fun and full of color.

Lindsay lives outside of Austin, Texas with her husband (Tom), children (Zack and Emma), and dogs (Duke and Jill). She plays roller derby for the Rockin' City Rollergirls out of Round Rock, Texas.


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