Finding the Right Home Accents to Compliment Your Decor.

Let’s keep this simple. Finding home accents to compliment your existing decor can seem a bit overwhelming if you are trying to work with your already existing furnishings. However, by considering your existing color scheme and style of furniture, selecting accents for home should be relatively simple. The main point to consider is your personal style and preference. Selecting home accents that you don’t like, just won’t work no matter how logically the item accents your present decor. Home decorating is merely the adornment of your home, office or structure. When selecting home accents to finish a room consider that you want to adorn an existing space. If you’re not ready to throw everything in your home out to the curb but merely want to accessorize what you have, then consider your current dominant style and color scheme when selecting home accents.

Only you know your current color scheme. Is it warm or cool? Vivid or subtle shades? Neutral or bold tones? It’s important to be able to visualize how an accent will compliment your current color scheme. Will it be a nice splash of contrasting color such as a splash of red against a neutral background (seen often in contemporary decorating), or will it be subtly complimentary colors such as gold and red accents in a darker room. Now that you can visualize the colors that compliment your decor you can examine your current dominant style. Popular styles of decorating include those such as traditional home decor, tropical home decor, country home decor, Tuscan style home decor and contemporary or modern home decor.

Look around your room and examine your existing furniture, colors, and patterns. If your style is more traditional it is likely that your room contains dark woods with curved and carved designs and fabrics with damask or floral patterns. If your style is tropical your decor most likely features light colored woods in simple designs and simple fabric patterns and your color scheme is reminiscent of sand and sky. Country home decor will tend to have a lived in look with distressed woods and plain and simple fabrics that represent homemade crafts. If your decor is geared toward the Mediterranean or Tuscan style home decor, you most likely have a color scheme that represents the lush wine and olive regions of Italy with slightly weathered or aged furniture pieces, wrought iron accents and artisan pottery pieces. Contemporary and modern home decor is represented by clean lines and a less cluttered look. Your decor is most likely done in neutral tones with a few contrasting and functional home accent pieces and bold splashes of accent color.

Finding the right home accents to compliment your decor can really be as simple as understanding your color preferences and determining you’re most predominant and current design style. There are many more styles that what is mentioned here. I encourage you to research the design styles to find your perfect match. Once you have been able to define your color preferences and style, adding the right home accent pieces to your decor becomes a very simple, enjoyable home decorating experience.

Samantha Hughes is the author of this article on Home decorating. Find more information about Accents for home here.