13 Small Colorful Apartment Living Room Ideas to Copy
This post will show you 13 small colorful apartment living room ideas to copy.
People may find joy in color, and surrounding themselves with color can bring joy to their everyday tasks. Colorful should be complimentary, with some contrast through pattern or placement.
13 Small Colorful Apartment Living Room Ideas to Copy
1.Poufs and Cushions for Seating
To add easy seating and beautiful colors to an apartment living room. Easily moved around the room as needed, comfortable, and space saving, these can be used regularly for many purposes. Throw pillows are also a great way to add comfort and softness to a stark or sleek piece of furniture, to brighten a space, or to simply add color to the room.
2.Use Patterns
Patterns are a great way to add color and contrast, which makes the room interesting, adds dimension, and can bring in additional textures. There are nearly endless patterns that can be used, large bold patterns, romantic florals, flowy abstract patterns, and many more. Select patterns that you enjoy seeing and consider layering different patterns in the same space for added interest.
3.Add Bright Throws
Throw blankets, and throw pillows, are a great way to add color to a room while also making the room more comfortable and bringing in new textures and details. These will brighten a room whether they are one solid bright color if they are patterned with a few colors.
4.Place Area Rugs Carefully
Area rugs are a great addition to a room, both for their color and the comfort they bring to feet, the division they create, the beauty they can add, and the way they direct traffic. Choose the right size, so the furniture in the space you are putting will fit fully off the rug or with the front legs on the rug and the back legs off.
5.Swap Blinds for Curtains
Rather than using plain blinds in the windows, substitute curtains. Bright, colorful patterned curtains, soft flowy and wispy sheer curtains, or retro curtains if they fit your theme. While blinds work well for some purposes, to add color and texture curtains are better suited.
6.Paint or Wallpaper the Walls
Don’t forget the walls! Along with adding art, prints, paintings, or even posters, using paint or wallpaper to color the actual walls will bring color to the entire room. For apartments that are owned this is an easier task, for those who rent it may be necessary to obtain permission before making this change.
7.Change Furniture Covers for a Change
Furniture is one of the hardest things to change as a large and expensive purchase, but changing furniture can make a big difference to the feel of the room. Using pillows and blankets is one way to add color to the furniture, however for a more overall change, couch or chair covers are a great investment.
8.Use Art Intentionally
Rather than put up random pieces of art, painting or portraits, photographic images or other pieces, use them intentionally. Place them well, create clusters or photography walls, and use only art that you enjoy and want to see every day.
9.Flowering Plants
Flowering plants add bursts of color to any room. Place them on windowsills or end tables, coffee tables or, for larger plants, place them on the floor. The brightly colored flowers will be cheery and hopeful, and with well chosen plants they will flower at different times of year keeping flowers in the room regularly.
10.Add Pieces of Colored Glass
Colored glass pieces, blown glass decorations or glass bowls, even glass marbles in a vase, will add color to the room and allow the light to reflect through. Scattering little bits of color across nearby surfaces and spreading rainbows across walls if the sunlight hits correctly. These provide a gentle light, but the colors are beautiful, and they are a great addition to any space.
11.Show Your Personality
When you are selecting colors and items to add those colors, select ones that you enjoy. Add things that you want to be surrounded by, that you want to see every day, and that bring you some form of joy or happiness. This can be done through the art pieces you select, the flowers that you favor, and the textures that you scatter around the room.
12.Follow a Theme
If you are just beginning or if you are looking for an easy way to find pieces that will work well together, select a theme. It may be a color theme, a set of years or a decade, materials that you like, shows you watch, any theme that you enjoy can be turned into a decoration style in your apartment living room.
13.Leave Your Books Out
Books are often made with beautiful covers full of color and excitement. Creating a small stack or a little display of books that you love will add your personality to the room and personalize it to you specifically. It also has the benefit of keeping the books you are reading close at hand when you have time to read a chapter, and they are an affordable option for creating pops of color in any living room.
Recap
As the use of apartments and other multifamily housing is growing there is a growing interest in ways to decorate small living rooms, apartment sized spaces, and to ensure that they are comfortable and can be used daily. Apartment furniture is smaller and lighter than older wooden furniture was, and it provides the ability to easily move it around the space and change the layout as you like. Choose colors that you love to create a colorful apartment living room, and include them in accents, in accessories, in art pieces and lighting.
Resources: https://www.housebeautiful.com/room-decorating/living-family-rooms/g40378712/apartment-living-room-design-ideas/
https://www.realhomes.com/design/apartment-living-room-idea
