Make It Yours: This coastal living room skews modern thanks to a subdued palette and sleek gold and black accents. For added color, apply blue on walls instead of white and incorporate another splashy hue as an accent through accessories or artwork. To relax the look, bring in additional nods to nature, such as a driftwood centerpiece, woven baskets, or rattan accent furniture. Make It Yours: Go a few shades darker on the cabinet paint color for added contrast, or opt for white on the upper cabinets for an airier look. If you love traditional farmhouse style, swap the herringbone backsplash (which leans more modern) for standard subway tiles in a classic running bond pattern. Make It Yours: If dark blue walls are too intense for your taste, opt for a white paint color and get more adventurous with colorful furnishings. Apply your main color in large doses, such as on bedding, curtains, or an area rug. Then choose three to four medium-tone accent colors (bright, tropical-inspired hues are perfect for a boho look) to layer in through artwork, throw pillows, and other accessories. Make It Yours: Borrow this sunroom’s carefree style for a living room or bedroom. Try the light blue paint color on walls instead of the ceiling, and bring in natural materials like wood and rattan through accent furniture. Re-create the bright, open look with sheer window treatments and plenty of well-placed lighting. Make It Yours: Swap out the pink for another warm accent color (like orange or yellow). If big swaths of bold pattern aren’t your thing, apply the larger-scale pattern to smaller items (like shams) and a small or medium-scale pattern to the big things (like walls or a duvet). Tone down the modern style by mixing in a few organic or floral patterns in the sea of geometrics. Make It Yours: Keep the neutral foundation, but find your own signature pattern (here, it’s the ottoman fabric) to inspire your color scheme. Make It Yours: Translate this look to a bedroom or living room by swapping mint cabinetry for an accent chair or duvet in the same hue. Floating shelves aren’t for you? Create a gallery wall instead for a more permanent display. Make It Yours: To keep this look more modern, remove the rustic nods. Apply your own signature color. Midtone, grayed colors, such as sage green, look sophisticated when paired with black and white. Intense jewel tones skew super glam and soft pastels might pale in comparison. Make It Yours: Start with dark walls and layer in a few of your favorite intense colors (think bright, but not neon). Balance the intensity with a few white accents. Make It Yours: Not a fan of white walls? Pick another tone from your accessories and go several shades lighter for your wall color. Airy is key to this look, but applying a barely-there color will help retain the light look. Make It Yours: Swap silver accents for gold, and add in a cool accent color. Here, the cool silver works with the warm yellow, but a warm metal begs a cooler accent (think sky blue or sage). Make It Yours: If gray walls aren’t your style, go for a soft beige, a few shades lighter than the tan on the quilt and shams. Switch out the statement light fixture for a pair of dramatic lamps. Make It Yours: Keep the global-modern feeling going, but simplify it by sticking with a single furniture style. For a more colorful look, add in art and textiles that contain your main accent color as well as other hues. Make It Yours: Green accents, which mimic the color of vintage jadeite, lend a retro feeling, but if green isn’t your thing, go for another color with the same throwback appeal (lacquer red or school bus yellow). The dark floors work with the gray lower cabinets to ground the airy kitchen. Replicate the effect with another type of flooring or runner rugs in a similar dark color. Make It Yours: Skip the accent wall and hang some simple art instead. Pull out another color from your signature pattern for a livelier scheme. Add a white shag rug for some texture underfoot. Make It Yours: Here, the Suzani chairs set the color scheme. Find a similar pattern in colors you love and let it dictate your scheme. Instead of the tree stump trio, look for a rustic wood coffee table where the grain shines. For a more industrial touch, try one with metal accents. Make It Yours: Almost any medium-tone color, such as sky blue, lavender, or pale salmon, would work as the accent in this design. Push the style envelope one way or the other to further tailor the look to your tastes (a tone-on-tone white lattice wallpaper veers towards cottage, while a sleek bedframe would lean more modern).
