Decorating Your Home With Jewel Tones

Home decorating is all about finding looks that suit you and your home needs. Home decorators often look to past trends and inspirational objects to create a luxurious palette. Perhaps they find a historical piece of art, dazzling emerald jewelry, or even a fabric swatch to inspire the entire transformation of a room. The ability to take a small object and bring the same feeling into a room is no minor task.

A room is a 3-dimensional art palette, and the paint, fabrics, textures, accessories, and furniture pieces not only work together to look good but to invoke a feeling. Walls painted in deep colors can have a soothing effect. They can create a sense of being in a stately room or nod to a historical era while incorporating modern touches. Using jewel tones is the perfect way to show off artwork and create elegant rooms that are more timeless than other modern trends.

Add Ornate Details

Jewel tones like amethyst purple, sapphire blue, and citrine yellow add depth to a room that pastels and other tones don’t have. When you’re using jewel tones to decorate your home, you want ornate details. Things like baseboards and trim with historic detailing or frames and statues that draw you in to look at all the hand-carved swirls and patterns go a long way when using jewel tones. You can include accessories that bring those colors into a room in small ways, or you can take a bolder approach.

Use Broad Swaths of Color

Jewel tones make a statement. While you may prefer subtle touches of color against a light gray or minimalist white room, you could go bold with broad swaths of color. Think beyond the dated accent wall and consider painting not only the walls in your favorite jewel tone but also the ceilings and baseboards. Something happens to a room that’s been painted in deep ruby red or emerald green. Something happens to a person who enters a room like this. Color has a significant impact on mood and emotions. And using deep blues to calm or greens to create optimism and hope.

Mix and Match Colors

While you might want a room to be different shades of the same color, these monochromatic color schemes can feel a bit flat. When you paint the walls with yellow jewel tones and then bring in a red couch or a deep purple settee, you begin to create a palette that looks and feels high-end, but that also is fun and exciting to look at. You can then layer in the colors in different ways. Patterns, accessories, and even draperies are simple ways to add more dynamic décor.

Incorporate Pillows

Whether it’s a bedroom, a sitting room, or a living room, pillows are a fantastic way to incorporate jewel tones. If you plan to keep a couch with a neutral color, these bursts of color throughout your home can sprinkle in jewel tones more subtly. Pillows with different colors, patterns, and even looks can be used if they include the jewel tones you want in your home. An emerald green couch with a purple patterned pillow can make the room feel more professionally decorated, even if you did the work yourself.

Decorate With Patterned Wallpaper

Jewel tones look excellent in wallpaper. And wallpaper will look amazing in your home. There are so many different patterns for wallpaper. You can choose something more traditional to give you the feeling of living in Kensington Palace or something fresher and more modern. Jewel tones in wallpaper can be used as a launching point for the rest of the room. Whether you use the paper on one wall for a focal wall or all four walls of a room, this is one of the best ways to bring in more jewel tones. And because it’s on the wall, you can more easily mix and match accessories that make your décor come together more cohesively.

Bring in Light With Mirrors

Ornate mirrors with beautiful detailing add elegance and light to a room. Mirrors may not produce their own light, but they reflect it. And one to a deep purple or brown sapphire room, you’ll need all the light you can get. When combined with the right light fixtures, these mirrors help a room feel warm, cozy, and classy when you first step inside.

Decorate With Metals

Jewel tones lend themselves well to also using metallic colors. Bronze, gold, and silver are all beautiful accents to go against your colorful palette. A metallic candelabra with jewel-toned candles or the base of a lamp painted in metallic colors with a white shade adds so much to a room. When you want elegance, luxury, and style, metals give you the upgrade you’re looking for.

Paint Unexpected Objects in Jewel Tones

Add emerald green to the base cabinet in your otherwise white bathroom. Incorporate red into the kitchen cabinets. Take your wood coffee table to the next level with a muted jade color. You can even use a jewel-toned China cabinet in your dining room. These big, bold statements can be used in rooms with simple colors like gray or bright white.

Find Jewel-Toned Rugs

Area rugs can instantly transform and upgrade a space. There is something about a detailed area rug that takes a room to a more elegant and finished level. When you have hardwoods, marble flooring, or even stone tiles, a carpet offers a beautiful and functional touch. Rugs can reduce the amount of noise in a room, make it feel warmer, and provide a soft surface to walk on. Whether you want a rug with a more modern design or something that looks handwoven and antique, you can find any rug you want. Jewel tones will bring in the deep colors that you love the most.

Decorating with jewel tones in your home is about creating layers of color, texture, light, and functional spaces. How you transform a luxurious bedroom will differ from how you include jewel tones in your kitchens, bathrooms, and other living spaces. With these tips, you can start to envision how your home will look in beautiful jewel tones.