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Color Trends: Decorating With Orange

June 22, 2015

By: Chelsey Bowen

If you're looking to add a punch of energy to your space, then orange is your color. Check out these room designs and learn how to infuse your home with orange to create a vibrant space full of warmth.

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Take It Outside

Warm colors like orange give off an energy and intensity unmatched by their cooler cousins. Use these hues in spaces where you anticipate and want activity, like an outdoor living room.

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Energetic Style

Contrary to popular belief, adding color to a room without a lot of natural light helps brighten the room and makes it feel larger. In this living room makeover, Kim Myles uses several colors, including a warm orange and lime green, to expand the space.

Neutral Room With Orange Chaise, Round Ottoman and Leather Chairs

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Functional Furnishings

If you're taking your first foray into orange, start with a few furnishings in a muted shade. For this makeover, designer Candice Olson adds a chaise lounge and ottoman in a deep autumn hue. Pillows in a similar tone pull color into the neutral sectional.

Photo: David Duncan Livingston. From: Ann Lowengart

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Balancing Hues

One of the best ways to show off a color is to combine it with its complementary hue. In this media room design, designer Annie Lowengart uses orange and blue, which sit across from each other on the color wheel, to create a vibrant, energetic living space.

Living Room with Colorful Wall Art and Pillows

From: David Bromstad

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Orange Accents

Not quite ready to take the plunge into orange? Add pops of the hue with accessories. In this design, David Bromstad uses brightly colored orange pillows in different patterns to contrast the neutral furnishings.

Living Room With a Rust Orange and Yellow Color Palette

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Touches of Tangerine

Since orange is the color of the sun, it's only natural that it creates a bright and warm atmosphere. In this tropical makeover, orange is combined with hot pink and yellow, creating an analogous scheme, which means the colors sit next to each other on the color wheel.

From: David Bromstad

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Citrus Influence

To spice up this kitchen, designer David Bromstad paints an orange backsplash with a floral motif. Like its adjacent color red, orange is known to stimulate the appetite, so it's perfect for a kitchen.

Bedroom With River Rock Headboard and Wicker Pendant Lanterns

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Shades of Pumpkin

To highlight a neutral palette, add a splash of color. Kim Myles uses deep browns and grays to create a relaxing bedroom retreat, but opts for a muted orange to add color as a subtle accent.

From: David Bromstad

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Orange Focus

Orange is ideal for highlighting the main focal points in your room, since it has a high visibility. Think outside the box when working with your fireplace and turn it into a real centerpiece. For this project, David Bromstad designed a facade that looks like a Shaker dresser to transform the look of the fireplace.

Color Trends: Decorating With Orange

Take It Outside

Energetic Style

Functional Furnishings

Balancing Hues

Orange Accents

Touches of Tangerine

Citrus Influence

Shades of Pumpkin

Orange Focus

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