Transform Your Space by Adding a Pop of Color to Every Room

Change up Your Bedroom

A neutral-toned bedroom can be nice because it reads as a clean slate at the beginning of every day, but it can also be kind of, well, boring. A dash of color can bring a surprising new energy to the room. Check out three ways to add a new hue to your room.

Easy: Buy New Bedding

One of the fastest ways to change up your room is to buy a bright, bold new comforter for your bed, and maybe even some throw pillows or regular pillow cases to match. If you already have a relatively neutral color palette, you can go with pretty much any color you want. The best part? You can just order something online without leaving your house. And if you're not ready to commit to a whole new comforter or duvet cover, a cozy throw tossed over the end of your bed can help achieve the same results.

Medium: Find New Furniture

A fun piece of furniture can also add plenty of personality. While super saturated colors may give off a more child-like look, a color more akin to a stain can help keep things mature. But don't be afraid to go for a strong color — if it's the main accent in the room, it can still work. And if you're on a budget, you can head out to thrift stores and flea markets to hunt something down, or even make a DIY project out of it and give a piece you already own a makeover.

Expert: Add an Accent Wall

It's a total pain in the butt to have to move all the furniture around, tape off the ceiling and the floor (and crown moulding if you have it), and break out the rollers, but painting your room or even just one accent wall can bring a totally different vibe to the space. Whether you're looking for something peaceful or energizing, different colors can have different effects and provide the right mood for you.

Change up Your Bathroom

Plenty of us keep our bathrooms neutral, but an all-white room is enough to drive anybody crazy. And it's easy to mix things up, whether you're looking for something that you can do by end of day or a larger design project you're ready to take on. Check out three ways to add a new hue to your bathroom.

Easy: Sprinkle in Decorations

Some colorful knick-knacks on the countertops can bring a little life to the space, especially if one of them is a small succulent or flower, aka something genuinely living. If you're not looking to worry about taking care of a plant (even though it's just too easy to water keeping it right next to the sink), you can also go with silk flowers or something similar. Hanging a bright piece of art can also reinvigorate a blank wall and give the room more personality in general.

Medium: Add a Wood Stain

Even just swapping the color of the wood cabinets and accents in your bathroom changes the feel of it. A pale wood can become more lively and bright with a medium stain, and a darker stain can keep things in your neutral palette while still providing a little more contrast. This is a slightly larger project to take on, but a simple enough change that can go a long way when it comes to aesthetics.

Expert: Change up the Backsplash

If you have a tile accent, swapping out neutral colors for something more bright and fun can transform the space entirely. You can bring that color scheme through hand-towels or a shower curtain in a full bathroom, but that change can do wonders for a half, too. And if you're not ready to take on a bigger project like that, you can always go the less permanent, easier route with a little contact paper to fake a tile or marble backsplash.

Change up Your Living Room

It's where you spend the majority of your time kicking back to watch TV with the family, so why not make the space really your own? A quick trip to the store can have you covered on this project if you're not ready to take the leap. Check out three ways to add a new hue to your living room.

Easy: Add Some Accent Colors

A plant, some new pillows, and a matching lampshade can make all the difference, and they're probably all within your budget, too. Again, if you're not ready to commit to taking care of a plant, a fake will do (though you might also be interested in giving a self-watering pot a shot). If you're feeling handy and have extra fabric around the house, you can even make new pillow shams and a lamp cover yourself.

Medium: Get an Area Rug

Area rugs can be expensive, but in terms of ease, picking one up at the store and rolling it out at home requires relatively little moving and adjusting of furniture. The amount of floorspace it takes up can also help to add visual depth to a room. Simple colors will go a long way, but you can also find a pattern that works with the rest of your decor (and if your decor is simple, virtually any pattern will do).

Expert: Reupholster Your Couch

Or get a new couch. Or, if you're really an expert, you can DIY shams and a cover for the cushions and frame yourself. But a colorful couch will bring a whole new level of charm to your space. And it can still look mature and subdued if the rest of your color palette is complementary with cream colors or earth tones.

Change up Your Kitchen

Refreshing your kitchen color scheme might actually be the easiest project of them all. In fact, you might already have all the materials you need to make the most base level modifications. Check it out.

Easy: Add Colorful Dish Ware

If you have an open set of shelves like this kitchen, some brightly colored dish ware can instantly animate your space. And you don't necessarily have to open up your wallet for a full set, either. Some carefully placed decorative pieces can do the same thing. And if you don't have an open cabinet, some pieces on the counter can have just as strong of an effect.

Medium: Paint Your Cabinets

With a little strategically wielded painter's tape, this might even be something you can do without taking your cabinets apart — assuming you can easily reach them! Even just adding a colorful trim to your neutral toned cabinets can brighten up the space.

Expert: Buy Colored Appliances

It's a much more expensive investment, but it can go a long-way. And there's something uniquely delightful about having a pink or green fridge, isn't there? You don't have to go big, though. A brightly colored toaster, microwave, or coffee machine can also do some heavy lifting for the room.