Purple In Interior Design – It’s More Than Just A Transitional Color

Purple has long been used in many tween or teenager girls’ rooms because it is considered as a transition color. These days, though, a lot of adult spaces such as kitchen, bedroom, and small city apartments already use this beautiful color.

Purple is now a popular color because of the multi-cultural influences being embraced in interior design. Use pink-violet, lavender or magenta and you will be perceived as someone sophisticated and youthful.

Purple in the Kitchen

To picture the beauty offered by purple, just imagine a stark white kitchen. While kitchens need to be clean, the white color tends to make it appear sterile. Adding purple on the backdrop changes this as it is a welcome contrast to the silver and white appliances that adorn modern kitchens.  Purple, in this case, added character and warmth into the kitchen.

Adding purple in a kitchen also creates a flow in small apartments including the master bedroom that is decorate in navy, violet-indigo and plum. While purple may not be a common color choice for kitchens, this is actually a color that is slowly becoming favored by many modern interior designers.

Purple in Hallways

Hallways are generally bland spaces inside a home. These are mere passageways where one can get to different rooms. But a hallway need not be ho-hum in terms of design. Corridors and hallways can look attractive by adding accent furniture while putting in patterned purple walls. This space becomes notable especially when the adjoining rooms have a more subdued color such as black or silvery gray.

Use purple wallpapers to accomplish this where the effect will be a bit of retro and a bit of modern, too.

Purple in the Living Room

What could be a great way to begin embracing the color purple in your home’s design than to use it in your living room? The living room receives much foot traffic during the day or even the evenings when social gatherings are held.

An expansive space can look intimidating so a great way to soften the room is to use purple as the dominant color. You can combine this unique color with splashes of silvery gray and black. Having silver in damask can give you the illusion of the design looping right back to your living room. 

A purplish carpet should cap the living room design.

Purple in the Bedroom

Beach house bedrooms are often painted blue or green – this is the timeless way to do it but, sometimes, the practice becomes too rehashed. The master bedroom can become more romantic and delightful if the color lilac were added.

This lovely lilac should effectively complement the ocean all year-round. Purple is a great color to frame the blue oceans and skies. To keep the sophistication of this color, use accessories such as green, pink or coral accent pillows.

This came concept can be observed inside the guest rooms in your home. Purple is such a powerful shade that it can tone down a glaring Chinese marriage bed.

More Than a Mere Connector

Purple can now be more than just a connecting color. In the right hands, it can also become the centerpiece of any home. Glorious purple can transform ugly storage areas into designer rooms. Would you want a room to look and feel elegant? Then it is as easy as adding artwork and damask wallpaper with dashes of purple into any room.

With this warm color combined with natural light, you can transform light rooms to warmer rooms and dark rooms into cheerful ones. Are you ready to embrace this bold, new hue into your home?