In the Home: Blushing
When it comes to decorating is your list of neutrals short or long? Mine is ever lengthening, including a few patterns like leopard. And I’m definitely on the bandwagon when it comes to using light pinks as foundation-building neutrals. Your space doesn’t need to look like a bubblegum explosion to achieve a super calming and grounded effect using blush.
Part of my home office is painted a shade very similar to this dining room, and every time I notice it makes me break out in a smile! Blush is a happy-inducing color that doesn’t need to be overly feminine. The use of plenty of black and white in this room makes it feel clean and modern more than anything else.
If you’d like to stick your foot in to test the waters, maybe consider starting with accents and accessories. The blush duvet in this minimal bedroom is paired with a few throw pillows and and a patterned quilt that give the room a graphic touch. Because the walls are white the color pops more, to tone it down you could bring in a lovely light grey or brown.
Furniture is always a bigger investment, not only when talking about money but also impact. You’re probably going to know you can live with blush in your life before you make that purchase. The living room above really illustrates blush as a neutral extremely well, and the metals and light grey used throughout the room help to balance and bridge the gap.
This particular hue tends to mix very well with other colors, further cementing it as a great untraditional neutral. The pillow used in this bedroom is bursting with a rainbow, but choose any one of those colors individually and it works with blush – I guarantee it.
