Enliven Your Porch With Color
Napworthy doesn't have to mean snoozefest. Turn a drab porch into a dashingly designed outdoor room with these ideas for adding color
If you're looking to add vibrance to your porch, amp up the color. We've already discussed how to do this using plants, and now we're ready bring in color using furniture, accessories and architectural accents. If you're looking to just dip your toes into porch color, stick with smaller accessories at first. As you start to crave more color, you can work your way up to painting the floor, architectural elements and furniture. These ideas will enliven your front, side or back porch.
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Get all color from the home's exterior. The exterior palette on this house is all the color this porch needs, especially because the floorboards and risers were painted to match the trim.
Match a color from the architectural elements to furniture. This perfectly aligned row of chairs coordinates with the columns and beams, resulting in a balanced and appealing facade.
Bring in color through smaller pieces of furniture. Modern metal tables contrast with this more traditional furniture.
Embrace the exterior wall color. A lake house's brilliant green board and batten siding is almost all the color this porch needs; pops of raspberry are the finishing touch.
Paint a few wooden pieces. The bright turquoise chairs and buffet on this porch stand out next to all the crisp black and white everywhere else. Using paint to spruce up some flea market wooden chairs is an easy way to add color. If you have several different styles of chairs, it will unify a mismatched group as an eye-pleasing group.
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Play off your plants. The stripes on these pillows coordinate perfectly with the hanging impatiens.
Fall mums inspire a few autumnal red accents as the seasons change around this porch.
Turn your hues up a notch or two. Brilliant blue and cheery pops of yellow turn up the volume on the usual coastal palette for this Tybee Island, Georgia, screened-in porch.
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Pay attention to the floor. A lively cardinal and gold checkerboard pattern unifies the different spaces on this long porch.
Choose painted wicker. While I'm usually a sucker for black wicker, these reds and yellows show off the owner's personal style and make this porch seem like a very happy spot.
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Use an outdoor rug. Not so long ago, the only outdoor rug option was a close relative of AstroTurf. Now there are a staggering amount of styles available. Ground the space with one and pick up on its palette. Here pops of robin's egg blue from the rug, upholstery and ceiling unify the space.
Add an awning. Not only will it provide extra shade as needed, but an awning provides color and pattern to play off of, as these coastal seat cushions show.
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