6 Ways to Add Color to Your Apartment

By Julia Dunn on May 29, 2017

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Are you moving into a new apartment soon? Or did you move in weeks ago and can’t seem to decide on apartment decorations? It’s always nice to add pops of color to your apartment — they brighten your mood and add more vibrancy to interior decor! Here are 6 ways to bring more color into your apartment.

1. Make a collage

Grab a piece of cardboard or poster board, a glue stick, some scissors, and anything from photos to magazine clippings to old tickets from adventures you had with friends! A collage is a great decorative item that can bring color to a bedroom wall (depending on the kinds of items you include in it) and it can be a great way to de-clutter your desk of all the little slips of paper and old event programs you might be keeping for some reason.

2. Decorate with flowers

If you’re a flower fan, why wouldn’t you take any opportunity possible to decorate your apartment with some colorful blooms? A small bouquet of sunflowers or sweet peas will brighten any kitchen, dining room, or even bedroom (anywhere there’s enough light to illuminate them!)

You can get fresh flowers from the grocery store or a local farmer’s market (often they’re fresh from a local farm, and different varieties are available). If you don’t want to spend any money on bigger flowers, you can even fill a small vase with wildflowers picked from your yard or even on campus wherever wildflowers grow (just don’t go stealing a whole pot of geraniums from outside the campus advising office).

As an alternative, you can make bouquets of tissue paper flowers fairly easily with just some scissors and a pipe cleaner or piece of yarn. The best part about tissue paper flowers is that they won’t die!

If you’re looking for the real-flower look but don’t want to keep buying flowers over and over, most craft stores carry entire aisles worth of fake flowers made out of fabric. Some of them look pretty realistic, and often, you can mix and match the stems so you end up with a self-curated bouquet! It’s a one-time expense for some colorful decorations you can showcase anywhere in your room, house, or apartment.

3. Get a tapestry/fabric

If you’re looking to cover large spaces (like an entire wall), consider ordering a colorful tapestry. It will add lots of visual interest to your walls! If you don’t want to pay for a huge tapestry, consider stopping by a fabric store and checking out the clearance section of the fabric bins. Sometimes you can score a great deal per yard of fabric, and you can choose how much you’d like to get! Thus, if you just want a few scraps of fabric to decorate your bed posts or to make kitchen curtains, you can buy only the amount of fabric you need.

Even beyond the clearance section, fabric stores carry an entire rainbow of solid and print fabrics for you to peruse, meaning there are truly endless apartment-decorating possibilities!

4. Make or solicit wall art

Got any friends who excel at drawing or painting? Ask them if they’d like to make you some art to display on your walls! It’s great to infuse your apartment with memories of people you care about, and you’ll undoubtedly end up with a much more colorful space the more art you can put up on the walls.

You can even use your empty walls as an excuse to make some art of your own! Even those with little artistic confidence can make an abstract piece that consists of swirls and lines and circles. Some craft stores even sell coloring canvases (basically a canvas with an outline of a scene on it, like a coloring book) that you can color alone or with friends and hang on your wall!

5. Set out a fruit bowl

Adding color to your apartment can be as simple as putting out a fruit bowl in your kitchen or dining room. It makes any table look friendlier and prettier! Plus, having a bowl full of fruit will encourage you to eat more fruit, if you tend to eat less produce than you probably should. This is an easy way to bring life to your counter tops.

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6. Have fun with succulents

Perhaps one of the trendiest types of plants ever, succulents rarely fail their owners. By nature, these plants retain water, making them extremely difficult to kill even for the most negligent plant owners. Depending on where you buy them, the small succulents aren’t terribly expensive, and if you want to get really fancy, you can buy or build a wooden structure that can hold several succulents.

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Lots of people get into succulent designs and landscapes, and others like the aesthetic of succulents on a shelf or in a hanging pot. For those who don’t want the hassle of installing huge succulent planter boxes in or around your place, you can just buy a few individually potted plants to keep on a table somewhere. They come in beautiful pinks, greens, purples and other colors, and their remarkable symmetry is lovely to look at.

Color is everywhere — all you need to do is bring it inside!

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