The festive season provides a great opportunity to update your decor and experiment with new and fashionable colours. You may be dreaming of a white Christmas, or love the energy of traditional red, green and gold at this time of year, or it may be that you are ready to try something new, like cool and revitalising blue. Here are a few Christmas colour schemes to inspire you.
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1. Dreaming of a white Christmas
White is the colour of peace and tranquillity, one only has to think of falling snow and the feeling it instils. White is sophisticated and creates a feeling of space, but it can be cold and isolating on its own. Add green, gold and silver together with different textures to add interest to your winter wonderland scheme.
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This is your chance to introduce some bling in your home. With a range of shades to choose from gold adds warmth and glamour to a space. While a popular choice at Christmas, gold is a great accent colour all year round.
The way metallics interact with light creates eye-catching interest, notice how your eye is drawn to a picture frame painted in gold or ceramics that have a touch of gold on them. Gold accents will add new life to a neutral colour scheme, it also complements a number of colours giving them a boost.
Gold and silver work beautifully together and can add positive energy into your home. For more on this see The therapeutic qualities of gold versus silver
3. Cool and contemporary blue
There is an array of blues to decorate your home this Christmas, from sapphire to aquamarine. Blue is cool, calm and relaxing. While blue and white is classic, add some gold accents for warmth and silver for a bit of sparkle.
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4. Classic red, green and gold
Red is the most vibrant colour of the Christmas season form Rudolf's nose to Santas's outfit. It is uplifting and adds some drama. Green is the complementary colour to red and when used together the two colours enhance and balance each other. Gold adds the glitz and glamour.
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5. Going green
Nature's green is a fashionable colour that will enhance and fit comfortably in most decor schemes. Green is a balancing and stress relieving colour and is so pervasive in nature, it works as a backdrop for all other colours, contrasting with red roses, purple pansies, yellow day lilies, as well as natural colours like sand and stone.
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Want to try something different this year? Why not give your decor a uniquely South African twist
