How to furnish with the colour red

How to furnish your spaces with the colour red? All lovers of this colour should know that it can be enough to revive a monochrome environment without character.

If your living room is ultra-white or in any case monochrome, you can decide to insert small touches of colour (small accents here and there) to give more personality to your rooms.

Red is a colour that we could define as particularly strong and energetic, capable of giving great vitality: for this reason red is not recommended for the sleeping area and in general for rest areas, but perfect for the living area.

The red colour in furniture

So how best to use the colour red in the furnishing of your spaces? A good strategy to furnish a room with the colour red could be to choose this colour for individual elements: for example for a chair, a sofa, a desk, a sideboard or a pouf.

Alternatively you can decide to distribute the red colour in small doses in your rooms: for example, choose red cushions or curtains or even carpets that recall this colour in the print.

A perfect element to furnish your rooms with the red colour is the beautiful Ischia Chair: in addition to its young and modern design, the peculiarity of this chair is its ability to resist UV rays, which makes this furniture usable also in open spaces such as terraces, gardens or solarium.

Use red in moderation

Even if you particularly love the colour red, it is always advisable to use this colour in your own rooms in moderation and without overdoing it with furnishing elements of this colour.

When using the colour red the most important thing and your primary objective must always be to be able to harmonize this colour with the rest of the environment, always following some important tricks.

Using the colour red with moderation is fundamental to find the right harmony. Red is in fact a particularly strong and bright colour: suffice it to say that this colour is the first colour that newborns are able to recognise and particularly love. Precisely because of its warmth, red tends to shrink the appearance of a room: for this reason in a small, dimly lit room it is better to avoid dyeing all the walls with this colour. In these circumstances an alternative could be represented by the choice to paint only one wall in red, perhaps completed with the preparation of a bookcase.

As mentioned above, red is an energetic and energising colour: for this reason it is preferable to use this colour in the living area of your rooms and not in the sleeping area.

Colours to match the red walls

If some of the walls in your rooms are tinted red, there are some colours that can match your spaces harmoniously. Red tends to be a colour that is used to break the monotony. With red walls you can match the colour wood or furniture in white or black. These colours also go very well with brick red.

To make your spaces harmonious you can combine the red colour of the walls with brown and in general with all the shades of wood. Very impressive is certainly a furniture able to skilfully combine white and red. 

Different types of red to choose for your spaces

As you can guess, there are many shades and types of red with which to complete the furnishing of your spaces: there is the colour fire red, Marsala red, coral red, Pompeian red and many other variants.

The colour red, in its many facets, is perfect to give a touch of energy and vitality to your rooms. In fact, this colour is able to express impetus, joy, power, as well as danger and passion.

Ideas for decorating with brick red

Brick red is a dark shade that originates from the materials that are commonly used in building construction. Brick red in large walls is undoubtedly a visually impressive solution. Recovering the original colour of a wall is sometimes a great opportunity when you are renovating your rooms.

The great fortune of brick red is probably due to the success achieved by lofts in recent years. The large renovations of factories and warehouses have in fact given rise to much sought-after furnishing solutions, such as loft notes. The principle of these furnishing solutions is precisely represented by the rediscovery of original colours and materials that characterized those rooms a few decades earlier.

Among all the vintage colours, brick red is undoubtedly the one that has been able to impose itself the most in contemporary furnishing contexts. Brick red is probably one of the timeless icons of the industrial style, characteristic of open space spaces.

Brick red is also able to perfectly adapt to a furnishing context inspired by an ethnic style that will be able to push itself to Boho chic trends: in this case the presence of brick red will be able to give life to a particularly stimulating and passionate environment.

Brick red is a colour particularly suitable for those who want to go outside the schemes and paint the walls of their rooms with a colour able to create a particularly elegant and at the same time energetic and dynamic atmosphere.

Brick red can represent the ideal solution for those who want to create a passionate and decidedly fiery sleeping area. In this furnishing context the ideal solution to be combined with the brick red colour can be represented for example by the presence of a canopy bed and the prevalence of dark furniture and furnishing accessories. Among the colours that go well with brick red, there are certainly black and dark grey.

Alternatively, those who want to create a room with a more rustic atmosphere can choose to paint a wall or lay a wallpaper that represents the appearance of a perimeter wall.

Brick red can also represent an optimal chromatic solution for the creation of a living room with a classic flavour: this colour is in fact perfect to recall the colour of the wood used for the flooring. It is precisely the combination of wood with brick red that creates a particularly relaxing and comfortable environment in which to spend pleasant winter afternoons in front of the fireplace.

In this space, the presence of a large window leading to the terrace or garden represents the congenial solution to benefit from a considerable amount of natural light. In this case it will be possible to decide to paint all the walls of your space with the brick red colour, without making the environment too heavy.

Finally, a brief mention of the brick red colour used in the bathroom environment. In these circumstances the recovery of the original wall represents a great added value to a renovated bathroom transformed into a luxurious home spa.

The recovery of the original wall also represents an excellent opportunity for the restoration of the kitchen spaces.