Amazing Neutral Home Offices With Super Colorful Accents
Committing to color is often our client’s most significant decision. From dramatic to subdue, color plays a critical role in our moods, sometimes committing to bright colors we love gets in the way of what we like.
While my interior decorators and interior designers love color, we often provide home decor and interior design inspiration in neutral colors with colorful accents. Throughout this interior design blog post, you’ll find amazing neutral home offices with super colorful accents. I hope you enjoy these home office ideas. I truly hope they help you identify and distinguish styles to make your house a home.
1. Traditional Navy Cabinets With Bright Red Abstract Art.
Notice how navy blue serves as a neutral. Heck! If you haven’t seen my other kitchen design ideas, home office ideas, and my home’s kitchen design, you’ll see that “Navy is the new black!”
Chelsea Townhouse by DHD Architecture & Interior Design on 1stdibs | See more of DHD Architecture & Interior Design’s “Chelsea Townhouse” on 1stdibs | Credits: 1stdibs | Designer: DHD Architecture & Interior Design | Neutral Home Offices With Colorful Accents by Interior Designers Dallas TX
2. Gift Wrapping & Craft Room Office Ideas
As a young couple expecting their first child heads south to create a quiet southern family retreat they created an amazing craft room and home office complete with a gift wrapping station. While the home office is completely neutral, the pops of colors brought in the gift wrap, crayons, ribbons, and markers provide an immediate fun home office design.
3. Add Colorful Books & Home Decor Accessories To Your Home Office.
This Vintage Style Southern California Home full of hand-me-downs and flea market finds are given new life in a designer’s Huntington Beach home. As interior designers, we often have the client’s design in mind and we don’t want our surroundings to distract from your home design projects so we keep our offices neutral as they are often the canvas for our work.
4. Add Colorful Art Or Colorful Custom Furniture & Upholstery.
Adding a dose of color with custom upholstery, custom window treatments, and using fun colorful fabrics and textiles allows you to keep boring beige or white walls yet adding a dose of color to your life. Need the help of a professional online texas interior design? Click here to schedule a complimentary virtual online interior design appointment.
I love this Mexican hacienda’s Frieda Kahlo colorful art paired with teal velvet custom chairs.
5. Add a Gallery Wall To Your Home Office.
Framing yours or your children’s art, favorite cards, or quotes can be inspirational and provide colorful solutions for your home office. Adding colorful performance fabrics and custom upholstered pieces can further turn bland beige or bright whites to fun colorful spaces.
6. Albert Pinto’s Rio de Janerio 1970’s Home Office
“Bold black lines and furnishings give this space a strong statement. The desk in the late designer Alberto Pinto’s Rio de Janeiro home office is surmounted by an Almir Reis photograph of volleyball on Ipanema Beach; the parchment lamps are the 1970s, and the chair is by Philippe Hurel. Here, mixing vibrant colors and earthy textures works.” says Architectural Digest.
7. Custom Home Office Furniture With Your Favorite Paint Technique.
I love this office reveal – A Feminine Workspace for the Girl who Loves Glam by Jennifer Allwood Home.
8. Female Home Office Inspiration With Neutral Hand-Painted Horizontal Stripe Walls & Colorful Painted Top Desk Top
If you’re slightly afraid of color, painting a desktop could provide a much-needed dose of color. These Feminine Home Office Ideas for Women by Rebekah Hutchins’ handpainted beige and white striped wall balanced by Rebekah’s favorite Pinterest quotes are her inspiration.
9. Choose Enough Light For Home Offices & Workspaces.
10. Paint Walls An Accent Color.
While everyone is currently finding office space somewhere, really anywhere in their homes. You may find yourself in need of some professional help to balance lighting, reconfiguring spaces, selecting paint colors, or home office furniture. You may also enjoy my interior design blog post How To Modernize a Dark Drab Dining Room.
11. Are House Plants Good For You?
Yes! Numerous studies have shown that indoor house plants are known to boost mood, productivity, concentration, and creativity. Indoor house plants reduce stress, fatigue, sore throats, and colds. House plants clean indoor air by absorbing toxins, increasing humidity, and producing oxygen. Aesthetically, indoor house plants add life to a sterile office, give privacy, and reduce noise levels.
12. Diane Von Furstenberg’s Fashion Forward Office
Diane Von Furstenberg’s multi-layered patterns & art collection is an extension of her beautiful fashion-forward wrap dresses and home decor collection.
13. Modern Manhattan Condominium Office With Stunning City View.
14. How Is Decorating a Home Office Is Different From Decorating a Corporate Office?
Decorating a home office is a reflection of your style whereas a corporate office is a reflection of the corporate brand. In a home office, you can show off your personality, personal belongings such as photographs, travel memorabilia, or personal art collections.
15. Modern Home Office Storage Ideas
Storage is critical for home offices. Having the right tools at the right heights with all of the functionality is critical. I designed this home office awhile back. The client wanted a modern neutral feel where functional filing systems and organization were the design challenges. The back credenza with a bookshelf provides both open and closed storage. The low file cabinet and open storage shelf with two fabric storage cubes allow easy access to much-needed documents and a quick stow away to keep the office tidy.
Custom furniture for home offices is one of the most critical areas for customized solutions. Think about it. We spend more time in our master suites and home offices than we do all other parts of our houses combined.
16. Tell a Colorful Story By Organizing & Color Blocking Books.
Some super sleek curves—architect Charles Gwathmey’s signature—distinguish his St. Barts home office and its sucupira-wood desk, designed by Kang Chang and fabricated on the island. The swivel chairs are by Hans Wegner from DK Vogue, and the ceiling fan is by Boffi. The rainbow display of books provides a colorful array to an otherwise neutral home office.
Credits: Architectural Digest | Designer: Kang Chang | Photographer: William Abranowicz | Neutral Home Offices With Colorful Accents by Interior Designers Dallas TX
17. Colorful Patterned Custom Window Treatments Provides Instant Color To Neutral Home Offices.
Large pattern fabric makes any space look larger. Notice how this large leaf pattern on the roman shade style custom window treatments, green plant, and green gimp trim on the lampshade provide instant life to this neutral home office.
Between the leaf-printed window treatments and treillage-fronted cabinetry, this office feels like a secret garden—in fact, it was a porch before designer Joe Lucas enclosed the space.
18. Reorganize your office and use colorful office supplies showcased in acrylic & glass storage solutions.
Reorganizing your workspace or home office? Make the most of your space and materials with Darcy Miller’s DIY office organization guide.
Consistency is key when reorganizing your home office or workspace. Notice how the majority of the objects in this office are colorful. By using natural gradual colorful tones in glass and acrylic storage looks much cleaner than if off-color objects or printed storage containers were used. Plus a HUGE benefit is: clear storage allows you to easily peek into the containers without having to label them or remove the lids or open a top to see if you’re out of something.
19. Aspen Office With Statement Art Piece
If you’re undecided on a paint color or how to format a gallery wall, why not just put up a statement piece of art? In an Aspen, Colorado, home by Stonefox Architects, the office is highlighted by an eye-catching Thomas Struth photograph. Not much else is required. You could do the same in your home office or workspace.
20. Use Single Color Storage Containers & Color Block Books.
When using open shelving, use a single color of storage containers on each shelf. If you can stay organized, this organizational system is for you. Seeing everything means you’ll never lose a file or supply. In this Boston brownstone, the kitchen pantry also houses the office, so the shelves serve double-duty.
21. Add Shapes & Colorful Accent Furniture. | Great Ideas From Manhattan Apartment
22. Introduce Interest To Your Home Offices or Workspaces with Colorful Contemporary Rug or Modern Rugs.
There’s nothing quite like patterned carpets or rugs. Adding a colorful contemporary or modern rug can visually update the most traditional interior design in homes or offices. If you need an awesome patterned or contemporary rug selected for your home or office, click here to schedule a complimentary interior design consultation.
“Your formula for a modern office: white lacquer desk, a geometric rug, and sleek lighting. To make it a little more glam and feminine, add bold color and brass accents”, says House Beautiful.
23. Inside Khloé and Kourtney Kardashian’s Houses in California | Architectural Digest
24. Paint or Wallpaper The Ceilings & Add Colorful Textiles.
When adding a pop of color to your home office, look up! Depending on a ceiling color, the right balance in-ceiling colors can open a workspace to make it feel larger and more open. In the home office below, we balanced the wood-toned cabinet ceiling color with the copper-colored grasscloth on the ceiling. To further balance the copper tones, we pulled in a copper pillow and metallic copper side table.
25. Use Inspiration Boards & House Plants To Lift Your Mood In Home Offices & Workspaces.
26. A Neutral Home Office Is a Canvas To Tell Your Story.
Now, tell your story! What’s going on with your home office?
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