Color needn’t be ladled on to be effective – one or two bright and bold pieces can give you the ‘wow’ effect you are looking for.

Don’t want to wallpaper the whole room? Go for a panel instead, but choose a large print to make it work and pick out colors in furnishings to tie it together.

Choose roller or Roman blinds in a bold shade and pattern, they can be wound back during the day to leave you with a calmer scheme.

Who doesn’t love an all white room? Adding hot colors will enliven it – use orange, pink and red together to get the ‘wow’ factor.

Ideal for light, bright rooms that you want to feel constantly fresh, green and blue are also calming shades – great in a busy space.

The rule of pattern: mix and match as much as you like, but use no more than differing tones of THREE different colors.

Small print wallpaper look, so you have to keep your accessories and furniture simple and calm – and leave the wallpaper to do the showing off.

Pink is a fun shade for a living room – pick fifties and sixties style furniture for a tongue in cheek look.

Stripes – they’re right on trend, but you need to be brave to use them. For best effect, go with the stripes on a single wall of the room.

Think this room’s feminine? I don’t, I think it’s punchy, pushy and fabulous.

Lots of pattern in a room calls for lots of shiny white reflective surfaces too – they bounce the light around and keep things contemporary.

Going trad? Then color is a must-have to warm up your scheme – choose deep reds to complement the tones of dark wood furniture.

If your home has a grand living room, color make the room feel like home. Choose warm shades – jewel shades, ideally – to make a big space welcoming.

Perfect for cold, north-facing living room, these colours are all about comfort, chocolate and lying down.

Orange, gold and black – what a combination to finish on. Dramatic, limelight-hogging and a must for making small spaces shout, ‘I’m here!’

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