How to Decorate With Tangerine Walls

Set the color scheme by choosing a color for your largest piece of furniture. Decide whether the space will use all warm colors, mix cool with warm, or use tangerine as a focal color. Select the sofa for a living room, bed for a bedroom or table for a kitchen or dining room based on the color palette you choose. Use a red or yellow sofa, bed cover or dining table to begin a vibrant all-warm palette. Alternatively, make your largest piece cool blue, gray or white if you plan to create a cool-warm mix or to make the tangerine walls the star of the room.

Layer in window coverings and rugs. Choose other warm colors that are analogous with tangerine, such as reds, oranges and yellows, to continue an all-warm, vibrant look. Draperies or rugs can contain warm patterns with touches of neutrals to give the eye a place to rest. Create a balance of cool with warm by using draperies and rugs that have mixes of both, or let one textile be mostly cool and the other mostly warm. Select cool colors and neutrals for draperies and rugs if you wish to keep your tangerine walls the only warm area.

Find lamps, art and accessories that continue your chosen color palette. For an all-warm palette, use occasional touches of black, neutral or silver metal tones to anchor and accent. For a cool-warm mix, complete your look with blue, gray and white. If tangerine walls are the only completely warm area, coordinate lamps and accessories with a cool or neutral palette for the rest of the room, but pop a touch of tangerine in a small place such as a throw pillow.