Decorating Tips for Bright Colors & Vibrant Lighting

• Decorating with bright colors is a bold way to express your personality.
• You can use vibrant lighting, brilliant textiles, or bright wall paper to enhance your space.
• Take a look at some of our favorite recommendations for using bright colors in interior design through lighting.

Using Bright Colors in Interior Design

If you love using color to express yourself, it’s time to learn how decorating with bright colors can add energy and life to your home — and infuse it with your personality. At Color Cord Company, we’re all about color — it’s in our name! So we’re definitely experts at enhancing commercial and residential spaces with exciting, brilliant hues. Check out our recommendations to ensure you have vibrant lighting options for every room.

1. Colorful Collections

One of the easiest ways to overhaul your entire space is by choosing fixtures from one of our colorful collections. These are designed to make decorating with bright colors so much easier because they’re available in a variety of configurations. With our selection, you can quickly mix and match pendants, wall sconces, chandeliers, and flush mount fixtures from the same collection for a cohesive lighting design. Here are a few of our favorite options for vibrant living room colors, elegant dining room hues, and exciting bedroom shades.

Totally!

Our retro design option, the Totally! collection features Neon Coral, Navy, Neon Yellow, and Brown in bare bulb pendants, puck pendants, and slope shade pendants. The shade, hardware, and color cord are all color matched to ensure a seamless transition throughout the entire fixture. Explore different shade sizes and pendant light cord lengths to customize your fixture selection when decorating with bright colors.

Handspun

This collection of bright colors for interior design offers a more industrial-style take on the colorful aesthetic trend with oversized shades in colors like Rust, Ochre, and Slate. In addition to more muted colors, this selection also explores how texture can add unique details to enhance the look and feel of a light fixture. The artist, Ken Sharp, uses an antique metal-spinning technique to create organic, brush-like strokes on each shade.

Boutique

One of our original color-focused collections, the Boutique aesthetic explores the colors of nature with Pine, Latte, Ochre, Sage, and Rust shades. You can find fixtures in one single color, or mix and match colorways to create a customized piece with three of your favorite hues. The subdued, yet rich, color palettes allow you to play with color in a more neutral way.

Modern Science Project

If you want your vibrant lighting to explore unique shapes and structures, this collection is for you! Our collaboration with Modern Science Project brings to life geometric ceramic shades glazed in an iridescent gradient of sunset colors. Shifting from blue through purple to orange, these shades change color when you see them from different angles, perfect for decorating with bright colors. 

Because these fixtures feature multiple colors in a single shade, you can use them as inspiration for the other colors you introduce to your space. Consider adding an orange pillow on your bed for a subtle matching scheme or a large blue couch in the living room for something a little bolder.

2. Subtle Pops of Color

You don’t need to have an entire brilliantly colored fixture when decorating with bright colors. If you want something a little more subtle for your vibrant living room colors, consider choosing subtle pops of color in just one aspect of the lighting design.

At Color Cord Company, you can customize nearly every part of your light fixture, including the cord color, shade color, and hardware color. Our favorite way to add vibrant lighting to any space is with a metallic light fixture that features a brightly colored cord. Choose Brushed Nickel or Solid Raw Brass and pair your preferred finish with a custom cord color to match your existing decor!

3. Color Drenching

When subtlety isn’t something you know anything about, color drenching is the best way to approach decorating with bright colors. You simply choose the primary color for your space and make sure every piece you add to your space features that color. Right now, green is incredibly popular, so you may see inspo that showcases a forest green wall color, pine couches, sage pillows, and emerald light fixtures that come together to create vibrant living room colors.

But green isn’t your only option! You can color drench with any shade of the rainbow! Just remember that contrast colors can be a useful way to break up the bright colors in your interior design. Maybe use gold light fixtures to break up a green bedroom or a black cabinet to highlight a pink entryway.

4. Just the Shade

At Color Cord Company, we offer modular parts and accessories that allow you to build your light fixtures from the ground up. If you want to make decorating with bright colors quick, switching out the shades of your existing fixtures is your best option. Many of our shades are available in milky glass or woven straw — skip these! Head straight for the metal shades and cages to find the brightest colors. Our favorite shade colors include Quartz Pink, Mint, and Turquoise to help you design vibrant lighting. Just make sure to check compatibility between your light fixture and our shades.

What Will You Choose

With all these bright colors for interior design, you have the freedom to do nearly anything! From updating your dining room to redesigning your restaurant lighting, we’re here to help. Start browsing the selection at Color Cord Company today to make decorating with bright colors an exciting, customizable adventure.