6 Ways to Inject Rich Autumn Red Into Your Living Room

1. Cozy up with warm walls. Obviously painting your walls is a change that will last beyond the weeks that compose the fall season, but if this choice is right for your space, painting can be a wonderful, cost-effective way to bring rich color into your room. In this photo of a Washington, D.C., condo, orange-red walls hug the room, giving it an intimate feel. Red throw pillows, an armless slipper chair and a vase repeat this vibrant hue, while the yellow-orange vase, warm wood tones and orange area rug further enhance the fall mood. You could say that the owner of this space has embraced autumn’s colors in many ways throughout the room — but the walls are the most dramatic.

Although this condo is located in a warmer weather climate where you’re not likely to see fall color outdoors — Miami — bright red still warms and energizes this room, on both the wall and in the club chairs. The golden wheat tones seen in autumn also make an appearance in the artwork, side tables, rug, accent chairs and coffee table.

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2. Add furniture with a pop of fall color. The great thing about red is that it can work as an accent with many palettes, even when it forms a contrast with existing decor. For example, this red coffee table warms up the cool blue of the wall behind it. It helps that there are warm colors in the large and small paintings — rusty orange and gold — and that the throw pillows and decorative objects on the side table repeat these colors. That way, the red coffee table doesn’t appear too random.

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Here’s another example of a room that benefits from furniture that provides a pop of fall color. By layering in dramatic orange-red end tables, the other red hues in this room — in the artwork, rug, wingback chair and pillows — gain emphasis. The brown-colored coffee table and additional pillows bring in a few more drops of fall.

3. Introduce artwork. This hip Miami living room features red along with a complementary color we also see often during autumn: brown. A beautiful abstract painting centered above the sofa and nearby red tiled wall showcase two distinctive ways you could bring in the color. Hexagonal carpet tiles and throw pillows echo the red, while the autumn brown of the art repeats in the sofa, pillows and darker carpet tiles.