Horizontal colour blocking unifies a space, wrapping the walls together like a ribbon around a gift. These five modern home interior concepts illustrate how half painted walls give a cosy colourful aesthetic to any lounge and dining room. We’ll also be taking some full house tours to see how the established colour blocking palettes translate into a cohesive scheme throughout bedrooms and bathrooms too. There is inspiration for incorporating textured panels, wall paint effects and colourful accent furniture. These adaptable decor schemes each show how a contrasting colour palette can balance out a room, as well as how brighter elements can be subtly subdued with softly muted shades.
A soothing creamy living room scheme is given weight and definition with a dark horizontal colour block around its full perimeter. Dark furniture melds tidily into the band.
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A chocolate accent cushion unites the dark modern sofa with brown wood grain pieces around the rest of the room.
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Glossy pendant lights fall above a solid wood rectangle dining table. A modern shelving unit gives the dining room arrangement height whilst letting the colour block decor push through.
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The colour blocking wraps around into the kitchen area of the open plan living room, coloring an island.
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Vertical boards clad the face of the blue kitchen island, giving the volume a textural link with the ribbed cream kitchen cabinets behind.
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Wooden kitchen bar stools temporarily interrupt the flow of the painted border.
Our next horizontal paint effect adds a blast of freshness, like a freshly mown lawn. Recessed LED perimeter lights add a bright sky.
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A treasured Buddhist altar adds chic Asian decor to the tranquil lounge.
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Light wood grain complements the soft melon green and white palette. A knitted pouf makes a warm grey addition.
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A small entryway bench accentuates the horizontal paint application in the entryway, where it underlines a decorative shelf plaque with handy bag hooks.
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Moving into the bedroom we see an evolution of the green colour scheme, where the horizontal colour blocking bleeds out into a solid wall treatment. A white dressing table and vanity stool stand out crisply against the saturated backdrop.
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Indoor plants translate the green accent into living accessories.
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A gallery of botanical prints colour the wall above a curvaceous white console table. A sage runner trims the bed.
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The same colour story continues into the kids’ bedroom design with a mellow green bed set. A green desk lamp pops another note into the kid’s study area.
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Natural timber elements curate a close to nature feel.
Our third interior is home to a sage strip of half-height colour, which serves as a muted base for brighter splashes of lime and lemon.
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A yellow bench floats across the sage colour block in the entryway. Decorative wall hooks anchor into the walls misty grey upper section.
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A lemon refrigerator adds bite to a light green kitchen. Green base cabinets form their own colour block, whilst white wall cabinets blend with matching wall tiles.
Our final tour is an interior peppered with contrasting elements. A ribbed russet border warmly wraps the base of the white room, whilst soft furnishings fill the centre of the space with forest shades.
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A small side table serves the space between the sofa and window seat. The colour blocked panel work continues across the face of the built-in seat in one cohesive sweep.
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A modern black TV stand overlays the bright border, and complements a black marble coffee table.
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Coffee table books line up along the edge of the black granite topped window bench.
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Green and gold Gubi Beetle chairs and gold dining table are teamed with an elegant gold dining chandelier.
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The earthy border ups the heat of the rich combo.
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Ribbed panels run through into the kitchen design, where they switch into a black colourway above the black granite backsplash.
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In the bedroom, the russet accent has been translated into an upholstered bed. Bedroom pendant lights add the gold element.
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A geometric rug design introduces a hint of yellow ochre.
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Ribbed panelling has also been utilised as an accent inside the bathroom design, this time as a unique wall mounted unit. Two gold bathroom vanity lights create a symmetrical arrangement.
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Storage cabinets and tiles colour block the other side of the bathroom with muted green.
