12 Home Decor Ideas in Pantone’s Viva Magenta

The Pantone Color Institute–the organisation dedicated to standardising colour across various industries and the people behind the Pantone Matching System–announced that Viva Magenta 18-740 was the Colour of the Year of 2023.

Viva Magenta, Pantone has explained, represents joy, boldness and vibrancy. For those of us working or involved in interior design, we might be wondering how Viva Magenta can inspire and be utilised in our home decor.

To that end, we’ve assembled 12 tips and ideas to help you make the most of this exciting Colour of the Year.

12 Viva Magenta Interior Design Ideas

Use Viva Magenta as a Focal Point

Viva Magenta is as bold and striking a colour as you could hope for. This gorgeous red can be used to great effect as a design statement piece anywhere in your home. By highlighting your use of Viva Magenta, for example on a feature wall or a central piece of furniture, you can elevate the entire space, create a visual wonder and still manage to balance the overall design aesthetic of the room.

Pair Magenta with Neutral Colours

It can take great skill and subtlety to use a colour like Viva Magenta without overwhelming a space. To avoid the complexity, you can strike the perfect visual balance by pairing the Colour of the Year with light, neutral colours. Think about whites, greys and beiges here. The bold and neutral pairing will ensure nothing overly dominates and the overall aesthetic is nice and even. Consider grey natural stone surrounding a magenta feature wall or a white bedroom with red accents. There’s near infinite options!

Use It As An Accent Colour

Accent colours can be used in small and contained applications that are still highly considered and highly visually spectacular. If you’re not 100% sure how to approach a full on colour scheme using Viva Magenta, play around with small decorative items in this wonderful shade like throw pillows, some artwork, a rug or even curtains.

Commit to Boldness

On the other hand, you might want your room to look as bold and adventurous as you feel. Black and red accents, for example, can really make a space pop. Combining Viva Magenta with other bold colours can create a striking and unique palette for your interior design that will undoubtedly impress visitors. If you’re not sure you want to go for the darker tones, you can still achieve aesthetic boldness by pairing magenta with turquoise, mustard yellow and even emerald green.

Use Glamorous Finishes

For those of us looking for an inspired Viva Magenta interior design style that’s glamorous and elegant, consider using metallic finishes. Gold and silver finishings can pair beautifully with Viva Magenta to achieve a sophisticated look in just about any room of the house. If glamour and opulence is your aesthetic preference, this is a fantastic option.

Create a Soothing Palette

Bold colours, glamorous finishes, neutral palettes… There are a lot of options when it comes to the versatile Viva Magenta. But for your bedroom or living room you might want to consider something both soothing and bright. Using soft, muted tones in conjunction with magenta can work a treat. Blush pink, for example, or even olive green can help you find the fine balance between colourful and soothing.

Gallery Walls

Gallery walls are becoming increasingly popular and in interior design they offer a lot of unique opportunities to inject a bit of colour and personality. Viva Magenta is perfect for helping to tie together such a feature wall and bring a pop of vibrant colour to the space. Using magenta accents in a gallery wall also gives you the flexibility to lean as much as you want into the colour scheme or keep it paired back and low-key.

Magenta in the Kitchen

The kitchen offers a wonderful space to add some bold colour that will be sure to excite you and anyone who visits. Depending on your preferences and overall style, you can opt for anything from a kitchen benchtop painted Viva Magenta to simply incorporating magenta kitchenware or utensils. Kitchens tend to be more neutral in colour anyway, so using Viva Magenta can truly help the space come alive in all the right ways.

Incorporate Patterns

This Viva Magenta-inspired interior design style offers a playful and rather eclectic look. Incorporating patterns alongside Pantone’s Colour of the Year is a great way to mix aesthetics and create a level of visual depth and complexity. Viva Magenta can work wonderfully with most patterns, including polka dots, stripes, conventional dots and floral designs. We particularly love this approach for rooms of heightened activity and energy, such as children’s bedrooms or playrooms.

Create a Cozy Nook

While Viva Magenta is certainly bold and impressive a colour, you can easily use it to make a little work or reading nook cozy and warm as well. Magenta blankets, armchairs or decorative pillows can take an otherwise rather stale area of the house and inject a bit of energy and passion into it.

Spruce Up The Bathroom

If you’re looking for ways to really elevate your bathroom, consider adding some Viva Magenta. You can go bold and include magenta walls or ceiling, or you can keep it all subtle and low-key with coloured towels, mats and the like. It’s really up to you when it comes to the extent to which you use it.

Mix Materials

Timber, natural stone and even–delicately applied–metallic materials can look wonderful paired with Viva Magenta. The nuanced shade of magenta lends itself beautifully to complement an interior design aesthetic of multiple textures and mixing materials is an elegant way to incorporate a visual complexity to a space that is otherwise lacking.

Contact Euro Marble for More Ideas!

Viva Magenta, Pantone’s 2023 Colour of the Year, is a wonderful colour. It can be used to truly stunning effect in your interior design, but if you’re not yet sure how it can be best applied in your home (with or without stone) have a chat with our team here at Euro Marble.

From white bedrooms with red accents to cozy living rooms with magenta feature walls, there’s plenty of opportunity for customisation, beauty and glorious design! Viva La Via Magenta!

Dine in Luxury by Matching Marble with Leather

Your dining room offers one of the most unique interior design opportunities in the home. From family meal times to dinner parties with guests, creating a sense of luxury is a must and there are no better matching materials to use to achieve that aim than leather and marble.

Leather and Marble: A match made in dining heaven

Marble and leather are two luxurious materials and can be used in a variety of ways to create elegant and sophisticated spaces. These materials allow for a combination of warmth and glamour at the same time–both of which are important for a dining room.

Using Marble for Your Dining Table

Marble is a highly prized natural stone known for its exquisite beauty and practical durability. The iconic and classic white stone with grey veining is a timeless material with an endlessly appealing aesthetic that can be used throughout the home.

Marble tables also take advantage of the long-lasting and hardy properties of this stone which is critical for an area of the house that’s going to be exposed to high-traffic, activity, food and drink.

Using Leather for Your Dining Chairs

Leather, like marble, has long been associated with quality and luxury. For good reason. This premium material is made from the skins and hides of animals, and produced through either tanning or chemical treatment to be long lasting, highly practical and super comfortable.

Leather is used in many furniture applications in the home but is particularly well suited to dining chairs. Why? It looks elegant, it feels comfortable and it’s easy to seamlessly create a stylish design.

Matching Marble Dining Table and Leather Chairs

A dining room incorporating both a marble table and leather chairs is not just guaranteed to look and feel luxurious, but it’s also highly practical.

We’re not just talking about the hardiness of the dining table or the comfortable nature of the chairs. Rather, we’re referring to the many different interior design styles that can be achieved through the use of both marble and leather.

Modern

Modern interior designs typically feature neutral colour palettes and minimalist furniture, both of which are classic attributes of both leather and marble. Additionally, the sleek and sophisticated look of these materials easily lend themselves to achieving the clean lines that are popular among modern design enthusiasts.

Classic

A classic, timeless interior design style focuses on traditional furnishings and other ornate details. Marble and leather are both timeless materials and have been used for centuries for that exact reason. Whether your leather dining chairs are wingback in style or the marble dining room table is shaped in the classic style, how you achieve a timeless design with these materials is up to you.

Industrial

Industrial aesthetics celebrate the use of exposed architecture and raw materials. Both marble and leather can be adapted to reflect a raw aesthetic without sacrificing warmth and texture. Additionally, leather sofas and marble coffee tables can create a strong visual contrast with soft and hard textures which is very reminiscent of industrial interior design.

Rustic

The rustic home style focuses on using earthy colours–which both marble and leather can be supplied in–and natural materials. Marble, being a natural stone, and leather, made from animal hides, are both natural materials and look it! These organic materials can be customised based on their application to create the cozy, rustic feel this design style is going for.

Art Deco

Art deco styled homes are known for incorporating bold geometric shapes, metallic finishes or accents, and a real sense of glamour. Marble and leather are both excellent materials for using in opulent settings or to create a really glamorous atmosphere. If you do want to use metallic accents as well, you can as both materials can be effectively matching with all sorts of metal materials.

How to Match Marble and Leather for a Luxury Dining Space

While marble and leather really are a perfect pair of dining room materials, there are a few tips we recommend when incorporating them together.

Use a complementary colour scheme

Marble and leather are both available in a variety of different colours. When you’re mixing and matching the two materials, we recommend opting for a complementary colour scheme. Whether you opt for two neutral colours such as white, grey or beige, or want something more bold and visually striking, your marble and leather must match.

Juxtapose textures for visual depth

Marble dining room tables are known for their smooth texture yet intricate visual veining and aesthetic. Matching the smooth stone with leather dining chairs that are highly textured will add a level of visual depth to your dining space. The more visually interesting and impressive the space, the more enhanced the sense of luxury will be.

Prioritise simplicity in design

More often than not, with interior design, less is actually more. Using and matching marble and leather allows you to create all the luxuriousness you’re after without having to risk adding too much decor and unnecessary accessories.

Find the Perfect Marble Dining Table with Euro Marble

There is simply no better pairing for a dining room than a marble table and leather chair. If you’re after a slab of marble stone that will stand out and look beautiful with just about any choice of leather chairs, make sure to come into our showroom right here at Euro Marble today!

Mixed Metals in Bathroom Design

Using mixed metals in your bathroom’s design can be a fantastic way to add a touch of elegance and a sense of visual interest to your space. This increasingly popular design trend offers many benefits, functionally and aesthetically.

How can you best use mixed metals? Why should you consider this design trend? In this blog, we’ll introduce you to everything you need to know about combining different metals to great stylistic effect.

Mixing Metals – What is it exactly?

Mixing metals in interior design refers to the use of different metallic finishes in an intentional blending stylistically. While, in the past, conventional use of metal finishes is to hero a single type of metal, nowadays it is becoming more and more common to actually use two contrasting and yet complementary metals to achieve a desired look and feel.

Why consider mixing metals in your bathroom?

This stylistic technique creates a visual depth and balance in a room, such as a bathroom, and when done with consideration and deftness can be aesthetically captivating.

If you’re a fan of the metallic look in general, you may find that only incorporating a single type of finish doesn’t give you the depth and sophistication you’re after. Mixing metals allows you to utilise the contrast in materials to add texture to the space without compromising the overall metallic aesthetic.

What metals are commonly used in bathrooms?

There really is a wide range of metallic finishes that look and function amazingly in a bathroom. Some of the more common options, however, include:

Brass
Copper
Silver
Gold
Stainless steel
Black metals

Of course, each of these metals will bring its own unique look and functionality to the table. At the end of the day, you will need to consider what sort of style you’re looking to achieve with your interior design and choose the metal finish that will best enhance that chosen aesthetic.

Mixed Metals in Bathrooms

The bathroom is one room of the house that is often relegated to just its ‘function’. But the truth is that the humble bathroom offers a lot of scope and opportunity to infuse style, visual flair and personality. The well appointed and designed bathroom can be elevated to your own personal hideaway and, considering the fact bathrooms are used every day, bring joy to your life on a regular basis.

So, how should you go about mixing metals in your bathroom? Firstly, you need to consider the durability of any metal you’re considering. Being located in the bathroom, any finish or material you choose needs to have the required resistance to moisture as well as general hardiness to stand the test of time when it comes to wear and tear.

Secondly, you’ll likely want to achieve a more sleek and/or modern aesthetic if you’re considering mixed metals. To do this, try to mix metals that complement each other colour wise and stylistically. One bold colour, such as gold or black, mixed with a more neutrally-toned colour is the key here. While contrasting metal finishes will certainly add depth and complexity to your space, the last thing you want to be doing is overwhelming the bathroom with an overload of visual stimuli.

Lastly, consider the ongoing maintenance required by any metal you’re thinking of using. Corrosion and even fingerprint marks are common problems interior designers face when choosing lower quality metals. Fortunately, by choosing high quality metal finishes, and armed with some simple, basic maintenance habits, you can mitigate these issues pretty successfully.

Benefits of Mixed Metals in the Bathroom

The Look

As we’ve mentioned above, mixed metals can really elevate the visual style of a bathroom. Whether you love the slightly industrial look of copper or the glamour of gold, metal finishes bring a sleek, sophisticated and visually appealing aesthetic to the room.

The Practicality

High-quality metal finishes offer equally high durability, temperature and moisture resistance. For obvious reasons, this can be invaluable in a bathroom setting. Remember, bathrooms are also exposed to a lot of humidity, so choosing a hygienic and easy-to-clean material such as metal can be a life-saver. Metals are also hardy, which is important for everyday traffic and activity.

The Flexibility

Mixed metals offer a ton of flexibility in application. You can incorporate large, reflective services of polished brass or simply infuse a touch of elegance with stainless steel fixtures, faucets, showerheads and towel bars. The degree and manner in which you use mixed metals in the bathroom is really up to you.

The Longevity

We’ve touched on the hardy, practical nature of metals already, so we won’t repeat ourselves. But there’s another aspect to mixed metals’ longevity that’s important to consider: It won’t be outdated stylistically! Using metals in a considerate way in your bathroom can help you achieve wonders in interior design and won’t leave your bathroom feeling outdated in just a few years.

Tips for Mixing Metals in the Bathroom

Choose a Dominant Finish

Start your design work by selecting one dominant metal as the focal point and main material. From there, you can establish an overall style and choose a complementary metal that will enhance the aesthetic.

Think About the Undertone

Mixing metals adds a dimension visually to your space, but you need to consider the subtle undertones when contrasting and incorporating different metals. To achieve that harmonious combination you’ll want the metallic undertone to balance and unify the dominant metal.

Focus on Elements

Using metal in a bathroom should be a strategic undertaking. Think about all the different areas where you could potentially incorporate mixed metals and then consider which ones will look the best. For example, you may choose to focus on accents and faucets. Sometimes, less is actually more.

Here’s a quick list to run through in your deliberation:

Faucets
Showerheads
Shower door handles
Cabinet hardware
Towel bars
Mirrors
Vanity fixtures
Toilet paper holders
Lighting fixtures

Play with Proportions

It’s not just the finishes, visual colours and style of mixed metals that can offer versatility and depth to your bathroom. Think about how you can play with proportions as well. Using the dominant metal in focal points of the bathroom, with your secondary metal ‘just’ in accessories, can help you achieve a really balanced and impressive interior design style.

Synergise Mixed Metals in the Bathroom with Natural Stone!

The team here at Euro Marble knows all about mixing metals in the bathroom, and we love nothing more than matching a metallic style with complementary natural stone materials. From marble to granite, the organic textures of stone can provide a unique backdrop for the mixed metallic finishes, especially in a bathroom.
If you’d like to find out more about how stone can elevate your chosen mixed metals aesthetic, or you just need a little more inspiration and guidance about how to mix metals in your bathroom, make sure to reach out to our team today. We’re always here to help at Euro Marble!