The Secret to Decorating Exclusively With Neutrals

Neutrals are kind of a calling card around here. If you look at our products and spaces you won’t find bold colors or maximalist styles. But, rather, a simpler approach. 

We believe in subtle hues, rich textures, and natural elements. Frankly, they are a common theme that you’ll find in every single product we source, design we create, and home we style. 

How do we make neutrals work? And, more importantly, work without being boring or repetitive? We’re breaking down the key elements of our Kruger House style that helps us to capture the neutral aesthetic seamlessly, so you can too. 

Pick A High Contrast Color Pallete 

Neutrals don’t have to be boring, and we lean into high contrast colors to make sure that’s true. For us, we love pairing opposing colors like black and white at the core of every design. Not only does it create a bold look, but it also allows us to find hues between the tue to tie it all together. 

Prioritize Texture 

Texture brings so much to a space and has a way of making your neutral color palette come to life. When it comes to textiles like rugs, throws, and pillows we may keep their colors neutral, but we always add interest to our spaces by ensuring they’re filled with texture. 

This might look like a leather pillow paired with a fur pillow, a chunky wool rug mixed with a suede pillow, or a jute rug paired with velvet. The key to mixing and matching is keeping your colors consistent and changing up the fabrics, textures, and materials all throughout your space. 

Swap Featured Colors In Each Room

Just because you stick to a common color palette, doesn’t mean every single room in your home has to look the exact same. A trick that our design team likes to use is to make sure that each room in your home has a different dominant color from your palette. 

In a neutral palette, that might mean having white as a featured color in your living space, black in your bedroom, and gray or cream in your basement. We like to do this through paint colors, rugs, and key furniture pieces. 

Vary Your Tones

Neutral rooms that stop you in your tracks all have one thing in common: they aren’t matchy matchy. In fact, they almost all have variety in the wood and textile tones they highlight. 

We like to do this by pairing stark whites with light grays, charcoals and blacks or warm wood grains with cognac leathers, rusts, and browns.  

The Kruger House look is modern, minimal, and full of neutral tones. But, it’s never played out, dull, or boring. Lean into tones, textures, and featured colors to create a jaw-dropping space that’s easy on the eyes, too.