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Gold Home Decor Ideas

The rise in the popularity of metallics in the home means that the luxury of gold is making a big come back in recent years!

With so much popularity, there are many ways in which you can style your home with the Midas touch either boldly or subtly, depending on what you would prefer!

Below are our Top 15 ways which you can style your home with gold!

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1.) Glam up Your Living Room

By adding little pieces of glamorous gold into your living space, you can transform it from drab to fab in very easy steps!

By adding a gold feature wall to the room, you will be able to add that shiny glamorous feel into your room, without overloading it with too much gold metallic colour.

The Serena Metallic Damask Wallpaper Gold £21.99 make a perfect feature wall as it is bold, brilliant and has a gorgeously intricate embossed damask design featured throughout.

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2.) Fabulous Pairing Gold with Black

There’s a reason why Gold and Black are such well-known colour combinations. These can be paired together with room accessories such as a gold lamp, or vase, or any other gold accessory, or it can be paired together with your gold wallpaper.

The contrast in colours is beautifully juxtaposed, bringing out the darkness of the black wallpaper with the metallic shine of the gold and vice versa.

For example, our Versace Greek Key Motif Gold £62.99 is available to purchase in black and gold as shown in the image above.

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3.) Classic Gold Table Lining

If you add certain elements of gold into your room, you will be able to add that glamorous feel to your home without overloading the entire colour scheme with that gold colour.

This can be combined with your black and gold feature wall as detailed above, or merely used by itself.

Either way, by adding simple additions such as a classic gold table lining to the room, you can easily add a luxurious metallic beauty to your space.

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4.) Brilliantly Upcycling Gold Furniture

One of the cheapest ways to add some luxury into your home without spending a fortune is by upcycling your current furniture, or by buying cheaper pieces and sprucing them up with a little bit of the Midas touch!

Upcycling your furniture may seem like quite the task to undertake, however it can be made much easier if you buy one of our Rust-Oleum Satin Furniture Paint 'Everything you Need Upcycling' kits in Gold.

These kits include everything you will need to turn your old-looking furniture into modern pieces of gold.

If you are unsure about any of the steps, either check out our OTHER Blog Posts, or DM us on Instagram, Facebook, Pinterest or Twitter!

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5.) Shining Golden Bathroom Tiles

Sometimes, you move into a house and the bathroom toles look like something reminiscent of the 80’s.

Mint green, painted with splodges, or just not going with your overall colour scheme, the bathroom tiles can either make or break the room’s look!

This can be easily done by simply painting the tiles- yes, painting them! It is a very easy process and only requires a few steps to change the look of your bathroom entirely!

Check out our Blog Post ‘How To: Paint Tiles’ for more information, as well as a step-by-step guide!

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PRO TIP: If you are using any type of gold paint (whether that be furniture paint, or glitter paint), always make sure to paint a colour underneath such as a mustard, or any other yellow shade which will create a base coat for the gold to cover.

This means that you will be able to use less of the gold colour when you go about top coating the wall, or other item which you are painting gold.

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6.) Flamboyant Glittery Golden Feature wall

If you would prefer a subtler look, yet one which will be eye-catching, you can also add a feature wall to your room, whether that is your living room, dining room, kitchen, bathroom or bedroom, in a gold colour which will allow you to accessorise slowly and subtly.

This feature wall can either be a solid gold colour, or you could try something a little different and try a glitter paint wall! Either way, we can help you make all your golden feature wall dreams come true!

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7.) Fabulous Neutral and Gold Colour Matches

Contrasting gold with another colour, as detailed above in step 2 ‘Fabulous Pairing Gold with Black’, is a wonderful way in which you can create a bold-looking room or space.

However, if you prefer a subtler look to your spaces, it is much better to match a warm neutral tone with a gold colour match.

Not only does the neutral colour bring out the beautiful metallic tones in the room, but it will also work to highlight the richness of the neutral tone which you have picked.

Some colour matches of colours which work with gold are Farrow & Ball ‘Matchstick’ and ‘String’ or even Laura Ashley’s ‘Pale Biscuit’ or ‘Ivory’.

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PRO TIP: If you are matching a neutral tone with a gold tone, make sure that the neutral colour has a warm colour to it.

This will make sure that the colours compliment each other, bringing out the warmer tones of the neutral colour as well as bringing out the metallic shades and warmer tones underlying the gold too.

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8.) Gorgeously Golden Window Sashes

If you want to upgrade your home in subtle, and delicate ways, painting your window sashes a beautiful golden colour could be the perfect way in which you can update your home.

In order to do this, you must firstly sand back any previous paint or varnish from the window sash.

Your window sashes must then be primed with Zinsser’s B-I-N and then painted over the top with the gold colour (and under coated with a similar mustard/ yellow colour too).

Your window sashes will then be completely coated in a luxurious gold colour.

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9.) Wonderfully Golden Wallpaper Frames

A great way in which you can update your space, without committing to either a feature wall, or any other more permanent commitment to the colour gold, is buy creating DIY wallpaper creations.

One of the great ways of doing this is by creating simple wallpaper frames which will still give the bold, colourful and creative look of a gorgeous wallpaper but can be easily taken down too.

Many different types of wallpaper look like pieces of artwork in themselves and so can be considered as pieces of art themselves!

You can either have a few matching wallpaper frames, or a few un-matching frames, it’s totally up to you!

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10.) Paint the Plat Pots Gold

If you’re a fan of gardening and adding natural décor into your home, then sprucing up your plant pots could be a great DIY and very cheap way in which you can make a drab plant pot into a delightful one!

Terracotta plant pots can be easily painted into various colours, however if you are painting your plant pots gold, make sure you undercoat the pot with a hard-wearing finish which is like the gold colour you are putting in top- as detailed in the first pro tip above.

This will aid the vibrancy and the boldness of your plant pots.

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11.) Glorious Golden Wallpaper Lampshades

Not only is this a wonderfully cheap way of creating your perfect lampshades, but it is also a great way of choosing a lampshade which may not be exactly what you want.

The easiest way in which you can create these wallpaper lampshades is by cutting your paper to the length and shape of your chosen lampshade and literally pasting it onto lampshade.

It must be completely dry before you switch on the lamp again. Make sure that it is all smooth too!

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12.) Shining Golden Kitchen Cabinets

Normally, kitchen cabinets are painted either white, cream or not painted at all! However, kitchen cabinets can be as bold and brilliant as any other room in your home! This can be easily achieved much like all the other ideas above!

If your kitchen cabinets have been previously painted, you must firstly sand it all down and then prime it with the appropriate primer- you can DM us on social media or even just ask us over out live chat on our website, or even check out our OTHER blog post for more information regarding primers!

And then paint over it with your perfectly chosen gold colour as stated above!

You can also follow the instructional video below:

PRO TIP: If you are painting previously painted kitchen cabinets, always make sure to sand back the paint as much as you can and prime it before you paint it- again, just contact us for more information and help when painting your kitchen cabinets!

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13.) Wonderfully Golden Room Trims

Adding a little bit of flare to your home can be very easy if you choose the areas of the room which you want to glam up with a little bit of gold!

Many of these areas can be in the wood trim surrounding either the ceiling or the floor.

This can add that little bit of extra shine into your room, but it can also subtly downplay the golden colour scheme which can sometimes overwhelm an entire room.

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14.) Marvellous Golden Mirrors

You can also add beautiful feature piece into your room with the addition of a golden mirror.

Although you can buy golden mirrors for a cheap price, if you would prefer to make one of your current mirrors a golden colour, you can tape off the actual mirror part of the frame- or even remove the frame entirely from the mirror- and spray paint it with one of our golden metallic Rust-Oleum range.

Or, you can use a golden paint to cover the mirror frame too- either way you will have a beautiful feature mirror for any room in your home!

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15.) Golden Wallpaper Frames

Much like the idea above, you can also spruce up any frame in your home with golden wallpaper.

Although it may be a little bit trickier than spray painting it, or even painting it, you can also make your frames patterned and ornate too.

This can be done in a similar way to the lampshades as detailed above, by simply cutting your wallpaper into the correct size and then pasting it onto your chosen frame- simple and delightful too!