Home Decor

If you’re wondering where to start with home decor, browse our Home Decor Ideas gallery or our Style Galleries to find styles that speak to you. Alternatively, see what others are doing by browsing Room & Board customers’ home photos.

To find inspiration for your home decor, consider your home’s existing design, the landscape around you, your personal style, places you’ve traveled or people or things that matter to you. The purpose of home decor is to infuse yourself and your family into the space, making you and your guests feel at home with pictures, wall art, meaningful objects and pillows and throws.

The best strategies for mixing textures and materials in home decor involve creating a huge mood board of colors, materials, objects and pictures, paring it down to only the best items, and then using this theme to guide you throughout every decorating decision. To create a cohesive look in your home, you’ll want the same or similar materials, colors and textures to appear in multiple areas of your home, with enough variety to avoid feeling one-note but specific enough to feel intentional. If that seems hard to put your finger on, get in touch with a design expert for free to start defining your home’s decor.

Once you’ve got inspiration for your home decor, it’s time to choose home decoration items. To decorate your home, you could start by choosing a rug that coordinates with your existing furniture or decor (check out How To Choose a Rug Style). If you already have a rug you like, you could look to an existing paint color in your home  for inspiration, or pick a new one. Picking items that are within the handful of colors and materials you’ve chosen to use throughout your home is a great way to mix and match different decor styles and make them feel cohesive.

Another easy way to start decorating your home is by choosing throw pillows and throw blankets. These are the best home decor items to refresh a room because you can easily change them up. Since it’s harder and more expensive to change your furniture, in general we recommend choosing more neutral furniture colors and using decor to infuse color and texture. Pillows and throws are the best way to use color or texture in your home decor, so get started with our How To Pair Throw Pillows guide.

To choose the right accessories to complement your home’s aesthetic, look to existing colors, woods or shapes in your home and choose accessories that coordinate. For example, if your home has a lot of one wood species, choose wood decor that has a similar color (and browse our How To Mix Wood Tones guide). Or if your home has a focal point like a fireplace, large window, art piece or interesting design feature, look at the shapes and colors in these locations and infuse elements of them into your home decor choices.

Don’t forget to add function to your decor with our variety of home organization items like shelves, hooks, trays and baskets. Add mirrors and picture frames to make rooms feel larger and infuse yourself into the space. Choose artful table lamps and floor lamps, and learn How To Light Your Room with our helpful guide.

To incorporate plants into your home decor, browse our planters and give your plants a modern home. Several of our planters come with stands to bring your plants closer to the light while adding height variation for visual interest. Adding a wide range of planter sizes throughout your home is a great way to add plants in every corner, in every window and on every table. But make sure to only add as many as you’re willing to water each week.

One of the best ways to decorate a large wall is to fill it with picture frames (ours are made from top-quality materials) of varying shapes and sizes, creating a modern frame wall. Get started with our detailed, helpful guide on How To Arrange a Modern Frame Wall. But no matter what wall you have, art is an essential part of home decor—get inspired with our Art & Wall Decor gallery.

Another creative way to decorate a large wall is to install shelves or get a large bookcase with the look of a built-in, which is one of the easiest ways to transform a space (visit our website for more ideas on Transformation Without Renovation). You can design the perfect large bookcase or wall unit using one of our custom bookcase/storage designers.

Once you have storage or shelves you like, use our How To Style a Bookcase guide to infuse your sense of decor into the space. Alternatively, zoom out a level and get inspired with our gallery of general Storage Ideas, or get in touch with a design associate for expert advice on how to decorate a wall.

To decorate a small room, use rugs to delineate different areas, choose small-scale furniture with rounded edges, get artwork that doesn’t overpower the space, install small-scale lighting or pendants (to free up floor space) and place your decor items in bookcases or on shelves. These are all great ways to style a small room without making it feel cluttered. To see examples of how to style a small room to maximize space and style, look no further than our Small Space Inspiration gallery or our many small space design guides.