If you’ve been yearning to add a bit of colour and dazzle to brighten up your home, this is the season to do it. After years of neutral tones dominating the home interior market, there’s a kaleidoscope of bright colours to choose from to help make your home more distinctive and give it a little attitude.

You can be creative with colour and change the way your home looks without necessarily going to huge expense, or getting rid of what’s already there. Using your neutral base will give you just the right backdrop to introduce some bold bursts of sunshine colours. Decorating should be fun and using colours that really make your heart sing will make you enjoy your home all the more.

Before you begin:

Colour is all about personal choice. Have you got a favourite colour, or do you tend to dress in the same tones or colour ways? If you are unsure, why not experiment by buying a few bunches of flowers to see which works best together for you. Perhaps you love the mix of orange and pink together, or lime green and red or pale eau-de-nil with turquoise.

Clever combinations

You can make subtle differences with colour to begin with. How about trying out a new table setting with orange placemats, green plates and yellow napkins? It sounds wild, but give it a go and see how stunning clashing colours can look together.

Spot the difference

Bright accent colours may be enough for you right now. A modern white interior will look even more up to date with some vibrant colours thrown into the mix. Cushions are a good place to start. You’ll find some brilliant buys in the high street that will help transform your living room instantly.

Or why not create your own art installation by painting three blank canvases in three clashing colours to hang on your wall, or use a stencil to paint coloured dots on a single white wall. If you have an all-white kitchen add a splash of colour with one of the distinctive new bottles of Fairy Clean & Care, which keeps your dishes squeaky clean while helping keep your hands soft and moisturised.

Get painting

Why not give some tired old furniture a lift by painting it? Everyone’s got a piece of pine furniture lurking in the home somewhere. Take it outside and get out the paintbrushes. Your children can help with this. Perhaps your daughter’s got an old wooden chair in her bedroom that would look fantastic painted fuchsia pink!

Look at your home as an opportunity to express your creativity with some eye-catching results.