2024 - Ideas for adopting taupe at home

The taupe color has become a staple of decoration. Its soft and warm colors make it an ideal color to make your interior a real cocoon. Discover our ideas for adopting the taupe trend in any room of the house.

Taupe is a gray color warmed up with a touch of brown, sometimes slightly enhanced with shades of purple. It does not reflect light. As a result, it is both neutral and very warm, ideal for giving personality to an interior without going overboard.

What color to associate the taupe with?

Taupe goes very well with warm and natural colors, brown, beige, linen or white tones. The taupe will also be able to highlight cooler colors such as blue, green, purple or even black. Don't hesitate to create quirky color combinations to energize the decor of a room. The mole will balance the whole.

The taupe color is neutral. It therefore adapts to all environments and all styles of decoration. Its colors soothe and leave an atmosphere of calm and well-being.

In the living room and the bedroom

It will give a cozy atmosphere to your living room or your bedroom, mixed with natural decorative elements such as light or raw wood or mixes of materials such as wool, linen or velvet. Your room will instantly invite relaxation and rest.

In the living room, a light gray velvet sofa accentuates the softness and glamor of taupe on the walls

In the kitchen and the bathroom

In the kitchen and the bathroom, it will bring everyone together with its modernism and sobriety. Use it for your furniture, whether designer or more traditional, or in your decorative elements: objects, accessories … or even with touches on the walls or the tiles.

In the bathroom, the white of the bathtub contrasts gently with the taupe for a minimalist atmosphere that frees the mind.

In the kitchen, mix of materials and neutral tones, variation of taupe for a soothing and charming cuisine

To give depth

Its gray tones can add depth to your rooms on a wall or highlight a recess such as a bookcase, an alcove or even a hallway. If you choose to paint only one section of the wall, prefer a wall in the light to avoid darkening the room or distorting the taupe color.

In the child's room

In a child's room, it brings the softness of a cocoon and will suit all personalities, far from the clichés of blue or pink. By small touches in the decorative elements or furniture or to delimit a space or create a dreamlike universe specific to childhood, without ever falling into the garish.

Outside the house

It is also a great choice for painting a door, gate or house shutters to add charm to your exterior.

Our painting advice:

For painting your interior, prefer a natural paint that limits the use of VOCs, which are harmful to health and the environment. Brands like Colibri, Farrow and Ball or Little greene offer beautiful ranges of colors with 100% natural paints.

The mole in the decoration

Timeless, the taupe color is the perfect ally of your decoration whatever your style. It will bring elegance to a modern interior and will highlight your vintage decorative items. Both chic and elegant, the taupe color goes with everything and can be played in total look or in small touches on the walls or in the decorative elements. It's hard to get tired of it, this color is timeless, discreet and understated. You can easily enhance it with stronger decorative elements that it will highlight.

Here, antique and raw furniture is highlighted for an elegant and modernized decoration.