Mixing Metals Like A Pro
Mixing metals in your home’s fixtures, like lighting, faucets, and hardware, is a stylish way to add depth and personality to your design. Start by choosing a dominant metal, such as polished chrome or brass, and limit your mix to two or three max finishes to avoid visual clutter. Balancing warm tones (like brass or bronze) with cool tones (such as chrome or nickel) creates contrast and visual interest. The room’s style can guide your choices, with darker metals complementing modern designs and antique finishes enhancing traditional spaces. Playing with finishes, like pairing matte black with brushed brass, adds texture and dimension. Ultimately, ensure there’s a cohesive thread that ties your mixed metals together, so the look feels balanced and polished.
This mix of colors works in this kitchen for a few reasons. 1st we kept the colored focused and coordinated. The black wall sconces tie in with the black floating shelf. The Polished nickel door pulls ties in with the gray stone countertop. The hammered brass pendants are a feature piece of their own, but were complimented by warm wood colored stools. All together these colors and metals create a playful, earthy, and contemporary color pallette.
Mixing all 3: Nickel, brass, and black
Sometime you just want a moody black to be your base color! Why not add a pop to champagne bronze to steal the show too? Complimented with art that combines both the dark and warm colors, this bathroom came to perfect cohesion. Love it!
Black & Brass
Chrome is classic bathroom choice, next to white it creates a clean and pure slate to pay off of. Adding in black pulls is a simple way to complete the color scheme. I always suggest to “sprinkle” black in when starting with a white base.
Black & Chrome
Again, here we’re allowing the cool chrome faucet, gray cabinet, and brushed nickel pulls have their moment together. Above, the champagne brass fixture adds a touch of interest without being over bearing. The artwork ties in together again with the light fixture creating a balanced equation.
