Typically an accent color is one which is a punchier, brighter color than the rest of your relatively netural palette and gives your decorating style the final, personal, finishing touch it needs. However, while a yellow accent color adds style and impact to a charcoal based home, accent colors don’t always have to shout out to have an impact.

Instead, consider using a more refined and subtle accent color in your decorating scheme and use it in more subtle ways, you will actually find you will have more place for a refined color than an attention grabbing one. For example, in an olive green and white decor, hot pink or a rich red are probably the impacting accent colors of choice.

However, to use more refined accent colors look along the same palette at a rich royal blue accent color for example. This gives you a range from a bright royal blue to use in a throw rug, to a charcoal colored piece of wall art to display.