Looking for a pick-me-up? Try adding some pop to your interior design with popsicle colors. Bright shades of orange, green, yellow, purple and blue are popping up in home design everywhere.

According to the Alexandria-based Color Marketing Group, bright colors are en vogue again. The Color Marketing Group is a not-for-profit international association of experts who forecast color trends for various industries, including fashion and interior design. 

Recently, they released a forecast for brilliant, eye-popping colors to dominate home furniture showrooms.

One of the hottest colors is turquoise. Yes, turquoise -- that luminescent blue hue often associated with big jewelry.

“It’s a stone, so it has a connection to earth in the U.S.,” said Mark Woodman, president of the Color Marketing Group. “It has a connection to native or indigenous people as well as an environmental connection.”

Turquoise and teal work well with green, pink, plum and gray when combining accessories. If you want to spruce up a dark brown sofa, chocolate and blue has long been a winning combo. 

These same colors in jewel tones add a bit of glamour to a room. Try a blown glass lamp, like those available at Pier One, in teal or lime green.

Patone Inc., a global authority on color and provider of professional color standards for the design industries, has announced Tangerine Tango as the color of the year for 2012. In a statement announcing the color, Leatrice Eiseman, executive director of the Pantone Color Institute, called Tangerine Tango dramatic and seductive, “an orange with a lot of depth.” You’ll find this color aplenty on throws, accent chairs and even sofas.

Sunny yellow is showing up on toasters, pillows, rugs, throws and even coffee makers. This trend is reminiscent of the bright colors found on refrigerators post-World War II.

Colors were really bright then, but we don’t remember it that way because so many of the television shows were recorded in black and white, Woodman said.

He added that Queen Elizabeth may be partly responsible for yellow’s sudden surge in popularity. The queen wore bright yellow from hat to toe at the Royal Wedding.

“I thought that was very symbolic of a new monarchy,” Woodman said. “No matter what happened that day -- it could have rained, they could have had thunderstorms or hurricanes -- she was going to show (that) this is sunshine and brightness going forward.”

The easiest way to introduce these colors into a room is with pillows. Bright-colored pillows are in. And you can find these pillows sequenced, bedazzled, embroidered, crocheted and quilted. 

Don’t be afraid to mix and match pillows. Create your own symmetry with shape and texture. For example, instead of the same green square pillow on each arm of a sofa, get a blue one in the same shape and toss in something totally unexpected, like a sequenced hot pink or taffeta teal pillow.

Go Crayola crazy if you like. These days, no color is too bright or too bold.