When it comes to your home decor, the last thing you want to be doing is playing it safe.
Why?
Because your home needs to represent you and what you’re about and give you joy each and every day. Playing it safe with boring colour schemes and following unwritten rules can lead to a soulless home that is merely performative, not representative of you and who you are.
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White, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with a beige sofa if that’s your thing or embracing the grey trend if you truly love it. You don’t just want to follow trends or popular styles and colours you see on Instagram to keep up with the Joneses; it isn’t the way forward.
If you’ve been waiting for a sign to break the rules and inject some personality into your home, this is it. Don’t be afraid to try something new and unexpected.
Art But Not Where You Expect It
It’s time to use artwork to liven up those overlooked areas. The right piece of art can massively improve your home’s vibes and give you the perfect focal point.
Fine art over the bathtub? Why not? Cool art over the toilet? Let’s do it! A bold print livening up a narrow hallway? It’s on!
More and more people and designers are embracing the fact that unconventional parts of the home work just as well for artwork as the usual places, and according to Architectural Digest, some of the most memorable interiors right now are the spaces where homeowners are adding artwork in the most unusual places for added character. So why not give it a try.
Welcome to the Eras Tour
Sadly, Taylor Swift likely isn’t visiting your home, but that doesn’t mean you can’t get on board with the whole Eras vibe, taking inspiration from her sold-out world tour.
Take a whole load of ideas from various design eras and blend them together to make a collage of decades and allow your home decor to sing you through the ages.
Put that mid-century modern dresser with a Victorian mirror in your bedroom, blend that modern kitchen island with the retro light fitting you found at a garage sale. Do what makes your heart happy and mix it all together for a truly one-of-a-kind album starring you and your home decor as a smash hit earworm everyone is talking about.
Colour, Colour and More Colour
Natural palettes will never go out of fashion, but being scared of colour in your home is going to lead to some pretty boring spaces. Think bold, think bright, think unexpected hue pairings that shouldn’t work well but absolutely do.
Fancy sampling a jewel tone for the ceiling? This is one of the hottest trends right now, especially if you want to dabble with a bit of colour drenching. Fancy adding gold stencils to your new brightly coloured ceiling? Stencil away. Using your ceiling to embrace colour will make your aesthetic more fun and allow it to pop spectacularly.
A top tip for modern colour trends for this year is bold colours; deep burgundies, inky blues, lilac with burnt orange. Play around and see what works for you; no one else, just you.
Function and Fun
No one said home decor needs to be grown-up and boring. And if that’s not you or your personality, then why design your home this way? You can and should design your home for joy and practicality.
A disco ball in your kitchen diner to catch the morning sun as it rises? A bookshelf featuring vintage toys for your kids’ playroom? What’s not to love? Include what makes you feel good and embrace fun decor in your home for a space that blends functionality and playfulness and sparks happiness every time you see it.
Texture to the Max
Both texture and maximalism are gaining popularity again in home decor, and no longer do you need to strip things back, you want to embrace the “muchness” of it all and give your home some more depth and materials to build its true potential.
The aim is to develop a space that is tactile, inviting and slightly rebellious. Imagine walking into your dining room to feel the cold stone floor under your feet before landing on the soft sheepskin rug beneath your wooden tabletop, standing proudly on metal legs. It doesn’t look mismatched or forced; it looks eclectic and strangely like it was all designed to go together exactly this way.
Both texture and maximalism scream personality and fun, and let’s be honest, we could all do with a little more of this in our lives.
Biophilic Design – Why Go Out When You Can Bring It In
Bringing nature indoors is nothing new, but modern takes on the biophilic design are more than a plant on the windowsill. It’s about creating an immersive home that embraces the natural environment inside.
For a more dramatic look, indoor living walls are amazing aesthetic focal points. Oversized potted plants, both real or fake, make perfect bathroom accessories, and when you blend your plants with warm, earthy tones, organic shapes, and materials, you’re onto a winning design and a home that feels grounded, restorative, and connected to nature even if you’ve only got a 6-foot by 6-foot yard overlooked by all of your neighbours.
Break The Rules Then Rewrite Them
The beauty of home decor and design is that, really there are no rules regardless of what interior designers tell you. You do not need to buy into an aesthetic or design or fit into a box. It’s about identifying what isn’t working for you anymore and rewriting the rules so you can embrace what you love.
Light-coloured walls in small rooms to make them feel brighter? Throw it away and paint it black if you like. Bold patterns in a tiny downstairs loo are too much? It’s only too much if you think it is not someone who will likely never set foot in it. Can’t put chrome next to your brass fixtures? Says who? Do it and see what happens. Fyi, you won’t get arrested.
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