DESIGN TRENDS

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Creating designs that offer comfort, a sense of warmth, coziness, and airiness continues to be the norm. Bringing in nature, or natural elements, colors, and textures seems to dominate the trends this year. With décor and design choices stemming around having a purpose, our homes have become the main setting of where we work, socialize, play, and sleep in the current pandemic reality.

Following along the natural path, color palettes are showing to be going the route of earth-based hues, like browns, or terracotta tones. These colors call to strengthen our connection with nature, ( ...continued on 4 ) which tend to envelop our senses and feeling of coziness. Not only color palettes, but the materials chosen for our décor or furniture has also seen a resurgence towards the natural – this includes surfaces like marble, terracotta, stoneware, and travertine.

The organic nature of these materials adds a visual focal point, adding depth and ambiance to the space – this in turn helps us feel calmer, or lends itself to help us feel better about being inside much more often.

Looking at trends for furniture, vintage designs have shown to be preferable, especially with all of the supply chain issues we have been seeing lately. Repurposing unique pieces from thrift stores, refinished hand-me-down furniture, or even DIY items that use leftover scraps of materials can find a new spot in our spaces and provide for a piece that may have an original story behind it.

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As a result of more people working from home we continue to look for ways to bring nature into our living and/ or working spaces. A good way to do this can simply be to remove window coverings, add more windows, or simply bringing in more greenery. This will also allow the use of interesting hand-made pots, stands, and hangers for plants. The extra sunlight provided by opening up the windows will help to keep the plants flourishing and healthy – even naked windows are ok.

When looking for ways to add a bit more character to your spaces, a bold light fixture, or a new piece of curvy or sculptured furniture could very well do the trick and become a focal point. Embracing curves in our design choices is the way to go for furniture or even built-ins like islands, walls, windows, entryways, etc..

Adding a bit of freshness into our lives helps alleviate any of the stress accumulated over the past few tough years. Natural silhouettes, rich materials like marbles and crystals, exotic flora, earthy elements like wood, stone or clay, and bold new motifs are the way to go to bring life to our spaces.