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Homely Trends
Interior Designer Sophie Bynam from A7 Design shares some perfect ideas to enhance and improve those favorite spaces in your home.
Get Natural
More than a trend, green living is quickly turning into a lifestyle. This is about bringing the outside in; it’s about our intrinsic need to connect to nature and how this benefits our health, lifts our mood, and awakens our senses to our world. Eco-conscious interiors are the main focus along with sustainable materials, organic shapes, and earthy tones – oh and a little lush greenery and biophilia thrown in the mix. There’s no better way to add some soul and atmosphere to your space. To embrace this, it can be as simple as keeping your windows bare to enhance the light and going to the garden center to buy that new plant.
Drench it in Colour
Colour drenching is not a new and fleeting trend, far from it. This year we are seeing it pave the way for a shift in design ethos. This ethos is rooted in the idea of creating immersive emotion, provoking environments for its inhabitants. This is created by using a symphony of hues and saturating everything in one colour: walls, skirting, ceilings, doors and even windows. In a small space, it not only creates an optical illusion of enlarging rooms by avoiding any harsh contrast, but with a careful choice of colours in your small space (I would suggest pastels), it can help create a sense of grounding, relaxation and serenity. If you’re more of a fan of neutrals, go for soft and warm tones (Try: Slaked Lime, Little Greene).
More than a trend, green living is quickly turning into a lifestyle. This is about bringing the outside in.
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Right on Trend Rugs
‘Go big with a rug’. Choose a statement rug – this is going to add some warmth and bring your room together. Go bold with artistic choices if this is your style, but keep the colors muted: think understated elegance, the underdog of your home.
Accessorize, Accessorize
Mirrors are also a great way to add depth and intrigue to a smaller room and if you want to keep on trend, go for an oversized unique and organic shaped mirror. Pair this with some monochrome retro inspired pieces of 2024 and you can’t go wrong.
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Mirrors are also a great way to add depth and intrigue