June 23, 2021
NewsWith us all spending more time at home than ever before, it’s no surprise that we’ve all become a little obsessed with interior design. After all, your home is your palace. Whether you’re renting a studio apartment or building your forever home, you want to take pride in your living space and inject a little of your personality into it. Just like fashion, interior design trends are always evolving to meet the needs of our modern lifestyle.
Updating your interior design is the perfect way to refresh your home without breaking the bank. You can make little changes here and there or undertake a DIY project to completely transform a room. If you’re planning to work remotely from home, it’s time to give your living space a little TLC and a new look. If you’re going to spend all your time at home, it may as well look pretty!
We’re sharing five of the most exciting interior design movements that we’re loving for 2021. You can mix and match these different aesthetics to help create your new interior décor or use one as inspiration for your space. Remember – not everyone room in your house has to have the same look and feel to it. Every room in your apartment or house serves a unique function, which should be reflected in the interior design and furniture choices that you make.
Here are our five favourite interior design movements for 2021:
Interior design can be expensive and if you want a look that can stand the test of time, you want to stick to the classics. Instead of creating a space that looks unapologetically modern, you want to make a room that looks like it’s always been that way. Stick to the tried-and-tested favourites, whether it’s leather seats or minimalistic artwork.
As part of your space, you want to think about the atmosphere that you’re creating. Often, it’s how the room makes you feel that makes it timeless. Rooms that are both simple and functional can be warm and inviting. Add multi-functional pieces that you can utilize in everyday life. Are you turning your spare room into a office to work remotely? You can add a diffuser as a piece of décor that doubles as a de-stressing tool. Adding multi-tasking items and décor to your room can help reduce clutter and give your space a more streamlined feel.
A timeless space is whatever looks and feels timeless for you. Timelessness doesn’t mean you have to turn your back on modernism. The two can often go hand in hand. Instead of being influenced by one specific trend or something you’ve seen on Instagram, focus on buying items that create a space you can see yourself enjoying for years to come. Not only is it more sustainable and classic, it’ll save you money in the long run!
We’ve all been guilty of finding a textile or print that we like and using it on everything. One interior design movement that we are loving is the focused on elevated materiality, moulding together different textiles and textures to create a sense of depth to your space. Mixing and matching your textiles can make your space feel more inviting and add a layer of richness to the room.
This approach can give you the opportunity to play into more than one side of your interior design aesthetic. You can show off every side of your personality with a different choice of material or textile. This trend is a great way of adding in different influences to your space, whether it’s a vintage upholstered armchair or a marble feature.
You can recreate the feel of a specific interior design aesthetic while keeping it anchored in another look or aesthetic by adding in different textures and colours to your space. This concept is the perfect one to experiment with if you and your partner have very different interior design preferences. You can find a way to mash them together and make them work.
While this one might seem a little counterproductive, we promise there’s a philosophy behind it! We’re seeing a growing focus on the concept of individualizing interior design. You want to make your space uniquely your own. Instead of being dragged in by the trends and thinking your homes has to look a certain way, you can instead focus on making it look how you want to make it look. After all, you’re the one who is going to be spending their time in the room.
After spending a year indoors and working from home, we’ve probably all picked up things we’d like to change and replace about our home. While it’s a great idea to flick through magazines and Pinterest to get inspiration for your interior design, you shouldn’t feel like you have to copy a space like-for-like. Instead, identify the pieces you like and add them gradually to your space.
Just like fashion trends, interior design is becoming even more focused on sustainability. You can shop second-hand for pre-loved furniture that matches your interior design aesthetic or you can reuse and repurpose old furniture that you’ve had handed down to you from a family memory.
To make your space as individualistic as possible, you want to add as many different bespoke features as you can. Instead of shopping in department stores and furniture shops, go into small and independent stores to see what unique pieces they have. You never know when you might come across a gem, Auctions and estate sales are another great opportunity to get your hands on a piece that no one else has.
When you have an item that is uniquely your own, you’ll love it even more. You want your friends and family to be able to walk into your space and instantly recognise that it’s your home.
Other things we’re noticing within the individualism movement is a move away from cooler colours to more warm neutrals that give a space a warm and inviting feel. Green is a colour that is starting to pop up everywhere as a way of adding a fashionable touch to your space. If you want to add green without painting your walls that colour, you can incorporate house plants or art in the same colour family.
When you’re looking around for your style inspiration, you might come across a photo of a kitchen or living room from decades ago and wished that you could recreate it. While you might not be able to bring in the wood panelling and tiny stove, you can take the bygone trends and make them new again.
For example, we’re seeing interior designers choosing to step away from the all-white kitchen that have been dominating the industry for decades. Instead, designers are choosing to incorporate nature-inspired colours with metal accents to add extra warmth and richness to the space.
If you fall in love with a style or aesthetic of interior design from a specific time period, you can be almost certain to find a contemporary equivalent. Interior design is always evolving, meaning you can usually find a similar piece, albeit with a modern twist. Bring along some inspiration photos for your shopping trip and see if you can find any pieces that have the same characteristics as the older trends that caught your eye.
If you’re set on an older aesthetic or the idea of making some old new again, you might want to consider repurposing older furniture. Perhaps you have your heart set on a high-back reclining chair, but you want to give it a modern twist. You can purchase a vintage one that matches the silhouette you want, and then reupholster it to give the chair a contemporary look. Even when you’re investing in alterations and upholstering, it’ll usually work out significantly cheaper to buy your interior design pieces second-hand than brand new from the store.
One interior design movement that we can get behind 100% is the one that focuses on adding your personality into the space. The pandemic has made us all think about our homes and what we want out of them. Your home should be a welcoming environment that makes you feel relaxed and rejuvenated. You want a space that looks and feels like it’s your home – and not a showroom.
Don’t be afraid to paint the walls your favourite colour or to add a piece of furniture that you catch sight of across a room and found yourself running towards. Your room should be just as interesting (if not more so!) than you are. General trends show a move towards bolder colour palettes that bring an instant dose of confidence and live to any space.
To inject your personality into a space, you can experiment with textiles, shapes, and décor. By pieces that speak to your soul and that allow you to reflect your personality into your home.
Which of these five interior design movements is your favourite? Are you redoing your home post-pandemic? Let us know in the comments below!
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