Personalize Home Interiors for the New Year
Whether homeowners decide to refresh their residences completely independently this year or rely on the assistance of a design team, the trend in 2024 is to seize the chance to create a space that makes those who live there delighted to call it their home. Professional designers understand that no one knows better than clients how homey comfort and inspiration look and feel. A person and family’s life plays out in the space, so it should reflect their tastes and respond to their needs.
Take a Bold Stand for Individuality
Along these lines, designers in 2024 reject the mind-numbing sameness that has recently been prevalent in home decoration. After perusing even a few social media sites, it might seem everyone who is anyone lives in the “same” house. Color schemes, furnishings, and spatial living area relationships celebrated by influencers are often incredibly, inexcusably similar and, quite frankly, dull. Break out of that box by embracing the unique. Vintage, heirloom, and thrift store discoveries that speak to your clients add vibrancy to their homes. Push past the mass-produced furnishings and artwork, encouraging a little whimsy and a sense of adventure or playfulness instead.
Change Out the Palette
One of the easiest ways to achieve a new interior look involves repainting. The monochromatic, neutral fashions of the past several years have evolved. Old rules about color pairings, including mixing warm and cool hues, need to be updated. So is relying on one intensely saturated color to dominate a room or space. Try layering colors, contrasting and coordinating shades and tones in unexpected combinations. Using colors light to dark, with surprising additions of a different tonality in an accent wall or strategically placed throw, ottoman, or pillow, brings a pop of vitality missing in the neutral, one-note effects of recent decorating memory.
A Little Texture Please
Smooth and sleek surfaces are calming but can also feel cold and sterile, not precisely the ambiance many clients seek for their refuge from the clamor of the outside world. Adding a little texture for coziness and depth rounds out a room. Think about using wood with a rustic patina instead of always going with a satiny gleam. Consider the more casual look of tumbled tiles rather than endlessly reflecting finishes. Artisan pottery with intriguing glazes or hand-woven textiles in judicious amounts warms up a room without the feeling of suffocation. Have fun with the many options available.
Embrace the Natural
Do not stop by adding a handful of exciting textures to your decorating schemes. As you accept the tactile delights of wood and fibers, expand your point of view to encompass more natural materials of all kinds in an interior design plan. Clients who want dramatic statements can find those desires met by natural stone, marble, and age-old engineered components like carved and embossed terracotta. Search out stonemasons and finish specialists whose work combines art and utility for one-of-a-kind pieces that complete the 2024 look you seek to achieve.
Sustainability Must Center All Designs
Clients and designers understandably have questions and concerns about the impact of design choices on the environment and climate during 2024. The emphasis will be on choosing vendors and artists who value and practice sustainability. Integrating sustainability and respect for the environment within each design framework is essential as we move into the 25th year of the newest millennium. Reducing waste and mindful approaches to manufacturing and crafting processes are crucial to sustainability.
The best relationship between the homeowner and designer is collaborative, retaining and respecting well-loved pieces and working together to invigorate the setting with added, repurposed, or reconceptualized furnishings. Designing for homes in 2024 is appropriately considered a personal project for the owner, assisted as needed by the professional. It also requires an awareness of how decorating choices affect society and the environment, emphasizing sustainability.