2021 Home Design Trends: Bold, Natural, and Harmonious Spaces are Needed
Bold approaches that include natural woods and fabrics, as well as harmonious color choices, appear to be the latest home design trends for the New Year.
From “Shabby Chic” to “Modern Vintage” or “Cottage Core”, natural textures that include wood, cane, and even boucle fabrics should be in strong demand for 2021.
“Why are these things trending?” you may ask. According to Hebe Hatton at RealHomes.com, “We have already been seeing some clear trends come through and so many of them are about making your house cozier, warmer, and more inviting. There's lots of nature going on, and soft textures, it definitely reflects the fact we have all been spending a lot more time at home this year and literally want to feel cocooned by our spaces.”
Such thinking makes perfect sense if you consider how many families have been homebound and isolated for much of this year. Truly, the sharp interior designer will grasp the need for comfy and cozy spaces in their client’s homes moving forward.
If you consider your client’s need to feel safe and sheltered in ways they hadn’t imagined before 2020, creating a warm, relaxed, restful, and intimate home environment for next year should be your priority.
Bold Home Designs Will Be Appreciated in 2021
Again, take a moment to think about what it has meant to your clients to have spent much of the past year to be physically constrained and locked down by circumstances beyond their control. Consider how so many families have been confined to their homes, their freedom of movement and association restricted by regulations designed “for their own good”.
If they haven’t yet developed the mindset of a shut-in, it’s likely just a matter of time before they do.
With this in mind, bold home design choices that alter the restrictive atmosphere could well enhance their sense of freedom. According to DecoreDesignTrends.com, “Home decor trends [for] 2021 offer bold materials that haven’t been used before [or have been rarely used]. This especially concerns furniture padding and wall panels.”
“Top choices for home decor ideas [in] 2021 are leather, not just for the furniture padding, [but for] wallpapers with textures, and Terrazzo which, because of its high cost, was neglected for a long time.”
Using Terrazzo “will give elegance to every interior it is integrated into. Do not be afraid to use this material for vases, cutting boards, or even decorative plates.”
Color Harmony Creates Peaceful Living Spaces
While it certainly can be said that contrasting designs and colors can add to a bold home design, contrasting color choices can also be distracting and chaotic. For anyone who’s been feeling “trapped” at home this year, it makes much more sense to keep your color choices harmonious.
Once more, we refer to the article at Décor Design Trends to reinforce this idea, “Colors are the most important details of decoration. They are the most frequently changed component of interior design trends. Like said previously, this year is all about calmness. Home decor trends 2021 give their preference to pastel tones for interior decorations.”
“The design and style that will correspond the most are kind of a county path and of course the modern style. With these styles, the owners want to create an atmosphere of calmness, purity, peace, and airiness.”
As the image shows, the consistency and shading of the colors employed in this bedroom, as well as the natural hardwood flooring, are soft and welcoming. Creating such a peaceful ambiance can also be accomplished with the use of powdery colors, sometimes beige or yellow tones, though the essence of the idea is to reduce conflicting choices from the past and enhance a new, more harmonious environment for your client’s family.
More Design Tips and Trends
Of course, there are many more home design trends we’re following for the New Year and we hope to share them with you in future posts. For now, we encourage you to consider these trends and ask yourself, “What else can I do to help my clients create a more peaceful environment in their homes for next year?”
Considering how many of us have endured a cloistered, isolated existence this year, there are likely many potential clients out there who need your help to accomplish this – whether they are conscious of the need or not.
Feeling stuck with how you might do this for your clients?
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