Olivia Isabel

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2024 Design Trends - What am I Seeing?

Cosy, colour, and playful

Colour - pink! Barbiecore is hitting the walls, in all seriousness is it just me who has seen this trend growing? There are a lot of people painging their walls in Farrow & Ball Salmon, if you’d like a more subtle hue I’d go with Dulux nutmeg white, it comes out the colour of setting plaster but leave it on the walls and it actually is a white with a touch of pink. Red, browns, yellows, matching clothing fashion trends with interior trends are huge things. Whilst lots say’ get a sofa’, go for a more neutral sofa, and bring in these elements through items easier to refresh - such as a rug, or a dark wood coffee table

Curves - be mindful not always the most comfortable! So for a decorative sofa in the hallway fine, but for main living rooms you may rather traditional shaped sofa and stick to curved coffee tables and headboards

Big art - a little trick, the bigger artwork the fewer decisions you have to make as it takes up more space on the wall!

Wallpaper - following on from the theme of artwork, using the ceiling as a fifth wall, potentially some wallpaper. Also if you don’t want a fully wallpapered room, nor a feature wall, you could panel the room and put wallpaper within the panelling - often this is done in wardrobes but can look super cute in children’s bedrooms with safari print patterns

Silver metals - chrome/aluminium, I actually like a nickel as it is a bit warmer

Minimaluxe /Quiet luxury - natural, durable, comfortable. Owning fewer but more high quality pieces. Very much a term I use for my wardrobe, it helps with sustainability, buying beer pieces but ones you’d like to keep forever. Comfort, peace, sense of calm and enabling wellness design. Open shelving, gallery walls

Lighting - Monochromatic lighting, lighting bases the same as the lampshade. However lighting in general, people are paying more attention to, layered lighting. Interestingly,  I saw in a TV show the other day, warm strip lighting in a baseboard, and a strip light up the shower to complement each other looked beuatiful, enhanced by a gold tone through the marble tiles

Personalised spaces - Tailored to youHeirloom, eclectic pieces, bringing in the fun. People want their homes to look like their own, not their neighbours. Also having somewhere to have a great ‘Zoom background’ telling someone who you are

Beauty in the natural world - making the most of sustainable pieces, and using wood with its true warped texture, exposed wood beams

Spa-liked bathrooms - making yourself feel cosy, but elevating your home to feel uber luxe, think steam showers, infrared saunas, cold plunges in their bathrooms, juxtaposed against gentle spa lighting, backlit mirrors.

Futuristic - innovation in materials (sustainable, recycled materials), innovation in energy saving technologies, and the latest home tech are continuing trends to grow over the next year

Hallways, pantry - storage spaces are really something people are wanting, get in those iDesign boxes and Muji storage baskets! My top tip is to recognise how you store your items first, try and organise it without baskets, see what goes where naturally and THEN get storage containers accordingly with stickers if you wish to enable you to maintain your categories easier (by you I mean the rest of your family - animals!!!)