What color to paint the walls, what furniture to buy, how to make the right accents to be in trend?
Before renovation, you asked yourself the question: “What is an interior for you?” It is important to listen to your own intuition and desires, because design should provide aesthetic pleasure for several years before radical changes in interior fashion. For me, the interior is a living organism. It has a soul. This is a zone of comfort, peace and creativity. A part of our life passes in it, here we get positive emotions, relieve fatigue and heal the soul. We’re home! We are happy! This is our fortress!
Fashion 2018-2019 requires the interior to be bold, daring, juicy and bright. Choose from bold colors, from reds to vibrant greens or strong turquoise. We’ve all grown tired of boring palettes over the years. But you shouldn’t give up completely neutral shades, they should also form part of your interior.
There are scientific studies confirming that the human eye recognizes 1,5 million shades, and colors are perceived even by the skin. Our psychological state depends on painting the walls and bright accessories. A person does not just see a color, he feels it. Psychologists say that 80 percent of the color we “absorb” by the nervous system and only 20 percent – by sight. One thing is clear: before making repairs, you need to think about everything.
Rose quartz and sky blue colors are perfect for decorative accessories in 2018. Glass vases, lamps and colored glass look bright, sophisticated and stylish. Neutral monochrome shades such as beige, gray, black and white create a relaxed, cozy and elegant environment. They work well with all the vibrant accents and create a striking, modern interior.
Natural green color is relaxing. Green grass, bamboo in glass vases, green dishes are great for trendy interiors. I advise you to use purple in decorative fabrics. Your home will look luxurious and stylish. Painting the walls in turquoise is a great choice this year. Lime, lemon, and all warm yellows are trendy ideas for bright and joyful designs. Yellow in accents such as chairs, armchairs, pillows, textiles will create a favorable interior.
White is still in demand in the new season as a sign of lightness, simplicity and naturalness.
The leaders are still marble and ceramic granite, as well as natural stone. Perhaps the fashion for wood will never go away. It can be oak parquet board or wood panels made of oak, walnut, beech, apple, pine. For the interior, such rare species as zebrano, wenge, bleached oak, rosewood are suitable. The geometric design of modular parquet, cork parquet, cork board will be interesting. Handmade cement tiles will create a special flavor in a demanding interior.
Wall painting continues to dominate in 2018. This is a mobile opportunity to periodically change the color of the rooms. Insertable gypsum 3D panels are rising in popularity today. Eco-wallpaper made from natural fibers of bamboo, cotton, rice, jute, reeds is coming back into fashion. And also remember, from which natural exotic fibers wallpaper can be made. These are abacus, coconut tree, golden blossom, amaranth, sisal. There are wallpapers based on tangerine, buddha, bamboo or sandalwood veneers.
The hit of the interiors is roll or leaf cork, and the novelty of the year is a herbarium on the wall, in which plant leaves are used. There is no doubt about their naturalness, skeletonized leaves are glued in a special way to a non-woven or paper base. Then all this intricate beauty is tinted with vegetable dyes. Most often, textured leaves of trees are used for such wallpapers: ficus, mango or bo.
If your interior calls for pomp, think of velvet and suede. For originality, you can use charred wood. And innovation in the interiors is stabilized moss and succulents.
Until better times, stretch ceilings, as well as structural and multi-level plasterboard ceilings, are a thing of the past. Now use caissons – these are recesses of different shapes in the ceiling. Surprise yourself with glass ceilings, you won’t regret it. For those who remain conservative, classic ceilings will still work for you.
Despite the fact that furniture of simple shapes is in trend, forget about walls, “slides” and headsets of a single sample and design. Bet on eco-furniture. Genuine leather is an ideal solution for any modern interior style. Combine it with a glossy and matte finish. In the new season, quilted leather is becoming the main trend in the design of modern furniture. Furniture looks fashionable and rich, in the decor of which there are rhinestones and Swarovski stones.
Choose chairs and cabinets of futuristic shapes, as well as new generation furniture – a designer. Here the imagination is unlimited: the table can be transformed into a bar counter or a box for linen. Individualization is important, that is, choose furniture of different shapes and formats so that it can be combined with comfortable companions. Metal furniture with noble rust looks unusual and fashionable.
We return to the past, in the 70s and 80s. Tired of urbanization, globalization and other “… tions”, we are increasingly drawn to natural elements, to environmentally friendly architecture and the positive impact of green plants. We strive for time-tested comfort. Flowers in bowls, floor vases remind us that nature exists outside the windows of apartments and offices. The slogan “Back to nature!” It is not for nothing that we are increasingly using food from the garden, fabrics from natural materials, we create cars on electricity … The environmental factor is more and more included in our life, this also applies to interiors.
What’s relevant now? Tokyo lifestyle interior, hygge, neoclassicism, hi-tech, minimalism, boho, country. An eclectic mix – the ability to combine vintage with modern or art deco or country with provence and art nouveau. Zoning is no longer strictly limited. It has become laconic: light partitions, a place for reading, “green” corners with a dining table. Create small spaces for different purposes combined into one open interior. Comfortable corners in the home allow you to retire, help you relax and enjoy the tranquility. Beautiful and comfortable areas add charming and stylish coziness and are the design trend of 2018.