Designing a home for daily life is much different than staging your home for sale. Home design is your greatest opportunity to take your personal space and use it to reflect who you are to your guests, but more importantly, it creates a space for you to rejuvenate and give you security. You can take meaningful items and make them a major focus while tying them into the larger design scheme. In this article, we’re going to focus on how each piece in your home contributes to its function in your daily life with easy-to-update features.
Color
The colors you surround yourself with affect your mood. If you want to relax, surround yourself with neutrals. If you want to feel inspired, add a variety of colors. Be careful with adding paint, paint is permanent and can be expensive to cover. Instead, try shades of white and decorate with accent furniture, pillows, vinyl removable wallpaper, or art. My favorite is when you choose one color, perhaps blue, and tie it into pieces throughout the home. Gold accents and hardware are other popular trends currently.
Furniture
Manufacturers are making major improvements in stain-resistant furniture, so don’t feel bad about using light colors to brighten a room when you know that the stains will be easy to remove. The days of dark furniture to hide stains are out! I love using furniture with a pop of color to tie into
the theme of the whole home decor.
Texture
Texture is the most subtle thing you can add to make your home feel like a luxury getaway. Play with patterned woodwork, strong lines in shelving, structured light fixtures, bold pillows, interesting tile patterns, or rugs to brighten up the room. An easy way to update is to put a tray in the middle of your coffee table or kitchen counter. You can use this tray to add more feature pieces.
Inspiration
This is your time to focus on what matters most in your life. If you love spending time outdoors, find a way to bring the outdoors in with some of your trinkets. Focus on your favorite vacations by having a feature wall with photos of your trips. Of course, your most important feature is focusing on the family that lives in this space. A uniform way to have a creative display of your favorite photos is by having similar frames. Then try a matching wood texture but change up the matboard of the photo within the frame to make the photos pop.
