Every year brings fresh thinking in just about every aspect of our lives, from the clothes we wear to the food weâre eating to stay healthy and happy. Sometimes these trends are the result of scientific inquiry and investigation and are based on new knowledge of how to improve our lives. Sometimes itâs just styles fading and losing their ability to surprise, and being replaced with new ones (or rehabilitated ones) that can surprise us again.
Just like everything else, interior design trends change each year, and itâs fun to keep up with whatâs happening. Like all design-related subjects, your home and how you decorate it is very personal, so the trends that are going to be everywhere in 2015 are just starting points. The goal isnât to make your house look like a magazine spread, but rather to take these trends as starting points. Hereâs where youâll be starting in 2015.
The Rise of Metal
No, not the loud and crazy music â the material. Smart home designers have been putting metal on the walls in the form of art for a while now, but metal is poised to be the go-to material for interior design trends in 2015. The real key is to avoid having a single metal material be everywhere â mixing and matching is the modern way. In other words, in the past you might have say, brushed nickel finishes everywhere and it look elegant. In 2015 that sort of monochrome metal looks dated. Mix it up and complement metals the way you complement colours.
Patterns on All Surfaces
Loose, abstract patterns â as opposed to geometric ones â are strong in 2015, and the real twist is that theyâre leaping off the upholstery and the art on the walls and landing on the floors and even the ceilings. On the floors, graphic tiles and âpaintedâ rugs are all the rage, swirling colours and drawing the eye down. On the ceilings, acoustic tiles were once ugly necessities, but with some color and pattern-planning theyâve become the go-to art project for interior design this year.
Glass
Glass has never really gone out of style as a design element, of course, but in 2015 itâs roaring back into the limelight. Not just any glass though â glass with some color, some smoke, and some texture. Funky twisted shapes and interesting surface tension is the focus of trends in interior design in 2015. So forget clear glass and perfectly cut geometric pieces and think more sea glass, sculptural glass, and smoky, edgy stuff.
Interior design canât be summed up in three bullet points, of course, not even the trends that are coming, but these three will serve as the launching point for the trends this year, and could even be the launching points for your personal take on design.
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