When it comes to colour it's often a game of preference. Some colours speak to people differently and I think that’s the beauty of interior design no one room will ever be the same. Designing a room is like picking a plain t-shirt from your wardrobe and dressing it with accessories, you start with a blank canvas and accessories adding soft furnishings and items that reflect you.
According to trend forecasters, summer 2024 will be embracing maximalism and being colour-confident, where bold prints and unusual colour combinations come into play. Be bold with your choices and play around with mixing patterns, checks and florals are a great way to move into the trend. Mixing pieces old and new to create a unique one-of-a-kind room, for example, a vintage dresser or desk with a new checkboard rug to contrast the new with the old to create a fusion of designs.
Colour can be a great way to reflect your personality, take inspiration from your personal life and see what colours you seem to gravitate towards maybe that’s your colour without even realising it! I often find that red is a colour I'm attracted to, be that what I wear to the smallest things like my phone case, I often find the colour red cropping up in my
day-to-day life. Now you may be thinking steady on a second I'm not about to paint my whole house red! I completely agree with this, but adding those pops of colour could be a fun way to splash your personality around your home. Painting your skirting boards red or a bright colour to contrast with a more neutral wall can be striking, or adding table lamps and rugs in your colour could subtly hint without going overboard.
Taking a page out of Isabel Ladds book where she often challenges comfort to create beautiful designs, she says “There's no need to be intimidated by maximalism design style’s, bold, brave, characteristics.” She says that she often asks the client a few questions before she embarks on creating a maximalist-inspired project within their home, just so she knows what will work best for her client as each person's perception of maximalism is different.
It’s hard to know where to start with maximalism, I think it’s more of a journey to get to your desired result than any other design style. Starting with an object can be a great foundation and guide you on your journey. Either a fabric swatch that really grabs your attention or a unique lamp that you found in a vintage shop, both are great sources of inspiration and can be built on. Some people view the next stages very differently. Some prefer to buy as you see it and let the journey of choosing furniture be more linear, taking them to obscure places and almost trialling and replacing things along the journey. Others prefer a more planned approach and sees choosing things to fill their space as a more mathematical journey, using colour and texture to guide them. Although both can be very effective there is definitely no right or wrong way to do this.
Overall, no matter how you decide to transform your home just know that exploring how you can imprint your personality into it is your best starting point. Only you can really be the judge of your own style and inspiration can only go so far before instinct will take over.
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