Spring might not be here just yet, but it’s never too soon to start dreaming of brighter mornings, warmer weather, and the beauty of flowers beginning to bloom.
As the seasons shift, we’re embracing fresh home ideas and styling tips—whether it’s introducing hidden storage for the annual spring clean or adding colourful glass windows to reflect the sunshine-filled days ahead.
Hidden Storage
Intentional clutter is only sought-after in homes when it’s a carefully curated display. Whether on a bookshelf, side table, or other shelving, last year saw more people embrace the idea of displaying trinkets and decorative items to combine personality and style. That being said, the line is drawn when clutter isn’t intentional, but rather a natural part of everyday home life. An ever-growing candle collection, seasonal items, and glasses that are only used on special occasions all still need a place to be stored.
Now that intentional clutter has been mastered, people are turning their attention to tackling items that, when unorganised, can feel like actual clutter. Hidden storage has become the solution – specifically, hidden storage that is as aesthetically pleasing as it is convenient.
Panelling has become a popular choice to disguise cupboards, and in doing so, it turns a place to store items into a focal point that seems like a deliberate style choice.
Unpredictable Gallery Walls
Gallery walls are a popular choice to inject personality and colour into different rooms throughout the home. By switching out prints, people can introduce a new colour, pay homage to a new interest, or reflect the current season – making it an affordable, easy, and low-commitment way to change the feel of a room.
Although the prints in different homes will all be unique, frames are typically rectangular and a block colour, making the choice appear like a copy-and-paste trend.
To combat this, people are switching out the same frames in favour of mismatched styles, a combination of shop-bought and thrifted. To make this style even less uniform, people are also adding plates, flowers, and framing items that you would typically find inside memory boxes, such as aeroplane tickets.
Stripe Drenching
Stripes are having a moment in interiors – on walls, soft furnishings, and furniture. Rather than only adding one element of stripes in a room, add them everywhere, on everything.
The colour and width needn’t match one another, as the pattern being the same will bring the room together.
Fruit Print
Fruit prints make an appearance every year, as they’re a fun motif that is colourful and has connotations of summer. Fruit reminds people of warmer days, picking strawberries in a sunny field, or seeing banana trees in tropical climates.
Because of the variation in colours, a particular fruit can be chosen as a design element that matches the colour of the room it will be added to. Yellow room? Add a banana fruit bowl. Red kitchen? Add a cherry-print tea towel.
Colourful Glass
We predict that stained glass windows will make a comeback. First appearing in churches and often used to illustrate religious stories, stained glass later became popular in Victorian houses, particularly on doors and doorframes.
This year, colourful glass windows will make their way into homes, bringing character and transforming an otherwise dull view.
With these tips in mind, you can easily breathe new life into your home, big or small, whether it’s as simple as adding fun prints to your walls or creating useful yet aesthetically pleasing storage with slat panels.
