It’s been a difficult could of years, and many people who have been forced to stay at home for weeks and months on end during the pandemic have grown rightly tired of staring at the same four walls. That’s inspired a rush to make changes to home interiors, and that’s something that everyone is seeing as a trend around the world. If you’re interested in making your home look a little more modern, stylish, and luxurious, this is the article for you. We’ll walk you through your rooms, giving you a sense of the changes you could make to make those rooms more homely and comfortable this year.
Living Room
This is the room that you and your family spend most of the time in. You’ll relax here when people turn home from work and school, and it’s here that you’ll often host guests and friends. That means this is primarily a social room, and the layout and furniture should always reflect that as much as possible.
If you’d like your room to feel more modern while remaining social, consider changing the layout, so all chairs face the center of the room rather than in the direction of a TV. This will help facilitate conversation. Smart tech also belongs in the living room, including a smart home device and smart speakers to entertain your guests, especially at drinks parties.
Kitchen
Another hugely important room in your home, the kitchen, is often the room that families choose to have refurbished first. You’ll know why – it’s because you have the opportunity to replace old cupboards and tired appliances when you make changes to your kitchen, which can be great news for families who feel that they’re living in a 1970s kitchen that’s all sticky and uninspiring.
When you’re thinking about redesigning your kitchen from scratch, it’s important that you look into the best kitchen design tools to help you map out your planned changes and to visualize how certain designs would work for you. You should also shop around for the products that you think would help make your life easier while also adding to the style offered kitchen. Here, think of in-built appliances, color coordinates utensils, and other neat touches that your whole family will enjoy.
Bathrooms
Your home will have at least one bathroom. If you live in a fairly traditional home, it’s likely that you have a smaller bathroom on the ground floor and at least one more on the first floor. Like kitchens, there are endlessly adaptable and can be the subject of great creativity and imagination from interior designers. Whether you’re interested in changing your tiles or adding a power shower, changes to bathrooms are often considered the most rewarding.
Your family will certainly appreciate changes that help them bathe with more luxury and comfort. Consider adding mood lighting and other relaxing elements to your bathrooms so that your family members can relax in heavenly peace and quiet whenever they’ve poured themselves a nice path. And paint walls nicely so that there’s a sense of relaxed ambience in each of your bathrooms.
Dining Room
This is a room that not every home possesses in the traditional sense. Yet most families do have a table upon which they eat their family meals, even if that’s in the living room or in the kitchen. As such, this tip is for how you’ll make that table fit in with the rest of the room it’s in. A central table obviously dominates a room, so it’s important that a dining room is well balanced with photos on the walls and other features that help to rebalance the centrality of the table in the room.
Meanwhile, you should also consider adding cabinets and storage around your dinner table. After all, this is the table that you’ll also use to play board games and to pour some late-night drinks when you’ve brought some friends over to enjoy a night at your place. Stylish storage could house these items, keeping them easily accessible for when you’re hosting an exciting night across the dinner table.
Bedrooms
The bedroom is a personal and private space. You’ll not need to consider the opinions of your friends and family when you’re changing your own bedroom, and in that sense, it’s certainly the most characterful room in the house. That said, bedrooms are rarely changed to a dramatic extent by adults, who instead are looking for quiet, peaceful, and even meditative places to relax after work. As adults tend o value their sleep and feel relaxed, all the changes you should make to your bedroom should reflect that ideal.
So, you’re looking to add softness to your bedroom. You want softer sheets, softer pillows, and softer lighting. Consider adding blackout blinds in order to shut out the light when you need to sleep or heavy curtains that also serve the purpose of absorbing sound in the room. When all of these come together, you’ll have a truly calm bedroom in which you can catch up on sleep.
Hallways
Connecting all of these downstairs rooms are, of course, the hallways. We’ll include the staircase in this tip, too, given that this is often the most decorative and ornamental part of your home’s hallway. So, what can you do to improve these central parts of your home? The answer is surprisingly simple: take care of the floor’s walls and lighting, and you’ll already be doing something right.
In general, you want hallways to feel bright, clean, and comfortable. They lack the natural light that your other rooms often receive, so it’s important that you natal warm and bright lights to the ceiling, or lamps in certain corners, to make everything look a little more attractive. Meanwhile, give walls and surfaces a good new slap of paint, and consider changing your floors to plush carpet – or simply adding a rug to parts of your hallway to make it all feel cozier.
Walk through your home with these tips in mind to start planning how you’ll make changes to your home’s interior in 2022 and beyond.
