Summer is here! Is your home ready for both backyard BBQs and inside entertainment? Now that we have escaped the dreary winter months and spent spring digging out the outdoor furniture and planting the flowers, it is time to start looking for ways to pull your home out of hibernation and into sunshine and summertime. This season, it’s all about taking the outdoors inside to create a calming, natural atmosphere. Below are five trends to look for this season to spruce up your summer style by taking the outdoors inside!
Blurring the Lines
This summer, expect your indoor spaces to get a little help from your outdoor ones! With the increased popularity of the tropical trend, natural woods and leafy greens are the perfect accents for your spaces. Clotilde Passalacqua, Interior Design Leader from IKEA says: “Within the Blurred Boundaries trend, indoors meets outdoors seamlessly, reconnecting us with nature as well as giving the feeling of bigger living spaces to enjoy.” To give your home the light and airy feel of this trend, look for natural woods when picking furniture pieces and add a few plants to living spaces.
Metallic Accents
Rose gold may have reigned supreme in 2017, but 2018 is the year of brass and gold tones. They make the perfect accent to pastel shades and deep greens, and are an easy way to inject a new trend into an already-styled room. Golds and brasses add an instant element of luxury to a home without having to invest in any major furniture changes. To incorporate this trend into your home, try by adding a few smaller elements. Some stylish brass or gold accents on the furniture, funky mirrors, or a statement piece like a metallic plant hanger are all great ways to start, and there are plenty of DIY options online if you’re looking for something truly unique.
Tropical Themes
Tropical prints will continue their popularity from last season, but with one major twist. The tropical prints of 2018 will be a bit moodier than 2017, focusing on deeper colors and lush, energizing greens. This trend will seamlessly blend with darker grays and navy, which is very fashionable in home decorating right now.
While we will see less of the bright, vibrant tropical prints of 2017, the beloved pineapple accent will likely stick around! Expect to see this fun fruit accenting any and all tropical-themed spaces. Integrate this trendy item into your spaces by finding a fun print for the wall or metallic figurine to liven up your bookshelf or coffee table.
Artisan Textures
Adding touches of texture to any space adds a carefree element to your home. This trend can be easily achieved by incorporating textiles with embellishments like fringe or patterns, raw structural details like open brick walls or exposed beams, and/or fun, eye-catching appliqués into your preexisting décor. Don’t be afraid to mix textures such as marble and metal, woven wicker furniture, and macramé as the overlapping trends will add an extra layer of interest to your decorations. Bonus: these textures will blend seamlessly with almost any color choices and, even though they are on-trend, many can be bought or made yourself at a low cost.
Bold Color Choices
Gone are the days where every room was a varying shade of beige! This summer, experiment with ice cream shades, indigo tones, and greens. These shades will blend seamlessly with all the above trends and your pre-existing home décor.
Pastel ice cream shades such as pinks, peaches, light purples, and pistachios blend perfectly with metallic accents and will provide the right amount of “POP” to any bland living space. Rich indigo and deep green tones provide the perfect backdrop to your tropical or artisan spaces, and the tones are easy to keep trendy throughout the years!
Are you ready to wake up your home and prepare it for summer? The Wickery can help you keep your home on trend this year, and for many years to come! Visit us today to let us help you get your home on trend for 2018.
