Given the challenging times of 2020, most of us are looking forward to 2021 with high hopes. So here we take a sneak peek into the interior design trends for the upcoming year.
There are reasons aplenty to look forward to 2021, especially when it comes to home interiors. After having spent almost a full year being at home with family, the New Year 2021 presents an opportunity to redefine our living spaces and bring more comfort to our homes. This New Year will usher in some exciting and novel trends in home décor. One of these is Sustainable Interior Designing.
How Sustainable Home Can Define the Interior Design Trends in 2021
The sustainable design concept means an excess of emphasis on interior designing that is complementary to the needs of the environment. Today, we are more concerned about our environment and the impact of our actions on the ecological balance than ever. This idea has germinated in the form of sustainable homes and eco-friendly spaces that employ the right materials.
Let’s take an in-depth look at this concept:
#1. Hybrid Lifestyle Apartments - A Combination of Living and Working from Home
The dynamic post-COVID modern lifestyle requires interior designers to offer a design that combines the client's hobbies, work preferences and maintains a clean transmission of air. Such hybrid homes will be the new normal with the private lives of inhabitants merging with their professional and public life. This will require a mixed usage of spaces.
The multi-functional hybrid home should be able to encompass several activities in one area in the limited space sans compromising the aesthetics and style. This requires developing practical and innovative solutions for small spaces. For instance, like creating a shared living space where all practical functions take place while at the same time, lending privacy to each person. Such special working areas should be carved out and integrated into the home’s design. This may involve creating niche areas demarcated by different floorings, folding tables, or different panelling so as to create a visual demarcation of a separate space.
Narrow passages or areas connecting two rooms can be used as a gym area. Similarly, a library can be carved out from a home office space.
#2. Bedroom Design
Bedrooms are the perfect relaxing zones. But they can be much more. They are perfect for clever constructions like hidden storage, folding furniture, etc. Bed platforms can be an excellent storage space. Also, some luxury can be incorporated in the form of heavy draperies, canopy beds, and the like.
#3. Integrated Living Spaces – The Kitchen, Dining, and the Living Room
Another significant sustainable design that we can expect in 2021 is the integration of living and kitchen spaces. An open floor plan combining the living, kitchen, and dining zones is the new rule. Socialising whilst preparing meals is a new trend that is helpful for young families to keep an eye on children when cooking meals. Furthermore, with online classes for kids, it makes it all the more viable to have an open kitchen.
#4. Trendy Furniture Elements
While we saw that the kitchen occupies the central place of the home situated amidst other social areas, the agile and easily shift able furniture occupies the second place. In such open kitchen areas. Sliding doors, hidden constructs or movable constructs, intelligent storage systems, etc., can help in achieving a clean and trendy look not only in the kitchen but in other socialising areas as well.
#5. Fabrics and Materials
There will be a shift from the traditional digitally printed fabrics to more thick linens and nature-inspired elements. For instance, one can expect cork or bamboo panelling on the walls or more nature-inspired embossed wall coverings.
#6. Recycling
Given the increasing spread of Ecological Awareness, many home developers are turning to sustainable city projects, reuse projects, renovation and rehabilitation of spaces, and more. Thanks to technology and innovation, such sustainable solutions are not in any way inferior, rather they offer even more comfort and exciting new ways to discover. Many innovative home designers are incorporating leftover materials to create innovative designs. For instance, furniture made of natural materials like seagrass, corn, or bamboo is finding increasing takers. The reduce-reuse approach has made people shift from plastic, and more people are increasingly buying things from local manufacturers, small firms, or directly from the small producers.
Designers in 2021 are thus keen to create new materials from recycled materials or by way of using alternative technologies and thus are keen to strike the right balance between technology and nature.
#7. Materials and Novel Colour Palette
Taking the Scandinavian inspiration, light wood will be the next trending material for interiors. This material can be used for flooring, walls, and the ceiling as well. The raw colour will act as a good aesthetic. Industrial style (that was the trend in the late 2000s) using weathered wood, concrete, and other metallic lighting fixtures will continue to be the aesthetic trend in 2021 as well.
As regards the colour palette, cool greys and the all-time neutrals will be in vogue.
#8. Décor and Wall Art – The Wannabe Millennial Trend
Statement Décor pieces and Face Line art on the walls will be desired by art enthusiasts for a more sophisticated look. Face Line art is an interesting and buzzing interior design trend which more and more millennials' s are relating to. There are several names for this trend, like Continuous Line Art, Abstract Faces, Line Drawing, etc. The options for these trends are really endless.
To Sum Up:
Sustainable designs for homes in 2021 will be a combination of the two opposites, namely the quest for luxury and the need to achieve sustainability by incorporating more natural resources. New bioplastics, reused materials, and low-impact materials on the environment will be the upcoming trend.
The art of skillfully combining both simultaneously while keeping up with the current lifestyle would be the exciting challenge that designers and homeowners can rejoice in 2021.
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