With spring not too far away, there’s no better way to welcome the new season than by giving your home a warm-weather refresh.
As working from home continues, our office and home-lives are housemates rather than distant neighbours, which is why creating a space that marries comfort with productivity will continue to be essential throughout 2022.
To ensure your home is as on-trend as it is clutter-free following your spring clean, Redrow’s Group interior designer, heading up the interiors team Alysha Alli, shares her five favourite trends for Spring 2022…
Remain resourceful
If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s to make the most of what we have. Throughout 2022, living more sustainably will continue to be at the forefront of many homeowners’ minds, with the climate crisis featuring regularly in the news. We all want our homes to feel ‘current’, however as we move through 2022, it’s about balancing our desire to stay on trend by creating a scheme where the essential elements, like kitchens, bathrooms, larger furniture or the colour of your walls, will still look great in five to ten years’ time. The key is through additional styling, such as soft furnishings, albeit cushions, curtains, or rugs, which can be easily upgraded as trends come and go.
There is also a growing trend towards homes looking more sophisticated by adopting a minimalist approach to interiors. Decluttering your home by purchasing less new items is an easy way to create the illusion of a minimalist interior and can quickly transform forgotten or previously hidden elements, such as vases or ornaments, into statement, focal pieces.”
With more of us spending time indoors, bringing the outdoors in through earthy colour tones, such as sage greens and pastel blues, can create a seamless transition between the home and garden – perfect for long hours spent in your home office. Adding plants to your living space will instantly create a calming atmosphere, while purifying the air and boosting your productivity, to help make your home a more eco-friendly and healthier place to live and work in. If looked after, plants provide the perfect interior addition and, depending on the plant, can be recycled in the garden should they grow too large.
Living colourfully
Spending extended periods of time at home has highlighted how essential it is to surround ourselves with colours that makes us feel good and complement our varying needs throughout the day.
Where once shades of grey dominated the interior design palette, 2022 will continue the growing trend for mood-boosting colours. Bolder shades, such as rich mustard yellows and deep fiery oranges, work well for providing permanent visual reminders of happiness. Practically, you may choose these colours for soft furnishings, in the form of accent cushions or a leading edge to a curtain, or perhaps as a feature wall. Regardless of the season, shades of blue are set to dominate home interiors throughout 2022. Lighter blues can instantly make us feel calm, centred and content, making it an ideal choice for bedrooms or bathrooms, while darker shades can help ground a space and work well with warm wood furniture to create the perfect balance of cold and warm colour tones.
Fluid curves
As we move through 2022, many designers are proposing an alternative aesthetic to the conventional straight line, choosing instead to favour a curvier look. When compared with uniformed, straight lines, curves are deemed more playful and fun. Introducing objects such as oversized vases or eclectic ornaments, which adopt unusual shapes, can provide focal points around the room, particularly when strategically placed where harsh lines dominate the space, such as kitchens or dining tables. For those looking to be more daring, exposing brick will break with your room’s smooth walls, and will instantly provide a distressed look that is rich in pattern and texture.
Broken plan living
Throughout 2022, it remains a priority to be able to separate specific areas of the home so they can fulfil their intended use effectively. Open-plan living has proven a popular design decision for many new build properties or home renovations over the last few years. While this layout provides ample space, perfect for families, post-pandemic living has meant this communal space is too often being shared for multiple reasons simultaneously.
With kitchen, dining spaces shapeshifting daily to home offices, the need to compartmentalise the rooms various purposes should not be underestimated if you are to create a healthy boundary between work and home life.
As we move through the pandemic, ‘broken-plan living’ is revolutionising the open-plan layout by providing simple solutions to divide the space to allow for flexible use throughout the day. Often overlooked is lighting, which provides the greatest asset in helping to create a zoning effect to separate areas through different shades of light that can illuminate or shadow various areas. This technique will cater to each individual member of the family and their needs, while creating a relaxing and inviting ambience for all to enjoy.
For homeowners with space to spare, room dividers are also increasing in popularity, with many bookcases and wicker style screens providing a creative solution to regain boundaries between working days and relaxing evenings.
Make a statement
For those looking to make a big impact on a small budget, statement vases have the power to transform an interior in an instant. Vases can often be overlooked as an accessory, and simply used to showcase flowers. However, opting for an usual shape or oversized design is a really simple and effective way to introduce a new colour, texture or pattern into your room – regardless of whether you fill it with flowers or not. For a vase to make a statement, choose one which will contrast with your current design choices. Perhaps a bold, alternative colour, or a shape which contrasts with your current furniture. This will help make sure that your vase claims its space, affirming its original flair to serve as a standalone feature in the room.
Alysha Alli heads up Redrow’s in-house interior design team. With over nine years’ industry experience working in the field of interior design, she has won numerous awards for her attention to detail and meticulous approach to designing interiors. With a well-trained eye for well-crafted internal layouts, quality, craftsmanship, textiles and furnishings, Alysha continues to be recognised for her timeless style and designs that remain ahead of trend.
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