Short of inspiration and looking to give your home the makeover you’ve been dreaming of? We’ve scoured the internet for the most ingenious hacks to elevate your home.
Discover the psychology of colour
Choosing the next colour to paint four walls can be an overwhelming experience. Exploring the world of colour psychology can help guide your decision around how you want a room to feel.
Whether you want the dramatic yet intimate dark red for a bedroom to call your own or a splash of purple – thought to be the most inspiring of colours – for your home office.
Understanding how we subconsciously perceive colours can be a game changer when vying for a certain feel to a room.
Neutral colours, bold accessories
Do you get restless throughout the year, constantly wanting to tweak the aesthetic of rooms throughout your home?
By opting for versatile neutral tones in your home, you can add splashes of colour via cushions, blankets, rugs, artwork, and trinkets, which can be rotated and replaced to your heart’s content. Change with the seasons and keep your home feeling constantly refreshed without the need of getting a paintbrush out.
Mismatch furniture
We all know antique shops and vintage fairs can be a minefield for quirky and unpredictable finds, but what a lot of people don’t know is how good mismatched furniture and decorative furnishings can actually look together. Next time you find an outlandish, bright orange vintage kitchen chair, don’t feel you’ll then have to redecorate your entire kitchen to make it work.
Embrace the mismatched and it might just elevate your home to the levels you’ve been seeking.
Baskets, baskets, baskets
There’s been a huge explosion of baskets being used recently for anything but basket-ing.
From chopping off a baskets handles and flipping it on its head to create a striking light fitting or using them as coffee tables, vases, plant pots or a wall-mounted home for your post, the trend is gained real momentum and it’s one that can give an old, tired basket an exciting new lease of life and transform a room in your home at the same time.
Mirror, mirror
Mirrors can do so much more than tell you you’ve still got breakfast around your mouth before you head out for that important meeting. They can be particularly useful in smaller spaces or for bringing light to those dark corners of a room. Placing a mirror behind a lamp, when illuminated can make even the cosiest of rooms feel larger and brighter. Angling a mirror so that the big green world outside is greater reflected in your home can make it feel like bringing nature inside. You can create dramatic, large panel mirrors by combining lots of smaller framed mirrors – IKEA’S LÖNSÅS comes in at just £1.25.
Tiny touches, big difference
Change the legs on an old sofa, restore a painted table top to its natural, wood-finished glory, and change the handles of a chest of drawers or kitchen cabinets. There are so many small changes and tiny details throughout your home which can make a big, positively refreshing change.
You don’t always have to go big when going home.
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