Bringing the outdoors into your Interior Design this Spring!

As winter is now behind us and the longer days are here, our thoughts tend to turn to ways to uplift our lives – and homes.  

Spring has that effect. It makes us look around at our environment and consider ways of improving it. We spring clean our home, get brighter clothes and start planting in the garden.

It is also the time of the year when we look around our home and see how we can brighten up the décor – or transform it altogether.

And this year, the Spring trends in interior design are definitely about brightening things up. Bold colours – particularly bright blues, greens and dusky pinks – are in!

It can come as a little bit of a shock to the system as grey has been quite dominant in interior design for the last four years. It was a fascinating period where we got to see many undertones of grey used depending on the amount of light available in a room. And the aspect of the room, whether it was north or west facing, for example, had a major impact on what shade of grey you would pick and what colours you would compliment it with.

Now, however, although grey hasn’t completely gone away, we are ushering in Spring by daring to be different. 

The move towards more vibrant colours in fabrics, furnishings and paints is based on bringing the outdoors into the home. Many of the fabrics we are seeing have floral and even jungle themes, with prints of exotic animals to create a sense of the great outdoors and the wider world.

The trend is for bold colours working together, pattern on pattern, and it can be hugely uplifting in the home. 

This dramatic change began to emerge at the end of 2021, and all the signs are that vibrancy will dominate for some time. The emphasis on bright and colourful interiors may very well have grown out of a need for a lift after enduring restricted lives for two years in the pandemic.

It is exemplified by the fact that the Pantone Colour of the Year 2022 ‘Very Peri’ is an unusual red violet infused blue hue and represents the first time that Pantone, experts in the art and science of colour, created a new colour for their Colour of the Year programme – in response to transformative times. 

The other trend we have noticed here at Wasson Interiors is a desire to make the old new again. Upcycling is huge and growing. Instead of buying new furnishings, we are seeing customers making use of what they have and re-upholstering it with nice new textures or weaves as a declaration of their intent to live sustainably.

Of course, whether these splashes of colour suit you or you prefer a more subtle interior, we are confident that you will find whatever you are looking for at Wasson Interiors. If you are thinking of making changes in your home, call into us at Union Street to chat to Juliea or book a free, private consultation with James in your home by calling 071 9146299.