Home Decor Inspiration

While paint color lays the foundation for the overall look of your home, what fills the rooms becomes the back bone of your home’s look and feel. Home decor inspo can be found everywhere from films and tv to museums, homes of friends and family and of course online in places like Pinterest and Instagram. 

Wallpaper with Bold Trim Color

Nothing can say “you” faster than choosing a pattern for your walls which speaks to you emotionally. Your home tells your story and a pattern conveys this story effectively. Create a fantasy, transport to another place or time, align yourself with an identity. A wallpaper pattern sets the scene. How you treat the trim, windows, doors, and ceiling in a papered room will add to the sense or drama. Like in the photo above, an easy choice is to pull the trim and ceiling color directly from the paper.

Another more adventurous route is to choose a completely different color for these areas. You’ll create more visual interest and drama designing your room this way.

Choose color with personality for at least a few rooms

Neutrals remain the backbone of most homes but without more colorful rooms your house can become ho-hum. Push yourself just a teeny bit beyond your comfort zone. Add a purple sofa, highly bright and pattered curtains or luscious colorful walls.

In the last photo, the choice of bright violet candles in combination with the deep red walls takes this room to a new level of fun.

Bring in the Plants

How many times have we heard that bringing the outside in adds calm and serenity to a home? During the pandemic this was a design choice many made. Learning to care for plants can become much more than a decorating idea. Plants become a passion and collecting them is a satisfying endeavor. Bring this idea outside and if you have the room for it create some raised beds filled with flowers and vegetables. Plants ands flowers are the ultimate home design inspo.

If you just can’t care for plants consider a botanical wallpaper or cut flowers in the room. 

Beautiful window treatments finish a room

Unless you live in the country, love light streaming in your windows all the time or have no privacy issues you’ll want something on at least some of your windows. Relaxed roman shades are elegant and informal. It can create a very feminine soft look.

In this image the curtains are a completely separate color and pattern style than the walls. When you mix patterns make sure to change up the scale. Put a large print with a small or medium one. This bold juxtaposition is a gorgeous look for the adventurous home owner.

Collect objects and show them off

Pottery, artwork and clocks all add personality to a room. Objet D’Art  are things you might bring back from vacation, or find in a vintage shop. You don’t have to spend a fortune if you can cultivate a keen eye for form. 

Bring table lamps and shelves into your kitchen

While shelves instead of upper cabinets makes it into all the shelter magazines, the reality is that most people need upper cabinets to store all of their kitchen gear. That doesn’t mean there isn’t a reason to find a spot for a shelf. Open shelves take up little visual weight and space so it doesn’t make a room feel smaller. You can keep your cook books, pottery or any kind of bric-a-brac on it. Table lamps are an unexpected delight in a kitchen. We’re just not used to seeing them there but they unite the kitchen with the other rooms in the house in a way.

Natural materials like rattan, cane and jute bring in an organic element. 

Natural materials bring nature into the home a different way than plants do. They add an organic quality to the room. These materials are very informal and are sometimes associated with indoor/outdoor rooms. Their neutral colors mix with almost any other colors in the room.

Eclectic, hi- low, vintage and modern – Mix it up!

You’ll find the best home decor inspo looking everywhere! Magazines, instagram, newspapers, shop catalogues, museums, tv shows to name a few places. Inspiration comes from the mix of things you place in a home.  Same-same can be boring. Mixing the place of origin, style, and age of items in a room makes it exciting. You can spend a lot on your sofa and mix it with a $250 jute rug. Add an antique table to a room with a modern coffee table. Walk away from the idea of matching and lean into blending. Create drama from the contrast of objects, shapes, surfaces and materiality.