How to bring nature indoors
Are you inspired by the colour and beauty of nature? There are a myriad of ways to introduce the natural world into your home's interior, regardless of which style you are aspiring to.
Having an open mind to unexpected detailing and incorporating accent elements can be great for personalising your décor. There are several fail-safe tricks to introducing nature as a running theme through your room or home.
Deck the Walls
From subtle nuances in individual pieces of wall art to creating beautifully curated gallery walls, pictures and prints are an ideal way to make a statement. Whatever your colour scheme, you can select works that feature colours in specific palettes, frame types or themes, such as the natural world, that will bring the whole look together. If you are unsure about using bright hues like oranges, yellows and purples in artwork akin to ‘Rainforests Depths’ and ‘Statuesque’, neutral backgrounds or frames can soften them.
Birds, insects, flora and fauna provide an abundance of style creativity, enabling you to create a distinct visual display that can help you easily adapt according to your interior’s style and colour scheme.
With such an array of dynamic colours, your style inspiration will never be too far away, whichever living area you are introducing elements of the natural world into. Nature-inspired patterns and hues are perfect accessories to coordinate with your striking jewel-tinted sofa or a more neutral corner group.
Gallery Wall Art
If you do not have a large space on your wall, enabling to you create your gallery wall, you can create gallery characteristics around features such as doors, windows or fireplaces.
Hanging art is a clever technique to liven up your space and using 2- or 3-piece print sets is a great way to start your display. A well-balanced gallery wall should have a delightful mixture of art of various shapes and sizes, picking 2 or 3 larger pieces and filling in the rest with smaller works. Using varying sizes of canvases creates dimension, and centring a grouping over a sideboard or sofa means it will connect the two naturally and cohesively.
Utilising black, white or exposed wooden frames will complement the natural shades of the artwork you have chosen. Different styles, such as abstract, line drawings or scenery pieces, add a variety of influences and allow you to evolve and grow the theme.
Fantastic Throws
Matching other accents in the room, such as scatter cushions and throws, to the environmental theme allows you to define your living space absolutely effortlessly.
Scatters and throws are an effective way of styling your home. Mix and match shapes, designs and clashing prints with patterns are all great ways of implementing your design. Add your texture and style by utilising throws, which are also a practical way of providing warmth and can make an area particularly cosy.
Choosing a handful of colours and using patterns within that palette will allow you to incorporate various prints and styles of stripes. You can go as bold and as bright as you want. Greens are a fantastic base colour from which to add nature that can disperse to your living space and pieces throughout your room to create a sense of balance. As with wall art, you can always add and remove patterns as your room changes, giving your room or sofa a facelift.
How you arrange your throws and cushions, the quantity that you use and the designs that you pick, is a very personal choice. You could alternate between large solid-coloured cushions and smaller patterned cushions. Interspersing the scale of the patterns can also make a striking impact on your décor as can vary the fabrics used- whether they are in luxurious velvet or silk, or more easy-to-care-for cotton or polyester fabrics.
Statement Ceramics
A range of decorative accessories can augment the natural theme further, whether you want classical designs, or more eclectic pieces. Many pieces that will add charm and character can add to the overall balance of your nature-inspired interior.
High gloss ceramic pieces, generously proportioned bowls to store a plethora of your trinkets and purely decorative ornaments, used individually or grouped, will create striking statement displays. To make your home even more inviting and relaxing, add faux decorative plants to introduce focal points to your room and bring the outdoors indoors.
Quirkier items used as centrepieces, and punctuating them with more subdued, unembellished items produced from natural materials, will enrich an existing interior. Decorative items made from rattan, like a glass and rattan hurricane lantern, or hanging wall decorations made from white-washed twigs, will add subtle touches.
Lighting the Way
Intermingling contemporary motifs with tropical-inspired details will enable you to mix and match pieces and re-arrange according to the style that you are aiming for and the balance that you require.
Decorative lamp bases and shades with animal keynotes add a soft, calming quality to your room and will emphasise the warmness and vitality of colours. A bold colour palette will give you infinite possibilities to experiment with until you find the look that is right for your room. Picking up on flamboyant tones and hues and having them run through several distinct accents will immediately bring your style together.
Colour Inspiration
Vibrant, energising colours allow you to try new ideas and be adventurous in your approach to freshening up a room. There are no actual rules to what colours you use, whether they coordinate or clash, or which styles and textures you utilise. You can create your own 'chaos of delight'.
Yellow shades will freshen a living space yet will add cooling and calming senses. Using darker colours such as blues and greens will create layered schemes that can be punctuated by flashes of bright tints.
You can be as daring as you like with the natural theme that will add personality and the wow factor to your home. Each room should be your escape to paradise and incorporating components of the natural world will elevate your décor.
At Cousins Furniture, we have an abundance of products that will meet your requirements and even some that may inspire you to draw on different influences to use in any room of your home. Pops of colour through to gallery walls will introduce a vivid aesthetic that can be added, or adapted. Bright, bold and cheerful colour palettes of greens, turquoises, pinks and yellows add to the eye-catching style.
Both our website and our destination stores have a vast collection of items to enthuse and inspire and any of our friendly staff will assist you with any queries that you may have.
