Spring Inspiration: Ideas to Refresh your Home
Every year, Dulux colour experts translate global design trends into the new Colour of the Year. The shade for 2022 is Blue Skies. It’s an airy and fresh tone that opens up and breathes new life into any space.
Discover how you can use this transformative shade, plus its four complementary colour palettes to reinvent your homes.
Bright Skies
Dulux’s colour of the year, ‘Bright Skies’, will add a splash of colour that can be multi-purpose and used to zone an open plan space or to create a flow between 2 adjoining rooms. It is great at highlighting architectural features including fire places and cornices.
A wall with recessed shelves becomes a focal point for a comfortable living area that can also be utilised as adaptable storage for books, ceramics, work files or pieces of art.
Reflecting the limitless skies, a compact bedroom can be made to appear more expansive and with similar tones picked out in your décor and accessories, you can create a refreshing, relaxing and cohesive bedroom.
A Spring palette
Using different hues can bring focus to separate areas of your home and provide you with the ideal colour combinations to make zoning simple.
Trend-led greens and blues from the Greenhouse palette can be paired with bright, vivacious colours such as ‘Bright Skies’.
It will bring the positive effects of nature into your home. In a rural location, these fresh natural colours will beautifully complement your surroundings. In an urban space, they can make you feel more in touch with the natural world.
As spring colours re-emerge around us, a great way to make the most of this is to embrace beautiful natural shades from wall colours to accessories. Shades reminiscent of ‘Moon Cloud’ and ‘River Valley’ can be picked up in throws, cushions and ornamental pieces.
Studio colours-
Soft and airy, colours in the Studio collection can transform your home into a soothing space where you can recharge and feel inspired.
As a backdrop to a busy dining room or a calming bedroom, ‘Restful Slumber’ and ‘Birch Root’ work well. They will co-ordinate a space that is calming and focussed. Pops of colour can effortlessly be added through accessories and your furniture.
A luxurious velvet or fabric on dining chairs or a sofa add a colour burst that will energize and create a powerful visual effect to enhance your mood.
Salon Colours-
Silky whites and light neutrals provide a great blank canvas to build upon.
A statement sofa or bedframe would complement a background of muted colours of ‘Rubble Road’ and ‘Cliff Walk’.
Clean and fresh, you can keep Salon Colours as the basis of your décor whilst giving you the freedom to experiment with styles and colours that you may not usually consider.
Workshop colours-
‘Healing Spice’, ‘Rose Canopy’ and ‘Golden Cookie’ will inject some variety into your décor. Fun yet multi-functional, these colours are great for rooms that are constantly being reinvented- from social hub, to children’s classroom and home office.
Colours for the Workshop palette are vibrant, joyful and are indicative of open skies with a breath of fresh air. These hues will help to define your space and the release of colour can be enhanced by accented pieces like lights, clocks and wall art.
A floral touch
Spring, flowers and the natural world- can all be introduced into your interior in an abundance of ways so you can embrace them as much as you wish.
Artificial plants and flowers add greenery and colour. Should you want to display a fresh arrangement of flowers then you can show them off in style with a well-chosen vase. These can be delicately crafted and be as much an ornamental piece as they are practical.
Updating cushions with botanical inspired patterns is a quick way to revamp a living room or bedroom. Any motif inspired by the natural world will instantly elevate a room.
Large windows allow nature to envelope your space and greenery is the perfect foil for a darker feature wall.
Indoor outdoor living
A conservatory can meld your home and garden seamlessly- a room that has all the home comforts but with the beauty of the garden within arms reach. Having such a light, spacious area in your home enables you to spend more time in this extra living space as the days become, hopefully, warmer and longer.
Traditionally a sofa and chairs are used in a conservatory, however you could also consider styling a small breakfast table or even a dining table. Bistro sets are especially great if you are short on space. Both console tables and side tables can be added and will often complement rattan garden furniture thanks to their natural wood shades.
Fresh shades of green, soft teal and duck egg in the Greenhouse colours range will blend with the outdoor tones of your garden and indoor plants.
Experiment with accessories
Whilst trends and our own personal preferences change, a simple way to refresh a space is to interchange decorative items. Cushions, rugs, throws and lighting can be re-organised to create a new look.
Artwork with a wide array of colours gives a room flexibility and versatility. With any accessory you can draw inspiration from a particular colour or even a specific motif. Natural world themed prints are especially beneficial when you want to reflect the predominant colour you have used, to pull the style together.
Statement furniture can be the main focus with hints of pattern to break up solid colour. Neutral coloured seating works particularly well in front of a brighter, bolder feature wall.
Brighter Lighter Fresher
At Cousins Furniture, our destination showrooms have a wide range of furniture and accessories that will suit any style home from traditional through to contemporary.
Each sofa, dining set, bed or accessory that we have on display is carefully selected and our show rooms are constantly being refreshed and re-imagined to create immersive room sets for you to be inspired by.
To be enthused by the thought of beginning the journey into spring and the renewal of your décor, visit us in store or talk to us on live chat. Our expert, friendly sales staff will be happy to provide any guidance that you may require.
