Even if you love the way that your home is currently decorated, home décor trends are constantly changing, and to maintain your home’s style, you may want to continue to make fashionable improvements to ensure that your home design keeps up with the times.
If this sounds like you, here are some of the most fashionable improvements that you can make to your home in 2022.
· Install a Tadelakt Wet Room
For many years, you may have stuck with a simple bathroom design, and decided to invest in a standard bathtub and sink. However, it is becoming more popular to install a wet room in your home. This stylish alternative to a traditional bathroom can look exceedingly elegant and can prevent you having to put up shower curtains and bathmats that can detract from the overall appearance of your home. Although you might worry about the effects that a wet room may have on your house (for instance, you may worry about damp and mold), if you seal your wet room well will tadelakt, you will be able to enjoy this modern bathroom alternative with no issues. So, if the sound of a wet room appeals to you, you should look into the pros and cons of installing a tadelakt wet room in your home.
· Lay Down Wooden Flooring
Although houses were once filled back to front with carpets, this is now not the case and many people are now looking to install wooden flooring back into their homes. This is because wood flooring can look both simple and smart, with its edge of sophistication allowing it to match with any décor or theme that you decide upon. Not only this, but wooden flooring has also become popular because it is easy to clean and upkeep, with many people’s busy lifestyles now preventing them from spending hours cleaning their flooring each week. However, you must learn how to look after your wooden flooring to ensure that it looks as good as new for years to come. If you do not want to invest in new wooden flooring though, you should check whether there is an original wood flooring underneath your carpet and whether you may be able to restore or refinish this.
· Install Blinds or Shutters
Soft furnishings as window fixtures are out, and blinds and shutters are in. If you are fed up with your curtains quickly looking tatty and faded, if you have a pet that loves to climb them, or spiders that love to live in them, you may be desperate to replace these with an alternative. Luckily, alternatives are now available in the shape of blinds and shutters, which are both neat and allow you to easily control the light that comes into your home. Blinds and shutters often black out the light better than curtains at night and are easier to clean, with most blinds simply needing a little wipe over to remove dust. Not only this, but you can also look at investing in motorized options that can be controlled with a remote, which can be useful for windows that are high up or that you struggle to reach easily.
· Make Your Lighting a Feature
Rather than see your lighting as simply an essential that you need to be able to see in your home when it is dark outside, you should now view it as a feature of your home. Now, fancy and elaborate lighting features are in fashion, and bare lightbulbs are frowned upon. Therefore, you should consider looking around for unique and exciting fixtures that you love and that complement the design of your home. For instance, you might consider looking at beautiful lampshades, chandeliers or pendant lights. This will then ensure that every element of your rooms are cohesive and that no feature looks as if it is out of place.
· Install a Fireplace
Fireplaces will never go out of fashion as a centrepiece of living rooms and kitchens. Fireplaces can help to bring your home alive and give it a cosy feel that will make you want to spend time in it. Therefore, you should look around for the best fireplace options for you, with many people choosing luxurious limestone or marble surrounds. You must also choose from gas, electric or wood-burning options, and there is now the eco-friendly option of choosing a bioethanol fireplace for your home that can ensure you do not contribute to global warming by using this fireplace regularly.
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