Interior Design Trends of the 2020s: Part 2 - DIY and Vintage, Garden Rooms and Art Deco

Continuation of the article: Interior Design Trends of the 2020s: Part 1 .

4) DIY and vintage

So far, the 2020s have been environmentally conscious and creative, which is clearly evident in the use of sustainable materials and colorful styles, such as Boho Chic .

Another trend that continues this year is do-it-yourself ideas or shopping in the vintage shop , second-hand business or at the flea market.

It doesn't always have to be new. Often there are real treasures away from the shop shelves and shop window expenses of the large shopping streets and shopping centers of our cities, which can be integrated into your own living style either directly or a little.

This living trend can also be seen on the network, especially at Pinterest: Search queries of users for terms such as "vintage-DIY" or "Establishment from the vintage shop" have increased three times compared to the previous year.

Countless Pinterest boards and collections from all over the world are devoted to DIY , upcyling , and vintage .

The renowned auction house Sotheby’s antiques last year , which clearly reflects the changed settings on the environment and consumption.

People are becoming increasingly aware of how their shopping habits and their daily life affect the environment. For this reason, you will find ways to contain these effects and to act more environmentally friendly and sustainable from now on.

Much to the delight of dealers for antiques and vintage objects.

At the same time, they seem to be over the one-stop shop mentality of recent years and want to bring the interior design of their apartments and houses to the next level.

You succeed in familiarizing yourself with mixing and combining old and new things when traveling. Often they bring locally or regionally produced objects and souvenirs from all over the world and integrate them into their living rooms.

Each individual interior tells the personal story of the one living in it.

The expert says:

As someone who appreciates the mixture of modern and classic elements, I am happy about a revival and flaring popularity of traditional lines, patterns and details in furniture and decorative accessories. With grandma chic or a reaction to saturation at MID-Century furniture is nice to see: What is old is new again. "

Liz Foster by Decorist

How does the retro chic succeed?

You can easily reach a successful mix of old and new with pieces that have a simple and clean design language, ideally paired with real and authentic craftsmanship.

A coherent nostalgic retro look should be harmoniously coordinated so as not to look overloaded. It is also best to avoid an too much focus on mid-century furniture. A selective, targeted placement of these pieces ensures a stylish retro chic .

Anna Brockway , co -founder and president of Chairish , even sees the increasing popularity of vintage a much broader return to the traditional interior and decor:

This trend includes classic shapes. Beloved prints of established design houses; Landscapes and portraits in striking jewelry frames; Wallpaper, ligaments and decorations to create spaces that feel lush, layered and fully. And yes - this also includes traditional brown furniture! "

An additional advantage when buying old furniture and antiques: these objects will probably still gain value over time.

Wand carpets are also en vogue again. They are perfectly suitable as a visual center for a room. Large -format carpets with idyllic landscapes bring the beautiful colors of nature inside a house. The steamed color pallets of green, blue and earth tones can provide inspiration for the colors and textures of the entire room.

interior design, based in Los Angeles , regularly draws antiques to upgrade contemporary, modern interiors.

In a contemporary environment, it is nice to have an old piece or something you grew up with or that was passed on by a family member ",

he leads.

Classicism is back

The return to days and fad symptoms can also be seen in the fact that classicism is back. Busts and Greek details give every contemporary interior a new perspective.

When dealing with this style, perhaps long since a long time, a playful approach is the key. You should integrate elements from the classic era without taking it too seriously.

Furnishing examples, inspiration and suggestions convey the following videos ...

5) Garden Rooms / Urban Jungle / Indoor Jungle

The trend towards urbanization makes big cities a magical attraction. Often, however, the closeness to nature falls by the wayside. We quickly feel that we lack something important in the middle of concrete deserts and small apartments without a garden or green areas: the gentle hand of nature as a source of strength, and therapeutic cure for our soul.

Isn't it wonderful that nature in the form of Garden Rooms , Urban Jungle or Indoor Jungle comes to visit us in our own four walls?

This trend creates a green, natural counterpoint to an urbanized and industrialized environment. No wonder that this furnishing trend is at the top of the podium.

This interior trend inspired by plants is about creating a botanical oasis that is source of food for your mind and thus not insignificantly contributes to intellectual health. And by the way, it also looks beautiful.

Regardless of whether herb bed on the windowsill, small vertical herb gardens in the kitchen, breeding microgrreen , or even overgrown, hanging gardens in the living rooms - there are almost no limits to your own creativity.

Houseplants have become one for almost every stylish interior. According to Pinterest's report, terms such as "Garden Room" in 2019 gained over 100% popularity. This grown interest also seems to be continuing for the 2020s.

Pinterest describes the phenomenon as "to maintain nature in its own, secret garden" . It is like creating a small sanctuary in their living rooms that blooms all the advantages of nature.

This longing is also too aware writer Kat Poole Pool finds the act of maintaining your houseplants therapeutically and emphasizes:

When I feel stressed or anxious, the only safe way to relax my brain is to concentrate entirely on the green things that grow around me. "

It continues:

It's about both hands and no distractions. I can't do it with my cell phone, with just one hand or eye on the TV. ”

Guide for a perfect implementation of Garden Rooms

Many, many plants ...

Large, small, devoured, high - the key to creating a botanical wonderland is in a good plant mix. The following applies: more is more here. So go on a shopping safari.

Of course, one should not leave the care of the nursing effort that many plants have. The therapeutic effect also lies exactly in the creation and maintenance.

And which plants are now suitable for the living trend Urban Jungle ?

In principle very simple! Follow the simple motto "The color doesn't matter - the main thing is green" . Basically, numerous plant compounds can be freely combined. So confidently mix locals with exotic, potted plants with climbing plants.

A real jungle does not adhere to solid structures and conventions.

The following plants are particularly popular:

• Window sheet - this tropical green plant with the botanical name Monstera Deliciosa originally comes from South America. It is characterized above all by its plate -sized, juicy leaves with window -like openings. The window blade likes shadow and moderate moisture.
• Musa - The Musa, who comes from Japan, has emerged in particular among the banana plants. Your leaves can reach a size of over one meter. Therefore well suited for large rooms, spacious entrance areas, openly designed apartments with high ceilings. The music should receive a sunny place and has to be watered frequently. For this, it is quite insensitive in terms of temperatures.
• Eucalyptus - a highly shot, pleasantly fragrant plant that we often only encounter in candies and teas. Its blue -green to silver -shimmering leaves exude a subtle elegance and therefore fit perfectly into minimalist, puristic and Scandinavian living styles . The eucalyptus (Eucalyptus Gunnii) can become up to three meters high and feels most comfortable at sun -rich places in damp earth.
• Alocasia - The arrow sheet owes its German name to the shape of its leaves, which seem like large arrowheads. The dark top of the leaves is decorated by white lines. The underside is reddish. Place the Alocasia on a shady place and avoid the earth that is too strong.
• Schefflera - Very popular, easy -care houseplant with dense green to dark green foliage and white color blobs. This evergreen harmonizes with almost all furnishing styles and fits perfectly with vintage and retro-chic.

Use the height with shelves, frames, borders, and hanging

They ensure a real depth effect by using the room height and vary playfully with the placement of plants in height and depth.

Loosen your green friends from the ground to give your garden room another dimension. Apart from that, they create space for more of them.

The goal of a garden room is to feel immersed from her plants into an oasis of calm. If you are able to set up or install shelves, borders, displays and hangers in your room, plants that dangle over your head contribute wonderfully. An atmosphere of security is spreading in the lap of nature.

The paths to the vertical are diverse. You can opt for several shelf boards, multi -stage displays, hanging devices for the ceiling or for macrame -made rope constructions.

Send your imagination on the trip and she will show you the way.

Different flower pots

Even if your indoor Jungle has little space, the use of flower pots, tubs, boxes and other planters of different sizes, variation, design and style leads to a loosened look and makes the aesthetics of your plants more interesting.

Visit various hardware stores, garden centers, department stores, browse through online shops and look for rare vintage rarities .

And it doesn't always have to be the classic flowerpot. You may notice unusual vessels or containers that can be used for your interior jungle.

Spread walls in calming colors

Spread walls in gentle and soothing colors to offer your fauna a coherent setting.

I love particularly pale sage guns and deep, rich navy blau .

Round mirror

Many my favorite examples of garden rooms have large, round mirrors with which the room looks light, light -flooded and airy.

They also reflect the pictures of the plants, so that they feel surrounded even more by their botanical friends and the green paradise seems much larger and more extensive.

Terrariums and glass vessels

Particularly suitable if you don't have a lot of space and want to create a small miniature world in the middle of your apartment. Terrariums require a lot of care and love . This allows you to have a therapeutic effect and help us make a careful moments of devotion.

I recommend buying several of them in different sizes if the space is available. There are even those that can be hung on the ceiling.

Professional tips from the "crazy plant lady"

The Model Summer Rayne Oakes, who lives in New York, does not happen to bear the nickname "Crazy Plant Lady" .

Visit the Urban Jungle enthusiast in her apartment in Brooklyn, where she has now settled over 500 plants ...

You can also see an Urban Jungle Makeover in the time lapse in the following video ...

Inspiration and examples of Garden Rooms on Pinterest

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6) Art Deco

Living like in times of the big Gatsby ? This can be done with the Art Deco Trend. This convinces with a sophisticated style of the 20s and is currently more trendy than ever. Interior enthusiasts are particularly popular with art objects of all kinds from this era or their modeled pieces.

Art Deco was one of the most exciting and influential styles of the 20th century and still significantly shapes the design of interiors and furniture today. After the horrors of the First World War, life was celebrated with a lot of glamor as a departure into a better future.

With a wide variety of elements, this furnishing style creates a new clarity that is skilfully mixed with a touch of French glamor and opulent luxury. The Art Deco style combines geometric forms of classic modernism with an excessive urge to luxurious.

He positions himself as a counter -flow to the reduced and functional Scandi -Chic style and surprised us in the early 2020s with all kinds of opulent furnishing ideas and concepts from the "Golden" 1920.

Also at the Paris facility fair "Maison & Objet" it was clear that interiors in Art Deco style is one of the great trends of our time.

In addition to the interior design area, this style can also be found in the world of fashion and fashion.

The expert says:

Lighting is so important in every design. For the further years of the 2020s, an increase in modern French and Art Deco lighting designs can be expected. "

, emphasized Highlyann Krasnow by The Design High .

Origins and history of origin

In general, we locate the origins of this style in the "Roaring Twenties" , that is, in the Golden 20s of the last century.

More specifically, the original Art Deco Möbelstil in France and Austria only prevailed and established from 1925 to around 1940. It was based on the Art Nouveau and in contrast to the reduced and strictly functional Bauhaus in Germany.

The artists, designers or architects at the time pulled their inspiration from different currents such as the Rococo, the Biedermeier or the Viennese Art Nouveau. Nature was also a popular source of inspiration.

Materials used and their effects in the room played a significant role.

The following video leads us in a quick run through the history of this style:

Characteristics and characteristics

It cannot be determined for this furnishing style a single, isolated feature - rather, it is characterized by the interaction of different influences.

Art Deco is characterized by luxurious materials, patterned surfaces and both sensual and geometric shapes. Velvet fabrics, gold tones and floral patterns are particularly popular.

Essential features at a glance:

• Clear, symmetrical shapes and straight, elegant lines
• Ornaments and decorations from jagged lines, arches, steps and angles
• Geometric patterns and decors
• Avantgardist, streamlined design and sensual design language
• Precious materials such as marble, ebony, ivory, amboyna, amaranth, velours and mahogany
• Shiny and smooth -polished surfaces such as brass, chrome, crystal glass or lacquered wood (e.g. sophisticated painting techniques from Japan)
• Imaginative and colorful decors, often inspired by nature and fauna
• Elegant, dark jewel tones

Opulence, decadence and luxury

In order to create an Art Deco ambience in your living rooms, you should courageously, opulent and wasteful . People meets elegance.

In principle, typical Art Deco Möbel are pieces that were already found in the time of the emperors and kings at nobility and royal houses, e.g. B. Serving cars, console tables, side tables , opulent mirrors and friction tables, as well as representative desks and lounge furniture, such as. B. the chaiselounge or the otomaniac.

The value of the material was just as important as the origin of the same. Marble and Onyx from Italy, exotic dark wood from overseas, tiles from Spain and Portugal and carpets from the Orient had to be.

A furniture style was created, which is characterized by visible value and a lot of manual work and showed an exquisite taste of the resident.

A great focus was also on the design of the pieces - decadence and opulence, luxury and wealth was the desired signal effect. Even safes were designed elaborately during this time and opened openly in the house.

Sample and design language

The subjects used were the subjects, geometric shapes and patterns as well as lines.

Reference and home textiles were primarily, including or shimmering, fine-tuned fabrics like satin. Wallpers with large patterns and floral motifs also come to the fore in Art Deco. A dark green tone was often used as a contrast color to gold.

See a selection and unmistakable, extraordinary art Déco Interieurs in the following video:

This is how the Art Deco style works in your home:

If you want to enrich your living spaces with a touch of wasteful nostalgia, you are very trendy. The incomparable flair of Art Déco can be realized, for example, by the following accessories:

• Ancient facility and decorative objects in the style of the 20s
• Pillows or upholstery armchairs or even ancient wing chair made of heavy fabrics such as velvet and brocade
• Coffee tables with real wood and marble slab
• Textiles with geometric patterns or large-scale plant prints or the typical peacock feather
• Wallpaper and decorative fabrics with geographical patterns (arrow-shaped, zigzag, trapezoidal, radiation-shaped)
• Skins and animal skins as a wall decoration
• Lamps made of brass, gold -plated stainless steel, black glass or smoke glass; Statement lamps; opulent lighting / lighting
• Opulent mirrors, e.g. with elaborate decorative frames
• Chic bar or serving cars with a round design language
• Wall objects with a form of sun rays
• Expressive colors: mint green, yellow, pink, baby blue, deep blue to turquoise blue, glowing orange and pink tones, silver and gold (alternatively: monochrome or classic black and white)

Modern new interpretations

As a style principle, Art Deco does not have to be implemented faithfully to the last detail according to the original style era. It can also easily be adapted to every interior and interpreted individually, so that indications of the original style are still preserved.

Contemporary new interpretations celebrate this style of the early 20th century with an inherent opulent and luxurious handwriting, but at the same time remain elegant, functional and modern. This is how you create the perfect combination for modern home.

While it creates a breathtaking effect to have a complete Art Deco interior, it is therefore easy to only include individual Art Deco interior design elements that can be plentiful or sparse depending on the taste and lifestyle.

Any Art Deco Touch guarantees your living space a touch of glamor and flair of the old school.
Well -known companies that have devoted themselves to Art Deco furniture style are, for example, Paolo Castelli from Italy, or Hamilton Conte from France.

Art Deco furnishing ideas on Pinterest

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