Avoid neutrals – greens, blues and burgundies are 2024’s trendiest hues! To make this look work you’ll need to paint an entire wall or create a vibrant accent feature in this colour to display this trend.
For comfort, use the deepest paint colours and then balance them with the lightest wood you can find for the furniture.
Japandi
No longer will homes resort to temporary TikTok DIY or faux paper wallpaper to give living rooms a lift for a predetermined period of time. Look out for premium grasscloths, metallic wallcoverings, customised wooden slatwalls and textural murals that will elevate a living room for years to come.2024 living spaces will likely see more of these permanent solutions.
Japandi is a Scandi-style mix of Eastern minimalism and Scandinavian function. Nature-inspired colour palettes, and organic accents are key to this look, which aims towards calm tranquility. Light wood furniture and earthy neutral tones, such as green, are essentials of the trend – which is ideal for families with young children, as it naturally promotes clutter-free spaces.
This palette of mostly Soft Scandi shades with added accents from from deeper shades is wonderfully warm, with pale pinks, blues and greens providing a seductive backdrop, set off by darker shade accents such as black and charcoal grey. Not keen on pink? Damson – a deliciously deep hue from the world of dark berries – could offer a grown-up alternative with its lustrous blend of millennial pink and dusty rose tones in its base.
Peach Fuzz
Every year, Pantone unveils its Color of the Year as an inspirational guide in design. This year’s warm peach pick seeks to ‘provide nourishment to the soul’ and make us feel comforted and connected – hopefully giving our homes a burst of colour too!
You can bring in accent pieces in this soothing colour first: look for vases or picture frames with the colour featured, and lighting fixtures in particular can make an even greater impact. Textiles are a third, versatile way to incorporate the hue; drape curtains or blankets over upholstered furniture to pull its warm hue forward, adding texture and warmth to your space.
Finally, Peach Fuzz is a fun jolt of colour that would look great used in smaller furniture, accessories and decor items – kitchen stools, perhaps. They’ll blend effortlessly into whichever existing decor scheme you have so you can bring a fresh burst of brightness into any room.
Layered Texture
Paint your home in colours and rich tones to break from the all-white fetish of the last few years. Look for woods or slate effects on wall tiles or decorative wall panels with a relief.
Dark hues such as plum, black, navy blue and burgundy are still very much trending for this year, and adding some drama to any room could be as easy as embracing dark colours if limited to one or two accent walls – there are many designs to choose from like this one or you
If you are looking for more than just paint and wallpaper, another way to bring colour into your space is a more customisable approach – a hand-painted mural. Furniture pieces or removable wallpaper can be used to form this decorating trend, which will enable you to personalise your living area and offer a striking focal point within the room.
Concealed TV
TV armoires and Blu-ray cabinets filled the living room in the 2010s – by 2024, that will all change as seating situations go for more intimate, conversation-friendly set-ups and homeowners favour sleekness over large pieces, placing TVs out of sight rather than on lofty platforms above fireplaces or mantels. ‘One of the things that helps lessen a TV’s presence is moving it into a cabinet or mounting it behind dark accent walls,’ said Gretchen Krebs of Medium Plenty to Elle Décor.
Dark hues on walls and wallpaper can help conceal ugly televisions. In this polished sitting room by Georgie Wykeham Designs, a black-on-black scheme helps the television to blend into the background and give more attention to the framed art pieces on show.
Moodier shades such as navy blue, burgundy and grey are also an on-trend choice for lighter rooms, creating a more intimate sense of a cocoon in a contemporary living area, which is also being increasingly used as a study, library or media lounge. Here’s how the trend is playing out: add dark toned furnishings with organic shapes or wilder edge sconce lights with texture including – organic shapes, or blown glass such as those at HMHome sconce lights with texture including organic shapes or blown glass, such as these at HMHome.
