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Less Tech In Your Living Room

In a world where our lives seem to be consumed by technology and fancy new gadgets, there will surprisingly be a refocus in the design of living rooms. Stepping away from living rooms overflowing with TVs, videos game devices, and hand-held games, there will be a step towards ridding the living room of these items.

The shift will focus on replacing media-heavy living rooms with a space that promotes a peaceful area for families to unwind, relax and catch-up with one another. Think less tech and more talk. There will be a strong emphasis for the design to encourage quality time with one another, instead of quality time with the TV or phone.

When it comes time to designing the perfect living room, you must first decide on your intended audience. Do you need a design that's functional for a young family, or will your guests mostly be adults?

(Photo Credit: IDG Featured Designer Lucy Penfield)

For a living room geared towards a family, think about soft, plush couches, with a focus on accent pillows rather than breakable accent pieces. For a formal living room, consider showing off luxurious and intricate pieces of work, with furniture having hard, clean lines.

(Photo Credit: IDG Featured Designer Lucy Penfield)

How do you feel about a tech-free living room?

Bring Your Room To Life With Nature

In 2016, there will be a fresh new focus on home design. While inspiration has been stemming from nature for quite some time now, there will be a large focus this year on incorporating nature into your home design with fresh vegetation, stemming from your walls and surfaces.

Choose A Level Of Impact

When it comes to how you'll bring nature inside, consider what type of impact you want to make. If you want to go big, choose a focal wall in your room to add a large display of plants or vines to. For a less intense use of plant life, add smaller displays to your room. Not only does this add brightness and color to your space, but it makes the room come to life.

(Photo Credit: IDG Featured Designer Heidi Mendoza)

Nesus Pattern

It's no surprise that nature-inspired pieces go together, so when it comes to bringing lush vegetation into your home, choose neutral flooring. Nesus, a pattern from the Dabbieri Collection, available in eight nature-inspired color tones, is perfect for any room that you'd like to bring to life with lush vegetation.

How would you design with lush vegetation?

 

Designer Spotlight: Heidi Mendoza

Heidi Mendoza, the owner and designer behind re.dzine, comes to us from her local IDG showroom, Floors Coverings by CPA. Heidi Mendoza, a native of Helsinki, Finland, believes that good interior design is what makes a house a home.

When it comes to designing spaces for her clients, it is Heidi’s mission to “design spaces where aesthetics and function coexist in perfect harmony.”

Heidi offers her full interior design services for both residential and commercial projects, where she provides tailor-made services to meet her client’s visions and needs.

For more information: http://iredzine.com/

Get Sophisticated With Milky Blue

Bright and vibrant colors have long been trending in interior design for their ability to add character and pizazz to home decor. While bold colors are a surefire way to add personality to your space, the same effect can be accomplished with the softer shades of those bright colors. Royal blue can pack an instant punch, but a softer blue can have a similiar impact when used in the correct manner.

Sophisticated and Elegant

While using bold colors in interior design is popular, adding to the list of trends will be an addition of softer hues of these louder colors, such as milky blue. With a look of sophistication and elegance, milky blue adds instant warmth and brings about a feeling of peace to your space.

Perfect For A Cozy Room

A soft and airy blue is ideal in living rooms or in cozy nooks, as it evokes a sense of both serenity and calmness, feelings that you want these rooms to have.

(Photo Credit: IDG Featured Designer Nicole Zeigler)

When paired with white accents, this combination of colors will make a milky blue shade pop with vibrance. To make your room appear larger than it truly is, add milky blue to your walls for a complete room transformation.

(Photo Credit: IDG Featured Designer Lucy Penfield)

How would you incoporate milky blue into your home design?