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Examining This Year's Flooring Trends

Flooring can make or break a room, and there is nothing worse than outdated floors, especially when they’re only a few years old. With flooring, the goal is to have floors that are timeless, practical, and beautiful, so that they can last for decades in your home. Your floors are the foundation for how you create your space, so we’ve compiled our top flooring trends to guide you in designing a home that is solid from the floors up for many years to come.

Hardwood

Still the most preferred flooring surface, hardwood is available in a wide variety of textures, colors, and patterns. Not only is hardwood a classic, timeless flooring option, it also adds more character and authenticity to your floors.

Natural, Wood-Look Flooring

If you love hardwood but want a waterproof product, this is the trend that you’ll want to focus on. Homeowners are gravitating towards more natural looks with stone and wood, and thanks to technology, you can get this look with luxury vinyl and laminate, while still getting the look of wood or stone.

Textures & Patterns

Textures and patterns are hot in the flooring industry right now, thanks to their ability to make your floors feel more personalized, and give extra depth to them. Trending textures include distressed, whitewashed, hand scraped, rustic, and smooth, while popular patterns include herringbone, wide planks, mixed width, and diagonal flooring.

Colors

No matter your design preferences, there should be a color trend that suits your style. Aside from classic dark hardwood, there will be heavy demand for blonde and grey woods, and if you can’t decide between light and dark, try mixing the two shades to make your floors more unique.

Area Rugs

With the rise in hard surfaces, homeowners are incorporating area rugs to add warmth, a soft underfoot, and extra personality to their space. As trends or seasons change, area rugs can be swapped out for a different pattern or a color to give your room a fresh update.

What flooring trends would you most like to incorporate into your design?

Incorporating Pineapples in Home Design

Once a novelty and a rare delicacy, pineapple is now making its way into home décor. The crowned fruit of friendship and hospitality is being integrated into kitchens, bedrooms and living rooms everywhere-giving it that summer uplift and vibrant vibe you’re craving.  As summer is quickly approaching, we believe there’s never been a better time to incorporate this trend into your home.

What we love most about pineapple is how easy it is to implement into your home due to the wide variety of ways it can be utilized. Whether you want to go bold and have it be the focal point of the room with wallpaper or couch cushions, or more subtle with table fixtures and small photographs, you can’t go wrong with this trend.

You’ll quickly find that no matter how you incorporate it, pineapple is the perfect way to mellow out a room and make it feel more relaxing while at the same time adding bright color to match the summer season.

A small bathroom element like a tooth brush holder is an easy yet effective way to embrace this design trend. While in the kitchen, cutting boards, photos, or simply the fruit itself, immediately revitalizes the room and is guaranteed to make an impression on your dinner party guests.

How are you incorporating pineapple into your home this summer?

Trending: Pops of Color

Continuing as a hot trend this summer is pops of color. This has been such a strong and consistent trend for quite some time now, because really, who doesn’t love adding fun bright colors to their space for a little pick me up? This trend focuses on mixing bright and bold colors, that reflect your personality into your home to add a dose of character and zest.

With bright colors, the goal is to make the space come alive with energy. If there are specific colors that truly speak to you, incorporate those into your design. If not, any bold, bright color, like yellow, magenta, orange, or turquoise, will do.

One look that we really love is when a variety of bright colors are mixed together to create an eclectic look. You could do this by incorporating a rug or artwork that has a mix of vibrant colors, or decorate with several bright accent pieces paired near one another, such as a chair, pillows, lamps, and blankets.

You can also incorporate this trend with just one or two pops of color, such as a purple rug, a blue couch, or bold wallpaper, to add a vibrant splash of color. If the color is used on a piece that is large in size, sometimes one bright color is all you need to make a statement.

How do you add pops of color to your home design?