The 2015 Trends Forecast from Laminex Australia written by Neil Sookee embraces worldwide design and style trends and adds a hint of nearby flavour to inspire Australian property owners and renovators. 3 important themes – Essence, Impulse and True – will influence interiors in 2015 and beyond. The three themes strip back to the bare essentials, encourage mixing colours, patterns and types and embrace imperfections in organic supplies.
Trend 1: Essence
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Essence is about reduction and simplicity, stripping back to the bare essentials. With Essence, we appear to the past for inspiration, but view retro colours and styling in a fresh, new way. After seasons of red and yellow-primarily based greys, Essence introduces a movement towards neutral and cooler greys. To create a all-natural palette of neutrals and grey, components are pure with colours derived from the supplies themselves. Deepest black and linen whites turn into the base for organic tones of wheat, stone and elemental greys. These tones turn into critical alongside white.
Soft, feminine and poetic types are essential in this trend. In the absence of colour, texture and geometric types are employed as focal points in interiors.
Trend 2: Impulse
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The opposite of Essence, Impulse is eclectic and maximal. Impulse celebrates the importance of spontaneity, encouraging us to be adventurous and inventive. More is far more when it comes to Impulse. Impulse evokes a sense of happiness. It’s a provocative mix, embracing things that don’t match. A wild fusion of styles, colour and patterns, geometric shapes and tantalising, energetic colours are central to the trend. There is a robust tendency for bold colour against a backdrop of white, light woodgrains, cool neutrals or fine greys. Also implied is the bleaching effect of robust sunlight that provides rise to faded colour, bringing a new take on nostalgia.
Impulse makes it possible for for the unexpected and unconventional and there is only one rule: there are no guidelines!
Trend 3: Real
True appears to nature and the natural environment. The trend bargains with authenticity and obtaining balance in a complicated planet, exploring a new mindfulness of organic components. Natural components like wood or stone are central to this trend. The colour palette is soft and harmonious, with vegetal colours showing an earthy and organic tendency. Greyed mid tones are crucial, as are copper, bronze and golds. Wood is the cherished material and wood tones turn light and all-natural – and less rustic. Imperfection is genuine and desirable.
Real reflects the way of life movement of Australians re-embracing ‘simple things’ such as farming, handmade merchandise, residence baking, gardening and craftsmanship. With the Genuine trend, high good quality merchandise with unsurpassed craftmanship and luxury are blended with vintage and handmade decorative products.
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