Pinterest is the mirror of people’s taste and passions: through its smart photographic boards, the website indeed expresses our preferences in terms of travelling, clothing, and food recipes.
It also says plenty about the way we live spaces: no wonder that many researches indicate Pinterest as the best-loved platform by the international furniture and design community.
I mean, do you even remember the way you stored tips and ideas before Pinterest landed to our life (to this end, just page through the book by American actress Diane Keaton, The House That Pinterest Built, which reveals a look inside the house she built from the ground up with the help of the Pinterest)?
To help us out as well, Pinterest released the Home Report 2018, pointing the way to home decor ideas that will capture our own unique tastes and lifestyle next year: here’s our all-time fave picks.
1. Tables and tiles with geometric patterns
Geometric shapes are extremely popular, whether it comes to furniture – and especially, coffee and dining tables –, or tiles, better if laid with contrasting grout. To this purpose, check out the 1970s-inspired setting for Club Unseen, the ad hoc project by Studiopepe in celebration of FuoriSalone 2018 (cover photo).
2. Framed plants
House plants are back on a roll, both as a means for decoration and purifying indoor air, and yet those of you who lack a green thumb can go for framed plants and botanical prints sourced from ancient scientific tomes.
3. Fringed furniture
Vital for cushions, chandeliers or sofas is to boast some truly luxurious fringes made of coloured and precious fabrics: a contemporary, charming take on a typical ethnic feature.
4. Statement rugs
Together with the love for textiles, our homes are definitely opting for fluffy carpets giving a raw, minimalist, urban perspective on the statement rugs of Moroccan inspiration.
5. Cement tiles
Long live (again) those squared or hexagonal tiles with floral/geometric motifs once so popular in 1800s, and later downgraded to a bad decor choice that needed to be removed or concealed.
6. Lagom
Hygge is out, Lagom is in: the next interior design craze comes straight from Sweden, and is all about achieving the perfect balance of old and new, spareness and layers
7. Open space wardrobe
Going hand in hand with our increasingly small domestic habitats, the open space wardrobe is a wall-less walk-in closet that so naturally scatters ornamental coloured hues throughout the room.
8. Sage
Again and again, sage green has become the new go-to neutral in interior design, as it helps to soften up any domestic or contract space, and provide a warm, relaxing but bold twist to the environment.
9. Freestanding bathtubs
Whether you have a large bathroom or not, freestanding bathtubs are progressively turning into sculptural pieces of furniture to enjoy and show off, possibly with generous forms and a key location in the room.
