If you’re ready to give your boring living room a trendy makeover, in this guest blog post from Chloe Smith you can find all the creative inspiration you need to create a perfect magazine cover look for your living room.

Rich shades and soft materials

When it comes to choosing the right colour palette, stray away from your safe zone and neutral tones and choose bold colours. Think brooding violet, burnt orange, and greens especially striking emerald green because it’s all about creating a moody interior. Be brave and choose bold colours for your furniture as well and create a perfect colourful yet moody interior with a touch of romance. Emphasise the rich shades this spring by intertwining beautiful new materials, patterns, and textures – 2018 is the year of leather and velvet. Choosing luscious powder rose velvet for your sofa is a perfect way to be trendy and stylish while embracing rich pigments and keeping up with new interior design trends.

Dark wood tones for glamourous retro style

Step away from pale, raw woods inspired by the Scandi trend Lagom and embrace the darker wood tones. Give your living room a retro glamorous look by combining darker wood furniture with rich tones and metallic decorative accents. Mix textured walnut, dark oak, mahogany, gold, brass, black and brown shades and marble to achieve the sophisticated retro look and add a new depth to a room. Decorate with vintage decorative flea-market finds, small furniture pieces in retro shapes and colourful dry flower bouquets to complete the look.

Check out our hot timber wallpaper trends.

Transforming a room from the top down

Statement ceilings represent an inventive way to remodel your living room in an unexpected way. Forget about accented walls and transform a room from the top down! Instead of boring plain white ceilings paint patterns such as black stripes, geometric shapes or create a muraled ceiling to amp up the glamour. 2018 trends are all about being bold and introducing bold trends into your home so don’t be afraid to play and invent your own, unique style by following these brave trends.

Romantic flowery prints

Flowers and botanical prints are going to be huge this year! Actually, the fact is that they are always in fashion but this season prints have gone small-scale and are used as decorative accents. The best thing about it is that you can create your own prints and make custom pillowcases for your powder pink velvet sofa to finish the moody romantic look of your living room area.

See our range of floral wallpaper designs.

Fewer bigger pieces of furniture

When it comes to choosing the right trendy furniture to apply the rules above. Opt for dark wood tones or metal in combination with rich colours and play with materials. You can combine few different pieces of furniture in different shades and materials such as a green soft leather chair with a navy velvet sofa. Opt for fewer bigger pieces to put an accent on the moody romantic atmosphere and don’t exaggerate with decoration. The new trends are not based on minimalism but you should avoid cluttering your living room and overcrowding shelves and other surfaces. Just a few decorative accents are enough to complete the look. Rely on experienced junk removal services to get rid of all of your unnecessities and start transforming your living room into a perfect trendy space with a warm and comfy atmosphere.

Moody interior and leafy plants

Introducing leafy houseplants into any interior is a great way to decorate the space and inspire the connection with nature. Especially in this case where the newest interior trends are based on rich pigments and dark shades. The green colour of plants in contrast to rich walls and furniture colours will make your room look like an interior design magazine cover. Use terracotta or clay pots in various sizes to add up to the whole rustic meets vintage look. Earthy shades of clay, terracotta, and ochre will play a key role this season so make sure to intertwine these materials in your living room makeover as well.

Unique front doors

Leave a great first impression by updating entryway especially if it is positioned to lead directly to your living room area. Paint your front door in an unexpected colour to prepare your guests for an unforgettable interior as they enter your home. Choose a bold rich colour for the doors, frame them with bay trees or large potted plants and place a witty message mat to set an inviting tone.

Introduce these trends into your living room area to create a perfectly modern, comfy interior for you and your loved ones. Last years minimalistic styles are a great base for creating a perfect moody interior with a romantic touch and be on trend! Experiment with rich colours, dark wood tones, soft materials and earthy shades of clay and terracotta.

About the author

Chloe Smith is a business consultant for a Sydney based junk removal company Pink Junk, and a part-time writer always willing to share tidbits of advice. She believes that passion, courage and, above all, knowledge breed success. When she’s not working, she’s probably somewhere cuddled up with a good book, and a cup of lemongrass tea (or more honestly binge-watching the newest Netflix hit show).