The hazy wet days and fallen muddy leaves of Autumn make for the perfect environment for staying indoors and wrapping up warm and cosy. This is also the perfect time to do a touch of seasonal-appropriate interior design, ensuring your home has all the right colours, furnishings, and materials to make optimal for the encroaching winter cold.
Adding touches of autumn-inspired décor as the season progresses will ensure your home is not only on trend, but beautifully suited to the warm and subdued colours and decorative elements that have become so strongly associated with the autumn season. Not to mention that there’s nothing better than coming back to a warm and cosy domicile after enduring the cold dark of an autumn evening. Not sure where to start? Here are some tips.
Colour-Schemes
Look at how the natural world is changing around you during the autumn season. See all those warm browns, deep reds and lovely orange colours? Take this as inspiration for your own interior decorating. Pick and choose the parts that appeal to you most and incorporate as many warm colours as possible to get that rustic autumn feel for your living room. Autumn, after all, is about as mellow as seasons get, especially with the harsh winter always lurking on the horizon.
Much like the changing colour of leaves, try to get some dynamic and varied colour combinations in your living room. You also don’t want to overdo it with an onslaught of pumpkin coloured furniture, so try and strike a balance. If you have white or cream walls, it’s much easier to maintain this balance as warm colours are anchored by white backgrounds; this principle is commonly associated with design, but works just as well with interiors. Keep this in mind when deciding how to paint a room.
Furnishings & Furniture Hire
Anything with a sense of heft, vintage quality or warmth to it will fit in nicely with your autumn inspired living room. For that authentic rustic feel, plunder the charity shops and car boot sales in your local area to find those inspired furnishings with that unique look. Also browse local furniture hire companies if you’re more interested in keeping your autumn inspired furniture seasonally appropriate. As with your colour-schemes, you don’t want to overdo it with your furniture design, as too much detail will make your living room look far too busy. Instead, try bold singular colours and minute details to achieve a more simplistic feel.
If you are feeling adventurous, you can experiment with other materials and colour-schemes to really bring out that natural-inspired look in your living room. The increasing use of stone elements in interiors has been frequently attributed to Nordic inspired design, however it also works just as well to achieve that natural feel in a home that is synonymous with the autumn season.
Getting Perfect Lighting
Don’t forget that during the autumn it gets darker much earlier, and your warmer colour schemes will require some quality lighting to make sure all those autumn interior design aesthetics are really standing out as they should. You’ll want a set of strong lighting appliances to ensure those dark evenings are taken care of, but not so strong that you lose your whole soft edge approach. Dimmer switches are very favourable here, as are theatre-style lamps, both of which give you greater control over the lighting of a room.
If you’re finding it difficult to get the balance of lighting right, try experimenting with reflective elements such as mirrors and metallic objects, which will not only reflect light around your living room thus brightening it, but also make your living room appear much larger.
Designing With Wood
Finally, one of the most important aspects of capturing that rustic autumn feel in your living room is through the inclusion of wooden design elements. Wood is a very unique material and a wonderful asset for decorating your home, and it also benefits from being widely available in many different forms of furniture and decorative ornaments. Learn more about how to paint wood to take your unique design projects even further.
It doesn’t take much, but decorating with wood adds an inviting warmth to almost every type of interior, and also helps soften your colour contrasts; perfect for combining those warm autumn colours in a smaller space. However you choose to achieve your autumn inspired look, make sure you take advantage of the beautiful and versatile nature of wood.
