Mixing and Matching: How to Incorporate Multiple Interior Design Trends into Your Home

With new interior design trends emerging left and right, it’s normal to feel overwhelmed and tempted to incorporate every last trend into our homes right away. But, it’s important to find the perfect balance between your favorite trends, while creating a unique and personalized space to call your home. In this blog, we will explore the art of mixing and matching multiple design trends, how to unleash your creativity, and tips on creating a harmonious and personalized space that’s uniquely yours. Let’s go!

Finding Your Unique Style

The first step in mixing and matching interior design trends is understanding your own personal style. Close your eyes and envision what colors, patterns, and materials you love the most, or reflect on the furniture and decorations you already have in your home. Being in tune with your personal design style makes the process of infusing your space with new interior design trends much smoother. Suddenly, choosing specific elements to incorporate into your design becomes less stressful and actually fun.

Once you’ve found your unique style, you can begin making design choices. This is where creativity comes into play, as it could mean choosing furniture that reflects your lifestyle, a color palette that meets your emotions, or artwork that tells a story. The key is to achieve a seamless blend between all of the interior design trends and your personality. “From an aesthetic point of view, blending trends keeps your space from looking too much like a showroom,” Bay Area interior designer Diana Hathaway notes. “The best designs have incorporated a touch of imperfection and a bit of magic. Blending trends definitely delivers on that!”

Creating a Cohesive Look

When incorporating multiple interior design trends, one tip is to choose a neutral color palette to create a cohesive look. Neutral colors such as beige, gray, and white can serve as a blank canvas for you to add pops of color and texture. By using neutral colors, you ensure that your space will not feel cluttered or overpowering, even when you are mixing and matching different design elements.

Another way to create a cohesive look when incorporating multiple interior design trends is by layering with textures and trends. Textured elements like woven baskets, shag rugs, and textured wallpaper can add depth and dimension to a space. This can also help to balance out bold patterns and bright colors, ensuring that your space feels harmonious and put together. “The key for a beginner is to effectively layer your trends by category and remain consistent within that category,” Cameron Johnson, CEO and Founder at Nickson Living says. “For example, if you decide to go modern in a living room then stick with modern for your large pieces such as a sofa, coffee table, and media stand. If you then want to go vintage, you can start with the accessories such as a rug or side tables.”

Finally, incorporating statement pieces can help bring different design elements together. A statement piece could be a bold piece of artwork, a statement lighting fixture, or a unique piece of furniture. By having these statement pieces, you can add some personality to your space and help bring different design elements together.

Mixing and Matching Tips

When incorporating multiple interior design trends, it's important to experiment with different combinations. Feel free to mix and match different styles, materials, and even cultures. “The chicest homes embrace eclectic elements from various cultures and eras. While they may lean toward modern or toward traditional, authentic interiors leave enough room for design surprises that push the boundaries of a formulaic style,” says Ksenya Malina of Time and Place Interiors. By experimenting, you can find what works best for you and your space.

Another way to incorporate multiple interior design trends is by using accent pieces. Accent pieces like throw pillows, vases, and wall decor can add color and texture to your space without feeling too overwhelming. By using accent pieces, you can bring in different design elements while still maintaining a cohesive look.

Finally, playing with scale can help create balance when incorporating multiple interior design trends. By using different sizes and shapes of furniture, you can create visual interest and balance in your space. For example, you can mix large furniture pieces like a sofa with smaller accent chairs or incorporate a large statement piece of artwork with smaller pieces.

Experiment with Trends in Your Home

Feel free to try different combinations and trust your personal style. The beauty of interior design is that there are no hard and fast rules. You can mix and match different elements to create a space that is unique and reflective of you.

Tahwii Spicer, shop curator and owner of The Porter House Co., shares these words, “Interior design is very much a sensorial experience so it’s important to follow what moves you and create around the feeling you want your home to embody regardless of trends. Let the trends inspire you and allow your own creativity to take shape from there.”

Try Your Own Design

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