Life is always changing. From our appearance and preferences to our hobbies and surroundings, we’re constantly adapting, evolving, and improving. Why should your home be any different? If you’re consistently striving to become a better version of yourself but your living spaces are stuck in the past, it’s time to make some fresh changes as we move closer to the new year. After all, you can never get started on your New Year’s resolution too early!
Here at Star Furniture, our trusted design team is breaking out our crystal ball to scout out the essential home decor trends to look out for this coming winter and spring 2024. We have the furniture and accessories you need to give every room in your home a fresh look and mix up your ordinary living spaces season after season. Here are the 10 interior design trends to look out for as we move into 2024.
Comfort Is King
We have great news! Gone are the days when a successfully decorated home needed only to look good. In 2024, the way each piece of furniture feels and functions in your space is just as important as the way it looks. This means that visiting with guests on the sectional in your living room, eating dinner with your family around the dining room table, and crawling into bed at the end of a long day will be more enjoyable than ever before. With this idea in mind, don’t be afraid to prioritize comfort when shopping for furniture online and in-store.
If buying online, be sure to read plenty of reviews from verified buyers to ensure to see what others think about the piece that catches your eye. You may be surprised to learn that others who have bought the armchair that looks soft and plush in pictures found it to be stiff and unforgiving when they brought it home. While there’s nothing wrong with furniture shopping online, buying in person is even better. If possible, don’t hesitate to try out the furniture you’re interested in before bringing it home, particularly if they’re pieces that you intend to use often. A Star Furniture design expert can help you find the perfect chair, sofa, or other furnishing that is as comfortable as it is attractive.
Neutrals Paired with Pops of Color
In recent years, clean neutrals have dominated every living space from the kitchen to the bedroom. Moving into 2024, neutrals will still play a major part in interior design but with one important distinction. Pops of color will be thoughtfully used to make a bold statement while still embracing the modern, relaxing vibe that comes with utilizing a neutral color palette. Looking for some inspiration to bring this design trend to life in your own home? We’ve got you covered:
- Pair bright accent pillows against a cream, gray, or tan sofa for a playful yet tasteful aesthetic.
- Use unexpected accessories to breathe life into a muted living space, such as colorful lamps on your bedside table or dramatic curtain panels in your dining room.
- Hang an eye-catching wall hanging over your bed dressed in neutral, understated bedding or behind the desk in your home office.
Pattern Mixing is In
Incorporating a pattern into any living space of your home is an easy way to make it look more interesting. Likewise, decorating with multiple patterns is a great way to create depth and balance in a room that otherwise feels dull and ordinary. Polkadots and plaids may seem like strange bedfellows, but when thoughtfully paired with an eye to color and scale, they might be all the rage in 2024.
Of course, mixing and matching patterns in a way that looks like it was curated by a professional is often easier said than done. If you’d love to play with patterns and textures without making your living room, bedroom, or dining room look too busy, you’re in luck. The Star Furniture team can point you in the right direction of which patterns complement each other and which ones should stand out on their own.
Geometric Shapes Galore
Some home decor trends are too good to do away with after just one year. While geometric shapes were all the rage in 2023, this interior design trend isn’t going anywhere any time soon. From furniture to upholstery and everything in between, 2024 is sure to have plenty of geometric shapes and designs that can make every room in your home stand out from the crowd. If you think that incorporating geometry into furniture and home decor is limited to mere prints on pillows and area rugs, think again. Star Furniture has a wide variety of geometric pieces, such as ottomans and wall art, that are sure to enhance virtually any area of your home.
Symbiotic Design
There’s something about bringing elements of the natural world into your interior living spaces that instantly makes them look more inviting and feel more tranquil and relaxing. interior designers have increasingly recognized the importance of cultivating touchpoints that introduce us to nature through our home decorations. This symbiotic design will continue to be appreciated in the furniture and accessories of 2024 as shapes, colors, and styles aim to embrace the best of the natural world. The result? Living spaces that feel as contemporary and fresh as they do natural and organic.
With this in mind, you’ll be sure to find a wide variety of nature-inspired furnishings moving into the new year. From rich earth-toned paints and raw wood furniture to stone accessories and plenty of houseplants, balancing the best of nature with a modern twist will be all the rage in the coming months.
Personalized Mattress Firmness
For years, conventional wisdom has been that the firmer the mattress is, the better. The Star Furniture experts are here to tell you that firmness is no longer the measure of a great mattress. While some individuals may appreciate the support that a firm mattress can provide, the secret to a great night’s sleep is to find the ideal comfort level for your unique needs and preferences. What one person considers firm, another may find to be too soft, and vice versa.
The trusted design team at Star Furniture can help you find the ideal mattress for your particular needs. Come in to check out a large variety of mattresses in a wide range of sizes, styles, and comfort levels.
What’s Old Is New
Decorating with vintage furniture is a great way to add character and a personal touch to any area of your home. While sprucing up your grandmother’s china cabinet or revamping a thrift store table had previously been one of the few options available for incorporating antique pieces into your home, we’re happy to share that curating spaces with a vintage vibe will be easier than ever in 2024. Simply walk into any fine furniture store, such as Star Furniture, to find new wood furniture that’s been carefully designed and fabricated with an antique, aged vibe.
What makes buying new furniture that’s intentionally been aged better than actual vintage pieces? You get the best of both worlds – pieces that are beautiful, unique, and inspiring but that are also properly scaled, don’t creek, have loose screws, and are more readily available. Bottom line? You get precisely what you want!
Curves, Curves, Curves
Say goodbye to furniture with sharp edges moving into the new year. In place of pieces with traditional square corners and sides, rounded furniture will provide living rooms and bedrooms with a more feminine, romantic ambiance. In 2024, you can expect to find soft edges on everything from sofas and armchairs to tables and armoires and everything in between. Along with helping your living spaces feel light and contemporary, decorating with soft-edged furniture is a wonderful option in rooms that are on the small side. Their smooth edges will help make quaint spaces feel more spacious and open than they are. You may be surprised by the impact replacing a rectangular dining room set with a round one or a traditional sofa with something softer can have on the overall atmosphere of a room.
Hidden Home Offices
It goes without saying that the pandemic had a tremendous impact on the way that people envisioned and spent time in their homes. Whereas many people used to work outside of their houses and came home to relax, the pandemic introduced us to the idea that mixing business and pleasure doesn’t always have to be a bad thing. While the days of sheltering in place have come to an end, working from home has become the new normal for many individuals. Of course, you can’t work without having a proper location to do so. Because most people don’t have a spare room that can be solely designated to work, they’ve had to think outside the box and use their creativity to design hidden home offices wherever space allows.
If you’d love to have a home office but are limited on space, don’t worry. Adding a simple desk, comfy chair, and table lamp to a bare corner, an empty nook, or even an unused closet will help make working from home a breeze without replacing your guest bedroom or other essential area of your house. The experienced designers at Star Furniture can help you find the right office furnishings to make use of any hidden area, no matter how unusual it may be.
Built-In Nightstands and Bedwalls
While 2024 will be a year that takes some old favorites and puts a fresh spin on them, it will certainly bring some innovative design ideas as well. One of our favorites is nightstands that are built into the bed frame. Sometimes referred to as bedwalls, these innovative designs can help create a dramatic yet sophisticated focal point in your bedroom without much effort. You deserve to have a bedroom that looks fabulous, feels relaxing, and helps make resting simple. If your bedroom could use a calming yet stylish upgrade, don’t put off creating the bedroom of your dreams for another year. Stop by Star Furniture to check out our contemporary bedroom furniture options that are sure to take your bedroom to the next level in 2024.
Upgrade Your Home Decor in 2024 with Star Furniture
Keeping your home on-trend is a fun way to help your living spaces feel fresh, bright, and inviting. Just like everything in life, interior design trends come and go, but some will stick around for longer than others. With over 100 years of home design experience, the experts at Star Furniture have seen it all. We have a keen eye for trends that last and can easily spot the one-hit wonders that will leave as quickly as they came.
The good news is that embracing the lasting home decor trends is easier than you might think. The knowledgeable design team at Star Furniture can help you effortlessly incorporate a few contemporary design favorites of 2024 without having your home quickly look out of fashion. Visit us online or stop by one of our showroom locations to find the best interior design trends, including comfortable pieces, thoughtful pattern combinations, geometric designs, and more. We can’t wait to help you make this your best year yet with a house full of gorgeous new furniture and home decor!
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