Radiant Orchid: Interior Design Tips For Pantone's Color of the Year 2014

Get ready to jump on the biggest trends for 2014! For homeowners who are planning to re-decorate their homes, this is especially important. You want your home to have a fresh and modern feel, as opposed to a dated vibe. One of the best ways to ensure that your home will be designed with style and flair is to incorporate the "color of the year" as named by the Pantone Color Institute.

For 2014, Pantone has announced that Radiant Orchid is "the" color to fall in love with and incorporate into your home and day-to-day life. While certainly a stunning hue, the purple tones that make up Radiant Orchid can seem a bit overwhelming to the untrained interior designer. You don't want to overwhelm your space with the color, but still want to use it to make a beautiful statement.
In order to help you bring this vibrant shade into your house, here's a look at the color's potential, and a few simple Radiant Orchid interior design tips.

Pantone's Color of the Year: Radiant Orchid
 
As the global color authority and provider of professional color standards within the design sector, Pantone works to promote colorful expression in both interior decor and everyday lifestyles. After carefully charting future color direction and studying the ways in which color can play a significant role in influencing our thought processes, emotions and reactions, Pantone is most assuredly an expert on predicting positive trends, and pushing for the evolution of design.

Year 2014, Pantone has named Radiant Orchid as the latest in color trends. This bold and stunning hue offers a truly magical warmth to the beholder that is sure to both intrigue, and spark imaginative thought and creativity.

The enchanting purple shade is able to draw in the viewer, opening up the eyes, mind, heart and soul to new possibilities. With the perfect combination of fuchsia, purple and pink undertones, this delectable color is sure to evoke a sense of joy, love and health within any home.

Bringing it Home: Radiant Orchid Interior Design Tips

• Radiant Orchid Pieces - Because color trends change regularly, it's not necessary to rush out and replace all of your furniture with Radiant Orchid pieces. The marriage of more transient items with more permanent furnishings is the way to go. Consider introducing a gorgeous, Radiant Orchid area rug to your living room, adding pops of color with art pieces or draperies, finding Orchid accent pieces, making use of trendy and fashionable slip covers for your dining room chairs. Your whole home doesn't have to go purple - a few strategically placed Radiant Orchid pieces can go a long way in modernizing your space.

• Color Palette - Perhaps one of the most important Radiant Orchid interior design tips involves color palette. Because the shade is bold in nature, you may prefer to counter-balance the effect with neutral tones. Radiant Orchid rugs, throw pillows and accent chairs can be made softer and more subtle when paired with beige upholstered sofas, white-toned walls, blacks or grays. For those who prefer to avoid going completely neutral, red and blue shades can be integrated into the space to add extra "pizazz" while still remaining harmonious on the color spectrum.

Embracing the latest design trends is important in guaranteeing that you are happy with the overall look of your home's interior. By sticking with these Radiant Orchid interior design tips you can create a modern yet versatile space that will remain in fashion well into the future.


Blog credit: http://www.designspree.com/radiant-orchid-interior-design-tips
Photo credit: Uttermost

 

 

'Investment' Furniture will Eventually Bore You to Death

There are some timeless investment furniture pieces which can be placed in any design layout, from any era, and not only do they blend in with the décor, but they also add some character to the interiors. Those pieces are very rare however and they also have to follow a certain theme to work properly, like that popular, retro leather office chair (the one littered with sunken grooves) which looks like it belongs in a classic, luxury-design study room.

If you're already heavily stocked-up on investment furniture pieces, there are still ways through which you can freshen those pieces up though, but here's why investment furniture will eventually bore you to death:

 Investment pieces are usually very expensive and are kept for long periods of time

While you can get some fabulous home designer products at affordable prices, investment pieces are usually very costly, since one naturally ‘invests’ in these larger pieces with the aim of keeping them for life. Investment pieces may fit in with the interiorwall décor and art, as well as other design accessories, at their time of purchase and introduction into the home, but time will eventually catch up with those ageing designs and the entire balance of your interiors can get thrown off. You will eventually get bored with your investment furniture, but you are forced to stick with it because you paid so much for it, even in the wake of it gradually becoming style-outdated.

Sometimes investment furniture can be so expensive that you become rather reluctant to really enjoy it, existing as more of a decoration than actual, functional furniture.

Investment furniture can often be very prominent and dominating

Even in the event that you do eventually get bored with your investment pieces, due to those large and more prominent pieces lagging behind the emerging evolutionary design trends, there's not much you can physically do to the furniture itself because of the sheer size and prominence. Remember that often, home designer product ranges include mirrors and other matching design accessories like chandeliers, so redecorating every now and then may not be very practical, as unfair as that may be since design trends to tend to evolve quite rapidly.

Beating the Inevitable Bore

While investment furniture will eventually bore you to death, there is no escaping some of the more traditional investment furniture pieces, like the old dining room table, the living room sofa and perhaps some armchairs and a patio set. Fortunately though, with the availability of fabulous designer home products at affordable prices, accent furniture pieces and design accessories can be deployed to accentuate the investment furniture and act as a constant source of refreshment for what can become a very redundant look.

Accent furniture pieces offer a very wide variety of styling trends, with the likes of table lamps and other design accessories very easily updating the look and feel induced by the larger, more permanent investment furniture pieces. In this way, that inevitable investment furniture bore can be hedged against and you never have to surrender to it.

In Australia you can get fabulous, yet affordable design pieces from the exclusive Australian distributer    www.Uttermost.com.au

Uttermost Launching at Furnitex D & D!

Uttermost Australia, a worldwide company has now launched in Australia, featuring luxurious yet affordable furniture, mirrors, lamps and design accessories for your home, Uttermost was one of the highlights of the Melbourne Design and Decoration show last July.

During the opening of the Design & Decoration Expo, Bruce McGrath with special participation of John Oren the International Sales Manager of Uttermost USA, gave a short introduction of the best features of the Uttermost Australia home/office decorations collection.

With the success of the said event, Uttermost Australia is inviting you to their next expo at Home & Giving Fair, Melbourne this 3rd – 7th August 2013.  You’ll surely love to see  their exciting new range of luxurious home/office furniture.