Design Trends - Bringing Natural Elements Indoors:

One of the most popular current trends for home decorating is incorporating natural elements into your living spaces. The design team at Heritage Design Interiors has compiled a few ways to help you bring nature inside. 

Window Treatments

Updating your window treatments is a simple way to incorporate natural elements into your home’s interior. If you’re looking for shades, natural fiber window treatments such as woven wood shades and blinds blend organic style with functionality. Other shades crafted from materials like bamboo, grasses, and jute will create a natural and warm look in your room while controlling the amount of light that enters and providing privacy. 

Fabric window treatments are another option for adding a touch of nature indoors. Natural fibers such as linen, cotton, silk, wool, and bamboo are breathable, soft, and biodegradable, making them eco-friendly. Fabric window treatments may require more specialized care as they are prone to shading, fading, crushing, and yellowing over time. 

 Flooring 

Area rugs make an easy and quick way to update your flooring in your home. Since area rugs are not a permanent change, they are a great way to try out something new. Area rugs made from natural fibers are generally durable and sustainable, making them an excellent eco-friendly choice for flooring. These natural rugs do require more care, as they are more prone to staining and more sensitive to moisture than their synthetic alternatives. 

In addition to area rugs, hardwood flooring is always a great way to bring in a natural element to your floor. Choices for hardwood floors include the standard choices of wood, such as cherry, walnut, ash, and mahogany, as well as bamboo, cork, and stone. 

Decorating

When using natural elements as the focus for your interior design, it is only fitting for decorations to be comprised mainly of plants and other natural elements. This will achieve the overall sense of calm as well as an enhancement of well-being that the connection to the natural world brings. 

When decorating with plants, use plant stands and hanging plant holders that are made of natural materials such as wood and stone to create a natural cohesion. Other natural accents include seashells, sea glass, driftwood, rocks and stones in bowls and shadow boxes, branches, twigs, bark, pine cones, seed pods, dried or pressed flowers, and foliage. All of these elements invoke the natural world and can bring together all of the natural elements found within the space. 

 f you’re not sure where to start, contact the design team at Heritage Design Interiors to begin transforming your living space into a calm and nature-filled space.