INTERIOR INSPIRATION
BY KATE KINGSTON
Kate Kingston, Managing Director of Kingston Shaw, an
award winning interior design company with offices on the
Wirral, London and Dubai, shares with us the latest trends for
creating the perfect home.
2018 INTERIOR TREND PREDICATIONS
Happy New Year to you! Over the festive period
we have been busy gathering up our predictions
for the trends that will prove popular in interiors
this year. If you want to get a head of the trend
here’s the best place to start.
HANG TOUGH
The naked wall is so 2017, wallpaper has gone,
what the best dressed walls will be wearing this
year is art. Paint your walls in dark hues and get
hanging your wall art, plates, animal heads and
anything else you can get your mitts on. It is about
expression of personality and 3 dimensional
living.
TROPICAL FOLIAGE
The trend for all things tropical continues strongly
in interiors in 2018 but we are predicting that your
tableware will be all things botanical. We love the
ceramics from House of Hackney.
DON’T FORGET TO LOOK UP
One of our prediction’s that will sweep the
interiors of the nation this year is Statement
Ceilings. An often neglected part of the
décor, ceilings can and will make a statement.
Wallpaper, baton, paint in a feature colour
whatever you decide to do, don’t keep it
magnolia!
MIXED METALS
We were all about Chrome, then Stainless
Steel, a few of us loved our Rose Gold but
they were kept apart like family members
who clash at weddings, but now the design
gods have allowed us to mix and match,
throw caution to the wind and use chrome
and brass together, scream ‘I dare to care’
about mixing the metallics.
GO TO THE DARK SIDE
Not for everyone, but we love our
predication that things are going moody
and dark. Inky blue walls, sultry hues of
dark green and amber rich oranges, or go
completely Goth and matt black the walls
and furniture – drama has never looked
so glamorous.
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