Make a Statement with Your Home Decor

*This is a collaborative post 

We all want our homes to look nice and presentable not only so that we can enjoy them, but also so we can proudly display them to our guests. It’s pretty easy to make our homes look nice with a little paint and regular cleaning, but what if you want your home to be more than nice? What if you want your visitors to gasp when they see just how amazing your property is? You need to use your home decor to make a statement.

How do you make a statement with your home decor? There are numerous things you can do to get the kind of impact you want, and they will depend on your own individual taste, but here are a few ideas to get your creative juices flowing:

Prints and patterns

One of the easiest, and frequently best, ways to make a statement in your home is with the use of patterns and prints. Patterns and prints are naturally bolder and more eye-catching than plain walls, cushions, sofas, etc., so they are an easy way of making people stand up and take notice. They also come in a wide variety of styles and colours, so you can pretty much always find a pattern or print to suit your own personal taste. TheSnug offers a huge range of fabrics for various curtains, cushions etc, and they’re great if you need to match one or more items too. If you want to make a really bold statement, using lots of different patterns and prints in the one-room can be a really effective way to do so.

Add texture

Adding texture is a really good way of making a statement, which is a bit more subtle than some of the other ides on this list, so a good option for anyone who is maybe a little nervous about doing things differently. 

How do you make a statement by adding texture to your home decor? By layering lots of different textures from chunky knit cushions and blankets to silky smooth curtains, matte throws, and sheepskin rugs. The more textures you layer up within any given room k the more dramatic the look will be.

Install Shutters

Shutters, like the ones at shuttercraft.co.uk, are a really common window covering in a lot of countries, but they are not quite so usual in the UK, which means adding them to your windows is a really easy, not to mention elegant, way of making a statement. Not only do shutters look more expensive than curtains or blinds, but they also help to regulate the temperature of the room and give your home kerb appeal on the outside as well as making a statement indoors.

Experiment with metallics

Metallics are really fashionable right now, so it might seem that putting them in your own home will not have the dramatic effect you’re looking for – not when everyone else is using metallics anyway. However, that doesn’t have to be the case. If you use metallics in the right way, you can still make a bold statement.

Most people, when they use metallics, use them sparingly perhaps on a statement wall or in the accessories they choose; if you want to really make them say “wow” you need to go full-on and decorate the whole room with metallic paint or wallpaper. Are you brave enough?

Create a statement wall

Creating a statement wall is another very simple way of bringing the wow-factor into your home, There are so many ways to do this from installing a period fireplace and mantel to covering the wall with driftwood or even simply picking out a particularly bold wallpaper for that area. Look around for inspiration and see if you can come up with a statement wall that is 100 percent you.

Curate a gallery wall

Gallery walls are really cute and quirky and they can look amazing in pretty much any space, so why not try creating one of your own? All you need to do is collect together a lot of photographs, art prints, and any other images you love, put them in frames and then arrange them all quirkily on one of them (or even several if you want to be even bolder) walls in your home. To make an even bigger statement, choose bolder, more shocking types of art to put up there.

Play with colour

If you’re looking to make a statement with your home decor, painting every wall white or grey and having all of your furniture be variations of brown, black, cream isn’t really going to cut it. You need to play with colour – the more dramatic the better. Why not have a Fuschia pink couch alongside a bright yellow chair in your living room? Why not paint the bedroom sunflower yellow or the kitchen cupboard purple? Bold colours really draw the eye and make any room stand out, so have a think about the many ways you could incorporate more dramatic colour into your home.

Embrace vintage

Most homes today are packed with modern furniture, modern design, modern appliances, and well everything modern. It’s really easy, then, for your home to stand out by replacing that modern stuff with a vintage piece of two. A Victorian loveseat instead of an Ikea couch or a vintage bath instead of a bog-standard one – you get the idea.

Print your own wallpaper

Did you know that you can design and print your own wallpaper? There are numerous companies, like this one: https://www.contrado.co.uk/bespoke-wallpaper, now offering this option and it’s a great way to make a really personal statement. After all, you’ll be the only person on the planet to have the wallpaper you designed in your home. If you aren’t exactly a great artist, you could commission someone who is to create a new wallpaper just for you or you could use your own photos to create a novel paper that will make a splash.

Look at lighting

Playing around with your home’s lighting can be a really effective way of transforming the atmosphere for the better.  Things like chandeliers and stained glass lamps make for a really dramatic look, but you even things like installing dimmer lights or hanging up fairy lights around the door for a softer look can go a long way to making a bold statement.

Embrace minimalism

How many homes have you been in that have been almost empty, containing only the essential things that a family needs to get by? Probably not many, right? That’s why, if you’re up for it, emptying your home of only the necessary and truly beautiful can be an amazing way to make a bold statement. It will also give you a great sense of spaciousness and freedom, especially if you go all-in and paint the whole space in the same shade of white – including the floors -too. Sure, it’s not for everyone, but if you think it could be good for you, it’s a great option to play around with. You can always put your stuff into storage and see how you go for a while – that way if you don’t like the minimalist look, you can simply bring your stuff back in again.

Do something unexpected

Painting your radiators lilac or the ceiling sky blue, drawing on the walls, placing a naughty knick-knack in a really obvious place – there are so many things you can do around the house that will stand put simply because they are so unexpected, so not the usual way of doing things, and these can be some of the best ways to make a big statement.

Use juxtaposition

Juxtaposition always stands out in the home, so use it to your advantage. Think filling a quaint old cottage with all modern fixtures and fitting,s but keeping the ancient beams or placing shocking pink accessories in the otherwise completely beige room and you won’t be far off the mark.

Do some decoupaging

Decoupaging is the art of taking printed materials like magazines, posters, and origami paper and using glue to affix it to furniture, walls and well pretty much anything solid you can think of. It is a great way to jass up old drawers, dining tables, kitchen cupboards, and even boring white walls, in a way that most people would not dare. For instance, you could transform your chest of drawers by affixing your favourite movie poster to the drawers and painting the rest of the unit a bright colour or you could decorate your dressing table with a collage of old images from back issues of Vogue. By doing this, you can create one-of-a-kind pieces for very little money and pretty much guarantee that you make a unique statement.

These are just some ideas of how you can make a statement with your home decor. Threw are obviously a lot more things you could do to make a bold statement with your home. So, play around with ideas, come up with a few more of your own, and most importantly, only act when you’re sure you’ve hit upon an idea that you’ll truly love. After all, you will be the one who has to live with it!