Give Your Home a Makeover With Stylish New Furniture

If you are tired of your home interior and want to ring the changes, the obvious solution is to repaint and install stylish new hardwood or laminate flooring. But unless you upgrade your furniture simultaneously, such a basic refresh will unlikely satisfy your desire for change. To get it right the first time, learn how to completely transform your home interior by adopting the methods of Australia’s interior décor professionals.

Furniture With the Power To Transform

There are several powerful approaches you can take when choosing furniture to transform your home interior:

• Invest in a Couple of Statement Pieces – One of the simplest ways to transform any living area with furniture is to invest in one or two statement pieces. For example, a boldly upholstered sofa, unusually shaped coffee table, or sparkling chandelier could be used as a statement piece in your lounge room. However, not all statement pieces have to be larger than life. A brand new bed may transform your master bedroom, but for less expense and effort, a well-chosen bedside table could be equally effective. Try to think outside the box when looking for statement pieces. While most such pieces are easily recognisable thanks to their bold designs and colourful aesthetics, some that are less obvious at first glance can be just as transformative.
• Use Texture and Colour – For a completely different approach, try using less conspicuous pieces of furniture to create splashes of colour and textural contrasts in areas of your home that currently lack appeal. An occasional chair with textured upholstery, a roughly-hewn wooden table and a colourful floor lamp could be used to great effect in most rooms of modest proportions. Play around with some combinations of your own and see what you can achieve.
• Create Zones in Open-Plan Areas – Many modern Australian homes feature open-plan layouts, which are great for encouraging more interaction between family members or housemates but have significant drawbacks such as ambient noise issues and a lack of privacy. Fortunately, it is relatively easy to create the suggestion of a closed floor plan with strategically positioned pieces of furniture: there’s no need to embark on a costly remodelling project if you are unhappy with the current layout of your home.
• Develop a Property-Wide Theme – If you are happy with individual rooms in your home but feel it looks somewhat fragmented and disorganised as a whole, you can create a property-wide theme with stylish new furniture. You could, for example, use recycled furnishings in every room or follow the Scandinavian interior décor trend that has been popular in Australia for decades with simple, natural timber furniture. Alternatively, you could install tables and chairs with indigenous decorations in every area. When well executed, this approach can transform a messy-looking home into an elegant residence that is the envy of friends and neighbours.

All these approaches are effective when skilfully implemented and can be adapted to suit different types of homes in Australia. They can also be tailored to suit different budgets and tastes in furniture. Have fun experimenting with a few of your own ideas for each approach.