Your Guide to Interior Design Trends
One resource for interior design trends historical and future
The world is awash with interior design ideas, packed full to the brim with living room ideas, kitchen design ideas, green design and products and basically every room in your house can look as chic as a Parisian boudoir or as shabby as an 18th century watermill! Wikipedia has bags of information relating to interior design trends and history and is always worth a visit.
Whatever styles you admire, whichever interior designers you look at for inspiration, Interior Design Trends.co.uk is intended to provide an invaluable resource for the home improver, the designer or the casual visitor. We love interior design and study the trends which are happening throughout a wide range of interior fields such as environmental interior design, interior design history, art and how it is used within interiors, renowned interior designers and a host of other subjects. We'll look at historically most famous interior designers such as Joseph Hoffman, Antonio Gaudi, William Morris and many many more to help our visitors gauge what they love and what they hate in interior styles and trends.
Art or Interiors?
Crossover between interior design and art and design
Interior design has played a vital role in property pretty much since man began living in caves. The eternal debate between art and design could of course rear its' head again, however when caveman decorated his cave interiors with scenes from hunts and feasts, surely these can be seen as enhancing the interior!? From those early days on we've been party to interior designers from every walk of life decorating property with materials from all round the planet, with antique furniture and contemporary furniture, luxurious interior paints and tiles, fantastically modern fixtures and fittings, kitsch doilies and window coverings from glamourous plantation shutters to interior designed bespoke shutters… The list is truly endless!
Interior design can be floral and romantic like the flowing lines of Mackintosh or calculated and hard with designers such as Starck. Materials used for interior design have played a great role in the development of this discipline of design as an interest, obsession and way of life for many people today and historically. In medieval times the decorated wall hangings which adorned castle walls were not simple amazingly detailed items of interior design, but played an enormous role in education, heating and decoration - take the world famous Biotapestry. Religious icons which have decorated churches together with stained glass windows for centuries could only come about as molten lead, gold leaf and other skills were introduced and these served to educate, provide light, offer hope and inspiration to every pair of eyes which viewed them. In the early part of the 20th century concrete was invented - not only were exteriors transformed, but interiors were captivated by this hard, cold new material, think Layer Cake and a luxurious male styled bathroom in dark concrete... Glass, metal, plastic, fabric, paint... Just about every material known to man has been utilsed to design for interiors.
The beauty of interior design as a subject and interest, there are no boundaries, form and beauty can meet in function, as long as we're talking of items for the home or workplace, which serve to fulfill a function, interior design meets its needs. So please read these pages and we hope you find inspiration and ideas for your interior design project. Don’t forget to ask our experts for any advice or contact us if you would like us to feature a particular subject to do with interiors