Home Accessories Trends 2022

Home Decoration is the secret ingredient that can work wonders for successful interior designing. It is all about the visual appeal, aesthetics, and balance brought to the interior. Home Decor consists of many engaging products that help designers elevate the interior's whole outlook. Many famous designers use a simple technique to separate from being a generic design: the placement of essential home products in a decorative manner.

Read this article till the end to consider furniture and accompanying lighting while being mindful of the latest trends.

Major Ongoing Trends in Home Accessories 

Here is a quick glimpse of the key trends being observed in home accessories 2022:

Experimentation: The reason behind all the major innovations and tough lessons known to humankind throughout history, experimentation also plays a crucial role in changing the consumer demographics. These past few years have taught us that experimenting while sitting at home and making changes accordingly to uplift the mood and create an oozing aura. 

Storage has been a significant task for everyone since a whole corner was dedicated as a home office due to worldwide lockdown. Looking out for customization as per our own needs and interiors cannot be overlooked. 

Lighting: There is a new wave of creativity in lighting, with designs that double as decor thanks to their use of vivid color, fluid, and sculptural forms, and jewelry-like details. Designers are pushing creative boundaries with new lighting directions that create eye-catching statements. Some of the key trends to consider for decorative lighting include:

• Mood-boosting color: This gives interiors a dose of mood-boosting color via lighting designs that feature a range of rainbow hues.
• Jewelry inspirations: get a sneak peek into the world of contemporary jewelry design explore colored glass and glam details.
• Maker's mark: celebrate the hand-molded tactility with designs that feature deliberate imperfections.
• Ancient symbols offer mystical vibes with rudimentary shapes and ceremonial circles and lines.
• Fluid forms: embrace fluid contours that give a wavy effect to glass, stone, and other hard materials.
• Sculptural foliage: be inspired by the natural world to create floral and leafy designs that balance the organic and elegant.

Hand-painted pattern: bring an artistic twist to basic shades and bases using brushstroke prints and patterns.

What Ideas Should be Valued and Why? 

This question sits at the heart of Care Culture, as people reprioritize wellbeing overwork, community over competition, and the planet over profit. 

Recent years have exposed shortcomings in the way our world works, but just like the Japanese art of kintsugi, people will find new, more communal ways to fill the cracks with better systems for the health of people and the planet.

The pandemic and the climate crisis have brought the importance of care into sharp focus – healthcare, self-care, care and repair of our belongings and our immediate environment, or care for cultures and customs. They have also caused new migratory patterns, as people turn their back on crowded cities, fleeing the effects of climate change, or establishing intergenerational homes to care for loved ones. As a result, healing and haptic materials, mood-boosting colours, and earthy textures would connect us back to nature, new voices, and therefore, old traditions can be treated with respect. The adage - there is unity in diversity will be remembered.

Looking for some inspiration to create the perfect aesthetic for your interiors? Considering the following suggestions for furniture and lighting would be a good idea -

Colour Statement 

Investing in colours, as always, will be a significant part of choosing the perfect furniture and lighting. Vivid bright, and unexpected mixed tones would promote joyfulness, especially for home offices, as a corner in every home is turned into a workplace these days. Bright shelving and depth storage will also help energize the functional items and build a personalized workplace. As work corners have suddenly become essential at home, storing them is required. 

Acting in this direction requires injecting colour into the everyday items and adding statement-furniture. Experimenting with matte finishing to create a softer look reissued in an eye-catching manner and colourways like midtones should not be overlooked this season.

Fluid Contours 

Fluid Contours is primarily about the shape and silhouette of the objects to create a warm and comforting interior. The contoured form of the furniture and lighting will also play a crucial element to achieve a relaxed and inviting aesthetic. This direction would be a key feature for creating commercial and residential spaces movement. Furniture and lighting would be inspired by a soft look for a calming effect, reflecting the movement of waves. 

Giving off a soft touch by the curves, abstract wavy designs would be considered a vital action point while creating products for home decor. To bring a light-hearted feel to the home, fluidity would help seek out fun-based abstract accessories like vases, lighting, lamps, wooden wall clocks, etc. 1970s archives inspire contoured lines. Indian designer Arjun Rathi has worked on similar lighting incorporating movement with traditional and industrial fabrication processes and the usage of handloom glass. London-based studio Wilkinson and Rivera works with classical furniture and shapes them with a wavy effect. 

In conclusion, update traditional designs with wavy silhouettes to modernize and provide a weak outlook.

Retro Reissues

History repeating itself can be seen in interior decorating; vintage designs from the archives of the 1960s are making a remarkable comeback with joyfulness and softness. 

Iconic retro designs are trending from the 1960s - 19670s era as an inspiration and can be seen in reissuing products to meet new demands. 

#Retro designs are enjoying a resurgence on social media with more than 7 billion views on ticktock globally, proving retro aesthetics has a significant appeal across the globe. Slouchy silhouettes are a low profile characteristic that defines this direction. 

It is crucial to create space for objects with a flexible and modular design to give a personal touch. . To summarize, one can refer to the archives for recreating the classic retro styles of furniture and lamps to establish more authenticity in the products. 

Soft Folds

Contemporary hard goods are gaining prominence with a gently folded accent and incorporating supersoft textures. Experiment with folding details which would aid in softening the hard edges of the furniture and lighting. Incorporate simple folding techniques that lend a soft appearance to furniture and lighting. German Designer Hilfiger used Japanese origami, folded paper, and created a similar product for inspiration. Wrap the element to soften the hard goods and edges for creating an inviting appearance and use folded details. 

Rustic and Refined

Streamlined designs create a minimal aesthetic that embraces soft sculptural silhouettes and raw materials. The previous designs from the same direction are updated, emphasising contoured shapes for hard goods and lighting. Natural materials such as wood and cork look sophisticated when rendered in pure shapes that easily fit into any interior set-up. Try and preserve the quality of these raw materials to ensure modern design maintains a distinct and intriguing texture.   

Use natural materials to ensure surface dimensions that give prominence to the whole product and rounded silhouettes as the main character alongside the curved corner and add linear repetition to lend visual appeal to lighting.

From Waste

Increasing climate-consciousness amongst the masses is compelling people to spend on sustainability and beyond on furniture and lighting; similarly, making use out of waste materials can be seen as an emerging trend across the globe. Experiment with composite materials that easily connect with eco-conscious consumers. Rounded forms and colourful dyes help ensure that this concept appeals across the board from kids to adults. It can be used for a pop corner and the kid's room to elevate the overall feel. 

Waste plastic is being used heavily for the lampstands tabletop while combining it with other materials to increase the product's durability and conceal the properties of plastic, which are not helpful. Repurposing waste in lighting and furniture gives a morale boost and a dose of enthusiasm to the designers working for the betterment of the environment. The "FEEL GOOD AND DO GOOD" concept can be introduced for the consumers while creating composite materials.

Artisan's Hand   

Depicting the story behind a product and showcasing its inherent value is an ongoing trend. Handwoven and carved are an essential part of furniture and lighting as they are influenced the most. Hand of the artisans using irresistibility and irregularity in contemporary designs are celebrated from the range of simple to complex design. To execute this format, build an artisanal narrative by incorporating handmade designs based on a range of artistic techniques.

Amorphous Form 

It relates to the forms of furniture which look blobby and are irregular. It is all about aestheticism, which provides a variety and signature piece of the collection. 

Amorphous forms bring zeal into the home decor and are trending elements that gracefully blur the line of conventional expectations of good and bad days. Rendering relaxed shapes into modern statement pieces, experimenting with slushy and hard materials to create a unique tactile experience, and exploring exaggerated experience is the easiest way to create this playful effect. 

Dry Tactility

Dry Tactility means providing an organic look using porous and matte surfaces. Desert landscapes inspired them for hard goods and lighting. Experimenting with materials like concrete and raisin gives a unique outlook. They utilize raw materials in their most natural form and employ new craft processes to create organically. Materials such as clay, stones, cement, brick, and paper can be used for an unexpected mixture and a fantastic result. 

In Conclusion…

To summarize the trends for A/W 22/23 for furniture and lighting, making everything joyful by adding bold, bright statement colors experimenting with amorphous fun and asymmetrical shapes to create playful products is the way to go. Reflecting some personality with a catchy narrative to home decor will help redefine standards. Add handcrafted products to bring longevity and value to the collection. 

Create FEELGOOD designs from post-production waste that appeals to more eco-minded consumers—sticking with Tactility by experimenting with a range of surface manipulation, including cutting and sculpting, allows natural materials to remain in their original state.