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If you want to know what is trendy right now (2022) when it comes to home interiors, I want you to first stop for a minute and have a word with yourself. What is the biggest trend right now 2022 homes-wise might well be something of a stylistic laughing stock this time next year, and regrets of this nature are often far from cheap.
If you’ve fallen down this rabbit hole before, you’ll probably agree that following a homeware trend that aged poorly is more or less ok if your commitment to earning a ticket on the bandwagon extended no further than buying a cheap gilt pineapple from HomeSense. However, it is less ok if you redecorated a whole room at great expense in pursuit of interiors heaven, only to find that the neighbours were talking about it when you weren’t around and for all of the wrong reasons just a year or so later.
With this in mind, I’ve gone in search of what is trendy right now (2022) in home interiors, discounted any themes/trends/bandwagons that are likely to become dated in short order, and summarised the trends that were left standing at the end of it.
Also, as I was chasing down the four key home interior trends that are the signatures of 2022, I realised that we just happen to have the perfect blinds for each of them.
Read on then, to learn what is trendy right now (2022) in interior décor (without being faddy), what blinds you might want to look at to work with each trend, and finally, what blind you might want to stick in your shopping cart if you want to hedge your bets by picking one that ticks the box for all four 2022 home interior trends in one go.
Good light and “statement lighting”
One home interiors trend that I can confidently say is never going to go out of style is good, natural lighting. I’d literally bet the farm on this. I don’t actually have a farm, which makes this hill somewhat easier to die on, but still.
Why? Well, do you recall that one year when a well-respected interiors guru announced that the interior design trend to watch was drab-core, and that dingy lighting was all the rage? Me neither, albeit I have been in some workplaces that seemed to think this was the case nonetheless.
Anyway then, good light means enabling as much natural light to enter the room as possible, and supporting this with the right spectrum and type of artificial lighting as needed; this is always what is trendy! Right now, 2022’s twist on the whole “light is good, let’s encourage that” theme also extends to light fittings, with what’s being called “statement fittings” looming large in interiors magazines and showrooms.
The sort of offerings I’ve seen touted as “statement light fittings” and shades are so broadly diverse, the only uniting factor I can really find between them is size; they’re pretty big, bold, and prominent, but in terms of materials, styles, and colours, more or less everything seems to be fair game.
This is awesome as it makes this trend easy to work with, and to match to any existing room style if you don’t want to go full out on a total redesign too.
If you are in the market for large, statement light fittings… Uh, we don’t sell them. Window blinds though, I’m all about that. Window blinds are exactly the boy you want to help with the good, natural lighting side of things.
This is firstly because they take up less space than curtains and so, don’t occlude your windows any more than is absolutely necessary, which is often, not at all. Also, blinds of some types can be used to filter light without blocking it entirely, which again means that these types of blinds work with what’s trendy in home interiors in 2022.
Light filtering blinds are Venetian blinds, wood blinds and faux-wood blinds, vertical blinds, and day and night blinds; all of which can be used to filter light without blocking it entirely, so there’s tonnes of choice to be had there!
Sustainable materials and designs
Describing the ethos of sustainability as a “trend” never fails to make my left eyebrow (the judge-y one) climb my forehead, but when it comes to what’s trendy right now (2022 and beyond), the fact that I and most people don’t think that sustainability is or should be a “trend” is a Good Thing.
While none of us are perfect and yes, I too have managed to put my recyclables into the wrong bin on more than one occasion, sustainability isn’t so much a trend as a case of “we need to do this, or we’re all going to die.”
Not to overdramatise, obviously; people my age and above are probably going to shuffle off our mortal coils before a lack of air in the atmosphere becomes an immediate issue for us, but if you’re south of 30 and/or care about anyone who is, sustainability should be Very Freaking Important to you.
And yes, I am aware that I’ve just used capital letters for emphasis rather than in the name of correct grammar twice in the same section, and also, that I just started a sentence with the word “and,” which just goes to show that you shouldn’t always listen to teachers who tell you that your own personal style of doing literally anything is never going to translate into an employable skillset.
Digression aside, sustainability – sustainable materials, designs, and generally, lifestyles – yes it’s hot right now for 2022, but vitally, this “trend” is probably the one that’s going to age best of all, as I sincerely doubt that “wasteful living” and deliberate unsustainability are going to suddenly become big ticket trends in 2023 and beyond.
Anyway. Sustainable materials and designs when it comes to interiors and homewares means things that are natural and that can be grown/farmed/produced and vitally, shipped and so on in a sustainable manner, without being finite in supply and/or costing more ecologically than they’re worth.
It also extends to goods that can be recycled again and again, and basically, a lifestyle as well as a purchasing ethos that doesn’t compromise the future of the planet and/or the future generations that live on it.
One point to note is that not all natural materials are sustainable; coal and natural gas, for example. Wood is another material to look at carefully when it comes to the type of wood, how it was forested, and how it got to you; wood very much can be, often is, and certainly should be sustainable, but this is not always the case, so tread with care.
Sustainable window blinds, then? If you’re buying from us specifically, real wooden blinds are the ones you want. This is because we ensure the eco-credentials and sustainability of every stage of the process of turning tree into blind, from where and how the basswood our wooden blinds are made from is grown, by whom, how it gets to us, what it’s painted or treated with, and how much everyone involved in the process gets paid!
If you want more information on any of this, feel free to email me and I’ll provide the supporting information required to back up all of my claims.
I would caution that some wooden window blinds, particularly cheap ones/readymade ones might not be/are highly unlikely to be sustainably grown, produced, and sold, so shop accordingly.
Oh! One more thing about window blinds and sustainability. Home insulation/minimising one’s carbon footprint and ideally, heating spend is all part of it, and window blinds are great at insulating windows; wood is a natural insulator, which makes them one of the best choices on this front too.
The use of natural materials
This 2022 trend in interiors is the use of natural materials.
Like? Yeah, I’m back again with the “wood” thing. So, what blinds are trendy for 2022 when it comes to the use of natural materials? Wooden ones.
For other homewares, there’s also wood, plus plenty of other options such as natural slate, granite, stone, cork, cotton, leather (possibly contentious but worth noting) and many more.
The colour green
Finally then! When it comes to 2022’s interiors trends, Pantone had a bright purple-lilac colour they inexplicably named “Very Peri” as its king, but perhaps the fact that it’s quite a loud colour that’s not too easy to work with means that it hasn’t really seen the sort of uptake in homewares circles that you might otherwise expect.
What’s trendy right now 2022 colour-wise then? A few colours have come to the fore, but if I had to pick one overall, it would be green. To narrow things down even more, soft, mossy but not muddy paler greens seem to be the most popular palate for homewares where green is the main or base colour.
For homes and interiors where the green is an accent or pop of colour, we’re talking lime all the way.
Green window blinds? Basically, any type of blind can theoretically be done in green, with roller blinds offering probably the greatest amount of choice in terms of shades, styles, and patterns.
