4 Ways to Bring Maximalist Style into Your Home

Minimalistic interior design has been fashionable during brief periods in the past decades. However, the stripped-down, pristine – almost bare look of minimalist decor isn’t easy to maintain or live with in day-to-day family life. Maximalist decoration is much freer and easier. It has no rules and allows a person to surround themselves with their treasure possessions and not worry about clashing colors or lack of uncluttered surfaces.

If this relaxed interior design style appeals to you, here are 4 ways to bring maximalist style into your home.

Basically, if you have a piece of furniture you like, place it in your home, and don’t worry if it doesn’t match your decor or other elements. Maximalism is all about filling a space with lots of wonderful items that will provide a feast for the eyes. As a result, every inch of your home will be filled with furniture – some antique pieces in the kitchen, some modern living room furniture, and some upcycled masterpieces in the bedroom.

Team elaborately carved wooden dark wood chairs with a rustic pine table or a painted Welsh dresser. Visit antique stores, junk shops, and yard sales for unique treasures you can upcycle with paint and decoupage or sand them down for a shabby chic look. There are no rules. Let your eyes lead you and be like a human magpie, picking up home furnishings that bring a smile to your face when you look at them in your living space.

Don’t worry too much if you have lots of furniture. You do not want vast empty spaces, so surround yourself with your possessions. However, maximalism doesn’t give you free rein to turn your home into a hoarder’s hovel – it should be organized chaos, rather than just chaos!

Maximalist interior decoration has no rules, so you can mix and match colors, prints and patterns. Of course, the more colors you use and clash, the better the look will be. For example, leopard print or jungle print wallpapers and fabrics can look great with dark blue or cerise pink painted walls.

Mix ethnic materials on rugs, cushions, wall hangings, and curtains with stripes or geometric patterns. The only rule of maximalism is ‘if you like it, use it and display it.’ Never be afraid of color and envelop your home with statement hues such as sumptuous jewel colors like emerald green, ruby red, and sapphire blue. Let every room be a cornucopia of shades and textures.

Wall adornments play a considerable part in the maximalist aesthetic. A home should never have blank walls, so go wild and cover the walls of your home with a variety of pictures, photographs, and wall hangings. Position framed prints of differing sizes in random patterns – never in a symmetrical layout. Frame the images and pictures in frames made from different materials such as wood, metal, glass, ceramic, and plastic. Ensure they are a plethora of different colors for extra impact.

Art doesn’t need to just be pictures – you can accessorize your rooms with ornaments made from wood, metal sculptures, fabric soft toys, and faux fur animal heads. Add some brightness and interest to bare walls with ethnic wall hangings or some handmade macrame.

If you are artistically inclined or know someone who is, you could paint murals on some of your walls, such as an Italian vista beside the bath or an etching of a tree with branches winding up the walls containing the staircase. For a huge impact, you could cover every wall in the property with whimsical stenciling.

A maximalist home is a comfortable home so strive to make it so with plenty of indulgent soft faux fur pillows and blankets thrown across sofas and beds. Create a cozy, dimly lit ambiance by dressing the windows with wooden shutters, bamboos blinds, or heavy velvet curtains. Think bohemian and vintage when you dress your home with soft furnishings. Add to the feeling by lighting incense sticks or scented candles to fill the air with rich, heady perfumes.

Books play a significant role in maximalist interior decoration. Pile tables high with fabulous art books, install floor-to-ceiling bookcases to house your novels, look books and magazines as well as treasured mementos, picked up on your travels or gifted to you by your nearest and dearest.

Your home should become a showcase of your taste and be a visual interpretation of your personality. Visitors will come into your maximalist home and be given a glimpse into your very soul.

Published in: Ideas | Author: Pete