You don’t have to spend a fortune to give your home a stylish lift in 2024. Making small decor swaps to incorporate the latest trends can instantly infuse new life into your living space.
Think quick and easy home improvements, such as applying stick-on backsplash tiles or peel-and-stick wallpaper, painting walls, cupboards or ceramic tiles, and updating decor accessories, light fixtures, door handles, or appliances.
“Design trends in 2024 are all about making homes more cozy and visually interesting,” said Lydia Thammavong, Head Design, Styles & Trends at RONA. Homeowners can incorporate this year’s five popular home decor trends into their rooms by offering a wide selection of stylish, budget-friendly items that correspond with each theme. The five trends – Old Brit Charm, Quiet Luxury, Heritage, Retro Modern and Dopamine Decor – cater to a wide range of tastes and homeowners can mix and match according to individual preferences. Thammavong suggests these star items as starting points to incorporate elements of each look.
Old Brit Charm
Brewster Anaglypta X Egon unpasted vinyl wallpaper – paintable, 57.5-sq. ft., white, $67.99
Parrot Uncle Modern Gold Chandelier 12.2-in 4-Light, $195
This traditional decorating style builds on the Cottagecore theme that has been taking the design world by storm, but emits a more bourgeois, less rustic vibe. Inspired by the Victorian era, Old Brit Charm embraces the beauty of the past, creating calm, romantic spaces that exude character, coziness, and nostalgia. Taking centre stage are natural materials, including dark brown and walnut wood, stone, antique metal, and ceramic, highlighted in decor elements such as pottery and brass accessories, antique gold hardware and light fixtures, floral and oriental motif wool rugs, textured wall coverings, beveled mirrors, and dried flowers and branches.
Quiet Luxury
Globe Electric sandy 60-in faux wood shaded floor lamp with rattan shade, $199.99
A-Street Prints Westport Geometric Wallpaper – Coffee, $170.48
Quiet Luxury is all about minimalism, understated elegance, and bringing warmth into the home with a simple, relaxed, and clutter-free aesthetic. This trend is characterized by a muted colour palette of soothing neutrals – from off-white and natural tints to greyish greens, light browns, and greige – sleek craftsmanship, soft curves, layered textures, and natural materials. White oak matte finishes, stone veining, statement mirrors, and brushed and matte metal elevate the look.
Heritage
Moen Durani bronzed gold modern 1-handle deck-mount pull down residential kitchen faucet, $379
Corliving Elewood midcentury green polyester accent chair, $579
A cross between traditional Old Brit Charm and modern, minimalistic Quiet Luxury, the Heritage trend combines formal and ornate elements with simple, relaxed touches to create living spaces that are a mix of classic and current. Timeless, warm and cozy, this style exudes elegance, using natural materials and pairing taupes, tans and vanillas with dark brown or black to create striking looks. Decor touches such as embellished wall and ceiling details, matte finishes mixed with metallic accents, walnut wood, marble stone veining, antique and brushed gold finishes, and matte black wallpaper bring out the best of this theme.
Modern Retro
WallPops 23-in x 70-in retro rainbow archway decal, $99.99
Globe Electric Olivia 12-in Matte Brass Table Lamp, $84.99
Move over vintage 1950s style. The 70s retro look will be all the rage in 2024, cleverly mixing bold textile and wallpaper patterns in earthy greens, browns, and oranges to create blast-from-the-past interiors with style and personality. Envision modern takes on wood-paneled walls, shaggy rugs, teak and walnut curved furniture, rattan and rice paper fixtures, ceramic vases, velvet and corduroy fabrics, chrome and brushed nickle accents, glossy finishes, and loads of greenery.
Dopamine Decor
Palm-leaf design wallpaper, green, 20.5 inches x 16.5′ feet, $47.99
Natural by Lifestyle Brands 2-ft x 3-ft Pink New Zealand Single Sheepskin Rug, $66.99
Emitting a fun and joyful vibe, Dopamine Decor is all about creativity and vibrancy, infusing rooms with personality through a fusion of colours, shapes, patterns and textures. This style adds a touch of whimsy to any space, featuring bright hues – including pink, orange, yellow, lime green and cobalt blue – mixed with neutral pastels, eclectic wallpaper, matte and shiny finish combinations, colourful rugs and ceramics, “flower power” touches, and thrifted, repainted pieces of furniture and accessories. A DIYer’s dream, this trend is maximalism at its best.
Refresh With A New Coat Of Paint
Sico’s Clean Surface Interior Paint, $89.99 (30% off from March 21 to April 3 at all retail locations.)
Sico’s Clean Surface premium paint plus primer is the brand’s longest-lasting, most stain-resistant finish, setting a new standard for stain repellency and washability. Formulated to repel the most difficult stains – including grease, crayon, wine, juice and coffee – the paint creates a barrier, so stains wash away with all-purpose cleaners, without scrubbing. Available in low-sheen eggshell and resistant to scuffs from cleaning and abrasions, even in deep colours.
This spring’s hottest paint colours include SICO Paint’s honey beige Satin (6112-31), Cubist Red (6037-85), aquamarine Natural Spring Water (6201-31), deep teal Kennetcook Slate (6157-63) and warm khaki Mantra (6222-42).
Natural Spring Water (6201-31)
