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2014 DECOR TRENDS GIVE YOUR HOME A FRESH LOOK

Every year new design trends offer a chance to update your home's current style and start the year with a fresh look. We've featured some of our favorite style influences and predictions for 2014 below to offer you a glimpse in to what to expect to see in home furnishings and decor.

Choose your favorite trending home accents and accessories and layer new styles, colors and patterns with the furnishings you already own -- a simple and cost effective way to freshen up your existing interior decor.


COLOR BALANCE 

Soft, muted pastels balanced with bold, bright hues will dominate this year's home decor. Intermixed with these brighter tones, we'll see warm neutrals and earthy hues to create balance. Grey continues to be the new neutral. Use light or charcoal grey as your foundation and pair it with pops of color such as yellow, raspberry, plum, or teal to create a chic, modern style and look.


NATURALLY MODERN, REDEFINED RUSTIC

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Redefined, modern rustic styling took off in 2013 and will define 2014 decor. Spaces that mix clean lines and modern styling with rustic, natural wood finishes and elegant accents and accessories appeal to today's lifestyles. Together these elements create warm, refined spaces for living and entertaining. Natural and organic influences will carry over into textile patterns as well. Geometric patterns, chevrons and stripes, which dominated in recent years, will be replaced with softer, less defined patterns including more floral and organic prints, animal, ikat and honeycomb patterns.


THE MIDAS TOUCH

Gold is considered to be one of the hottest trends for 2014 and just a touch of gold will add a bit of luxe to any space. Gold accents and accessories, gold nail head detailing on furnishings and gold finishes and trim on pillows and draperies will become more popular in the coming year.

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KITCHENS AND BATHS

We can't have an article on 2014 home trends without mentioning the two most important spaces of a home -- kitchens and baths. White has become the overwhelming choice of most homeowners for their kitchen cabinetry. Think modern and refined -- not sterile, operating room. 2014's other trends cross over into kitchens as well. We're seeing rustic flair with earthy finishes and woods for counter tops, as well as gold fixtures.

In 2014, bathrooms are either getting dressed up or down -- being transformed into spaces that are serene and spa-like or make you feel like you are walking into a jewelry box. Finishes and features including frameless shower doors and glass tiles, are a must.

 

PJ & Company Home Styling, LLC has been decorating and staging homes since 2005. Patti Stern, principal, interior decorator and accredited staging professional, and her team provide turnkey, full service home-staging to clients across Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts. PJ & Company was the Official Interior Decorating and Staging Sponsor for the Avon Home of Distinction. The company also developed an award winning staging program for luxury home builder, Toll Brothers. Patti Stern has been featured in Connecticut Magazine, the Hartford Courant and Danbury News-Times and on NBC Connecticut and FOX TV

For more information and to see PJ & Company’s Interior Decorating and Staging Transformation portfolios visit www.pjhomestyling.com or www.facebook.com/pjandcompanyhomestyling.





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