Surface details Adding texture to your interior

By Michaela Pointon

Adding texture to your home interiors is trendy. Elements such as different materials, patterns, shapes, scale and colour can elevate your home into a modernday lavish abode.

Collaborators from CC Interiors, Amanda and Elizabeth, say texture is vitally important to a successful interior concept.

“It’s what keeps a space interesting and tactile. Many people prefer a simpler colour palette, we find texture is increasingly important to add depth and interest to a room.”

They say drapery and walls are easily overlooked as an opportunity to add texture.

“Adding a tactile, open weave linen to a window in the form of drapery catches the light beautifully and is more interesting than a fine weave line.

“Walls can have beautiful paint finishes which resemble plastered surfaces. These are a playful way of adding texture into a room too.”

In particular, the Hawk and Trowel plastering style is a timeless way to add depth to your white walls. Adding an interesting wallpaper which can be replaced in time is another way to add interest to walls.

Owner of Koco Boutique Interiors, Karen Sherriff says, “Art plays a big part in creating a space. Choosing your artwork first can help to pull different colour schemes together with wider décor choices.”

Karen agrees natural colours have the potential to appear flat in a room, so adding textures such as boucle and velvet can elevate spaces.

“Plants also add texture to a room. Bring that greenery inside,” she laughs.

Using colours such as greens in the decor can also bring textures to life in the decor of the interior design.

“I tend to go for a forest green, it’s more neutral and you can layer colours like pink on top for dimension.”

Amanda and Elizabeth say, “Rugs are the easiest way to add texture on a larger scale. Also, don’t shy away from cushions on a sofa, they create lift and add interest.”

Top textures to add to your space:

• Boucle

• Velvet

• Faux fur

• Satin

• ‘Hawk and Trowel’ style plastered wall finishings

• Feature wallpapers.

Participating in trending colours with décor such as cushions, is a cost-effective way of being in-style with stores typically having many cohesive options available.

“Cushions, cushions, cushions! You can swap and change them out when the seasons change. They are an easy way to add texture to any space,” Karen says.

Other suggestions include using large or oversized focal point mirrors which can create the illusion of a larger space, or repeat the appearance of textures throughout the room.

Adding texture to your home is all about pulling elements together with different finishings, materials, colours, patterns, shapes and sizes to elevate your space.

There are many ways to add texture into your home using trendy and modern materials. Both CC Interiors and Koco Boutique have many options to bring texture into your home this season.

To find out more about CC Interiors visit: ccinteriors.co.nz

To find out more about Koco Boutique visit: kocoboutique.co.nz.

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“Hire one of our tip trucks, excavators, loaders, or compactors then pop next door to grab a truckful of soil, bark or one of the many ranges of coloured and decorative stones or some aggregate products,” says Cath. “We also have sleepers along with compost and even some damaged or tired tracks off equipment that are suitable to make up raised gardens,” she says, as well as a range of quirky one-off pieces great to make that feature in the garden or be made into something spectacular. We offer deliveries of equipment and landscape material and talk to us about long term hire rates,” says Les.

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