One of the biggest perks of a new-build home is the blank canvas it offers, letting you create your perfect space from day one. Unlike older homes, there’s no outdated décor or DIY mishaps to fix—just a fresh start, ready for your personal touch. Decorating is a personal journey, but to help you get started, we’ve put together some top tips.
A Blank Canvas: How to Decorate a New Build Home
Choose a Colour Palette
Starting with a blank canvas gives you much more freedom to consider colours across your whole home rather than adjusting to whatever has been left behind for you. If you don’t have favourite colours or a scheme in mind already, you could always pick out a jumping-off point for the palette, like a large picture, piece of art or rug that will be prominently displayed in your home.
Accessorise!
One of the best ways to bring your personality into your new home is through using accessories. We love to use them in our show homes, helping to create themes in our rooms, so if you’re looking for inspiration, why not pay a visit and see what our designers have come up with?
There are no hard and fast rules for how to use accessories and decorations in your home, you can go with window dressings, vases, soft furnishings, movie posters, art prints, family photos, inspirational slogans, whatever is meaningful for you. Gallery walls can be a great way to bring decorations together in a stylish way, while utilising those colour palettes we mentioned earlier can help you decide what furnishings can go well with your rooms.
Let There Be Light
There’s three types of lighting: ambient lighting, which illuminates a room in general; accent lighting, which creates pools of light or highlights key features; and focused task lighting, which you’d use in a kitchen, bathroom or home office to help with certain activities.
Accent lighting is what you can use to draw the eye to part of your rooms you want to highlight and can include picture lights and uplights. So, don’t forget to factor lighting into how you plan your room designs.
Bring the Outdoors in
Getting out into gardens, parks and forests was so important in lockdown and bringing some of that greenery into our homes is also a great way to make a new house a home.
Plants and flowers have an important role in making our homes both look good and keep us healthy. You can use them as part of a colour scheme in a room or just go with whatever feels right but bringing the outdoors into your home is the perfect way to bring new life to your blank canvas.