As the year starts barreling toward its close, interior design fans everywhere are anticipating 2022’s big trends. While the jury is still out, many designers are predicting that patterns are going to be big. And when it comes to patterns, you can’t go wrong with classic stripes.
If you want to get a jump on your 2022 room design, here are some clever ways to incorporate stripes into your room.
Wall Stripes
Adding stripes to the walls can seem like the obvious choice for adding a pattern to a room. But the difficulty of painting stripes on the wall coupled with the pattern’s boldness makes it a surprisingly rare design choice. Still, it can make your room look taller and more spacious.
Once you find paint online or in the store, there are many ways to go the wall stripe route. Here are some examples:
- Using the striped wall as an accent wall
- Using differing paint glosses to create more subtle stripes
- Matching the stripes with the paneling
- Using different stripe orientations (vertical, horizontal, and diagonal)
- Putting stripes on half of the wall, such as the section above a chair rail
You also don’t have to limit yourself to the wall. Striped ceilings offer a whimsical and eye-catching addition to any home.
Stain Stripes
Paint isn’t the only way to incorporate stripes into your room’s design. If you’re a fan of upcycling or refinishing furniture, this quirky stripe idea is great. It involves creating a striped pattern using painter’s tape on a wooden furniture piece’s surface before applying the finish.
When the finish has dried, you can pull up the tape, and voila! You’ll have stripes stained right into the furniture. This is perfect for those looking for a statement piece to pull together a room’s design.
Tile Stripes
Adding a backsplash to the wall above the kitchen sink has been a popular design trend for the past few years. And that space offers plenty of opportunities to add colors or patterns, including stripes.
If the idea of adding tile to your kitchen wall seems intimidating, don’t despair. Companies also make premade, press-on tile backsplashes that you can install in just a few short minutes.
