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How to Level Up Your Apartment’s Interior Design Vibe

Respect Your Minimalist Journey While Breathing Color Into Your Life

One of the greatest issues facing elegant minimalists today is not using thoughtful color in their apartment design. This looks like a Japanese flat-pack showroom. The solution is to embrace maximalist wallpaper paint and textiles while maintaining zen.

The Beige Problem

I first noticed the color palette problem when I moved to Mexico from Vancouver and saw colors for the first time. As I had lived in the Rain City for more than half my life, I had taken my design inspiration from storm clouds and a reserved population. The problem persists because of the gloomy weather, and because of the minimalist trend. Elegant people are understandably associating minimalism with color beige, and need to break out of their decor comas. Dimore Studio’s Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci would agree. As founders of the high-profile design firm in Milan, this duo champions pluralism as the nucleus of their cosmopolitan style.

The Dangers of Boring Color Pallets in Interior Design

1. People who are bored easily are vulnerable to unhappiness, nervousness, irritation, disappointing performance levels in school and work, loneliness, and seclusion(Cantor, 2019).
2. Chronic boredom is associated with thoughtless and hazardous activity, including risky driving, gambling, alcohol abuse, and reckless self-destructive behaviors(Cantor, 2019).
3. Tedium is a top forecaster of dependence relapse. In a study of 156 drug addicts aged 24 to 68 at a methadone clinic, overwhelming monotony was the dependable factor that predicted if the patient would enter recovery(Cantor, 2019).

The Dulling of the Senses with Visual Nothingness

There is a certain sadness that comes with an extremely minimalist lifestyle, despite all of its benefits. When expressed through home furnishings and decor it looks like light birch cabinetry on bright white walls. Beige sofas placed on polished concrete floors and fig trees with twisty brown branches sitting off in a corner, alone. This affects elegant people negatively as their creativity is stifled. This causes further decisions in life to become bland. Completely and thoroughly creatively dehydrated.

Three Instant Color Solutions to Work With Your Minimalist Lifestyle

It would be crucial for you to get started on these steps immediately.

1. Seek inspiration from the Beverly Hills Hotel and shop from their gift shop for home accessories. Make a Beverly Hills hotel vision board to help you focus when decluttering and repurchasing for your new apartment restyle. When making a purchase think to yourself …would this be in the Beverly Hills Hotel?
2. Order your new wallpaper. Wallpaper takes zero space allowing for the vast echo space, your minimalist instincts demand. Wallpaper should be selected in the spirit of maximalism with the most amount of saturated color possible.
3. Order new textiles including sheets, sofa covers, and area rugs in bright color pallets. Maintain having fewer things, but do make all your loved pieces impactful.

“We create interiors that mix styles, periods, materials, colors, lightness, and darkness, old and new,’ they say. ‘Nothing inspires us more than the patina of time, reinterpreted in sophisticated, contemporary decors, to create a specific mood. The result is an aesthetic that is not only hauntingly beautiful but also unique.” — Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci

Embrace Your New Found Energy

We have seen, the worst problem elegant minimalists are currently facing is the neglect of thoughtful color choices in their homes. This looks like a stark and barren wasteland of beige shoebox apartments. We know that visual boredom dulls creativity and causes heartbreaking depression levels. Color injections into a minimalist apartment can change the world through celebration and inspiration. Today would be a great day to completely transform your life through creative color styling in your elegant living space.

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