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Trend Alert: Give Your Interiors a New Angle With 3D
Three-dimensional features are starting to play a starring role in leap-off-the-wall interiors – will you adopt this growing trend?
Geometrics have been used successfully in interior design for centuries – each decade somehow taking on a fresh, new angle. The emergence of 3D printing has made its mark on interior trends, along with our evolving love of mid-century modern and industrial style. Introduce a multi-faceted element to your home and you’re quite literally giving it another dimension. Take a look at how 3D-design could be incorporated into your home, and some of the latest 3D products to hit the market. Just keep in mind that a little goes a long way – too much of a good thing can be overwhelming.
We spotted this fresh take on wall decor featured at Remodern‘s stand at Melbourne’s DENFAIR last month. Bentu Design has endeavoured to make recycled concrete beautiful with its angled ‘stones’, and you can arrange them on your wall anyway you like – individual shapes measure 24 x 28 centimetres and they come in a variety of greys.
Hexagonal tiles are, of course, already popular in kitchens and bathrooms, but this feature wall takes the honeycomb forms into third-dimension territory. In this dining area, the white hive blocks laid on a blue background echo the colours and angles of the adjacent music room’s bay windows.
They don’t call this range of tiles ‘Wow 3D’ for nothing. As a kitchen splashback, these leap-off-the-wall tiles reflect a homeowner that dares to be different.
TIP: If you’re champing at the bit to embrace the 3D trend, balance wow-factor dimension with neutrals to avoid a look that’s too busy or bold.
TIP: If you’re champing at the bit to embrace the 3D trend, balance wow-factor dimension with neutrals to avoid a look that’s too busy or bold.
Replicating a concrete block textured wall by the pool brings the outside in to this contemporary kitchen, where glossy surfaces provide the perfect balance to the three-dimensional wall.
Here is a more subtle take on the 3D splashback, but one that’s no less lovely. Its soft lines bring a quilted effect to the wall, rather than hard edges and angles.
Pressed tin is a telltale feature of houses built in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it can add dimension to any style of home when used appropriately. Paired with marble and timber, the pressed tin in this kitchen adds texture, and marries old and new styles.
The pressed tin feature wall carries on into the living area of this renovated worker’s cottage.
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Bathrooms are an easy place to experiment with dimension; textured tiles on a feature wall can make a neutral-toned space far more interesting.
Zoom out and you can see how the wall makes an impact in more than just the bathroom of this Brisbane home.
If you’re going to go bold with colour in a powder room, why not be bold with texture too? Drawing unmistakable inspiration from the 1970s, the red ‘Eclipse’ tiles in ‘Roja’ from Academy Tiles is eye-widening up close …
… and eye-catching to passers by.
Inspired by the layered nests of the bowerbird, designer Adam Goodrum created this woven range for Cult for use in residential and commercial spaces – as well as making a visual statement, the textured wool blend in the 3D-woven furnishings also soak up unnecessary noise.
“Upholstery provides endless opportunities to invigorate objects – a new ‘skin’ gives each piece a unique character, and I love seeing my designs upholstered in unexpected and inspired ways,” Goodrum says.
10 of the best trends from DENFAIR 2016
“Upholstery provides endless opportunities to invigorate objects – a new ‘skin’ gives each piece a unique character, and I love seeing my designs upholstered in unexpected and inspired ways,” Goodrum says.
10 of the best trends from DENFAIR 2016
Also on show at Melbourne’s DENFAIR in June, Top3byDesign highlighted this Scandi-style bedhead from PYTT, a modular system that’s easy to add to any bedroom setting.
TIP: A longer bedhead rod can also accommodate a hanging bedside table from the same range.
TIP: A longer bedhead rod can also accommodate a hanging bedside table from the same range.
Mixing materials – quilted fabric, leather straps and a timber rod – makes the bedhead far more of a feature in the room than just an upholstered bedhead alone.
Sculptural walls can work with homes of all persuasions – contrasting contemporary and traditional features is a sign of the ‘anything goes’ times, after all. These lightweight panels from Inhabit are made from bagasse –the pulp left over after the juice has been extracted from sugar cane.
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See more interesting ways with feature walls