Design tips for combining practicality with style for your home décor

Often when it comes to decorating our homes, we’re forced to choose between style or practicality, but we just don’t think that’s the case. With some clever furniture choices and lots of inspiration, you can have a home that looks great, but that also suits your needs too. It’s the best of both worlds. Here are our best design tips for combining practicality with style for your home décor, for a house you’ll love to live in.

Laminate flooring

When it comes to flooring, the need for both practicality and style is crucial. Your flooring choice is likely to be one that you’ll live with for a long time, so it needs to look beautiful, as well as being durable enough to cope with high traffic areas in your home without quickly becoming won out or dated. For this reason, we think laminate flooring is the perfect choice, and when it comes to style you can’t get more stylish than parquet flooring. Why not take a browse through some of the parquet laminate options on our website? They start at just £23.99 per m2, so not only are they practical and stylish but they’re more affordable than you might think too.

Washable paint

Choosing paint for your home can feel like a tough compromise, especially if you have young children or pets. You want a paint that looks great, has a nice finish and yet you know you need something tough and durable too (otherwise you’ll be redecorating all the time, and who has the time or budget for that?) What you need is washable paint – high endurance and stain repellent, so any spills, marks or crayon artwork courtesy of your little one can simply be wiped away without damaging the beautiful colour.

Fitted furniture

Storage space with style and substance can be found with fitted furniture. The practicality element is clear – it’s made to fit your space perfectly, so there’s no wasted space, especially if you live in a house full of awkward nooks and crannies or sloping ceilings. The interiors of wardrobes can be customised to you too, so you know you’ll have space for everything you need. The style element is also important here – sliding door wardrobe designs can be more than just a boring silver mirror. You can design these any way you like, with wood finishes, coloured glass, high gloss, or even textured finishes to add a bit of interesting detail into an otherwise plain room.

Coffee tables with hidden storage

One of the easiest design tips for combining practicality with style for your home décor that we’ve come across is having clever furniture in place, like a stylish coffee table with hidden storage built in. This lets you quickly hide the living room clutter, like magazines, remotes, toys and junk and instead reveal a neat and tidy living space – just the thing if you have guests pop by unexpectedly. Let them marvel at how well kept and stylish your home is!

Quality bedding

Any stylish home magazine will show perfectly posed bedrooms with crisp white bedding in place. This looks great, but it can feel quite impersonal – after all, you don’t want your bedroom to feel anything other than cosy. So, for style and practicality when it comes to choosing bedroom décor we would recommend that you keep it simple with two or three colours, and buy good quality bedding with high thread counts. These will not only last longer and wash better but they’ll feel amazing too – just the thing for sinking into and getting a good night’s sleep.

Have you any other design tips for combining practicality with style for your home décor? We’d love to hear them!