Homewares

Adding or changing out your homewares is a great, affordable way to customise the way your home looks and feels.

Do you often host parties and entertain guests? Do you prefer form over function? Read on to learn about how knowing your answers to these questions can inform your styling choices, and make your home a well-thoughtout, curated space. As a proudly Australian brand, we like to think that we have the best to offer when it comes to buying homewares in Australia.

What Are Homewares?

Homewares are the often useful, always decorative accessories that you add to your home to create visual balance and finishing style.

Homewares include home decor, furniture, rugs, storage, kitchen accessories, dining, throws, cushions, wall hanging and many other decorative and practical pieces. 

Time for a Change? Start Here:

Having a cohesive idea for your home makeover is a must before you begin purchasing new homewares. This is the time to ask yourself the questions from the introduction above: What do you want to achieve? A refined colour palette? To reinvent the space as a coastal oasis? A modern, elegant haven?  Answering these questions will lead you to the next stage: planning.

We recommend that you do some browsing online, using applications like Pinterest and Instagram to search for home inspiration to see what styles stand out to you. Start with defining a colour palette, using an app like coolors to have them on hand. Maybe you want to go for mostly neutrals with a pop of accent colour for a relaxing, beach-cozy vibe. Or you may want to eschew the norm and ensure that every piece is a deep jewel tone for an eclectic look. Create a mood board that clearly defines the look you are aiming for, and then start identifying similar attributes about each image within the board. Are you noticing a lot of wood panelling? Jute rugs? Maybe every image seems to have a huge coloured glass vase as a table centrepiece? Write a list of all the similar items, textures, materials, etc. until you have at least 5-10 common themes to look out for.

Next, we will go through three of the most commonly re-decorated rooms in the house and how best to optimise them with homewares.

The Living Room: The Heart of the House

For many families, the living room is the centre of their home. It’s where we connect to one another, make memories, and spend time with the people we love. Most living rooms include a lounge, coffee table, and television. Besides those essentials, the options to match your personal style and your family’s needs are endless. Your living room should be a reflection of you, your family, and your interests.

Decorating your living room with homewares can give it that unique, special touch, but it's important to determine if you like a maximalist, minimalist, or well-balanced space. 

Bookshelves stocked with knickknacks, books, puzzles, board games, etc., make for a great hub of activity when entertaining or just settling in for the family game night, and lean more heavily towards a maximalist style with the sheer volume of individual objects. Maybe your hobby is music, and you want a vintage chest to store your records, a matching stand for your heirloom record player, and a zero-gravity chair to lay back and be immersed in the sound. Just those objects alone can create a minimalist, aloof space that features who you are as a person. Homewares allow you to make an aesthetic living room that shows what you value most. 

The Bedroom: A Relaxing, Personal Space

Your bedroom is your sanctuary. It’s where you start every morning and retreat at the end of every day. Your bedroom is also more personal than the other areas of your house, used less for entertaining and more for recharging.

Every bedroom needs a bed and bedside tables, or some sort of storage. Other common furniture items include dressers, a wardrobe, a chest of drawers, and various lighting. If you’re an avid book lover, a book nook is an excellent idea for your bedroom. Make-up lovers may enjoy a vanity setup. It’s entirely up to you.

You can shop bedroom homewares in Australia online at The Hotel Linen Co.

The Kitchen: Balancing Style and Practicality

First, it’s essential to ensure you have all of the kitchen appliances you need to prepare food and make your meals effectively.

What elevates a kitchen is having practical homewares. A rack to display your beautiful collection of copper pots adds style and practicality. A lovely tea towel can add a pop of colour to your kitchen and polish the overall look. A comfy set of barstools can take a kitchen from a place of lonely chores to a family hangout spot. Varying textures and colours can soften or liven up the space.

All this and more can be found online at The Hotel Linen Co.