Top 5 Home Design Trends of 2021 in Malaysia
by Lanny Ho
Are you wondering how you can keep up with the times with your home renovation or decoration? Do you want to revamp your home with the latest trends? Lucky for you, our affiliated interior designers gave their thoughts on the trends they think will be prevailing in Malaysia, 2021. Here are the top 5 must-see Home Design Trends of 2021 in Malaysia.
Open Concept Kitchens
You may have seen open concept kitchens in Western films. But, in Malaysia, open-concept kitchens are still relatively new. A reason why this design has been increasingly popular in Malaysia is because of how stylish and luxurious it looks in a home. Not only that, the way it is structured can provide your home space with more fluidity and functionality. Furthermore, it’s also great at facilitating social interaction among the household members. It gives your home a spacious feeling accompanied with more natural lighting entering the space.
Nowadays, many young folks have an increasingly busy lifestyle, some managing their own businesses and many more. Open kitchen concepts are a great fit for these kinds of household owners (ones with a busy lifestyle). It can act as a space to prepare your meals, eat your meals, keep an eye on your children (if they’re at the living room), and even a space to get some work done.
On top of that, you can keep your TV on for background noise while you work OR catch up on your favourite shows or current news while you prepare and enjoy your meals without having to watch it on a small screen or struggle to hear what the people on the TV are saying.
Earth Tones
Another trend likely to rise in 2021 amongst Malaysians is Earth Tones. Earth Tone patterns are emerging as one of the interior design colour trends of 2021 in Malaysia because the shades not only give spaces a nice warm feeling but also a sense of connection to the great outdoors. Given the situation with the pandemic, many people would unconsciously be seeking more warm tones and connectivity in designs due to many of the restrictive conditions at these difficult times. It gives you a homey feeling and makes you feel safe.
Design elements and furniture that replicate the patterns of plants, wood, and other natural elements can create a calm and soothing environment similar to the outdoors. Especially since we’re spending a lot of time indoors at home nowadays, a replicated feeling of the outdoors is very welcomed by many.
For those who love more bold colours, you don’t have to sacrifice your love for straying from the “safe” or neutral tones with pops of colour and sprinkle of personality here and there. You can also opt for some black doors, burnt orange sofas, peacock paintings, or Chinese inspired tables or cabinets.
Multifunctional Spaces
With many people affected by these uncertain times, working and learning from home have been mostly unavoidable by many in these situations. Therefore, multifunctional spaces have been more relevant than ever in 2021. People want to be able to feel comfortable working from their homes rather than complaining about how inconvenient and unfavourable the conditions are at home.
For a while now, interior designs for homes have been developing more solutions to create rooms that are as multifunctional as possible. Different spaces in different rooms can now do multiple things that are not traditionally done at that said room.
The sky’s the limit. This way people can prepare meals, enjoy their food, work, socialize all in one area. If there’s a child in the household, a living room space can easily be designed to provide a small comfy playpen or perhaps a see-through wall to supervise the playpen when parents are working from home.
Home Workspace
For reasons already specified, creating a space at home for ourselves to immerse ourselves and complete our work has been more and more relevant with the difficulties that the global community has faced over for a year now. More and more people are looking to create a workspace in their own homes in order to adapt to the changing landscape of the work environment while keeping themselves and their loved ones safe from harm.
Some popular key terms when creating workspace designs now are minimalistic, bright, clean, contemporary, and sleek. The home workspace is created to have a space to be able to concentrate and focus on tasks at hand, and to be productive even from the comfort of one’s home. However, this does not mean sacrificing bold and dynamic colours or patterns. The implementations of natural wood elements, geometric adhesive prints, mixed metals and natural lighting have been more prevalent amongst the home workaholics.
But these elements are usually used in ways that would work harmoniously with the somewhat typically neutral colour scheme. Basically, imagine how these elements can be there to add that nice flair but it still can blend right in with the scenery. For example, pops of colour on office furniture (chairs, desktops, or table lights), plants, accent walls, unique looking art or sculptures, flooring and so on.
Other than that, another function that makes home workspaces so appealing is recent designs that help with optimizing storage. For instance, hidden cabinets, slide-out work desks, and so on. The idea that the presence of your work does not have to stay in your home when you are not working.
A way for you to put it all away when it’s time to unwind. Or, just a way for you to manage and clear the work clutter away before moving on to your next task by starting with a clean new slate. By giving you the option to hide away all that “work”, you can give yourself the feeling of leaving the office as you would when you are working at your actual office. It gives you a way for your mind to trigger that reset button for the day and relax.
