2024 Residential Trend: Desert Minimalism
Desert Minimalism
In a world where there is an ever-growing desire to inhabit more meaningful spaces, Desert Minimalism is both practical and aesthetic.
This trend emerged as a response to the often hostile, raw beauty of the desert, but even when designing for less arduous environments, this trend encourages architects and interior creatives to design homes that make their clients feel more intimately connected to the natural world.
Designers are challenged to embrace the use of softer lines and curves, organic, natural textured finishes and soft furnishings, minimalist aesthetic and the iconic, calming colour palette of Desert Minimalism to draw the outside in.
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Colour and Styling Considerations
Natural Finishes
Desert Minimalism is hyper-textural and designers are encouraged to embrace the use of contrasting textures and finishes like loop piles rugs, sheer curtains, plastered walls, natural woods and stone. Wherever possible, select materials that are circular and sustainable in nature, creating meaningful homes from the ground up.
Curves
Curved roofs, curved furniture, arches, mirrors, walls... Desert Minimalism is the perfect trend to fully embrace curves in.
Curves have become synonymous with desert communities where domed or curved roofs prove to be practical design elements as they are effective cooling solutions that better allow the flow of air.
Earthy Tones
The foundation of Desert Minimalism is its earthy colour palette that mirrors the distinctive hues found in deserts worldwide. Sky blues, buttery yellows, burnt clay, sand and terracotta and dark browns.
