5 Simple ways to transfer your indoor space

Find out here how you can transfer your space with a few fine touches

1. Engineered floorboards

If your flooring is a bit tired, engineered timber floorboards will revolutionise your space. They are the perfect combination of practical and aesthetically pleasing. Not only do they look great and have the natural look of timber, but they have a lot of benefits that hardwood floors don't.

Low maintenance: You can clean them with a simple microfibre mop or cloth. You also don't need to worry about oiling, sanding or other long-term maintenance requirements of other floorboards.
Hard wearing: The coating makes the floorboards more resistant to scratching, warping and fading. They're also long-lasting. These ones by Carpet Court are even covered by a 20-year warranty.
Hypoallergenic: Dust, dirt and allergens can be easily vacuumed or mopped away from the surface.
Ethically sourced: The timber is sourced from certified sustainable farms in order to reduce environmental impact.
Easy to install: Even with sanding and levelling the existing floors, ultimately, Jonno estimates laying their floating floor took a maximum of three days to do the entire house.

2. Change the paint

"If you don’t want to do a renovation, you can simply do a quick touch up of your walls," Lucy says. "It can change things completely — even just a single feature wall." If you're curious about trends, Lucy says brighter and bolder tones are on the horizon.

"Everyone is enjoying natural trends at the moment, but I do think people are experimenting with bolder colours," she adds. "People are excited to have a bit more fun with colour. At the end of the day though, it all comes down to personal preference. Don’t get too sucked in to trends and what you think you should be doing. Always be drawn to colours that make you feel good and work well together in your own home."

3. Use rugs

"Rugs zone a space and create a welcoming environment, but it’s also the thing that will tie all your elements together," Lucy says. In the beach shack, the team used rugs to help separate their dining zone where they otherwise continued floorboards.

"The dining room in this beach shack leads into the living room" Lucy explains. "By doing this we create a fully open space and make the room feel bigger and more inviting. We also used the same flooring in the living room to help enhance the openness of the rooms." 

4. Draw on existing elements for style inspiration

If you want to successfully transform your indoor space, you still need to take into account the general style of your home and its environment. As they were completing an entire renovation, Lucy drew upon the location and 1930s character of her existing beach shack to influence the new design. 

"From an aesthetic point of view, I was very much inspired by the existing home — its warmth, its character, the nostalgia — that very much dictated how I wanted the interior design to look," she says.

"For instance, when it came to flooring, I really wanted a light timber tone that had a nice warmth to it. It was important to have that warmth to set the tone for the rest of the interiors. I wanted it to be a coastal look, so light colours were important but I wanted that warmth for a touch of nostalgia."

5. Know where to splurge and where to save

"Beds, mattresses, sofas — think about those elements of your home that you use the most and those are the things you should spend money on," she says. "If you’re not comfortable in your home, it doesn’t matter how good it looks, you won’t be happy."

Lucy and Jonno are entertainers at heart. So, two features they allowed themselves to spend on were a big deck extension for outdoor dining and a stunning custom 10-seat dining table.

However, you can certainly save on most decor and aesthetic flourishes. "I think bringing greenery into a space can help rejuvenate it," she begins. "It doesn’t have to be expensive. I literally grabbed some things from the garden and popped them in vases to create focal points in rooms."

Source: Realestate.com.au - Presented by Carpet Court