Best Home Decor Trends Of 2018 That You Need To Know

The moment you buy a house or rent an apartment, you start planning the home decor. For an interior designer and those who perfectly know the rights and wrongs of the decor, the process of choosing the furniture or picking out the colors for the walls becomes easy. All they do is go with the trend and follow their intuition. If they get stuck somewhere, they pick up the decor magazines or read the home design blogs to stay motivated throughout the process.

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It is the naive folks that suffer. They find it tough to figure out what to do or from where to start. But, 2018 had numerous design inspirations to offer. You can easily find unique ideas on social networking sites like Pinterest or Facebook. The home decor enthusiasts keep themselves up-to-date by following these trends online.

Here is a list of the most famous decor trends of 2018 that everybody loved. This list means that even the interior designers will not find it awkward to repeat them while renovating their own homes. Check them out below.

Colors That People Talked About This Year

"Stay away from the darker shades" is the piece of advice that the interior designers offer to the small house. But, with the change in their taste and style, this advice is no longer valid. Go with the colors stated below.

1. Lavender

Both lavender or lilac are examples of sophistication. Do you prefer dark hues? Go for the lavender. If you want the soft purple shade, lilac is the color for you.

2. Turquoise

Pair this color with perfect decor items to enhance the look of your house even more. Pick this color if you love blue shades.

3. Black or charcoal gray

Intense color palettes like black or charcoal gray offer a matte finish to the decor. Do not be surprised as people loved these hues on their walls this year.

2018 Got Green Accents Inside The Houses

This year, the motive of many of the designers was how to incorporate natural things into the decor. The unmatched beauty of the natural substances makes sure to provide an eye-catching look to the interiors and exteriors. Whether it is the living room or the kitchen, the plants add a different color by making the environment fresh.

Not many apartments come with the windows nowadays. If you are lucky enough and your house has these beautiful openings that let in fresh air and sunlight, utilize them. Keep them open in the morning to welcome the sun rays and give a better head start to your day. Also, natural light enhances the beauty of the space.

Interior Designers’ Advise For Arranging The Must-Have Furniture Items In 2018

The magazines and blogs of 2018 have tips that help in picking the ideal furniture for the house. They also went an extra mile to explain the ways to arrange these beautiful and affordable furniture items to create the look you have always wanted. Let's take their advice and have a look at the furniture that your house (compact or not) must have.

Affordable Sofa Pieces For The Living Room

Considering shrinking space in the USA, modular and multifunctional furniture pieces got popularity. Also, people are interested in such furniture that is easy to move. Therefore, lightweight furniture had made its mark in 2018.

Sectional and corner sofas are the best choice among the people. They approached online stores to get what they need at affordable prices. If you are also planning to gift an elegant sofa to your living room, there are ample furniture stores online to help you.

Home Entertainment Units Are Back In Style

To save the walls from the wall mounted TVs, the home entertainment units have done a great job. They are the best furniture pieces that do not let you spoil those beautiful walls. Instead, use them to place beautiful paintings and photographs. Also, these units are the functional pieces that not only supports your TV but have enough space to keep the electronic items with ease.

Rugs Bring Elegance To Your Space

Rugs are the hidden gems that give a majestic look to the interiors. If you want to hide the ugly floors or change the look of the living room, bring the beautiful rug home. To bring variety, you can use more than a single rug that is different in color and pattern.

Not only this; the era of the occasional furniture has just started. It is a never-ending list. There were also many trends that nobody appreciated in 2018. To conclude, this year gave some remarkable trends for the comfortable and attractive home decor.  

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Rewarding Your Children for Working Hard in School

Do you reward your children when they do well in school? It makes them feel good about trying hard when they receive praise. For some children, it’s difficult to score well on tests. Every child learns differently, so showing your excitement for a job well done can help them reaffirm that their hard work is paying off. Below are some tips for implementing a reward system when your children excel in school.

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Positive Reinforcement

Your child may be very excited to come home and show you a good test score. Parents often have high expectations of their children, so you may not be ecstatic over a B, but your child may be. It’s important that you return that excitement so that your child feels good about the score.

Talk about how they studied for the test and ask if they took their time on each question. Knowing how your child is preparing for and taking tests may help you come up with creative study techniques to make learning a little more fun for them. This will also help you understand what kind of learner your child is.

Building a Reward System

Your child has individual interests. This will change as he or she ages. It is important to pay attention to things your child appears interested in. Base the reward system off of those interests.

In younger children, a simple reward like a sticker may be sufficient. You can have custom stickers made for them by online sticker makers to make them feel even more special. Get them a special sticker book to create a scrapbook of accomplishments. You can work together to label and date each page so that your child has a memory of getting the sticker.

Set Different Reward Levels

Leave the big rewards for big accomplishments like straight A’s or moving up to the next grade. Bigger rewards can also be determined for special accomplishments like perfect attendance and special awards received. The big rewards can be something like going out to dinner, concert tickets or a pricey gift they’ve had their eye on.

Closing Thoughts

Positive reinforcement and rewarding children for doing well in school helps maintain their interest in learning. When they see that you are interested in their hard work, it helps them want to continue to do well in school. The little rewards may also help maintain their motivation to learn.

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The Importance of Keeping Your Work and Home Life Separate and How to Do It

When spending eight hours of every day in an environment with the same people one finds it natural to share the good news in their life or how they spent their weekend. But extend the news to more than that, and you will surely regret it afterwards. There are some things that you just don’t share with colleagues for the sole reason that it’s a work environment and communication should be mainly professional.

Yes, you can crack a joke once in a while, but not one about another colleague; yes, you can chit-chat with female co-workers, but not gossip; yes, you can tell them you’re married, but not share how you were right that one time you had an argument. Whether it’s a minor family concern or something more serious, it’s best to keep your personal life private at work so that it doesn’t negatively affect or the worst case scenario - to jeopardize your job.

Not only can one mistakenly bring home life to work, but work life home too. Oftentimes, when we receive a work email, we’re tempted to open it without taking into consideration it will either stress us out or we’ll be urged to reply, which will take extra time - time that we’re supposed to be spending with our family. It’s not fair to them to not be fully there when at home.

Here’s how you can keep your personal life personal: 

Be fully present in your current activity

For women who work from home, mixing work and home life with each other is inescapable. It even seems natural with your office being the living room. However, it’s crucial to be fully present in the activity you’re currently on. A parent puts it like this:

...if you’re home and spending time with your family/kids [make sure] you’re doing that 100%. It’s so so easy to sneak in work here and there when you’re remote and work from home. It can be so hard to separate the two so I find myself being really conscious of this. When I’m playing with my daughter, I’m fully present (physically and emotionally) doing just that – trying not to think about work etc.

 

Weekends are for family

Create a mindset for yourself and family members that weekends are sacred and are to be spent only within the family. Always reserve them solely for catching up and hanging out with each other! Work-life balance expert Mary LoVerde, among strategies for decompressing on weekends, mentions creating a weekend ritual in order to reconnect with your loved ones after a long week of working. She suggests the idea that “every Saturday morning you spend 20 minutes of undivided, technology-free time cuddling on the couch with your kids or spouse or pet, reading a book or watching something you all enjoy.”

Oh, and, on Monday morning, you don’t have to rant about how great your weekend in the mountains was.

Identify your personal boundaries

Decide on how much of yourself you’re comfortable showing at work. Instead of trying to completely separate your private life from your work life, try to find a comfortable balance ‘by maintaining professionalism in your personal life while also setting realistic boundaries at work’.

Stenger suggests that when you notice that “you’re being drawn into a conversation that makes you uncomfortable, communicate your boundaries by saying something like ‘I’m sorry, that’s personal’, or ‘I don’t feel comfortable discussing this at work.’ Or if someone is constantly interrupting you with small talk, you could politely but firmly inform them that you need to get back to work.” 

Stay away from colleagues who gossip about other colleagues

Finally, it is important to not engage in gossip at the office. If a colleague is sharing with you something someone told them confidentially, they’re gonna do the same with you. It’s best to steer clear of that kind of colleagues so that it doesn’t backfire. After all, you’re obliged to respect all colleagues, but you’re not obliged to befriend them.

At the end of the day, personal life is called personal for a reason. The key to success to achieve keeping your personal and professional life separate is actually to not separate them, at least not completely. Rather, try to learn to be effective and creative in finding (and keeping) a balance. 

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Dafina Zymeri, SAHMjobs

Dafina Zymeri is a writer for SAHMjobs. SAHMjobs is a job portal designed to bring together stay at home moms and recruiters. The platform also brings helpful articles in the Blog section regarding mothers who want to return to the workforce.

 

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