If you love the beauty of nature. If being outside feels like your happy place, bring that wonderful sensation home through the use of nature-inspired interior design. The modern movement to enliven indoor spaces through the creative use of organic materials and the thoughtful application of natural sunlight is spreading amongst many contemporary artists who are adding their interpretations to the style—nature-inspired window shades being one of the outlets for this design style with numerous interpretations and customizations available for any outdoor loving homeowner.
Organic Elements in Design
There are a variety of ways to introduce organic elements into design including the use of nature inspired window shades. Organic components like wood, the use of natural elements like sunlight, and the incorporation of nature-inspired motifs are all ways that modern window treatments are connecting our homes with the serenity and beauty of nature.
- Wood: Warm and welcoming, strong yet flexible; wood makes an incredible design element for nature inspired style. Wood has an innate strength, inherit beauty, and the ability to transform into a seemingly endless number of design features. Nature inspired window shades take the biotic component and use it in multiple ways for stylish hard and soft shades.
- Hardwood Shutters: A classic and sophisticated incarnation of wood with clean lines and bold visual style available in a range of natural wood tones as well as modern neutrals like white.
- Woven Wood Shades: Taking the traditionally hard material and transforming it into woven textiles (using other organic elements like bamboo, grasses, and reeds as well), woven wood shades have a raw organic beauty and flowing aesthetic that sets them apart from traditionally hard treatments.
- Natural Sunlight: Light is a powerful design tool including natural sunlight. Its organic use in residential design makes interior spaces feel warm, welcoming and adds free illumination that can highlight interior décor and make spaces feel comfortable for residents. Window treatments that use translucent materials like banded shades or sheer shadings that really showcase as well as control natural sunlight make another popular form of nature inspired window shades.
- Natural Inspiration: Textile artists often draw from nature for inspiration taking raw beauty and refining it into stylish prints. Rebecca Atwood, Seema Krish, and Marcie Bronkar all have designs with natural motifs that make for sophisticated nature inspired window shades – available in Roman shades, roller shades, drapery, or side panels in the Design Studio™ collection.
- Rebecca Atwood: Known for her use of color and pattern, Rebecca Atwood transforms nature-inspired design with organic print making techniques and a skillful use of color as seen in Floral Stamp, Dotted Leaf, Field, Garden Stripe, and Tree of Life in her Design Studio fabric collection.
- Seema Krish: Woodlands and Tangle by Seema Krish both use embroidery techniques to add a textural richness to their nature inspired designs.
- Marcie Bronkar: Marcie Bronkar has several floral prints in her 7-fabric collection for Hunter Douglas including Amaryllis, Grand Fleur, Menagerie, Oleander, and Lily.
Bring the beauty of nature home with help from the talented team at Vignettes Home. With extensive designer knowledge and the latest product lines from Hunter Douglas, you’ll find the people who can help and the products you want to transform your home environment with nature inspired window shades. Request a consultation or visit either showroom location near Galena, Illinois or Dubuque, Iowa. Vignettes Home serves the communities of Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, Davenport, and Platteville in Iowa and the greater Galena area in northwestern Illinois.