Home furnishing is a very fashionable industry, and over the years styles come and go with almost as much frequency as clothing and hair design fashion.  There are also those classic timeless designs that stay in place year on year, but if you are interested in keeping up with latest in home design and furnishing then here are two hot tips for the next few months:
·    The season sees a trend for peacock shades of deep green and blue, mixed in with more traditional autumn colours of rich plum and vibrant orange.  It takes a bit of skill to manage such as strong palette of colours in home design and furnishing, but if you get it right you can create a stunning and very up to date look for your home.

·    Shiny metallic furniture and accessories continue to be big news following on from summer, and so shiny chrome and glass coffee tables, metallic effect vases and picture frames and any kind of polished metal furnishings are very much in the moment.

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If you are interested in protecting the environment and reducing your carbon footprint then it is a good idea to look into the wide variety of eco friendly furniture on offer that is manufactured using sustainable sources.

There are a number of forward thinking designers who are creating fun and ascetically pleasing pieces of furniture for the home using a whole range of different eco friendly materials from designer cardboard chairs through to old reclaimed cinema seats which are transformed for use in the home.

Some designers have even made use of old washing machine drums and other rubbish destined for landfill to create stylish tables and other pieces of furniture, and this creative use of waste is a wonderful way of supporting the recycling movement.

When it comes to wooden furniture it is very important to make sure that the timber has been sourced from sustainable forests, as so much of this type of home furnishing is made from woodlands all around the world that are being cut down aggressively without being managed or replaced.

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When it comes to home furnishings this autumn textures and bold colours are big news, so think about all of those sumptuous fabrics available from silks through to rich velvets, and materials such as luxurious flocked wallpaper and chunky natural wood furniture.

These bold textures suit the dramatic colour palette for the ideal autumn home, which ranges from vibrant blues and greens through to deep purples and rich reds and oranges, and home owners can either dip conservatively from this palette with a scattering of bright cushions and throws, or delve in deep and cover the living areas of there homes with one of the richest, most decadent looks in recent years.

The rich textured materials of the autumn style range do not come cheap however, with velvet and silks among some of the more expensive fabrics on offer, so create small areas of interest by just scattering a few sumptuous cushions across your couch, or by covering just one wall of the room in flocked wallpaper.