Top 10 must-have home decor pieces to freshen up your space

10 home decor trends and where to find them

Looking to freshen up your home decor? Look no further. This shopping guide will help you find what you need to freshen up your space. From paint to pillows, picture frames, handles, and more, here are 10 great ideas and where to find these top home decor trends.

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Home Decor Shopping Guide

I have all of the following items in use as part of my home decor right now. Affordable, easy, and fun ways to decorate and brighten up your space.

Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan

Chalk paint is fun, versatile, and easy to use. It adheres to most anything and there is no prep work required. You can learn more about Chalk Paint here. Mix and match colours to create your own unique look, and style in a variety of finishes from matte to glossy to distressed. Buy now.

2. Schlage Hobson Glass Knob with Kinsler Trim

A quick and easy home update is new hardware for your interior doors. Add a bit of class and sparkle with these sophisticated custom glass knobs like this Hobson Glass Knob from Schlage Canada. Buy now.

3. Schlage Bowery Knob with Greyson Trim

You can update your door knobs to match or complement one another. There’s an endless variety of sizes and styles of interior door handles, like this Bowery Knob in satin nickel from Schlage Canada. Updating your door hardware is an easy DIY, learn how here. Buy now.

4. Picture frames

Blank walls be gone! Inject personality, character, and style with artwork around your home. Go bold and curate your own gallery wall. Use a variety of frames in various styles, colours, and textures like these frames from Ikea, the HOVSTA in Birch, RIBBA in White, and FISKBO in pink. Buy now.

5. Midnight Oil Art Print

Midnight Oil Print and Design House is a specialty print and design shop in Halifax, offering screen printing, letterpress graphic design, and illustration services of all forms and sizes. They have a variety of colourful and quirky art prints for sale, including this Wildlife of Nova Scotia print. Buy now.

6. Seagrass Basket

You’re space is truly organized when you have a place for everything. Plus it makes clean up a breeze when you can pop a mess right back into a basket! This basket from Ikea sits near the front door filled with hats and mitts in winter, and hats and sunscreen in the summer. Buy now.

7. Plant stand

Inject life into your space with living, breathing plants, and set them somewhere stylish while you’re at it. We added this piece from Ikea to a corner by the kitchen table and wow, it looks good! I love the dimension the three levels adds. Learn how to make a statement with oversized plants. Buy now.

8. Kallax Shelf

This versatile shelf can rest horizontally or vertically and comes with all sorts of shelf, cupboard, and basket inserts for easy organizing. We purchased this unit for extra storage in the living room when our oldest was a toddler six years ago and just added a second one in the basement. Ours holds books, blankets, firewood, games, and baskets of toys. This year I’ve seen a friend purchase it for their front entry to organize hats, mitts, keys, mail, etc. and another for toy storage in her kids playroom. Buy now.

9. Throw pillows

Decorative pillows are comfy and stylish and can switch up your entire look without doing anything else. Mix a variety of sizes and textures and change them seasonally. Invest in down/feather inserts and stock up on covers you can switch in and out. Here are four more fresh home decor ideas. Buy now.

10. Fringe Street Designs Wall Hanging

Jen at Fringe Street Designs creates unique wall hangings that are perfectly imperfect. I added one to my beach-themed gallery wall and it’s my favourite part. She also sells curated loom kits and offers an online weaving course so you can make your own. Buy now.

Disclosure: Some of these products were gifted through brand partnerships (Chalk Paint by Annie Sloan and Schlage Canada) but all opinions shared are my own honest experiences.