New wall and floor designs are providing flexibility for commercial and residential spaces, from dividers or upscaled doors to broken-plan solutions that offer timeless elegance, sound-absorption and wellness to homes and workspaces.
Flexible spaces have never been more in demand. Over the last years living spaces have had to transform while more people work from home but also we spend more leisure time at home with friends by organising little yet entertaining indoor events. Designers and architects are responding to these popular needs with out-of-the-box solutions that run from broken-plan living concepts to wood dividers that bring coziness yet classic aesthetic to contemporary spaces and lifestyles.
Wood always reminds us of nature but the trend now is to bring an elevated sense coziness while the finishing of hardwood flooring is elegant and upscaled in designs and tones that bring intellect traditional rustic floors. The trend is about looking at oak woods not from a rustic approach anymore but from a cultured new prism. Floors and wood wall panels are also being fundamentally changed in 2024 through colour. Light wood colours are a thing of the past. Say goodbye to light-yellowed tones and say hello to dar tones.
Hardwood flooring is now reinvented by new ways of designing its setting- a new sense of proportions are a total game changer the eye feels immediately. The trend is about experimenting with intricate woodwork to optimise on natural materials providing feelings of leisure and elegance.
Solid wood panelling walls are also part of this trend with woods that reveal unique patterns thanks to its exposed end-grains, resulting in a contrasting design. Wood is being re-conceptualized for the Gen-Z, a full generation who understands the long term value and nostalgic features of wood.
In 2024 the open-plan living spaces of previous eras have been replaced with a desire to zone areas to create more cocooning, sound-absorbing and private areas in the home. Google Trends data backs this up; searches for the term ‘broken plan living’ have grown 130% over the last year, worldwide.
Demand for zoned spaces that allow for different uses is on the rise. Room dividers offer the ultimate versatility and oak wood dividers also have the power to “dress” spaces with elegance surfaces and timeless 3D constructions. Increasingly arty & elegant room dividers are being used in residential and commercial interiors to create specific spaces for work, play and privacy. Are oak dividers becoming the ultimate master piece in interiors like art elements?
This rhetoric question has its answer in itself when we visit Ecowood completed projects gallery. To explore these Ecowood works is like stepping in a contemporary art gallery where each piece has the power to transform and elevate spaces and homes… you don’t get only wooden floors or wooden panel walls or separators- you get master pieces that nature and wood-artisans have co-created.
Authors of the interiors and photos used in the moodboard: interior designer Eugenija Bogdanavičiūtė, photographer Gerda Ramonė; interior design studio “InArch“, photographer Lina Adinavičienė; interior designer Katie Malik, photographer Maciek Platek; interior studio “NOI”; interior design studio “SA home” and photographer Vytenis Raubickas.
