Retrofit: Repurposing

Part Three: Finding Life Again

During the pandemic, the time spent at home increased with the adoption of individual lifestyles away from crowds. The home has become one with the individual, and this has made it a place that is more and more embraced. Home maintenance and decoration has become a hobby. Individuals turned their homes into a canvas for expressing their personal tastes, which had positive mental effects.

Finding Life Again

Some tried to feel the nature at home with new plants, some gave a new function to the items at home with small changes and forgotten items came to life again. With the changes that have taken place over time, repurposing, also known as Retrofit, has brought minimalism and practical elements to homes.

The indispensable needs of the human soul from past to present, when aesthetics and art met with the tendency to spend quality time in homes, houses came to life again in this period with their features that reflect the taste of the person, offer practicality with the return to minimalism and carry nature to decoration.

Decorating suggestions that will bring life back to homes with the retrofit trend;

Vintage inspirations can be brought to the environment with broken and dusty turntables, wooden radios and clocks which carry lots of memories.  

You can create integrity in your space with green plants and feel the relaxing effect of bringing nature into your home.

You can choose the nature-inspired wood colors of the Golden Horn and Atlantis in various applications from furniture to wall panels and you can provide integrity in the space by combining them with green plants.

You can use Yıldız Trend mdflam/melamine faced particle board products as wall panels, and you can achieve a natural space by including the subtle details of the tree in your living space.

Home maintenance and decoration has become a hobby.