If you ever feel overwhelmed by the rapidly changing trends and cluttered interiors, slow design is exactly what you need.
While fast furniture is all about buying quickly and replacing them quickly (and actually, throwing them away quickly), slow design is about making conscious choices. It's a trend that brings peace, sustainability, and personality to your interior. In these turbulent times, that's very welcome. But perhaps even more importantly: it also changes the way you look at your life.
What is slow design?
Let's start with the concept of slow design or slow decorating. This means, among other things, that you don't have to furnish everything at once. Instead, you take the time to choose furniture and accessories that truly suit you. It's about quality instead of quantity. This way, you create an interior that grows with you and tells something about you personally. Instead of a showroom full of trends in your home, you create a home full of stories about you. With furniture that lasts for generations and an interior that radiates tranquility every day.
3 reasons why slow design makes your life calmer
The fact that your interior becomes calmer and more personal should be enough reason to convince you of the benefits of slow design. But we'd like to offer a few more.
1. Less stress about choosing
By consciously choosing handmade furniture with a soul and a story, you don't have to buy something new every season. This saves time, money, and stress.
2. Sustainable and meaningful
Slow design aligns with sustainable living. By choosing furniture that lasts longer, you reduce waste and contribute to a fairer production chain. Moreover, pieces are often handmade locally in small batches.
3. An interior that truly suits you
Instead of following a trend, you build a unique interior step by step. Each piece of furniture tells its own story and makes your home more personal.
Slow design in practice
If you need a table, you might think of a flat sheet of wood with four legs. That's a functional table. But what you really want is a place where you can proudly display your homemade dinner. Where you can have hours of good conversations with friends. Where you create those beautiful designs for work. In short, where you have countless memories. A handmade wooden table will last for years and helps you remember those memories. The same goes for a cupboard. A Billy bookcase is good for quickly storing things. But it's not the cupboard your grandchildren will reminisce about because "Grandma" always hid sweets in it. These are the pieces of furniture that give your home soul and remind you daily of the value of conscious choices.
You determine the atmosphere in your home
Slow design isn't actually a trend, but a mindset. It helps you slow down and make conscious choices that create peace, both in your interior and in your daily life.
Want to discover how to apply slow design step by step? Then download our free e-book: Sustainable Living E-book.