Five tips for making your home Instagram worthy

Everyone loves a good-looking home. Stunning modern furniture, stylish light fixtures, pops of colour, and of course, décor that complements your style. However, in the age of social media, creating a stylish home is much more than picking pretty furniture pieces. It’s about playing with colour, composition, and inspiration to make your home photo-worthy. Since Instagram is the biggest photo-sharing platform out there, and interior design shots always make a bang, we’ve come up with five tips to help you make your home insta-worthy.

1. Clean up and declutter

Dirty and cluttered spaces just aren’t appealing and that’s why cleaning up is the first step to creating an Instagram worthy home. When it comes to posting on the gram, you want to present an ideal scenario and that means a polished home. Clean out the stains from your carpet, dust off the shelves, fluff your cushions, and get the bits and bobs lying around into their designated space. This way, when you post a photo of your home, your followers can pay attention to your clever choice of colours, or the thoughtful way you’ve arranged your furniture rather than the clutter lying around.

2. Be inspired

When creating the perfect Instagram worthy home, inspiration is everything! The right inspiration can serve as a reference and a guide when decorating your home. It’ll influence everything from your colour palette and the furniture you buy, to the way you arrange all the elements in each room. Plus, when you buy furniture, décor, art and linens that reflect a particular theme, you create cohesion and visual appeal. This is sure to get you tons of likes and comments on your Instagram posts.

3. Play with colour

While the amount of colour you use in your home is up to personal choice and taste, we definitely suggest using some colour when decorating your home. Colours bring spaces to life; they add interest and evoke emotion – all Instagram gold! You can incorporate interesting hues into your space with a daring statement wall, colourful couch cushions or a bold eye-catching carpet.

4. Embrace natural light

Everyone knows that lighting is the key to a good photo, and when it comes to interior design shots, we’ll choose natural light over artificial lighting any day. To get the perfect shot for the gram, we suggest you draw back the curtains, pull up the blinds and let the sunlight in. Good lighting will help emphasize your home’s stunning features and make the colours pop – creating an attention-grabbing Instagram photo.

5. Add some interest

If you want your Instagram photos to stand out from the crowd, you’ve got to give your followers something interesting to look at. This is where home décor pieces come in. You can add life and interest to your home by introducing some greenery. Potted plants, flowers and succulents are always a good idea, plus, they make your space look more put together. You can also jazz up your rooms with photographs and paintings. We love gallery walls – they’re dazzling and easy to make. Just grab your favourite photos in different sized frames and hang them up on a wall of your choosing.

Creating an Instagram worthy home isn’t as difficult as it seems. With a little time, the right inspiration and these five tips, you’ll have an insta-worthy home in no-time!