Trending on Remodelista: 5 Design Ideas to Refresh a Room

Inspired by springtime, the Remodelista editors threw open the windows and doors this week. Here are five of their favorite ways to refresh the interior design of a home:

Checkerboard Floors

Above: Solid oak drawers and open storage complement a traditional checked kitchen floor. Photograph by Romain Richard.

See more of this kitchen (and the rest of the house) in Gesa Hansen’s Country Style: The Scandinavian-German Designer’s Family Quarters Outside of Paris.

Industrial Floor Lamps

Above: The Grasshopper Floor Lamp by Swedish architect Greta Grossman for Gubi comes in nine colors; $1,030 at Design Within Reach.

See more in this week’s 10 Easy Pieces post.

Hand-Tinted Textiles

Above: Dublin-based designer Kathryn Davey experiments with natural ingredients, such as tea, avocado pits, and onion skins, to create dyes for limited-edition tea towels, string bags, and other textiles.

Read more in Dyed in Dublin: Kathryn Davey’s Naturally Tinted Textiles.

Plywood Wall Clocks

Above: A Bi-Color Plywood Clock from Yuichi Nara has a wood face with die-cut numbers; $95 at the MoMA Store.

See more design ideas from the sunny Ikea kitchen of Parisian stylist/blogger Lucille Gauthier-Braud  in this week’s Steal This Look post.

Whitewashed Paneling

Above: Photograph by Nathalie Mohadjer ourtesy of Gesa Hansen (@GesaHansen).

In her 19th-century country house south of Paris, designer Gesa Hansen whitewashed the dark wood paneling in the master bath, brightening the space.

See more in Gesa Hansen’s Country Style: The Scandinavian-German Designer’s Family Quarters Outside of Paris.