What's Trending: Desert Oasis

The Desert Oasis trend showcases KOO's high summer story that reimagines global influences through a modern lens into contemporary Australian homes. This trend celebrates the art of indoor-outdoor living, where earthy textures meet elevated design. Think slubby linen blends, bamboo and rayon textiles, arabesque matelassé detailing and artisanal finishes in mango wood, raffia and woven faux leather. Prints are expressive and feature bold pictographic motifs and abstract palms - it's all about the desert tropics. The palette is a vibrant balance of royal blue, berry, aquamarine and lilac, grounded by sandy neutrals and ignited with fire red and tangerine. It's a celebration of timeless craftsmanship and innovation, designed to inspire, elevate and bring warmth to every corner of your home.

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• Introducing the Desert Oasis Trend
• Create a Living Room That Exudes A Desert Charm
• Transforming Your Bedroom Into A Desert Oasis
• Elevate Your Daily Routine With A Desert Inspired Bathroom
• A Desert Dining Experience

Introducing the Desert Oasis Trend

KOO's Desert Oasis trend balances warmth and vibrancy and is all about tactility and storytelling. This decorative theme showcases the rich earthy tones of sand, clay and terracotta while simultaneously uplifting refreshing jewel hues for a pop of energy. You'll often see a balance between muted and vibrant colour tones - think bold royal blues and tangerine tones grounded by pastel pinks and aquamarines. Together, they capture the essence of a sun-soaked desert scene alive with colour and contrast.

In terms of patterns, this trend takes inspiration from desert motifs, featuring fine linework, palm fronds, block-printing effects, tropical botanicals, and bold animal imagery. Expect oversized, simplified forms and two-tone palettes that make a striking statement.

Styling your home with bed linen, furnishings and home decor for a desert style will involve fabrics such as slubby linen blends, bamboo, cotton and cut-pile textures that invite touch.

Create a Living Room That Exudes A Desert Charm

Establish a refreshing desert style in your living room and create the perfect foundation for your home decor theme in your home. Start with your window dressings. An understated component of your decorative theme, window dressings such as curtains and blinds influence the amount of light entering your space. To establish a desert style in your living room, shop for blinds that allow you to let light filter through to your space and brighten your home. Blinds like the KOO 50 mm Timber Venetian Blinds enable you to brighten your space with natural light, while the neutral wood colour tone effortlessly complements the earthy tones of the desert oasis trend.

In terms of other decorative pieces, cushions offer the perfect combination of comfort and aesthetic charm. Cushions such as the KOO Desert Oasis Sun Cushion and the KOO Desert Oasis Rust Palm Cushion, with their rusty colour tones and joyful nature-inspired patterns, bring that refreshing desert style to your space, all while adding comfort to your couch or armchair. Create a cosy cushion arrangement that brings depth and dimension by arranging these standard sized cushions with shorter cushions such as the KOO Desert Oasis Palm Cushion, or display one single cushion on its own as a stylish decorative piece.

Transforming Your Bedroom Into a Desert Oasis

Bedrooms are a place for relaxation, and what better way to relax and unwind than amongst the calming components of a desert-style decor. In decorating your bedroom for a desert style, think about switching out your bed linen as well as introducing desert-inspired decor into your space. Balance your earthy colour ways with pops of colour and play around with patterns and textures for a unique and rejuvenating decorative style.

Updating your bed linen is the perfect opportunity to refresh your bedroom styling. In any bedroom, the bed is the focal point and cements your decorative theme. For a desert style, think quilt covers with nature-inspired patterns like palms, such as the KOO Chloe Bahamas Palm Jacquard Quilt Cover Set. Available in three earthy colourways (teal, wheat and sunset), this palm quilt cover is patterned with a nature-inspired motif. To bring an additional decorative element to your bed, you can use a quilt cover set such as the KOO Chloe Bahamas Coverlet Set - with its accented tasselled corners - for extra warmth and desert charm.

If you're looking for subtlety in your desert styling, patterned bed sheets form the perfect foundation to your bed linen. Fold back your quilt cover to unveil the desert-style patterns that form the foundation of your bed linen. From earthy-toned sheets such as the KOO Loft Linen Cotton Sheet Set to the patterned elegance of the KOO Printed Washed Cotton Sheet Sets, available in Bahamas, Sunny and Amira themed designs, KOO offers a range of nature-themed sheets to refresh your bed linen with a desert charm.

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Home Decor For a Desert Style In Your Bedroom

It's the decor pieces you choose that add the perfect finishing touch to cement your chosen aesthetic in your bedroom. Complement your quilt cover and bed linen with coordinating pillowcases - for instance, pair your KOO Chloe Bahamas Palm Jacquard Quilt Cover Set with the matching KOO Chloe Palm European Pillowcase. You can play around with the colour options for a lively contrast of earthy colour tones.

When it comes down to the more decorative accents, consider shopping for natural textures such as the woven basket weave design of the KOO Décor Rust Frame. In a rust colour tone, this photo frame also adheres to the desert colour palette of your bedroom. And to incorporate an even further nature inspired accent, think about introducing the elegance of artificial plants into your space. The Botanica Artificial Areca Palm Tree is an excellent example of luscious faux leaves without the need for maintenance, ensuring it helps contribute to your bedroom styling all year round.

Elevate Your Daily Routine With A Desert Inspired Bathroom

Bathrooms are most often simplistic in their decorative style, but allowing a desert oasis style to flow through to your bathroom is a great way to establish cohesiveness in your decorative style while elevating your everyday routine. The best way to incorporate a desert style in your bathroom is by carefully shopping for towels in earthy colour tones, such as the KOO Tasha Jacquard Bath Towel with its intricate geometric jacquard pattern and dusty pink, nut brown, charcoal and teal colour options, or towels with nature inspired patterns as seen with the elephant and palm tree pattern of the KOO Nellie Elephant Jacquard Bath Towel. Available in black, olive and azure colour options, these towels blend earthy details with a nature inspired colour palette perfectly.

Complete your bathroom styling with artificial plants. For larger bathrooms, consider the eye-catching showcase of greenery with larger potted plants and for smaller bathrooms, an artificial succulent displayed on your bathroom counter will tie your decorative style in perfectly.

A Desert Dining Experience

The dining room is the centre of many gatherings. From everyday breakfasts to a heartwarming dinner party with friends, the dining room is the focus for both routine meals and celebrations. Decorating your dining room in line with a desert oasis is the perfect way to enjoy your meals with a refreshing aesthetic. Create a desert inspired dining experience to both elevate your home styling and showcase your decorative theme to your guests.

For the base of your dining room decor, you can't go past a neutral toned rug like the KOO Andra Round Woven Rug, perfect for placing underneath your dining table. Rugs like this one act as a work of art while providing insulation to your space, ideal for adding both comfort and style to your dining room.

In terms of the smaller decorative pieces, you can create a refreshing desert style display on a console table in the corner or off to the side of your dining room. Swap out old photo frames to the earthy inspired style of the KOO Décor Brown Frame with its mottled pleather fabric in brown colourway and wooded frame. And for the perfect element of nature, display a bouquet of artificial flower stems in the amber coloured glass of the KOO Bud Vase. A great centrepiece to your dining table, this floral display is the perfect approach to incorporating a contrast between the earthy colour tones of a desert oasis with a pop of colour of floristry.

Style Your Home With a Desert Inspired Look

Desert Oasis is more than a look, it's a lifestyle. By creating your own sanctuary filled with layered textures, rich colours and artisanal details, you'll create a timeless home that feels both worldly and serene. It's your invitation to slow down, embrace craft, and turn your space into an oasis of calm. Shop KOO's incredible selection of palm quilt cover sets, earthy toned towels and stylish home decor to infuse your home with the refreshing accents of an earthy style and transform your space into a rejuvenating desert oasis.