Refresh your home with the latest styles and pick up your new additions from local stores

If you're considering refreshing your home, get inspired from what's going to be 'in' next season and in-house in Cairo

Following the trend forecaster's advice, either add a few pieces to our home decor that will freshen things up, or start from scratch and redo everything to create a completely integrated ambiance.
Nature
Nature, wood and tradition can be modernised, and in Egypt, Nadim has a solid reputation for doing just that. They take folk art and integrate it into wonderfully thick, tactile wood furniture. Their wooden webs that decorate large furniture, such as bed's headboards and china cabinets are perfect examples of using wood and the interconnected/web concept that is surfacing.
The baby on the block, Barati, comes up with pieces that reach into the 19th century, but occasionally with a nice twist, such as their night stand.
Terracotta can also be grouped in nature, and No Limits Furniture makes great use of this colour in a pebble-inspired lamp.
Atlantis
Closely related to nature, but on a very different colour scheme is the beautiful obsession with water. The watery colours that we're seeking here can be found in the Zoya collection. Although sometimes their collection is a bit too antiseptic, their bright, sea green glass tables can be warmed up. One great example is a sea green, glass table with wooden and natural-feeling cut out of obelisks.
Empress
Another backlash against months (or years) of tightening of the belt is the desire for something beautiful, lush and lavish. Modoko, in Designopolis, combines effortlessly modern with that “empire” feel. A deep red sofa with dark fleur patterns, combined with linear, steel grey accessories and gothic chandeliers. Vampire heaven. If dark goth isn't your style, you can replace the dark red with white and keeping the fleur pattern, to add some royalty to the crisp look that dominated last season.
Let it shine
Nadim, besides their beautiful furniture, also specialises in promoting a folk art decoration called tally, a sort of embroidery of plated string on loose-knit material.
No Limits Furniture also stuck with one of the base colours of last season that will carry on well into the future and highlights it with shiny silver and shisha-like lamps.
They also have a silver table that mimics patchwork and in the same display has two bright yellow chairs (and this season every woman must have one bright, yellow item). No Limits uses all of the trends: going for textured metallic, terracotta highlights set against beiges in one display and weaving cases for wooden crates and ottomans.
Egypt, Egypt, Egypt
Fitting both the shiny and the popularity the Egyptian-look is Iwan Hossama's mother of pearl coffer. It looks like something straight out of the Fifth Element, a sci-fi movie that blends the mystery of Egypt's vast reign and technology with futuristic speculations. It feels like this box holds the secrets of the universe. Although Iwan Hossama has been known for three generations as masters of Egyptian woodwork and mashrabeyya fans know their intricate work, the newest generation is experimenting; mixing the ancient with the new. Another piece is a white ottoman with viney, Arab-inspired print.