10 ideas on how tiny homes don't need to be minimalistic

Going tiny automatically means that your possessions have been pared down and your material things have been reduced to those you use on the daily. This often gives rise to a blank slate, both figuratively and metaphorically. You may feel fresher and lighter for the reduction of "stuff," but your design sensibilities don’t necessarily adhere to the "less is more" philosophy.

A tiny home doesn’t equal minimalist interiors, unless you prefer that, obviously. You can still add color, texture, and pattern, so your personality shines through in your home.

Add color to your kitchen space with crockery on open shelving and continue the color throughout your home for a cohesive scheme. This is a great place to display a collection of crockery that is both highly useful as well as being beautiful. You could make the display the main feature of your home, or use it as a place to highlight a few key colors.

Eccentric mixed colors or matching hardware is up to you, but varying the drawer and cupboard pulls adds character to your tiny home to prevent it looking flat-pack bland. There are a huge number of options out there and it is crazy-simple to replace a standard drawer pull with something a bit fancy.

Add shape and form to your space with interestingly designed woodwork features, like the curved arch on this bed frame. It forms a focal point, much like a fireplace in a traditional bricks and mortar building as well as defining areas within your space.

The copper cut-outs on these sliding barn doors around an open bathroom add stylish texture to the small space. The metallic gleam bounces light around, keeping things warm and on-trend. This technique could easily be used as wall art, placed on railings to create some interesting shadow play in the evenings, used as a fire grate or on shutters.

Make use of high ceilings with a great light fitting, to both fill your space with atmospheric lighting and also add a design feature that draws the eye upwards and highlights the spacious quality of the home. Open bulbs have an industrial quality that is very appealing and on-trend, emitting warm light and ditching heavy light covers that could be too busy in a small space.

The addition of beautiful stained glass in the door of this tiny home adds a charming bohemian feel to the plain varnished and painted wood interior. Different patterns and colors will stream into the room depending on where the sun is in the sky and at nighttime the window will glow cosily with light from inside.

This gorgeous colorful ceramic Mexican sink sits perfectly in a tiny home constructed of wood, adding detail to the kitchen area instead of being purely practical. It combines the two greatest elements of tiny home living, that anything that makes the cut is both useful and pleasing to look at.

Knick-knacks often have no place in modern tiny homes over-conscious of clutter. But this bright melange of pattern, earth tones and layers of textiles and images equals a warm, inviting space. Mirrors help to bounce light around and the centrally located porthole keeps the interior brightly lit.

Splashes of color, layers of dreamy texture and an oxygenating quality makes indoor plants a great addition to a tiny home’s decor. They can be squeezed in almost anywhere and the vast quantity of ingenious containers available makes setting up a feature of live herbs, or a wall garden of beautiful blooms a true possibility for the green-thumbed tiny home owner.

Make a design statement by theming your interior around one favorite color - ideally a lighter tone so the walls don’t start closing in on you. Choose one surface to cover, then use a declining ratio to highlight the tone on other objects in the space. You can add accessories or soft furnishing to this kind of scheme easily and swap them out to another shade when you’re bored or the season demands it.

Tiny homes are incredibly versatile to decorate and imprint your personality upon. So long as you keep the mantra of "beautiful and useful" in mind, your tiny home can be exceptionally colorful without feeling overcrowded or cluttered in any way.