How to Choose a Style or Look for Your Interior

Choosing a Look

Too many to choose from!

Most people have got something that will give them an idea for how they want to theme their room. It can be an existing piece of furniture or an artifact, a piece of artwork or a picture in a magazine.

If you already have an idea of what style you want to persue, it could be nautical, french provincial, victorian, asian, then you can start researching for ideas around that look, theme or style. Using examples from books, magazines, websites, movies, TV programs you can start to collect and form ideas on how that look is achieved. You then need to decide what are the main things that make that define that theme or look.

As with everything in life you have to be practical and work within your parameters, unless you are able to make major structural changes.

For example, you want a modernist, minimal look with large glazed windows and you have a spanish home with solid plastered archways funneling through your living room and over all your windows you will not be able to achieve this look without demolishing the entire house and starting again.

We advise against using completely unrelated themes or periods for different rooms in the same house. This can make your home very disjointed and upsetting on the eye, you can use different pieces of furniture or artifacts of differing periods or themes in individual rooms, and this makes helps create your individual style within your theme, but overall it is best to keep a common theme running through your home, not create a movie set with dramatic changes from room to room!

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