Why is design consistency so crucial in your home? Maintaining consistency can make your house more organised and comfortable.
While bold colours and statement pieces can add a personal touch, your home will feel messy and disorganised if there is no coordination with your interiors. Creating an interior style that blends seamlessly between rooms can calm and relax the aesthetic of your home. We give you 7 tips on how to create overall design consistency in your home.
1. Do a home edit
One of the key processes to successful design is to edit, edit, and edit all the time! Before you do anything, it is important to go through your home a few times and decide which pieces really don’t belong anymore.
Excess clutter and furniture and decor items that don’t suit your style are the biggest culprits of making your home feel disordered and not quite right. If possible, try to sell as many of these items as you can to use the funds for your new decor.
2. Identify your design style
Take a look around your home and take note of the pieces you love. Look at your Pinterest mood boards and see if there are any decorating themes that come up repetitively, such as ‘modern farmhouse’ or ‘coastal chic’. Whatever your design style is, define it and commit to it as the theme for your entire home. This process is an important step in creating design consistency in your home. Are you still uncertain about your decorating style? Here is a quick guide to all the major decorating themes.
3. Select a colour palette
It is recommended that you keep the foundation of your home (walls, ceilings, cornices, doors and window frames) as well as large furniture pieces in neutral colours such as white, cream, beige and grey. These neutral colours will serve as a timeless backdrop. In addition to the backdrop colours, pick up to 3 accent colours that will complement your neutrals and scatter these colours around your home.
4. Create a cohesive foundation
Making sure your foundation is cohesive is essential for design consistency. Things like flooring, cornices, doors, and windows—make sure they coordinate in style and colour.
The same goes for built-in items such as wardrobes, kitchen cabinets, and counters. Here, you can experiment with variations within your set style and colour palette.
For example, the above pictures are of Fineline’s custom-made built-in wardrobes from one house. Although they differ in colour, they consistently have sliding wardrobe doors in either glass or mirror, and they keep the same style and work within the colour range of black, white, and grey. The client used Fineline Domalti double-sided sliding doors as bathroom doors to create flow and design consistency.
5. Repeat your colours creatively
You don’t have to decorate every room the same to be consistent, like the wardrobe examples above. Now that your neutral foundation is in place, sprinkle your accent colours differently.
For example, if one of your accent colours is terracotta, then paint a terracotta feature wall in one room; in another room, lay down a terracotta area rug, and in a third room, an art piece with terracotta colours.
Paint a feature wall in one room with your accent colour.
Lay out an area rug with your accent colour in another room.
Hang art pieces with your accent colours in a third room.
6. Be consistent with wood tones
Don’t have too many wood tones in your home—two different wood tones, at the most. You could get away with three different tones if you have a bigger home—but be careful, as your home could start looking like a salvage store. Here are some more tips on mixing wood tones like a pro.
7. Repeat the featured fabrics
If you use a featured fabric, pull it through in various ways in your home; for example, throw pillows in one room, a feature chair in another, and maybe a table runner in a third room.
If there is one thing that makes a house feel peaceful and ‘right’, it’s design consistency. Consistency in colour, finishes, and details is restful to the eye and goes a long way towards creating a welcoming, organised feel.
If you want help to create consistency with your closet design and built-in wardrobes, call us at Fineline Wardrobe Solutions today.
For more creative tips and ideas, look at our trendy blog.
