Timeless interior design wins
Let’s start with the basics, creating a timeless base point and theme for your rooms is critical, giving you the flexibility over time to tone up and tone down your accented colours, textures, and hues. Following trends can be an expensive business as interior design fads come and go. Dopamine Design and Décor may be here in 2024 but may be passe in 2026 so what of your investment and what will be the cost of coming back on-trend?
If our signature design cue photographs on this website work for you, you will see room and furniture templates of beiges, greys, greige (which incidentally are coming back and overtaking our recent grey period), whites, and subtle warm grey and cool grey combinations. Although the fashion gurus say that greys will never be out of style, warmer, earthier, richer tones and hues are in and do equally in creating the timeless template.
Layering creates richness and a sense of luxury.
Think of layering as bringing together on a mood board all your room colours, textures, hues, and blends to create one coordinated palette and then applying the samples to the elements that make up your interior design project. One sofa and its scatter cushions could have upward of 15 different fabrics and trims. This creates the feeling of opulence while remaining understated because they layer together perfectly with wall finishes, flooring, carpeting, bespoke furniture finishes, etc. Read more on How to Interior Design a Luxury Living Room
Bring the outdoors in
With large windows full of natural light, indoor atriums, and a house full of natural tones and finishes, green is back and here to stay. Unfussy, natural water features with flowing water or ‘acoustic perfume’ for want of a word. It’s all about reducing the walls between inside and outside to bring the natural to the fore.
Avoid Clutter
One of the best-kept secrets to not only interior design but graphic design is that less is more. In an advertisement, as well as a home, there is a quantum called negative space. Negative space as the name denotes means there is nothing there that allows the focal points of the advertisement or the room to catch the eyes’ attention. Without negative space in a room, we generate clutter; it is a common phenomenon with clientele who have no pressure on their budget, who think that by adding here and adding there the entire interior design concept will become more professional. No, it becomes cluttered and whether it is top-of-the-range clutter or economical clutter the result is the same. Allow your interior designer the freedom to explore negative space and create the perfect balance for that luxurious interior.
Wood trims, floors and panelling.
Much as above, creating the neutral palette with layering, your wood finishes will talk to this concept with warmer more organic textures and colours. The traditional oaks, walnuts, and maples are the ultimate slatted wall and floor treatments with Herringbone adding that class personified. Let’s be honest, wood finishes have stood the test of time and will always create that feeling of richness bringing another layer to your timeless portfolio of colours and textures.
Invest in art underfoot.
Investing in top-of-the-range rugs is the equivalent of purchasing investment art. A contemporary or modern, high-end international rug can make or break a room setting. Not only do they lineate demarcation lines but they ground the furniture and the room, creating warmth, comfort, and continuity in the interior décor project. They also have a tangible value dependent upon the quality and style one procures. For inspiration visit https://pacorugs.co.za/
