4 Tips to Help You Design a Home That Reflects Your Style
At Metro Design Build, our team works to make your home feel like yours. What would you feel like if someone else’s taste and style was infused into your family’s home?!
In a time and place where staying “basic” doesn’t get as many likes and engagement on the ‘gram, we like to look past that and focus on how YOU feel.
Your space is all your own, and every element of the design should reflect your unique style and your story, which is why we spend so much time getting to know our clients before we do any designing, much less building.
Whether you’re designing your own room, or you are browsing to research contractors, interior designers, or exploring what a design-build company can do for you, we wanted to give you some tips to help you find your own, unique, interior design style.
Browse Magazines (and the Internet)
Whether you regularly flip through interior design magazines, or you’ve never picked one up in your life, they can be a great source of inspiration for your own interior design style. It’s an opportunity to see which design styles you gravitate towards and which ones make you grimace, which makes it a great way to identify what you like and what you don’t like (and knowing what you don’t like is just as important as knowing what you do like).
Pinterest and Instagram are also great sources of design inspiration, so use whichever channel comes most naturally to you.
What Are You Wearing?
We had one client whose cabinets we painted her favorite nail polish color. We sent a sample of her favorite nail polish to the painters and had them color match because that’s how personalized your space should be. If you like wearing a certain color, why not put it on your walls or cabinets?
Which Houses Seem to Call Out to You?
Interior design is about expressing your unique personality, and while you can redesign the house to an extent, the goal should be to marry your style with the style of the house.
For example, when redesigning a Tudor-style house for one of our clients, we used leaded windows as part of the design, because that’s something you would see in an original Tudor.
If you find yourself gravitating towards Tudor-style houses, chances are good you’ll prefer smaller, leaded windows to the big picture windows of more modern homes, but windows are just the beginning. You chose your house for a reason and it was probably because you liked the design of the house, which says a lot about your interior design style.
Check Your Current Dècor
Maybe your current dècor is comprised of a hodgepodge of whatever you could get your hands on when you first moved or something that was designed for you without your say, or maybe you designed it yourself ages ago and it’s time for an update. Either way, when you look at your current dècor, there’s bound to be a reason you gravitated towards certain items and colors.
Redesigning your space (or designing a new space for the first time) is a great opportunity to get rid of the things you don’t like while keeping the ones you can’t live without, so start by looking around you and making a list of what stays and what has to go.
For more inspiration, you can check out our portfolio to see some of the projects we’ve been working on lately and see which ones speak to you.
