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Find your interior style: modern eclectic or traditional chic?

September 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

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By Kerena Berry

We spend hours shopping for clothes, planning our ensembles and admiring the results in the mirror, but how well dressed are our homes? You may be walking proud as you strut down the street, confident in your sense of fashion, but is your homeโ€™s interior the neighbourhoodโ€™s plain Jane?

Thankfully, finding your homeโ€™s perfect style is easy and also a lot of fun. Your interiors should be an extension of your flair for fashion and match your individual personality. Like any branch of creativity, interior design has a number of starkly different styles. These established approaches to the art and science of enhancing interiors act as excellent foundations or starting points for a journey that will end with a stunning home that expresses who you are.

To help you discover your own style, a website tool like the free style quiz at Designbxย builds a trend board, which is basically a visual glimpse of the styleโ€™s essence.ย After you find your ideal style, youโ€™ll see how variations and garnishes can create unique flair. But letโ€™s start with the basics and introduce you to five popular interior design styles, along with great tips for achieving the right seasonal look.

Modern Eclectic

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Modern eclectic mashes bohoโ€™s disregard for convention with Hollywood chic, making its mark with shape and pattern rather than colour. โ€˜Boldโ€™ and โ€˜daringโ€™ are the key words, and at the moment, jewel tones are all the rage. Add a touch of Hollywood noir with dark and moody hues while championing extravagance with oversized artwork.

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Mirrors are key and should be used likeย art, with a preference for unique shapes and grouped in areas where you can catch natural light. Amplify the classic sense of charm by using this seasonโ€™s favourite material velvet, which is perfect for the modern eclectic home.

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Image source: Domaine Home

Boho

Boho embraces the exotic, colourful, handcrafted and untraditional, creating unlikely marriages between contrasting colours, shapes, materials and decorations. This is the style that throws caution to the wind, with freedom and true individuality.

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This season, Kilim patterns have migrated from rugs to soft furnishings while tapestries and woven art continue to be mainstays, creating a texture wonderland. Indoor greenery is here to stay, preferably oversized plants with delicate, cascading leaves. Artwork is veering toward landscapes of abstract coastal and desert scenes. Remember to have fun with this style. Itโ€™s all about creating interiors that break the rules yet achieve harmony.

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Traditional Chic

As the name suggests, Traditional Chic is plush but not at the cost of comfort. The challenge is to achieve grandeur while keeping your interiors homely. Think eighteenย century, including choices of furniture which are either original antiques or are heavily influenced by classic, ornate furnishings. The mood definitely favours the feminine, with soft fabrics including the lush texture and finish of silk, while art is as youโ€™d expect from any stately manor: clusters of well arranged smaller frames or dominant, large scaled works.

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Experimenting with textiles is key to the success of Traditional Chic, which encourages embracing the old and new to create striking yet sophisticated spaces. Shibori dying techniques look right at home here, which proves that classic styles have room for the unexpected. Plums and pastels bring a soft feminine feel to the style this season, and slim-lined vintage timber furniture are at home here. Itโ€™s all about elegance.

Modern

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Modern has been with us since the early part of the last century when the Bauhaus movement made a large and sudden impact across a variety of artistic mediums. Since it was founded by an architect, it had a profound effect on interior design that began to place emphasis on materials such as plastics, glass and natural timbers. Its stark minimalism and elegant lines create an atmosphere of discernment and refinement.

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This season, weโ€™re pairing back our Modern designs to let oversized, block colours dominate while always ensuring these bold elements harmoniously blend. Juxtaposition is used dramatically by pairing square and curved forms. Fabrics are heavier and more textured, but most importantly, soft to the touch. The modernistas want comfort.

Scandi

Scandi is a mid-century addition to design styles that, as the name suggests, would be at home in Scandinavian countries where organic materials and subtlety are key. The heroes of your Scandi home are craftsmanship, minimalism, gentle contours and functionality. Rather than putting the spotlight on decorative touches, the foundation elements are championed, so colours, shapes and materials are crucial.

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While hues are never loud or stark, the muted tones of Scandi are rich. Forest Green is the kingpin. This season, commonly used soft pink is being replaced with a more vibrant peach. Mid to dark timber furniture is rising in popularity, and itโ€™s a trend designers are embracing. Use against darker and deeper colours to create a combination that will be a great winter warmer.

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Image source: Jonas Ingerstedt

Thankfully these styles alone are not seasonal. If they were, weโ€™d have a lot of fun redecorating but it would cost us a fortune! However, as the seasons change, there are always exciting new trends to help us keep our foundation style fashionable. For those in the know, a few minor tweaks or a new feature is all it takes to bring your beautifully designed interiors back in style.

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Image source: Jonas Ingerstedt

Kerena Berry is an interior designer and co-founder of Designbx, Australiaโ€™s online interior design solution.

 

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@newsouthwaleshealth have just put out this warning about a rise in serious bacterial infections. iGAS (invasive group A streptococcus) is what caused my necrotising fasciitis and sepsis.

Apparently there's similar happening in VIC too.

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Founded by husband and wife duo Anton and Rita Bourtsev, Sydneyโ€™s @kaolintiles has a unique offering in this space with over 100 different marble-look tile designs in small and large formats.

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Promise this is the last wretched hospital photo I Promise this is the last wretched hospital photo I'll post and I hope to be home and with my lippie back on by Monday. You know it's serious when I'm lipstick free, right?!

This was about a week ago in intensive care. And although my arm is still bloody sore I'm now on a normal ward and no longer attached to any drips, drains or a catheter. I've come a long way.

This has been the most physical and mental challenge of my life but I'm through the worst. I kept my arm. The doctors saved my life.

I cannot say it enough times. If you're worried about your health, don't hang around. Things can change so quickly. 

A huge thanks to my amazing husband @damianfrancis We've had the hardest year yet and our marriage has never been stronger, even if my rings did get cut off my finger in hospital ๐Ÿ˜œ

As great of a job as he is doing at home with the kids, I cannot wait to get home now. Countdown is on to a new year and a fresh start.

And I can't say enough just how overwhelmingly grateful I am to all the medical professionals involved in my care, from the @healthdirectaus nurse who sent me to Emergency to the exceptional surgeons, doctors, nurses and support staff.

Happy New Year, everyone. Remember you never know what's around the corner and this is not a dress rehearsal!

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Day 6 in intensive care after suddenly coming down with a very serious necrotising fasciitis in my elbow on Sunday. Four operations later (with more to come) I'm out of the woods, alive and have my arm. But I won't be going home until after Christmas. Also picked up a bonus bit of pneumonia to keep things interesting.

I won't lie. This has been super super hard but I feel extremely lucky nonetheless. Have come across some exceptional surgeons, anaesthetists, doctors and nurses who have been incredibly kind at my most vulnerable as well as great at their jobs. I'm really grateful. Huge thank you to my amazing husband who is holding down the fort with the help and cooking of our wonderful friends. And to friends who check in, send love, flowers, snacks and sushi, I will never forget it.

Of course I will be sad tomorrow but my boys can visit and we will have another Christmas next month.

I'll leave you with this. Never ever ignore those health niggles. @healthdirectaus is always a great starting point.

Wishing you all a merry Christmas and will enjoy everyone else's celebrations on here with only a hint of bitterness ๐Ÿ˜‰

PS. Does this win the most unflattering photo of me ever published? I think so! No lippy for a WEEK.
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