Be Your Own Interior Designer at Home

October 13, 2017

Creating style is essentially being an interior designer for yourself. I don’t want to stand on anyone’s toes here, but I often believe that interior decorators have a better natural ability with creating style and the interior designer often has a better natural ability to create great spatial environments. I know you will have your own opinion, this was a generalization of what I have experienced.

Style can change throughout the house but not to extremes. Often kitchens have a different style to the rest of the house and work if there is an element that carries through the remainder of the home to marry it together, a continuous timber floor perhaps, or matching glass inserts in kitchen cabinetry as the doors throughout the house.

So how do we find a style? This task is as daunting as creating a color scheme. If you are decorating for yourself, it’s easier because you already have your own style or taste, you probably just don’t know how to identify it. The easiest way is to flick through magazines and books and bookmark all the interiors that "catch your eye". Then go back through all the bookmarked pages and you will start to see a pattern of the style that you like. It is the same when you are going through a decorating store, there will always be a certain style of fabric that you are most drawn to, a style of furniture, paintings, decorative lighting, etc.

La Fuente Imports offers many furniture collections which can help you create your style and design scheme. Every piece in the rustic pine furniture collection is produced with care using a combination of new, kiln dried pine wood and genuine antique wood 50-250 years old. The pieces are then hand waxed and fitted with forged iron hardware to enhance their antique appearance. The result is a rustic, classically Mexican look that will beautify your home or office.

Our Southwest Furniture Collection is unique! In the lakeside town of Patzcuaro, Mexico, a family of artisans creates stunning Santa Fe styled furniture. Using reclaimed wood from older haciendas, our Southwest collection blends old world craftsmanship with stylish and functional furnishings. The rich designs and colors make heirloom pieces that can be passed down from one generation to the next.

Style in relation to interior design can mean many things but overall it sums up the ability to be able to create an interior that is "good taste". It flows within the home, is harmonious, well balanced, comfortable, practical, aesthetically pleasing to the eye and an overall creation that is memorable.

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