Building Your Home, Crafting Your Style: A Guide To Interior Design For New Builds
While developing your own personal interior design style can feel daunting, a new build should be celebrated as an opportunity to experiment aesthetically, so where do you start? Read on for our tips!
In the era of aestheticizing, unique styles, and rapidly changing trends on what makes a house a home, a general nightmare for homeowners is the new build. Sterile, blank, and often difficult for laypeople to customize or personalize, a new build can be an intimidating empty page.
While developing your own personal interior design style can feel daunting, a new build should be celebrated as an opportunity to experiment aesthetically, and you shouldn’t feel pressured to follow established norms. Here are a few ideas you can incorporate into your interior design strategy to set your new home apart!
One way to set your interior apart is to use salvaged material in unexpected ways! For instance, you could convert an antique door into a small coffee table, or old wooden crates could be converted into wall shelving for photos or decorations.
Iron piping could be used as coat or key hangers at the entrance of your home. Repurposing materials can add an interesting aesthetic flair to your home as well as save a great deal of money. You’re only limited in terms of your imagination when it comes to reusing such material!
Unexpected Light Sources
While there is a wide range of types of lighting, in terms of color, bulb style, and size, people tend to stick to traditional light sources and arrangements, such as overhead lights and lamps. However, light can be deployed in a much more diverse way.
You could use something such as LED strips (affiliate link) to create a light source at or around the base of furniture or on shelving. You could insert lighting into glass tables or use large, but low-set, lights to create an ambient source of light from an unconventional angle. Don’t be afraid to experiment with lighting!
Embrace Asymmetry
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People seem to unthinkingly organize their home’s interior in an implicit grid-like fashion. If you really want to set your interior design apart, try utilizing asymmetry in the layout of your furniture and decorations.
The sides of a rug or edges of a couch don’t have to run parallel with the walls of the room they’re in. Don’t be afraid to take risks in how you lay out your furniture and decorations – you’ll be surprised how asymmetry can create a unique and modern feel when it comes to interior design!
Use Awkward Spaces and Break Up Excess Space!
You can convert awkward spaces into purposeful nooks. For instance, a small space under the stairs can be converted into a cozy reading space and small pseudo-library. An awkward dead end in a hallway can be turned into a spot for prayer or meditation!
In cases where you have too much open, cavernous space, try breaking it up with aesthetic room dividers; with a little effort and creativity, you can easily make a single room feel like multiple!
Bring the Outdoors Indoors
While many people incorporate plants in their interior design, you can go a step further by creating a small indoor garden or a microgreen wall in their home.
Incorporating elements of the outdoor environment, such as rocks and plants local to the area you live in, can blur the line between the indoor and outdoor environment in interesting ways!
Final Thoughts
While interior design and home renovation alone can be lengthy, pricey, and anxiety-inducing, it should also be a means to express yourself. Don’t be wary of experimenting and diverging from established norms!
If you’re seeking help, make sure to prioritize finding a company that will make your dreams come true. You’re the one that’s going to be living in this house every single day; it should suit you!
Do you have any tips on interior design? Let us know in the comments below!