There are dozens of interior styles, and all of them are quite easy to realize, if the customer knows exactly what he wants. The difficulty lies precisely in choosing the right style, which will not only be able to demonstrate the tastes of the owners, but will also be convenient in everyday life. Convenience and comfort are the key indicators of a professionally created interior, regardless of its style.
If you have had no previous involvement with design, you may not have specific style preferences.
The work begins with the fact that the designer shows you illustrations or photos with projects that have characteristic features of different styles – this will help to understand approximately what exactly you like, and decide on the options. This does not mean that you should completely copy the examples you like – most often you want to take details from different projects and implement them in your home.
The designer will help to bring all these wishes together as harmoniously as possible and create an environment with a unique atmosphere and character.
Tasks of the designer at the stage of choosing the interior style
Identify the real needs of the customer. Perhaps you, as a customer, like some ready-made examples in a certain style, but in reality you do not need such an interior. For example, you just like the atmosphere, furniture arrangement or color scheme. Sometimes such a key factor in the choice can even be the right lighting, which makes the interior especially attractive. Studying the finished examples, the designer extracts from them exactly what you like – and in the end, all these details, seen in different projects, add up to an ideal picture for you. At this stage, the final decision on the choice of style is made.
Adapt all the selected ideas to the family’s lifestyle. This task is extremely important for the subsequent organization of everyday life, so that you do not have to make additional efforts to maintain the interior in the original form. Many styles and specific solutions that look beautiful in pictures can be difficult to transfer to real interiors so that they remain as aesthetically pleasing in real life. The specialist will recommend those style directions in which all members of the family will be comfortable, and maintaining the aesthetics of the environment will not require any extra effort.
Eclecticism
Now in fashion eclecticism – combining elements from different styles in one interior. Here it is important to choose the right combination of shades, textures and shapes, so that eclecticism looked like a conscious design technique, and not as a random set of items.
The optimal option – to choose one main direction, which impresses you on the key principles of space organization, as well as 2-3 additional, which will be used to create accents.
Matching style to lifestyle
To make the environment not only beautiful, but also functional, it is necessary to assess in advance the applicability of the chosen style in relation to your lifestyle.
For example, if you like sports, active lifestyle and everything dynamic, but in pictures you like classicism – most likely, you need to look for a compromise. Surrounding yourself with understated and refined things, not being used to living in such an environment – it may be too tiring. A designer can help you find a balance between the lifestyle you are used to and your ideas of ideal style.
Family wishes
As a rule, in families, the initiator of creating a new interior is one person. The rest of the family may have a consultative voice or may not be interested in the whole process.
Nevertheless, it is important to keep them informed about what the interior will be and what is being done for this. As practice shows, at different stages in the work on the creation of the project eventually involves the whole family – this happens as they realize that the new living conditions affect everyone. And it is very desirable to give them the opportunity to express their wishes, give feedback – this will help to avoid misunderstandings and disputes that often accompany the repair.
This does not mean that you should take all wishes as a signal to action, because they can be very irrational. But still it is necessary to take into account the style preferences of all households, if possible, so that the work on the creation of the interior was colored by joyful anticipation for the whole family.