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What Decorating style fits you? If you’re like most, you don’t know. What you do know is you want a home interior style that expresses your likes, personality and needs. Narrowing options can be difficult, often leading to hodgepodge decorating with a less than ideal impact. HOO to the rescue! Here’s a look at popular styles. See if you can recognize your decorating style.
Destination Decorating
A popular trend is to bring in European influences, mimicking the ambiance and elements found in these areas.
Take the French countryside. Here’s a rustic style with natural materials — from exposed wood beams to stone fireplace — that presents a cozy, simple, landscape look. You’ll be drawn to a color palette that runs from fiery reds to creamy yellows, balanced with blues and grays Swedish simplicity is a light and airy style. To combat dreary long winters Swedes transformed their homes into bright showplaces. Select furniture with straight or slightly curving lines, fabrics in whites and creams with touches of sunny colors like blues and yellows. A bench would be a staple in Swedish design. The Tuscan retreat is all about comfort and natural materials, like stone, marble and clay. Intermingle wrought iron, hardwoods and shutters and forgo anything shiny or new. You’ll want to bring the inside out with patios or porticos full of garden color.
Traditional Styles
At the heart of the contemporary style is line and form, which makes it a a popular choice of architects. Accent clean lines with a minimalist look and neutral palette, adding a splash of bright color.
Traditional design is both classic and comfortable, and for some, predictable. Colors are muted with plaids or florals, with wood furniture and ornate carvings. Casual is what the name implies: a home
that’s easy to live in, comfortable and inviting. Oversized furniture is chosen for comfort. Casual homes have simple horizontal lines; textured, not shiny fabrics; and simple details.