Designers Reveal Strategies to Prevent Monotony in Interior Spaces: Here Are the Top 5 Methods They Suggest
Playful and Captivating Home Designs: Experimenting with Harmony and Surprise
Interior designers are encouraging homeowners to break away from the predictable and embrace a more playful and captivating design aesthetic. One such designer leading this charge is Genevieve Bennett, head of design at Liberty Interiors.
Bennett, an award-winning designer who has collaborated with leading interior brands such as Wedgwood, Mulberry, Knoll, and Heals, emphasizes the importance of experimenting with unexpected color or pattern pairings to create designs that are both captivating and playful.
One area where this approach can be particularly effective is the corner banquette seating area. By incorporating bold patterns, Bennett suggests that this space can become a cozy and interesting focal point in the home.
Another designer advocating for a similar approach is Ronald Alvarez, a co-founder of MONIOMI Design. Alvarez believes that to ensure an interior design doesn't fall into the "boring" category, it's essential to introduce elements that disrupt harmony just enough to create intrigue. This can be achieved by mixing unexpected patterns, adding bold or oversized features in otherwise quiet spaces, and creating focal points that engage the eye.
Monica Santayana, another co-founder of MONIOMI Design, agrees with this sentiment. She suggests disrupting harmony in design to make it intriguing by mixing patterns unexpectedly, placing something bold in a quiet room, or exaggerating proportion.
Using a restrained or tonal palette, MONIOMI Design pushes depth through texture, scale, and sculptural shapes. This approach allows them to create designs that evoke a feeling and avoid generic design, treating every room like its own chapter in a story, ensuring movement, surprise, and moments of discovery.
Bold prints are another great way to inject fun into an interior setting, as suggested by Bennett. Raili Clasen, founder and creative director at Raili CA Design, supports this idea and suggests painting an arched doorway or adding contrasting wallpaper on either side of room dividers to create a playful and impactful design.
Manuela Hamilford, creative director and founder of Hamilford Design, a London-based interior design studio with global reach, known for harmonizing classic elegance with modern sensibility, also believes that art can set the tone for an entire space and inject soul and individuality into a design.
Camilla Masi, an interior designer at Otto Tiles & Design, emphasizes the importance of contrast in interior design, whether through color or texture, to add visual interest and avoid a flat or expected space.
In conclusion, the key to a captivating and playful design is to balance harmony and surprise. By incorporating bold colors, rich jewel tones, unexpected pattern pairings, and unique decorative elements, homeowners can create interiors that are visually stimulating, curated, and far from neutral or predictable.
- Genevieve Bennett, a leading interior designer, encourages homeowners to experiment with unexpected color or pattern pairings to create designs that offer both harmony and surprise.
- By mixing patterns unexpectedly, disrupting harmony in design can make it intriguing, as Monica Santayana and Ronald Alvarez, co-founders of MONIOMI Design, suggested.
- Incorporating bold prints into an interior setting can inject fun, as suggested by Genevieve Bennett, and this idea is supported by Raili Clasen, founder of Raili CA Design.
- Painting an arched doorway or adding contrasting wallpaper on either side of room dividers can create a playful and impactful design, according to Raili Clasen.
- Manuela Hamilford, creative director and founder of Hamilford Design, believes that art can set the tone for an entire space and inject soul and individuality into a design.
- Camilla Masi, an interior designer, emphasizes the importance of contrast, whether through color or texture, to add visual interest and avoid a flat or expected space.
- Inside the kitchen, bathroom, living room, or any interior space, the art of interior design is a blend of trends, such as texture, pattern, color, and unique decorative elements, impacting the home's overall living and lifestyle experience.
