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Interior Design Styles: Find Your Favorite

Home design can be a tricky task, and one of the first steps when starting a new interior design project is to find the perfect interior design style to fit your taste, personality and lifestyleChoosing an interior design style will allow you to discover more about yourself and get creative, it will help you to focus on what matters and understand what will look beautiful and useful. This way, you are going to start the interior design project with more confidence and in a stylish way.

Althought there’s a huge diversity of styles within the interior design industry, we are going to present you our favourite ones. Best of all: Domkapa has options for all of them!

Contemporary Style

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A home design in contemporary style is simple, full of clean lines with a few texture details and a concise color palette in order to create calm and serene interiors. It is one of the most popular interior design styles in the industry, being the most welcoming of them all!

To have a home decor like this, try to find statement furniture to bring in personality; and contrast it with smooth, geometric silhouettes and unadorned surfaces for an elegant look. 

Contemporary style has the ability to provide a timeless feel that never goes out of style and, usually, can be found in open floor plans and spaces with a minimal approach fulfilled with simplicity and attention to craftsmanship

 

A Style Guide To Contemporary Design

Classic Style

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Classic style, also known as traditional style, is one of the best options if you want to go for if you love a good room rich in accessories, textures and finishes. It is defined by the Britannica encyclopedia as a “complex of theoretical concepts and practical norms drawn from the ancient Greeks and Romans and applied to the composition and evaluation of works of art“, so you can imagine that it is inspired by the Green or Roman classic model.

Classic style follows a philosophy of balance, harmony and proportion, having a language that is formal and noble which provides a lavish feel to the room. This way, everything is essential.

For providing to your space a classic style, start by choosing a focal point and you can design from there. Find symmetry and order; and place your furniture with detailing or even textures and subtle patterns. Regarding colors, a color palette from nature is the main choice of our customers, creating harmony. 

The main idea of this style is really not to be bold and create a cohesive point between furniture, lighting and accessories.

Modern Style

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Related to the mid-twenty century, modern interior design is a distintic style that found its roots in German and Scandinavian design. It is known for its simple and unadorned attributes so you may usually find a lot of clean lines, natural materials, neutral or earthy colours along with some good natural light that never goes out of style.

The main philosophy of this style prevails for the use of elements that reflect its purpose. So if you have decor items that don’t have a purpose – a function – it’s time for you to get rid of them. Functionality over fashion.

Modern Interiors: The Ultimate Guide

Scandinavian Style

A scandinavian interior is something functional and minimal, bringing a clean and serene atmosphere while colour is brought by the placed art and a few details in textile, for example. It is often used with natural materials (such as natural leathers and wood), as it is influenced by nature and what it can bring us.

This style is all about simplicity that brings a one-of-a-kind peace that we all look for so much.

Bohemian Style

Above all interior design styles that are here described, bohemian style is the most impacting one. It is inspired by a free spirit, giving an idea of visual interest like no other. This style is often seen with different patterns with memorable layers, creating a relaxed vibe to the homeowners.

Unlike classic style, Bohemian will allow you to express your creativity freely, having no excuses or rules to follow. It plays with textures and colours. After all, to bohemian style lovers, more is more.

Minimalism

Similar to the modern style, minimalism marked its popularity in the early 90s and it is characterized by the “everything needs a place and a reason” approach. So, if you’re a practical person that doesn’t like too much clutter, the minimalistic style is for you. 

A minimalistic design will make your room feel larger and will never go out of style thanks to its clean aesthetics, not to mention that this style prevails for a reduced color palette, as neutral colours. It uses your architectural details to your advantage and finds purpose for every decoration and furniture you have – there’s no need to have features that you don’t need.

The greatest advice we can give you is to skip trendy furniture that you already know you won’t like in a few months. Invest in classic but eye-catching furniture – less is more.

 

An Essential Minimalistic Style Guide

Industrial Style

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The industrial style yells for lofts with exposed brick walls and with furniture made of rustic wood and exposed metal, right? It is popular because it
does not just look good, but it is also functional.

Industrial style is becoming more and more appealing for its straightforward design features, leaving a factory feel for its statement raw elements. It is easy to combine with other styles and even easier to accessorize or choosing a colour palette. It is more sustainable because it comes from a time when there were no plastics of other synthetic materials.

In this style prevails more light and simple, clean lines. The architectural details are also a highlight of the design thanks to black grid frame windows and high ceilings.

Mid-Century Modern Style

Mid-century modern interior design was born as a response to a post-World War II environment, a time where designers and architects felt the desire of develop new ideas blended with the novelties of the time, such as mass production and technology. It was popularised by the work of Milo Baughman, Florence Knoll and Vladimir Kagan and it is known for the marriage of Scandinavian and Modern styles.

It is usually complemented by furniture with curvature, and materials such as rosewood, teak and walnut wood. When it comes to colors, the mid-century modern is known by the use of black, flamingo pink and mustard yellow.

Mid-century modern is timeless and playful.

Eclectic Style

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Similar to Bohemian style, the Eclectic style explores creative directions with high-energy, mixing contrasting colors with a few textures – all in order to have a cohesive design. It mixes and matches elements of different design schools for a maximalistic look.

It brings together different shapes and compositions that you are not used to see, creating an additional dimension and other layers of interest and marrying decoration approaches from different periods.

Known by the art gallery that allows distinctive focal points as you move your eyes, this movement doesn’t have rules giving you freedom to play with your creativity. Eclectic style is a lit bit of everything in a room full of harmony.

Which style is your favourite and which one do you think that would fit in your ongoing project?

We have been answering your questions through a variety of articles within the interior design industry. Curious about the answers? Take a look at our Interior Design Guide – you will find every single answer to your problems and a selection of interior design inspiration that never goes out of style.

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