Having a clear idea of precisely what design you wish to select for your home, and maintaining it throughout out your house or apartment, is often seen as the key to ensuring that any renovation of your home will exceed all expectations. It’s not a particularly hard task, despite what some may tell you: all you have to do is find the right style for you and your family, to comprehend its fundamental features and find someone who can implement them.

To help you along the way, here are some ideas and examples showing the range of beautiful styles available out there.

Scandinavian style

This style appeared in cold northern countries, so it’s naturally developed an emphasis on offering as much light and warmth as possible

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1. ​Choose the lightest wallpaper you can find, or even better paint the walls a brilliant white.
2. Keep the decoration to the window frames to a minimum. The more natural light can penetrate the room, the better.
3. Don’t be afraid to include a large number of lights and free-standing lamps to achieve this design. Again, it’s all about getting as much light as possible.
4. Make the interior of your home more interesting with paintings and photographs, whereas rugs and carpets can be used to make it feel more cosy.
5. A fireplace also fits perfectly with Scandinavian style.

Eclectic style

The idea here is to make things which don’t normally combine, combine well.

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1. The key here is that each component of the room, no matter how original it is at an individual level, fits into some kind of overall ’eclectic’ style which works harmoniously with all the other things that are placed there.
2. There could well be a place for exotic things here alongside classic furniture styles. There are no strict rules for what to exclude and what to include.
3. It becomes easier to experiment with colour if some of the furniture or parts of the walls are painted white.
4. If you’re thinking about patterns for the furniture, you can’t go wrong with zigzags, stripes or spots. Different kinds of geometric shapes also often work well together.
5. All objects should be both beautiful and of high quality, otherwise in this case the effect can be to make the room look too ’trashy’.
6. Bright colours and varied patterns are the key here. Even chairs can be from different furniture sets and it can still work overall.

Loft style

A brutalist style in which exposed brick walls and pipes form an essential part of the interior decoration.

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1. Ideally, the windows should be quite large and the ceilings high for this style to work.
2. The colour scheme is one of restrained, natural shades.
3. Windows aren’t decorated apart from possibly Venetian blinds.
4. Not all of the walls have to show exposed brick work; as a minimum have at least one exposed wall and the others painted or decorated.

Minimalism

Where there’s nothing which isn’t absolutely necessary

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1. The walls and floors are painted and/or decorated in only restrained, natural shades.
2. Since there is little emphasis on colour, there has to be a greater stress on furniture and other objects, all of which should be streamlined, high-quality and extremely stylish.
3. Furniture, however, must also be functional.
4. It’s best to pick sets of matching furniture.
5. You can dispense with skirting boards, decorative door knobs and light fittings, and any other overly expressive items. Minimalism is itself expressive as an overall style.

Provence style

A unique style emphasising light, the spirit of the sea and colourful floors.

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1. The colour scheme should be focused on muted pastel shades. It’s best to choose colours which remind one of summer holidays spent by the ocean: the colour of sand, waves, lavender fields.
2. Furniture should be elegant and beautiful, with at least a few objects being old antiques or copying the style of old furniture.
3. Plants and floral ornaments are a great way to decorate the walls here, but be careful not to have too many. A chequered pattern also works well.
4. Floors coloured in natural shades, earthenware crockery and fresh flowers will help give your home that wonderful feeling of a French provincial house.
5. Also pay attention to the small features: china figurines, stylised cushions, paintings and photographs work perfectly here.

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