Existing Looks

Heritage

Heritage

  • Based on European and Colonial heritage – villas and bungalows
  • Timeless and traditional
  • Can be formal – polished furniture, chandeliers and mirrors
  • Can be rustic – sisal, rough woods, distressed paint finishes make it more relaxed
  • Rich, warm and dark colours – stud height
  • Flooring – wood, tiles, axminsters, marble

Contemporary

Contemporary

  • Clean cut, crisp lines, minimal
  • Storage essential – no clutter
  • Restricted colour use
  • Stark, sterile and industrial
  • Hard surfaces – glass, steel, lacquer and chrome
  • Pattern rarely seen
  • Flooring – cut pile carpets, marble, polished concrete, glossy woods, studded rubber flooring

Rural

Rural

  • Warm, relaxed, homey
  • Rustic and unsophisticated
  • Outside brought indoors – flowers
  • Lots of texture – logs, baskets
  • Handcrafts–quilts
  • Natural earthy colours used
  • Flooring – wood, tiles, textured sisal type carpets and rugs

Country

Country

  • Defined by an area of the world
  • Mediterranean, Asian, French Provincial, New Zealand Pacifica

Modern Glamour

Modern Glamour

  • Style of the moment
  • Lots of glossy and smooth surfaces
  • Chrome, mirror and glass
  • Formality
  • Crisp, sleek, New York
  • Floors – cut pile carpets, glossy and dark floors

Eclectic

Eclectic

  • Blending of different elements, styles and periods
  • Rules are broken e.g. modern in villa
  • Challenge: to create a harmonious whole
  • Common denominators are important – skirtings and colour
  • Flooring most important