Expressing Your Personality Through Designer Interiors – Different Themes for Different Rooms

Article Posted By Albert Jakeman

When creating a home look through a range of designer interiors, it is not necessary to use the same colour palette or themes throughout the home. The key word here is “range”. By spreading design cues and expression throughout the house you are able to signify not only your personality but the purpose of each

room with the elements you choose to include.

There are two core attributes to any design – form and function. Form is what the finished article (in this case a room in your home) is to look like. Function is what the article is for. 

For some areas of your home, the designer interiors you specify must be informed by function before they are informed by form. This is true, for example, in the hygiene areas of your home – the toilets and bathrooms, and the food preparation areas. The necessities of plumbing, water proofing and ease of cleaning or access must normally take precedence over the desire of the home owner for a specific look. To take this explanation to its logical extreme – you cannot, for example, have a bath sunk completely into the floor, unless you are willing to have a four foot depth between the first and ground floors of your home. 

You may of course tamp your personality firmly on all of these areas: by specifying not only the look of the fixtures and fittings, but the layout of the place and the overall colour and feel of the room. Bear in mind, though, that functionality must march before form again here. If you have a plumbed area, for instance (such as the kitchen sink), then it is easier and more sensible to have all the plumbing converge upon it. This way, only one part of the room is liable to water damage – that’s why you normally see washing machines and dishwasher installed near sinks. 

It is the choice of sink that starts to make the kitchen or the bathroom your own; and of the shower; or the oven and hobs; and of the tiles on the floor or the paint on the walls. Even the types of light fittings you choose become part of the scheme of your designer interiors – the little touches that make the difference between just any old home, and your home specifically. 

Where you begin to specify the rooms without so much in the way of gas, electrical and water hook-ups, form begins to walk before function. In a lounge, for example – as long as you have remembered to put power points in where your TV and stereo go – you can effectively decide what is where according to personal preference.

It helps if there is a design cue specific to each room. By starting with a point, for instance a sofa you love or a colour you adore, you can work up a full room design that lets that point work in its best light. 

Designer interiors are about placing your personality over the rooms in your home – making form and function fit in with who you are.

Albert Jakeman studied the psychology behind home decoration whilst studying at Cambridge University and still feels that designer interiors and designer furniture allow us yet another medium with which to imprint our personalities. For more information to visit http://www.williamyeoward.com/