Tips picking a design style for your home

Picking a design style for your home

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Whether you have just collected your first house key or moving in to your second home, figuring out what design style you want for your house can be a confusing process.

Do you go for minimal or modern? Tiles or vinyl for your flooring? What colour should my walls be? Here are some simple tips for you to help decide what design style

would be suited for you to ensure that your home can be comfortable and truly be an extension of yourself and your family.

Define your budget

This might be a no-brainer, but it is the most important. Figuring our your budget can help to identify the things you can get and things you are not able to get. This can refer

to materials and furniture to name a few. It can help you to identify the areas that you need more work to be done for example carpentry in a certain room or things you can

omit off for example a built in TV console. This matters in selecting a certain style as some styles do need a little bit more investments. For instance minimal style. This style

requires the space to be clean cut and clutter free. This can include having a slightly expensive carpentry system that 'hides' in the space which can help to 'clean' the space.

Having a certain budget will help to resolve some of these issues as you have already identified what you already need to execute the chosen design style.

Balinese style toilet

What are your likes and dislikes

Figuring out what you like and do not like can be a tricky thing to do. This will help you to narrow down the choices of design styles when it comes to choosing your furniture or materials during the construction period. For example if a Balinese design style is chosen, what kind of sink do you choose. A semi-pedestal sink or a top-mount sink? What shape should it be? Based on this example, a rectangular shaped or an oval shaped sink would work. However this style would require a semi-pedestal sink for the style to be cohesive. Knowing your preferences, it would help to determine whether a Balinese design style for your toilet would work for you or not. This applies to all the items to your house, from the paint colour to the type of furnishings that would complement the design style you have chosen. It can go a long way in a project.

Kitchen Counter

What is your current lifestyle like

Here is where it can be a little complicated. This is something you have to ask yourself and your family. Are you living with young children or with your parents? Is it both? How much

do you spend time at home? Do you go out often? By asking these questions, you are identifying the most important spaces in your house and how it can work functionally in your house on a daily basis. Take for example if you and your family always cooks together during the weekends and eats together. This can help to identify that your kitchen and your dining space are important and the style should be able to support that. Another example would be if you do work often, going back to home that is minimalism might not be comfortable. A Scandinavian styled home or a warm home style might be a better style for you to relax in. This can help to make sure that the style is not just for visual but makes you enjoy the space as well on a daily basis.

Conclusion

Of course these are some of the tips to start your house project with. Talking about mixing different styles together without making it a mesh of just things would require further advice from relevant designers but it is a start point. Having your own home is a life milestone. It can be one of the most expensive things you own in Singapore. There are ways to make sure that it feels like your home. Your home is an extension of you and your family. Whatever you budget is, there is a style that fits you and your family. These tips are given for you to help direct it the right way. Design is not just a visual exercise but it is also functional. These tips helps to guide your house to be aesthetically pleasing and functional at the same time one that is cohesive and you can be proud of.

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