Fashion can inspire every aspect of our lives. It reflects our style, attitude, and inner self through colors, textures, styles, and materials. Interior designing is also not too far from this. Your living space must embody the elements that make it unique. It should bond with your style. If stocking up your closet and creating your living space have so much in common, they may be some closet cues that can help you create a “You” space. Simple tips that help you gather the right outfits for the day can come in handy for decorating ideas for any space. Here are six decoration tips inspired by your closet that can help you bring together a beautiful living space.
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1. Analyze your closet: Every shopper can identify a pattern when they put their closet together. So, start by exploring the nooks and corners, and segregate every element that is your favorite pieces. Use shoes, bags, clutches, clothes, jewelry, everything that you can sort out here. Now place them together and try to uncover the pattern. Find the commonalities in it such as the material, type, styles, stitch, colors, cuts. Are there bold patterns or subtle textures? Is there a parade of colors or a simple color palette? Any peculiar or whimsical choices or mostly streamlined? This will help you understand your interests and likes better. This exercise can help you build the material and color palette for your interior decoration.
2.Utility: Every one of us has a different ratio of style vs comfort in our closet. While some of us dare the stiletto to look more often, we do like the no makeup sweatpants comfort once in a while. Striking your personal balance of comfort and style can help you choose the right elements in your house. If you are more of a utility over style person, you could choose rather functional lights, furniture, wall colors, and other decorative. But if you would like a little more style, then you can sacrifice physical comfort to some daring aesthetic furniture, outdoor pendant lighting, bold wallpapers, sculptural side chairs. Finding the right ratio us your clue to build your decor.
3. Quality: The rules of fashion remain intact, no matter where you apply, Choose Quality over Quantity. Good quality always has a way of creating a striking differentiation and adding elegance to your décor. Instead of introducing too many elements, look for unique and good quality pieces that have a charm to them. Quality pieces are the ones you will love every time you take a look and are timeless. It will take longer to put together both a quality closet, as well as décor. But the time spent would be worthy of the outstanding end result you get.
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4. String in your travel stories: Your closet is the right place to string a story for your travel diaries. The various pieces you gather from the places you have traveled is a log of the wonderful life you live. These pieces stand to represent the culture through authentic styles, patterns. These help you weave a story. Travel tokens can also make the interior more personal and vibrant. Accessories, furniture, decorations, that you collect, from different parts of your travel, can help bring a story, together in your living space. The objects represent the places, their food, culture, traditions, and much more, and using them to decorate a space helps you customize it to your liking. It helps tingle the travel spirit in you to experience more.
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5. Colors: The inspiration for your color palette to base your interior decoration obviously can come from your closet. Colors evoke emotions in a room and reflect our mood and attitude. So the kind of vibe or mood you like to set for your rooms can come from your choice of colors. Some of us like a mix of bright colors in our wardrobe. Such inspiration can be used to include bright and bold pieces of furniture and other decoration within the room. This can be a great idea for your drawing room or living room. Neutral colors that are more soothing play well in bedrooms to create a calm and relaxing vibe, especially in bedrooms. In case of soft or pastel colors in your closet, you can pop some energy into it through scarfs, accessories. Similarly, in your decorations, you can pop color in a room of neutral and calming colors with lamps, wall hangings, curtains, cushions, carpets. Focus on bringing great textures and sheen to your coloring palette.
6. Layering: When it comes to assembling the perfect outfit or interiors, the trick is to mix them up. Using multiple elements to accentuate features can be particularly charming. Your décor should be liberating. You can embed this feeling to your space through layering. Match multiple fabrics, colors, cuts, textures, patterns, and combine them to bring a unique touch. Use these to define simple features in your room. For example, instead of plain colors for your furniture, stack colorful cushions that contrast the basic color palette of your room. You can do this to your bedroom and hallways too using wall hangings, lighted mirror, statues. Mixing up different elements together in a complimenting way can help you build a bold and artistic interior that is captivating.
Vintage and antique also play a great role in adding grace and elegance to both your closets and interior décor. Every piece has a character, a soul that reflects so deeply in its texture, material, style, color, and elegant aging. Adding these can be your way of customizing the space to your style and breaking the monotony of mass-produced decorations.
These amazing cues from your closet mean that you can get the inspiration for your interior décor from everything you wear. So if you are a fashionista, then chances are that your interior is going to be a tasteful reflection of the same.
