Exploring Key Design Styles
Thinking about how to describe the interior design style you’d like to achieve in your home can be a challenge. When we meet with our clients and tour their homes, we look for the cues that help us understand your aesthetic preferences, which rarely fit neatly into one style. For a design that is tailored to each client, we draw from many different eras, cultures and styles.
Here are a few key styles that we tend to incorporate regularly into our clients’ designs in a way that feels unique to them.
Traditional: Victorians are imbued with traditional design elements. Think ornamentation, curves, nature- inspired fabrics and furnishings, as well as shiny metals and materials.
This Victorian entry way at our Modern Vic project is full of traditional ornamentation, including the staircase, the anaglypta wainscoting, chair rail, and picture moldings.
Modern: With an emphasis on function over form, Modern design is typically clean and minimalist. Geometric shapes, straight lines, and the idea that “less is more” when it comes to ornamentation–these are all characteristics of modern design.
Our fireplace transformation project in this San Francisco Mid-Century home is a good example of the minimalist clean lines of the Modern design style.
Transitional: A bridge between Traditional and Modern, Transitional design is a big bucket category, but it generally describes The Modern Vic philosophy when it comes to interiors. By using traditional and modern elements in a single space, Transitional design creates a balanced blend of styles for warmth and a collected feeling.
The Foyer of our Maison Marigny blends traditional and modern elements to create a transitional and collected space unique to our clients’ eclectic and minimalist style.
At The Modern Vic, we give clients the ability to gracefully incorporate their own design voice into their spaces. The end result is always something entirely unique, creating a home that reflects you.
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