Written By: Lavanya Chopra
‘Look and Feel’ is a prevailing buzzword in interior design. This term essentially hints at the central role textures and patterns play in spaces, visually and physically.
A space lacking the duo of these elements will inherently seem flat or unlayered, taking away from its experience. Instead, the ambience of a room can be translated and conveyed through the mediums of texture and pattern, which tie spaces together, highlight focal points, and elevate the overarching persona of an interior design scheme.
With this read, our expert design professionals underscore the relevance of texture and patterns and share tips on how they can be easily channelled in a space.
Introduce Textures and Patterns in House Interior Design: 5 Expert Tips
Here’s how you can add textures and patterns to give your interiors the coveted design makeover:
1. Addition of Depth
Even spaces with limited square footage can be enhanced with the tactful addition of depth. Spaces rely on 3-D materials and finishes to create an experiential feel. Hence, curating contrasting yet complementary textures in the form of materials brings about an added perception of depth in spaces.
Textures and patterns can be introduced to add depth in the form of varying flooring choices (due to their extent), furniture (as they make for focal pieces), and accessories (if you prefer the pared-down route).
2. Claiming the Combination Game
Visual interest and variations will add character to a home’s interior design scheme. It is essential to recognise and establish the overarching design style for starters.
Next, identify the common thread of patterns and textures that can be worked into the mix. For example, a rustic-modern home will surely include doses of distressed wood, soft linens, and accents of monochromes. This instantly paints a visual and physical image of the space, right?
Patterns and textures can assist one with highlighting moments while simultaneously binding a space; the trick is to layer with restraint and recognise the role small and large surface areas play.
3. Defining Spaces with Prominence
With open-plan and large blueprints significantly impacting the interior design sphere for decades, the need to ingeniously employ textures and patterns is higher than ever!
Open-plan spaces can look monotonous and ill-defined when treated with a singular and wholly muted palette of materials. Working with textured and nuanced materials can assist with the definition of spaces, areas, and zones without the need for bulky and unnecessary physical barriers. Patterns become a part of the textured materials, guiding one’s sight more clearly.
Popular examples include patterned wallpapers, rugs in varied materials, textured paints, and tactile flooring that may have a strong colour/motif story. These also pose as versatile elements that can be easily updated or swapped for a new change in a space.
4. Channelling Warmth
A powerful facet, warmth in the interior design scheme of a home, is pivotal to celebrating a sense of comfort and making the abode more welcoming!
While colour plays a vital role in simulating warmth (think warm ochres, sepia, wood tones, beige, rust red), texture too can elevate that ‘feel-good’ factor. Consider incorporating velvet, suede, soft linens, wove/knit wool, textured rugs, and cotton-silk drapes to add a tangible warmth to rooms.
5. Bringing in Balance
A space needs to emulate a feeling of balance for it to feel inhabitable by its end-users. Balance and contrast are intrinsically entwined concepts; one strengthens the other exceptionally when executed correctly in a space.
The absence of contrast and balance makes a space seem mundane, making the details almost dissolve into a space’s canvas. However, balance can be brought about with textures and patterns, shining the spotlight on 2-3 distinct elements to create a visual journey through a room.
A little bit of This and a little bit of That
Ideating and bringing together textures and patterns can be an engaging process! Each home and design style employs these elements so distinctively, making them valuable components of home interior design.
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