I recently featured a series on Good Morning Texas in helping viewers find their design style. I decided to put this series together after seeing that 15% of the people polled on my blog had no clue what their design style was. If you have no idea what your style is, how do you shop for your home? You’ve got to know what your style is! Otherwise, you will be making huge costly mistakes when making purchases in furniture & accessories for your home.
Click here to watch the GMT segment on Traditional Design.
If your design style is traditional, you will look for the following:
Characteristics of Traditional design:
- the largest of the style categories with a dozen or so sub-categories
- more conservative, sometimes more formal
- elegant details
- comfortable & classic
- graceful carved curves
- rich color palettes
- dark polished woods such as cherry or mahogany
- think wingback chairs, damask, paisley, or floral patterns
- A familiar look because it’s the most popular design style amongst Americans & Europeans
A few examples of Traditional style furniture & accessories:
