019. Interior Design Adjectives of Feeling
Colour schemes and design styles make you feel something, and that’s what matters
I’m doing a diploma in interior design and generating images of interiors every day using artificial intelligence (AI). Scrolling through reams of inspirational images of interiors piques my newbie eyes and fills me with ideas and wonderings. Why do I love one image and not another?
As I read the captions of all these lovely spaces, there are three adjectives I see used again and again to describe desirable interiors: timeless, classic, and elegant. Below is an example of a timeless, elegantly classic living room:
It is a lovely living room, but it doesn’t excite my novelty-loving eyes, brain, or heart at all.
Underpinning all the adjectives used to describe rooms is FEELING. The underlying reason for WHY one chooses a room in a particular design style or colour scheme is about the feelings we want the space to evoke, in ourselves and in others.
I love a living room that is JOYFUL. Swoon-worthy living rooms for me are COLOURFUL, SURPRISING, WHIMSICAL, FUTURISTIC and DELIGHTFUL! Something along the lines of these little gems:
My favourite kitchen feelings and adjectives mirror my living room desires. I’m usually an unwilling cook, so I need as much JOY as possible from the space as it’s often NOT emanating from inside me when I’m in the kitchen! Any of these would do nicely:
For my home office, I love the same joyful energy I seek in kitchens in living rooms, but amped UP. I love the idea of a home office that makes me laugh in delight at its EXUBERANCE. I do not have a home office like this, YET.
The feelings we seek from a room do change depending on the room. For a bedroom, my preferred tastes change substantially. My ideal bedroom is a SOOTHING and TRANQUIL place. I love bedrooms that are COSY, LUXURIOUS, TEXTURED, ENVELOPING, and CALMING. Here are a some interpretations of what that might look like:
And on that soothing tranquil note, dear reader, I shall bid thee farewell. Until next week, be well! And thank you for reading! :-)