Honing your Interior Design Style

Interior design can often feel daunting, the pressure to get it ‘right’ or the overwhelm of too many choices can leave you feeling unsure of how to begin. At Studio Jute we want to empower you to create a home you love, a space that truly reflects your personality, values and supports the way you’d like to live.

Finding confidence in your style can be a slow process, a mix of trial and error, triumphs and inevitable fails. Some of the best designs emerge from small thoughtful decisions made over time. Each project comes with its own constraints, whether budget, timeline or feasibility, what’s initially seen as a compromise can result in a brilliantly unique reflection of time and place.

If you’re struggling to define your style, or would like to refine a space that just doesn’t feel quite right, here’s three ways we'd encourage you to approach it…

Pay Attention

Try to avoid getting caught up in trends, you may have hundreds of images saved for project inspiration, but pay attention to reoccurring themes, what is it exactly that you like about each image, or is it just the mood it evokes. It could be a fabric, texture or simply the way the light falls; overtime a pattern will emerge, creating a visual thread that becomes the foundation of your style.

Make it Personal

Each project is different because each client is different. We always take time to get to know our clients, and we get to know them well; from favourite holiday destinations, to how they spend their weekends. In order to create a design that supports their lifestyle we need to find out what their lifestyle looks like.

When it comes to designing for yourself, how often do you take an objective view of your own preferences, the favourite outfit that helps you feel confident, where you choose to spend your free time, places you return to on holiday - all of these elements can guide and inspire your interior design decisions tapping into what truly resonates with you.

Take your Time

There’s a lot of pressure to live in a finished home and to get there quickly. We’re shown dramatic transformations online, and it can feel like if we’re not progressing at that pace we’re doing it wrong.

But let me tell you: every project we take on typically takes at least three months just for the design phase. That includes concept development, layout planning, detailed drawings, and specifications, before we even get to finishes and fittings.

By the time we’re choosing final details, we’ve been living and breathing the project for weeks. That depth of process makes decision making far more intuitive, considered, and personal.

Your own home should evolve that way too. Take time to notice how you use your space. Are you missing a chair with a view? Do the window dressings block more light than they should? Slowly move through each room and pay attention to how it makes you feel. Thoughtful changes, made at the right time, are far more powerful than rushing to complete a space.

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