Is your interior design just not coming together? Tips to shake up your style a bit!

Sometimes as a designer, we tend to get into a zone where we are too comfortable with a particular type of style or design. Familiarity and comfort often reflect on our work and many of our projects begin to look like they have a similar ‘touch’. Your interior design just does not seem to come together.  Well, whenever you find yourself in this kind of a design rut – it’s important to challenge yourself and shake up your style a bit! Design ruts are not just boring places to be in, but are dangerous too. Here’s how you can bust that rut and move on to an interesting design style for each of your projects.

Start by thinking something different
Especially is it is a project that involves redesign of an existing home, you can start with flipping your perspective of the entire space. Thinking out of the box is essential here. Otherwise, you can simply try a reshuffle of the entire decor in the house. Switch whole rooms – do something different. If it’s a fresh design, put on your thinking caps and conjure up a new design!

Switch it up – make things dramatic
Sometimes thinking of something dramatic could make all the difference. Take a look at the artwork you have at hand. Is there something dramatic you could do with it? Are there some unusual that you could add to it? Think of everything that could help you redesign your design.

Do something out of character
It’s evident that when the usual things don’t work out, it’s time to do something out of character. Even as designers we tend to go along with things that are comfortable for us. We find ourselves attracted to certain colours and certain styles of interior designs. So, think out of the box, and try something that you would have never thought – think wild.

Get some distance
If your design is just not coming together, move away from the place for a while – travel places. Gathering inspiration from different places is a good idea. It gives you a different outlook towards designs. After you feel inspired enough, get back to the project you were working on. You will see that your perspective has changed and the distance made all the difference.

Online resources
There are a number of portals online that have emerged recently that allow designers to save their design inspirations. You will find that over a period of time, you have enough ideas to work with! Well, other social media sites such as Pinterest and design sites are a good place to look too.

So, whenever in a design rut, always make sure that you stop – think – and if possible distance yourself from the project for a while. You will see the same space with a fresh outlook and you can let your imaginations run wild and rethink all the design elements more clearly.

Each design project must look unique and still should reflect your personal style. However, sometimes, even the best designers find themselves in a design rut – completely out of new ideas! That’s when you need to take a break and rethink your options – and everything will fall back into place!

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