Getting into the flow of styling with timber

In any well-styled home, there is a story that flows throughout the spaces – an unfolding continuity of colour, texture, shape and personality.

Even an untrained eye will perceive that a space has been designed well as there is a sense of calm, comfort and rightness when everything goes with everything else.

When designing the interior of your home, creating a mood board is a great tool to use to develop your own style and create the flow of story. Once you put all of your collected inspiration images together, you will clearly see what works together and what does not. Your final curated set of images will give you your colour palette, material choice and aesthetic to base your decisions off. That decor item, furniture piece, paint sample or fabric swatch will either match your mood board or it won’t. This greatly decreases the feeling of being overwhelmed when faced with so many options to choose from.

Aside from colour, another way of creating that vital flow of continuity is through the repeated use of a material such as timber, concrete, stone or metal.

Timber is a material that is easy to use repeatedly throughout the joinery, decor and furniture items for your home to create a subtle flow. Example of such uses are timber vanities, shelves, floating TV cabinets, bookcases, desks… the list goes on.

As timber is a material that is timeless and malleable to styling, it is adaptable to different personalities and ever-evolving style preferences.

There is also a timber type that works with every different aesthetic without the need for a stain. A recycled timber looks fantastic with the black, white and grey of industrial style, an American oak is perfect with the organic neutrals of a Scandinavian aesthetic and an American walnut or Tasmanian blackwood is beautiful in a Japanese-inspired space.

Timber is also a material that delivers bang for your buck as with the right finish, it is easily fixable in the case of damage.

To discuss using timber elements when creating the interior of your home, speak to Alison on 0407 906 799.