How to get started accessorising your home
For the non-interior designers among us, accessorising can be pretty daunting or even near impossible. Here at DesignLife however, we love to accessorise, so we thought we would share some handy tips on this topic to help you make the right choices for your home spaces.
The hardest part of accessorising can often be where to start? You don’t want to throw a lot of beautiful but unrelated items to your room only to relaise it looks like a cluttered mess. Staying simple is the key here and choosing those things that bring you joy and lend well to the interior space you are styling.
A good place to start is with a rug. Rugs lend a warmth to spaces with hard floors such as wood, laminate, stone etc. But they also can provide the corner stone of the accessories in the room.
Feeling colourful? How about the Missoni Home Liuwa Rug with their signature colourful exaggerated chevron design. Bright and vivid colours to add to a scheme that perhaps you weren’t feeling brave enough to include in the furniture or curtains, this is a really iconic choice.
Product Shown: Missoni Home Liuwa Rug
Image: Missoni Home
Or perhaps colour isn’t particularly your thing and what you want is that quiet luxury provided by the JAB Anstoetz ‘Scratched’ rug. All the detail is provided in the texture of this unique design by Staffan Tollgard for JAB Anstoetz. These ‘scratched’ layers are created using a hand tufting method combined with loop pile and cut-away sections.
Product shown: JAB Anstoetz Scratched Rug
Image: JAB Anstoetz
Once you have chosen your rug then you have your theme. Use this to help make your choices for other accessories that you would like to use in your home.
Mirrors are a must in most rooms both for functionality but also as a key focal point. They also introduce space and light in any room.
Always set at eye level these can be sophisticated and simple like Urban Round Wall Mirror from Industville which comes in three popular finishes; brass, pewter and copper.
Product Shown: Industville Urban Round Wall Mirror
Image: Industville
Alternatively how about something truly unique? The Studio #20 Fisheye Mirror from Linley is certainly that.
Its name taking inspiration from David Linely’s father’s photography studio, this mirror features a convex glass mirror creating the illusion of a Fisheye camera lens.
Product Shown: Linley Studio #20 Fisheye Mirror
Image: Linley
For an element of comfort and warmth and additionally an opportunity to brighten the canvas of your room then cushions and throws are a great option.
These can be changed frequently depending on mood, season etc and are so much fun to mix and match with other elements in your scheme.
Take for example the huge range of throws from Lochcarron in many plaid and plain textures. Made from 100% Lambswool at their Selkirk mill these throws combine traditional craftsmanship and quality.
Product Shown: Lochcarron of Scotland - Darcy Lochcarron Graphite Tartan Luxury Superfine Wool Throw
Image: Lochcarron of Scotland
The Kamberra cushion from Andrew Martin is a great value option and available in several colours
Product Shown: Andrew Martin Kamberra Cushion
Image: Andrew Martin
Finally, you can decorate the room with beautifully scented candles and other objects that you desire, completing the look that you wanted to achieve but didn’t know where to start.
Ranging from affordable to very special and collectible the options are unlimited!
Dante’s music boxes are an exploration of the circles of Dante’s Inferno. In Circle 2 the lovers Dante describes those whose sin is lust will be forever whirled in a dark dark stormy wind, damned souls spinning in a whirlwind of torment for eternity. David Yepez chose to depict this scene in a single photograph.
Product Shown: Dante’s Music Box: the lustful by David Yepez Studio
Image: David Yepez Studio
