What's your Style?

Written on 07/21/2024
Rod Willey

What’s Your Style? What makes a space feel good?

This article will go over three design styles and how using design principles can make your home whole and complete. 

Flexsteel Furniture explains the three design styles as transitional, traditional and on-trend.

Transitional furniture is the bridge between traditional and modern styles. This aesthetic encompasses timeless and understated design, with diverse elements from designs both old and new.

Rounded in classic shapes, rich in color and bold design, the traditional aesthetic is both elegant and comforting. Generously scaled and outfitted in saturated leathers with antique elements, traditional style lends itself to poise and elegance. Live in the moment with the fluid and relevant nature of on-trend styling. This aesthetic is rooted in the here and now but changes and evolves over time. Currently defined by clean lines, neutral tones, and minimal decorations to create a ‘less is more’ space.

At Fenton Home Furnishings you’ll find a great mix of styles for sofas, sectionals, chairs, dining rooms and bedrooms. Finding your design style and putting all the elements together is what our designers will help discover with you. Using the principles of design, our designers can help create a space you’ll love. They’ll focus on balance, contrast, direction, economy, emphasis, proportion, rhythm, and unity. With balance, the arrangements of your furniture pieces and accessories will appear whole and complete. The various elements of your room will create a contrast with one another. This can be emphasized with texture, size, shape, and color. 

Direction in design for the home can emphasize a window view, flow of traffic and even conversation areas. Design economy for your home will eliminate all non-essential items. Only pieces that contribute to the style of the room will be emphasized and used. Is there something that should be emphasized in your home? Emphasis can help bring a small or large element into prominence. Examples include artwork, trophy, or a window view. Proportion of elements can create balance in your space. The right-sized tables can complement your sofa. Rhythm is a repetition of elements that creates harmony. Using special color throughout your home can bring rhythm to our space. The unity of all the elements creates wholeness to the space. 

Working with a designer from Fenton Home Furnishings is no-charge with a purchase. Stop in, call or schedule an appointment on-line, www.fentonhomefurnishings.com. Our designers are happy to help create a home you’ll love. One last thing - don’t worry if the rules don’t suit you and your home. It’s all about living comfortably and happily.