Decorating As A Couple Made Easy
Reveal: 6 New Blended Decor Styles
Do you and your partner find it hard to agree on the decor for your home? Does one of you prefer a more modern style, while the other prefers something more traditional? Fortunately, there's no need to choose one style or the other. With the right blend of styles, you can create something that perfectly meets the needs of both of you! In this article, we'll present six new blended decor styles, ranging from Palm Beach Glam to Vintage New Orleans, and offer tips for combining them to create a space that you both can enjoy. So whether you're looking to redecorate the living room or just spruce up the entryway, this guide is here to help you inject a little harmony into your home decor.
Table of Contents
1.Palm Beach Glam Style (Preppy + Beach + Glam)
2.Urban Rocker Chic Style (Urban + Rocker Chic)
3.Rustic Coastal Style (Rustic + Coastal)
4.Boho Victorian (Boho + Victorian)
5.Rustic Victorian (Rustic + Victorian)
6.Vintage New Orleans (Vintage + French-inpired + Creole)
Conclusion
Palm Beach Glam Style
Keywords:
COSMOPOLITAN, LUXE, PREPPY
Summary:
Palm Beach Glam Style is a fusion of Rocker Glam, Collected Global, Nautical, Tropical, British Colonial, Chinoiserie, and Hollywood Regency Styles.
Be bold and unapologetic when decorating in Palm Beach Glam Style. Making one grand statement via a nautical or tropical allusion will keep your space looking up-to-the-minute. This style is cosmopolitan, luxe, and preppy.
Description:
You love lots of plants, funky lighting fixtures, and tons of candles.
You dream of pink, turquoise, greens, blues, golds, and jewel-t0nes.
You’re home is full of quality items, chosen to reflect your good taste. You look for patterns such as animal prints, chinoiserie, greek key, bamboo, tile, floral, stripes…you love it all.
Then you layer on more pattern.
Don’t forget your glitz with lacquered furnishings, reflective surfaces, and glamorous lighting.
Wicker is an essential. Go preppy by upholstering a wicker chair in pink and green.
A style secret: add monograms to pillows, towels, or something crazy such as a chair.
You’re happiest in a space that is full of bold color and pattern.
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2. Urban Rocker Chic Style
Keywords:
EDGY, CULTURED, IMAGINATIVE
Summary:
Urban Rocker Chic Style is a fusion of Rocker Glam, Collected Global, Modern Victorian, and Maximalism Styles.
3. Rustic Coastal Style
Keywords:
TIMBERED, HAPPY, LOW-KEY
Summary:
Rustic Coastal Style is a mix of Casual, Hamptons, Minimalism, Coastal, Cottage, and Rustic Styles.
It has a cooler color palette (whites with blues and greens), nature themes, and a quiet nod to nautical. Opt for a wall of woven baskets in lieu of a gallery wall. This style is timbered, happy, and comfortable.
Description:
Your couple style is a mix of of Casual, Hampton's, Minimalism, Coastal, Cottage, and Rustic Styles.
You dream of wood beams, stone walls, and wide plank, barn-wood floors.
Your home is definitely touchable, with loads of organic textures like cowhide, rough wood, etc. Linen, burlap, canvas, and wool are your go-to textiles.
You hunt for woods that appear as if they were plucked off a sandy beach such as driftwood. You love bringing the beach home with natural elements such as twigs, stones, grasses, shells, greenery, or branches so as to bring your home to life.
You adore crisp, white linen, and slip-covered furnishings to make cleanup easier.
You tend to prefer a color palette that enables light to bounce round the room, and you look for coastal paint colors that remind you of the wind, sky, ocean, and rain.
Your ideal piece of artwork is an original contemporary abstract painting evoking recollections of being seaside. Thus it becomes a stunning focal point.
Billowy curtains are your jam, whereas you layer on the neutrals in your home.
White walls work best in Rustic Coastal style. Perfect accent colors are deep, rich browns, antique pewter greys, and light raindrop greys. Pair these with non-shiny metals that might even appear rusty.
You tend to decorate with found objects, such as a suspended branch that relates to your down-to-earth philosophies. Woven baskets are a key element in your decor as well.
Overall, you're happiest in an atmosphere that's calm, relaxed, and comfortable.
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4. Boho Victorian
Keywords:
UNCONVENTIONAL, ROMANTIC, MYSTERIOUS
Summary:
Boho Victorian Style is a fusion of Collected Global, Modern Victorian, Gothic, and Maximalism Styles.
Think of Boho Victorian as a quieter Victorian Style with a soft Boho touch. Check out @deecampling for such inspiration. One doesn’t think of either Boho nor Victorian as simple but @Dee on Instagram (UK) makes it look effortless. This style is unconventional, romantic, and mysterious.
Description:
Your style is a fusion of Collected Global, Modern Victorian, Gothic, and Maximalism Styles.
You like neutral background colors with the occasional focal wall featuring statement wallpaper.
Your love of natural fibers is showcased through the use of raw woods, chunky knits, wools, and linen.
You are all about bringing the outdoors in by suspending branches, and using lots of plants.
There can be a dark romance in your decorating. You love rich velvets, laces, and lavish embroideries.
You are drawn to jewel-tone colors such as fiery orange, and electric blue.
You are a natural at mixing and combining patterns from around the world. Boho and Modern Victorian is perfect for your "more is more" philosophy.
Overall, what is most meaningful is the ability to tell your stories through decorating.
5. Rustic Victorian
Keywords:
CHARMING, HOMESPUN, VINTAGE
Summary:
Rustic Victorian Style is a combination of Rustic, Contemporary, Modern, and Victorian Styles.
Adding Rustic to Modern Victorian just adds more character to this style. Try polished plaster walls which have made a comeback, and are great for those with chemical sensitivities. Other walls can have exposed brickwork with a chippy paint finish. Freely mix rustic antiques with Contemporary and Victorian-inspired furnishings. This style is charming, homespun, and vintage.
Description:
Your couple style is a mix of Rustic, Contemporary, Modern, and Victorian Styles.
You love to have your home feel nostalgic. This style is about layering details and textures playfully with fun.
You wish for the simpler life and your home reflects that.
You love to take a refined room and add a bit of drama to it. You just love to push the envelope.
You love comfortable furniture, natural textures and wood tones.
Artisanal touches such as stained glass is important to you.
To avoid your space from being overstimulating, contributing to the stress of being pulled in many directions of work, family, relationships, etc, pull back a bit. Think Zen. Add a few dramatic accents.
You love fine art on display, such as anthropomorphic portraits.
Consider hiring a personal organizer to straighten out all the goodies from your shopping trips. You're just not home enough to do it yourself.
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6. Vintage New Orleans Style
Keywords:
SEDUCTIVE, ELEGANT, EXOTIC
Summary:
New Orleans Style is a fusion of French, Spanish, African, Eclectic, Traditional, Rustic, Global Collected, Chinoroiserie, Louis XV, Empire, Gustavian, Victorian, Modern, Neo Classical, summContemporary, Transitional, Creole, Low-Country and Southern Styles.
While using French antiques, whether inherited or not, is a must, a modern space looks fresh mixed carefully with contemporary items, and accents from various cultures, just as New Orleans itself is a soup of various peoples, customs, and traditions. This style is seductive, elegant, and exotic.
Description:
Your couple style is style is a fusion of French, Spanish, African, Italian, Eclectic, Traditional, Rustic, Global Collected, Chinoiserie, Louis XV, Rococo, NeoClassical, Empire, Gustavian, Victorian, Modern, Transitional, Contemporary, Creole, Low-Country and Southern Styles.
You love a summery, romantic color palette such as lavender, plum, lilac, amethyst, with cream and buff or bold like blue, pink, and aqua. Textured walls of brick, painted wood, or old plaster add add a sense of history to your room. You are all about having intricate woodwork and elaborate plaster and millwork in your home as well, thus creating much charm and character.
You love hand-painted wallpaper and silk draperies. Juxtaposing the subdued formality against Cajun folk art, your home is most interesting. You give a nod to NOLA when using musical instruments as art, and treating the indoors as a garden with ferns and gardenias. You treat religious artifacts as decor objects as well.
Your unmatched furniture, French crystal chandelier, Venetian mirror, and zebra rug all add to that collected-over-time vibe in your home. Your gallery wall pays homage to the picture rooms of Victorian times.
You might embrace the Maximalism trend of the moment and go all out, or you may go for the modern, simplistic style allowing that one-of-a-kind piece to get all of the attention.
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Final Thoughts
Decorating as a couple doesn't have to be difficult. With these 6 new blended decor styles—Palm Beach Glam, Urban Rocker Chic, Rustic Coastal, Boho Victorian, Rustic Victorian, and Vintage New Orleans—you can create beautiful and meaningful home decor that reflects your individual personalities and styles, and makes you both feel right at home. From bold color palettes to intricate patterns, and unique statement pieces, these styles have something for everyone. Whatever your design style, take time to turn your house into a home that you and your significant other will love. So don't wait any longer—start creating your own dreamy and unique home together today!
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