The word is Quality- How to find it and how to buy it
The hallmark of top interior design says “Quality” without anyone needing to say a word. The great interior designs are beautiful, fascinating, and get the sort of stunned, sincere silence that denotes real interest, not superficial. The best interior design is like good orchestration. Window blinds décor and all elements of the design blend perfectly.
There’s only one way guarantee that effect, and it’s top quality design elements. The best interior designers spend as much time finding these materials as they do on designs, but this approach also provides drastically improved creative options and reliability.
The Green interior approach- Quality of life in design elements
There’s an irony which most designers will appreciate in the rise of the Green materials. A lot of the Green materials are traditional design materials, backed up with new design capabilities. Stone, a powerful and trustworthy element in any design when you know how to work with it, is a case in point. The Biomimicry school has also gained a lot of ground in interior design with massive flexibility in concepts and excellent visualization technology.
The Green approach is also providing quality of life. That’s been one of the major aesthetic factors, but the practical integration of Green materials is also proving to be a major positive for designers, including getting away from the shoddy synthetics, which were always a curse to work with in terms of both toxicity and often construction reliability.
The “trailer” effect of fumes from synthetics was always a giveaway to the inferiority of those materials. If the Sistine Chapel had been designed with the synthetics, it’d have wound up in a landfill centuries ago. The natural materials are simply better, and they’re allowing much stronger design concepts in terms of construction and viability.
The new respect for good timber is a case in point for Green design quality. Sustainable hardwoods, and some of the softwoods are a designer’s delight. These are the materials of the Baroque and the Renaissance, and they can be worked to perfection. They’re craftsman’s materials, and they lend themselves to excellent designs, complex and simple. They’re also more cost-effective in terms of manufacturing and installation.
Fabrics and textures
Organic fabrics are nothing less than a major relief, in any design sense, in comparison to the synthetics. Silk, wool and cotton are high quality materials in any design, and they’re a lot easier to work with in terms of motifs. Organic materials retain color and pigments a lot more efficiently, and they don’t “break” like the synthetics.
The use of materials in design features like Roman blinds is another case in point regarding fabrics. Texture and lines are much stronger with the organic materials. They’re also far more durable, and they can prove their quality in design for decades.
Design quality starts with materials. The best designs are based on the best. The next time you see a design which leaves you speechless with admiration, check out the materials, and you’ll see where the quality comes from.
