5 Apartment Styling Tips
When it comes to designing your apartment, it’s important to know which elements work best together and will have the greatest effect on your living space. If you’re looking to enhance your new home integrate some or all of these apartment styling tips.
1. Go Curvy
Because most apartments are boxy, it's fun to add some curves. Designer Libby Langdon suggests round tables, chairs with a curve and rugs that are either shaped or adorned with spirals and dots.
Get the ideas flowing by having an inspirational look on Pinterest. Cue the Curves!
2. Layer It
Contrary to what you might think, you don't have to forgo a bed with lots of linens and fabrics. Layers and an elegant mix of colors, prints and pillows can make a space seem airy and give depth to what is likely one of the biggest pieces in the home.
See our top suggestions for comfortable linens from Brooklinen, Parachute, and Serena and Lily.
3. Color Carefully
Create cohesion by sticking with similar shades or themes of colors and patterns you can trace throughout each room. For instance, the silver threading on a throw pillow works with the slate shower curtain in the bathroom, or the wood grain of your nightstand is in the same theme as the coffee table in the living room. Little patches of cohesion can make your apartment feel connected and whole, creating a cozy, relaxing space.
Check out this article by Ashley Knierim for an in depth look into interior color schemes.
4. See Clearly
A good apartment interior design trick is to use mirrors. Mirrors reflect light and can open up the size of a space. Hang a mirror near a window in a dining room or small bathroom to make those rooms feel larger and brighter. Tall mirrors can make a ceiling feel higher, as well as bringing illumination to dimmer parts of the room.
Stop in to see this beautifully curated one bedroom model apartment here at Point Of View fully designed by Mark Kizerian & Aly Blythe. Follow them for continued inspiration on Instagram.
5. Define It
If you live in an apartment with an open floor plan, use an area rug to define the separate spaces of your room. The rug by your couch is the area where social activity takes place, or the rug by your bed designates the boundaries of your bedroom. You can set up dividers if you want more clearly delineated spaces. However, an area rug is a simpler way to divvy up space.
We love Ruggable for affordable, trendy, and washable rugs in any space.