How to Create a Well-Balanced Design

It's always fun to keep up with new trends, but the real question is how long you'll enjoy having that trend in your home?

As you're browsing through Pinterest and other sites for design inspiration to prepare for your upcoming remodel, it’s so easy to fall in love with a trendy or modern design style. When it comes time to choose the design selections for your remodel, you’re eager and ready to recreate the trendy design styles you saw in your inspirations. However, once you see the design selections in person, you may start to feel unsure if the design inspiration you're trying to recreate will look good or complement home. You also want to consider how that trendy design inspiration will look 5 to 10 years from now.

The key to recreating a trendy design inspiration is to balance it out with neutral design elements. With the right balance of neutral design elements, you can create a modern design style that will look timeless as the years go by. Here are our top 3 tips on how to create a well-balanced design.

Build Your Design with a Neutral Base: When most homeowners hear the phrase neutral tones or neutral base, they may think of traditional tones of  beige, light brown, or cream tones. However, now modern neutral tones can be shades of gray, blue, or green. Earth tones such as shades of black, soft hues of creamy whites, and warm wood tones are a great go-to option if you’re looking for a modern design. By selecting a modern neutral base color, it provides you with more opportunity to add accent pieces that compliment or enhance today’s modern trends but can be easily switched out to match future trends. 

Use Stand-Out Pieces That Will Make Your Design Pop: After selecting your neutral base, you can build on your design using pops of color or pattern in moderation. This will help to make your space feel fun, unique, and trendy. You can create an accent wall with a beautiful wallpaper design. You can also add patterns to your kitchen, bathroom, or living room design with vivid colored rugs or fun wall art. If you want to bring more colors or patterns to your living room design or bedroom design, you can find some bright or bold colored accent pillows and  blankets.

Create Visual Balance: Having a visual balance is critical when creating a well-balanced design. You want to make sure your room is balanced symmetrically by designing around a focal point. Your focal point can be a fireplace, a chandelier, an island, a round table, or a centrally-placed piece of artwork. Another way to create balance is to balance your space horizontally or vertically from a central line, meaning all your furniture and accent pieces should align horizontally or vertically. You want your design to radiate balance from that focal point or mainline so that your space will look and feel visually balanced.

With KM BUILDERS, we have an entire team of designers that can guide you through all the designing phases from beginning to end. Together with their help, we can ensure you'll love your remodeled design for a lifetime. So give us a call at 210-680-5626 to set up your free consultation.

----KM Builders is San Antonio's premier design-build remodeler specializing in kitchens, bathrooms, room additions, and whole-house remodeling. We boast the largest in-house staff in San Antonio, offering architectural design, interior design, and cabinet design for all your home remodeling needs!----