Well, it varies. The function of the room of course is most important. Assuming you already know what you want to do in the room and how it will be used and who will use it and when, now you can get to designing it.
Let's talk about some common inspirations.
1. You may be stuck with a piece. Aunt Mabel's sideboard, your husband's favorite chair, an area rug you bought for another house that is way too expensive to replace. You may find that being forced to design around something yields surprising results.
2. You may want to design around the light. When is the room used? If you are only in it at night then you might need to account for lack of natural light - perhaps you see the sunset from that room and the rose tones that come in are so wonderful that you design the room for that time of day.
3. Pay attention to what is going on outside the windows. I had a room that had lush greenery on 3 sides once so painting it anything but green seemed wrong. So often you see rooms in blue and white by the ocean because of this.
4. Maybe you have a piece of art you want to showcase (btw - designing a room around art is fine - buying art to match your sofa is considered poor taste) and you design around that - even a set of plates or the design or colors of one piece of pottery can be a inspiration.
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| Gina Lollobrigida from Come September |
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| Gorgeous chandelier - looks like Gina. |
5. Look to the world of fashion, clothes designers, or the style of an actor from a movie - A room could be Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany's or Annie Hall. Recently I designed a room around
Fellini films from the late 1950s.
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| Set in Rome - Fellini's La Dolce Vita |
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| Design for a room based on the modern Roman feel of Fellini's 1960's glam |
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