Your home needs to represent you. Just as your personal style tells people the narrative of who you are, your home does a similar job. The only difference is that, instead of being something you wear, it is something you experience.

You deserve to feel at home, and you deserve to live in an environment that represents you best. This means going wild with both the design elements and ensuring that your heritage is represented. This is how you feel proud of who you are and how you can feel proud of your home.

To help you successfully balance out these vibrant design pieces with an interior design scheme that will last for years, follow these three tips:

Choose A Great Neutral Base

We change. Our interests change, our sense of style changes, and even our lives change.

Furniture, however, can be and is expensive, which is why when choosing new pieces for any room in your home, you will want to choose a great neutral base. Natural woods, classic design, and overall pieces that work well with nearly every theme. This way you can grow with your furniture and make it work no matter what decorative elements you want to add.

You don’t need to restrain yourself either. These neutrals should be for big, bulky pieces you won’t often want to change out. Couches, bed frames, dressers – these are the neutral pieces you should invest in.

Smaller elements, like lamps, side tables, and of course any piece of décor can be changed out far easier to be given away or even sold to recoup costs. Save the big personality pieces for these elements.

                                       Photo by Toa Heftiba

Create a Color Pallet

Color pallets are great for many reasons, and they are not as restrictive as you think. You can have a pallet of 10 colours that touch on different sections of the colour wheel, allowing you to have a beautiful multi-colored room. The key here is to choose the shades that complement each other. By doing so, you have harmony in your home without your decorative elements fighting against each other.

Show Your Heritage

Show you who are!

Your home is your space, so wear your heritage proudly. This can mean going and buying beautiful Angolan artworks or heritage pieces brought from home. If you are artistic yourself, you can frame and hang up your own pieces, or display sculptures you or friends or family have made.

Whether you buy professional artworks or decorate it with heirloom pieces from your own family, showing your heritage is a great way to add beautiful dynamism to your home and feel comfortable and at ease.

Display Your Personal Belongings

Your clothes can be artworks of their own. The same applies to your jewelry and the souvenirs that you have collected over the years. You simply need to figure out and find the perfect furniture to display them. Installing a custom closet or using a clothing rack can help you display your clothes, whereas a beautiful sculpture could be used to display jewelry and frames can display souvenirs and be hung on the wall.

There are so many ways that you can add flair and personality to your home’s interior design. So long as the base elements are neutral, you can even grow with your design and change it up without worry. The point is for you to create a home that feels most like home to you.