When you’re decorating your home, it can feel more manageable to complete one room at a time. However, this can result in a choppy and disjointed overall home design. If you’re not ready to complete a full home redesign, it is possible to design one room at a time while ensuring it remains cohesive. Keep these tricks in mind so you can create a design plan that flows through the house and unifies each room.

All-over color scheme

Conceptualizing a complete house color scheme will make each room flow into the other, as it has the unifying element of color. Selecting three or four paint colors that you carry through the house and apply in different ways can create an intentionally designed and visually soothing home. For example, in the dining room, you may paint the walls a deep, moody blue, and you can use that same paint color on the trim and casing in the adjacent living room.

Same wood flooring

The same wood tone should be carried throughout a house with wood flooring. If you’re installing new wood flooring and the house has existing wood, you can stain the older wood to match the new flooring.

Consistent case and base

Consistent architectural elements, such as the baseboards and crown moulding, are essential to creating a cohesive-looking home. Using the same style of baseboards, crown, and window casing in every room will create consistency, regardless of how the space is decorated.

Use the same tone of metal

Selecting an anchor metal throughout the home will create a streamlined look that brings the rooms together. Once you choose the anchor metal, you can layer an accent metal in different spaces to create a layered, luxe look. For example, if you choose polished nickel door knobs for every door in the house, you can then add in brass light fixtures for more depth and interest.

A unifying element

Using a unifying element in every room of the house is a way to decorate each room differently but still tie them together. This element could be decorative elements, such as chinoiserie, a style of art, such as an abstract style you’re drawn to, or a material, such as rattan.

Same furniture style

The furniture in each room should not be a matching set. However, keeping each piece in the same general design style will create flow from one room to another. For example, a room with all mid-century modern furniture next to a room with traditional furniture will feel disjointed.

Design the whole house at one time to use as a blueprint

Designing the entire house at once will help you to see how it will flow together. Even if you don’t plan on implementing the design all at once, you’ll have a blueprint and checklist to follow as you complete each room.

An intentionally designed home that is carefully planned will help your house feel like it seamlessly flows from room to room, helping it feel more balanced and harmonic.

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Creating an Entire Home Design Plan