Amelia Hallsworth Photography
| 1. You can make do – beautifully
Even if you’re saving up for your dream furnishings – or still unpacking them – you know you have enough style to always make a place feel like home on a shoestring. |
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Vendome Press
| 2. You can name a Pantone shade at 50 paces
A quiet cuppa while leafing through a paint brand catalogue is blissful downtime for the interiors obsessives among us. We don’t even need to have a wall in... |
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Maven
| 3. You have lots of decorative cushions on your bed
Some members of your household may think this extra bed padding is pointless – especially when you insist it must be removed before sleeping and then... |
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Lucy Call
| 4. You’ve colour-coded your books
People who don’t obsess about creating a stylish and inviting home are likely to arrange their bookshelves by type or size, or alphabetically, by author. You, on the other... |
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Increation
| 5. You’ve arranged your books spines facing inwards
If you’ve gone a step further than colour-coding and turned your books around, then your style obsession has scaled way more vertiginous heights.
To... |
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Ann Lowengart Interiors
| 6. You’ve been known to hide receipts
Some might feel a pang of guilt at splashing out on a pair of designer shoes or a lavish piece of tech and knock a chunk off the price when telling their nearest and... |
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Brayer Design
| 7. You’ve disguised your TVAdmittedly, it’s a pretty dedicated soul who’ll go to the lengths of disguising an ugly TV when it’s not in use so as not to detract from well-thought-out décor… But for those... |
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MR.FRÄG
| 8. You believe a sunny weekend is for… painting!
It’s beautiful weather outside, and the less interiors-obsessed among your friends and family are probably out doing things they consider to be fun: picnics,... |
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Chris Snook
| 9. A classic chair can get your pulse racing
Admit it – you find the walnut-veneered plywood curves of these midcentury Cherner armchairs a little seductive, don’t you?
And you know that, even in the... |
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| 10. You know who designed this house
Design nerds like us also know that Charles and Ray Eames didn’t only design chairs. The Eames House, in California, was designed in the late 1940s by the famous creative... |
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aegis interior design ltd
| 11. Your table settings are works of art
When you’ve put all that thought and effort into decorating a room, why let it down with thrown-together table settings? |
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TG-Studio
| 12. You understand the power of lighting
Even the best-designed rooms can fall short of reaching their full potential without the right lighting. And you know a well-placed lamp or dimmer switch can turn... |
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Cristin Priest {Simplified Bee}
| 13. Even your children’s artwork has to go with the décor
Come on – that wallpaper deserves respect. And it’s not like you’re refusing to display your darlings’ creative output at all – it’s just about... |
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| 14. Your guest room is better than your own bedroom
What’s the point of making something look beautiful if you’re the only one to see it?
Discover 9 things all new homeowners know to be true |
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Singapore Furniture Industries Council
| 15. This is your idea of a fun day out
You get excited by the big design fairs, such as Singaplural, and would find it heavenly to be able to spend all day wandering among stalls of furniture and accessories,... |
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Aliza Goldsmith
| 16. Details are everything
In other words, when it comes to your home, you’re a perfectionist; it won’t be perfect until every last detail is finished. And we all know that day will almost certainly never... |
