How To Design a Home that Feels Luxurious
Luxury is more about how you feel when you look at your living space. The most inviting homes are built with a medley of sensory details, where materials, textures, and functional elements invoke positive emotions.
If you are looking for ideas to make your home or interior design project look and feel more elegant, we recommend the following options.
Choose Quality Materials to Define the Way Your Home Feels
The perception of luxury comes in assorted styles, and by choosing a combination of quality materials carefully, you can achieve creating a luxurious interior with elements that blend well without overwhelming your space.
To add warmth and a feeling of calm, use natural materials like timber, bamboo, stone, wool, and linen. To break the monotony, metal and glass are a good combination that adds refinement. These tactile elements bring depth to your space as well as foster a peaceful atmosphere.
Many interior design references suggest following a ratio between 60% to 70% for your dominant or primary material, followed by a ratio of around 20% to 30% secondary or supporting material, and about 10% for accent. This ratio goes well with a layout that provides 60% for functional space with the remaining 40% being open.
Using Functional Accents
Some of the smallest fixtures we use every day, like light switches, door handles, window knobs, tapware, and hooks can also serve as subtle accent pieces, and because they are functional, your room will have less clutter as well.
Light switches are some of the most frequently used fixtures in rooms at home, hotel lobbies and office hallways. However, this electrical device often comes as an afterthought in most renovations and projects. Upgrading to designer light switch options like the Vimar European light switch range is an improvement that can instantly liven up your walls and give the luxurious feel that ordinary DIY light switches cannot.
Vimar Architectural Light Switches
Designer Light Switches brings the Vimar collection of luxury architectural light switches to Australia, with four categories that cater to sophisticated interior designs.
The Vimar Vintage / Flat series combines simple, flush-mounted forms with finishes like brushed nickel, bronze, and gold, which are a timeless classic that can seamlessly integrate with modern interior design trends that favour minimalist finishes.
The Vimar Eikon Exe series is a high-end material-inspired light switches with finishes that resemble wood (oak, walnut and eucalyptus), stone (marble) metal and glass.
The Vimar Arke Classic range is made of metal, light-weight and the slimmest of the categories with protrusion of only 4.9 millimetres that makes it discreet, and can easily accommodate the style of any building.
Last, but not least, The Vimar Plana series, offers a versatile range of colours for a playful, lively mood at home. They are made of high-performance technopolymer (engineering-grade plastic), are durable, Halogen-free, and designed to be impact-resistant.
A complete Vimar light switch range from Designer Light Switches includes both the faceplate and internal mechanisms, which can be customised with your preferred intelligent lighting control or smart home lighting switch requirements.
If you would like to incorporate this into your project, our team can guide you through the process and help you select the option that best suits your desired look. Contact us at hello@designer-light-switches.com.au.
