Designing for Real Life: How to Balance Beauty and Practicality

Achieving a comfortable and beautiful home that functions perfectly eludes many homeowners, especially when they inherit the previous homeowner’s choices. Whether in the kitchen, master suite, great room, rec space, or bonus room, interior designers find beautiful AND practical solutions to fit your budget and lifestyle. Life also gets pretty messy, mostly in the best ways.  Interior design isn’t just  in how a space looks, it’s in how it lives, breathes, and adapts to your everyday life. That’s the sweet spot we aim for at Dwell Home Furnishings.

Real Life Design

Your home should align with the shape of your life. When you tire of “workarounds” for a kitchen that frustrates you or a guest suite that needs to accommodate your aging parents, it may be time to remodel to balance how a space functions (or doesn’t) with how it looks.

To achieve functional real-life design, interior designers consider your unique lifestyle factors to create workable spaces that make you happy. Depending on the space you need help remodeling, the interior designer you choose should ask you about:

• How much you cook and/or entertain
• Pets
• Kids
• Hobbies
• Privacy concerns
• Sharing preferences

What does your family like to do? Are you into big family dinners and cookouts or more casual about dining and hanging out? Do your kids have a lot of friends they like to invite to your home? Do you have dogs or cats, and how many? Do you prefer closed blinds, or do you prefer to see outside? How are you with sharing spaces like the master bathroom with your spouse?

Designing for real life isn’t just about durable fabrics or the right lamp height. It’s really about the whole picture: flow, scale, balance, purpose. It’s what turns a beautiful space into a truly functional one. And no two homes, nor families are the same, which means we design every project with fresh eyes and a tailored approach.

Using experience and knowledge, our interior designers ask these lifestyle questions and more. Why so many questions? Because your answers factor not only into how to lay out a space for optimal function, but also into choices of materials, from flooring to upholstery to window coverings. The best interior design solutions will inject your design with beautiful solutions that meet your priorities and add to your surroundings!

Infusing Your Style

If you’ve struggled with achieving a more functional kitchen, bathroom, or bonus space, an interior designer can infuse your personal style while also fulfilling your practical requirements. You’ll love it when your interior designer comes through with a practical, livable, and beautiful real-life design!So, make that kitchen, master suite, guest office, or other space work in real life and look beautiful, too! At Dwell, we really do design for real life. We blend personalized style, durable materials, and thoughtful planning to create homes that feel gorgeous and stay functional. And the best part? You don’t have to figure it out alone. Let’s talk – to begin your home transformation, contact Dwell Home Furnishings & Interior Design.