Interior Designer Nancy Charbonneau’s 7 Pillars of Eloquent Design
Inspired to create homes for her clients that feel elegant, graceful, and at ease, Woodlands, Texas-based interior designer Nancy Charbonneau of Charbonneau Interiors leads her design team with seven pillars to guide them to deliver thoughtful designs. Prioritizing the creation of home designs that speak authentically to the lifestyles in which her clients live, Nancy makes design decisions based on the following sentiments, which have also helped her and her team to define a signature, elegant and easy, aesthetic. As we’re all still hunkered down at home, these tips can help us achieve a personal home design that is inviting, comforting and peaceful during this time.
1. Your home should reflect who you are and how you live.
Period.
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2. The interior should feel natural, not overly contrived.
Your home should be beautifully put together without feeling forced.
3. Design fluid and not forced, meaning it’s ok if everything is not “perfect.”
Your home is not a museum that cannot be touched. Art, accessories, and colors can be changed seasonally if that is what brings the person joy, and also makes the air more like a flowing river than a stagnant pond.
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4. Design is personal and not sterile
A home should reflect its owner, while also being beautiful. Meaningful objects that are unique and special can be blended with new—even if it’s just a few family photos. I was at a home recently that was absolutely beautiful, and looked like it should be in a magazine, but there were absolutely no personal objects anywhere, and in no way could I identify this home with the owners.
5. Everything is meaningful and not purposeless. Don’t fill a hole just to fill it.
Similar to my previous point, your home should reflect you, but you need to be patient to get what’s right for the space. Don’t settle for something that lacks meaning just to have something there. Sometimes, ‘nothing’ is better than the wrong ‘something.’ As designers, we have the ability to change lives. Through design, our team fills lives, not holes—this is something I like to remind my team of. This is what makes our work about something completely different, not simply transactional, but meaningful and purposeful.
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6. Your home should evoke peace and not stress.
There is a place for everything. Having a bunch of random things lying around or hanging around everywhere adds another layer of stress to your life that could very easily be eliminated. I feel like there are so many things we do self-help-wise: journaling, visualizing, developing new habits, etc. And this (living in peaceful surroundings) is another spoke in that self-help/better life wheel. This will make you, and those around you happier, and will also increase productivity.
7. Your home should be a cocoon, a nest, a country that is uniquely yours and makes you proud and confident in all aspects of your life.
Your home should radiate who you are as an individual.
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