How to Match Interior and Exterior Design Themes

Creating a coordinated interior and exterior can help give your home that ‘finished’ feel. But how can you harmonise your home’s interior and exterior? This blog aims to find out.

Theming your house

There are myriad themes from which to choose when it comes to your home, with minimalist, country, victorian, modern, and traditional being just a few. The theme you choose may be impacted by the look, age, and feel of your home, but this should not limit your design creativity. So how do you go about bringing your design dream to life?

Popular ways to pick a theme

Material

Materials can help to create an ambience within your home. For example, a marble effect evokes an opulent, luxurious feel, and concrete creates a more contemporary, industrial atmosphere, whilst a tile effect provides a clean, simple finish, and wood creates a warming, rustic atmosphere. By deciding on the ambience you wish to create, you can then choose the most appropriate material and use this as a theme throughout your home.

Style

The age and design of your home may dictate the theme you choose. For example, you may live in a new home which perfectly suits an ultra-modern, contemporary look, or you may live in a historic house, where working alongside the traditional fixtures and fittings to create an ‘of the time’ interior is more appropriate. However, this doesn’t mean you can’t add a modern twist there or a traditional touch here!

Colour

Colour is an easy and simple way of creating an interior theme. You may wish to choose one colour to run throughout your home, maybe with different tones in each room. Alternatively, you may decide to decorate each room in a different colour, giving every room its own individual ambience.

Why Matching Your Interior and Exterior Matters

Harmonising your interior and exterior creates a cohesive, coordinated look and feel. This doesn’t mean that the inside of your home should exactly mirror its outside, but more the style you choose can be reflected in both aspects of your home. For example, if your interior is modern, you may opt for contemporary coloured window frames, doors, guttering, and roofline. Alternatively, more traditional styled accessories such as cast-iron guttering and downpipes, and customary colours, such as black, may be more suited to historic homes.

How to Implement a Design Throughout Your Home

Introducing a theme or design throughout your home is easier than you think. Little changes, such as lighting, picture frames, mirrors, and soft furnishings can all be used to add colour and style to your home. Bigger changes, such as wall colour and design, can also be easily achieved if you choose the right materials. Wall panels are a simple and effective way of adding design to your home.

These panels perfectly emulate an array of real materials, from opulent marble and industrial concrete to warm wood and traditional tile. They are also extremely easy to install, requiring no specialist skills or tools – enabling you to add design throughout your home in a matter of hours rather than days.

How to Match Your Interior Design Outside

Coordinating your exterior to your interior is as easy as incorporating design throughout your home. Our collection of soffits and fascias in an array of colours – such as Sherwood, Black Ash, Rosewood, and white - and designs - including plain and woodgrain – means you can create a truly unique exterior tailored to your home’s style and age.

You can also coordinate your guttering and downpipes to your soffits and fascias. From traditional white and black to historical cast iron effect to contemporary anthracite grey, our range of guttering systems allows you to harmonise the exterior of your home, whilst also reflecting its interior.

Design Ideas With National Plastics

Whether you’re looking to incorporate a theme or design into your home’s interior or want to coordinate your house’s exterior to its internal style, then our extensive range of products can help. Talk to our friendly expert team today on 0800 22 77 77 and start your home’s transformation journey.