Visual weight is how heavy something looks in a room, not what it weighs. Here is what makes a piece feel heavy, why one side of your room feels like it is leaning, and the free fix that costs nothing but an afternoon.
Rhythm is the repetition of a colour, shape, material or line that keeps your eye moving through a room. Here are the five kinds, where it goes wrong, and one thing to try today.
Flow is how easily you move through your home — the routes between the door, the kitchen, the sofa and the bed. Here is what it means, what quietly breaks it, and how to find the problem in your own floor plan in about ninety seconds.
Zoning means giving each part of a space its own clear job without building walls. Here’s what you zone with, where it goes wrong, and one thing to try today.
Negative space is the empty area around and between the things in a room. Here’s what it actually does, the two ways it goes wrong, and one thing you can try today.
Colour temperature is why two rooms painted the same white can feel completely different. Here’s what kelvin actually means, how warm and cool whites behave in a real home, and the mismatch that makes people repaint a room they never needed to repaint.
Layered lighting means using several light sources at different heights — ambient, task and accent — instead of one ceiling light doing all three jobs. Here is what each layer does, what goes wrong, and the one thing to try tonight.
Texture in interior design is the surface quality of everything in a room — how a material feels, and how it looks like it would feel. Here’s what it does in a real home, the difference between actual and visual texture, and the two mistakes that flatten a room.
Undertones are the hidden second colour inside every paint — the reason one white looks creamy and another looks faintly grey. Here’s how to spot one before you commit, and the mistake that catches people mid-renovation.
The 7 principles of interior design — balance, unity and harmony, rhythm, scale and proportion, contrast, emphasis and details — explained by a working interior designer, with a real-world example for each, the order I’d actually fix them in, and the three places I’d happily break the rules.
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