You have plenty of decisions to make when planning your custom home. The exterior style is one of the big ones—but that’s just half of the equation. Interior design style encompasses space planning, colour schemes, lighting, materials, sustainability, and of course, furniture and accessories.
Your home’s interior design impacts the enjoyment and comfort of your home. If you already own a home, it’s an opportunity to personalize the space. If it’s the finishing touch of a new custom home design, it’s a chance to reflect your personal style even more.
Dreaming of what’s possible for the interiors of your favourite spaces? Browsing styles to find a few you like is a great way to start. Let us help.
We’ve compiled a few interior design styles in this directory to help you get to know each better. From there, you can pick and choose elements that reflect your unique style and get you one step closer to the home of your dreams.
You’ll discover key features of 7 different interior design styles ahead including:
- Modern Farmhouse
- Scandinavian
- Industrial
- Rustic
- Contemporary
- Eclectic
- Craftsman
Modern Farmhouse
Key Features
Modern farmhouses create a cozy, family-friendly environment. Merging modern with rustic features, both older and younger generations can feel at home in these spaces.
While also an exterior design style, the Modern Farmhouse style can be carried through to interior design, blending the comforts of traditional country homes with sleek modern touches. From natural textures and sliding barn doors to reclaimed wood tables, interior pieces often match structural design elements like exposed wooden beams.
Colours include warm neutrals like oatmeal and cool grays, while materials often feature galvanized steel, distressed wood, and linen.
What We Love
We love the warmth and simplicity of this interior design style. The blend of old and new is both comforting and comfortable.
Scandinavian
Key Features
Scandinavian design can be described as minimal and functional. It includes everything you need and nothing you don’t. With lots of natural light, simple furniture, and a calming, neutral palette with small splashes of colour, this style is clean and simple.
Furniture is often mid-century modern pieces with tapered legs and natural wood. Materials like wool throws and sisal rugs are added for texture.
What We Love
The airy, clean feel of Scandinavian design is unmatched. We love the way it declutters spaces to make homes feel more open and peaceful.
Industrial
Key Features
More popular in cities like Calgary and Edmonton, this interior style is inspired by the industrial era. Incorporating raw materials and exposed architecture, you’ll find touches of weathered wood, exposed steel, and copper tones throughout industrial-designed homes.
Industrial home designs often feature high ceilings as loft living is more popular in downtown areas. Furniture can vary, but sleek materials like leather are common. Faux fur throws are a fun way to mix in texture and warmth to (what’s often considered) a colder environment.
What We Love
The edgy, raw aesthetic of this design makes spaces feel both trendy and timeless. We dig the cool, urban edge this industrial design exudes.
Rustic
Key Features
By definition, rustic means relating to the countryside. That’s why you’ll find natural, handmade, or earthy elements that evoke the outdoors in these homes. The words “plain” and “simple” also come to mind, but we think that’s exactly what makes this interior design style so charming.
Think: ceramic bowls with imperfect shapes, rough wood, stone, and leather. Since rustic interior design draws inspiration from nature, furniture, accents, and surfaces reflect this natural, rugged beauty.
What We Love
For many of us, living in Calgary means we get to experience the best of both worlds: the city and the great outdoors. Indoor-outdoor living is big in Alberta, and this style of interior design works really well with it.
Contemporary
Key Features
Contemporary means living in the moment. Because it’s about what’s currently trending, contemporary interior design is constantly changing. Despite what colours, shapes, and textures may change with the times, sleek, clean lines and a sophisticated, crisp look remain static.
Drawing inspiration from multiple styles of interior design, contemporary sits somewhere between minimalist and modern. You’ll often see geometric shapes, metal, and glass, with classic hues like black, beige, and white accented with bold hues like emerald green—or for the summer of 2024, lavender.
What We Love
While contemporary design keeps things cool and cutting-edge, the homes that incorporate this trend still feel homey and comfortable. We think that’s one of the reasons it’s so popular.
Eclectic
Key Features
A few words we’d use to describe eclectic interior design are: varied, vibrant, confident, and creative. Often a colourful mix of influences, this style includes features from different eras and is a great choice for those with a unique sense of style.
Eclectic style is highly personalized, and you can find both antique wooden tables and modern acrylic chairs in the same space, alongside a vintage rug underneath a contemporary chrome coffee table.
While there is no right or wrong when it comes to this style, an expert eye can help you find the perfect pieces to make your home feel creative, not overwhelming.
What We Love
We can’t get enough of the personalized expression within eclectic interior design. It’s artistic and bold and is about choosing pieces that stand out to you, personally.
Craftsman
Key Features
Known for its handcrafted quality and sturdy construction, Craftsman style includes built-in woodwork and earthy colours. Just like the design elements of the actual home, interior design elements are very wood-forward, though you may see hints of stained glass either in the form of a backsplash or window feature.
There’s an unshakingly handcrafted feel about this type of interior design. Wood is sturdy and durable, upholstery is leather or earth-toned. Muted greens, browns, and mustard yellows are common, as is pottery.
What We Love
We’re all about detail, so this is one of the reasons the craftsman style really stands out to us as a favourite. Feeling rich and personal, this style focuses on quality and durability—and those are four elements we can’t help but love.
Design Your Dream Home
While these interior design styles may be some of our favourites, we want to emphasize that your custom home design journey is all about you!
The first step to getting the home you’ve always dreamed of is figuring out what you’d like it to look like. We hope this directory has been some help in narrowing down features that will come together in your interior design plan and make you say “This feels like home to me.”
Throughout the process of designing your custom home, Ellergodt Design will be with you every step of the way. Call us at 587-875-5621 or use the contact form today to get started.