His best ambassadors in our country are Mario and Alaska. Eclectic in nature, Kitsch-inspired interiors are back in style with their bright, contrasting colors, groundbreaking ideas, and excellent pieces. The Kitsch style in interior design is a personal rebellion against design traditions, an expression of unique taste, and an exciting design vision. It’s about combining different styles, textures, and shapes to create the signature of your living space.
Kitsch-style interiors are designed to shock and impress. They are a bold statement of aesthetics, luxury, ornate elements, decorative tapestries, and a mix of retro and contemporary styles. Kitsch style has a specific exotic flavor, a collection of different cultural objects, which are somehow mixed in an art show that shows a very individual style.
You can embrace the Kitsch style and let your imagination dictate how you decorate your home. The spaces inspired by the Kitsch style are brave spaces; they make an open mockery of the looks of traditional tastes. They carry extravagance in all its manifestation of colors, shapes, and objects to represent brilliance, courage, and extreme and unique individuality.
But how do you draw the line between kitsch and bad taste? Kitsch style, like any established interior design style, has a specific basis, which experienced designers follow to provide the primary goal of this interior – to surprise and even shock. It mixes antique furniture in all its colors, gold accessories, and ornate lamps. The primary color of the Kiscth style in interior design is red, to take any design rule to the absurd.
Pompous chandeliers and paper lamps can perfectly coexist in the Kitch style; you have complete freedom in the design and materials to decorate the walls. From wood and plastic to leopard bottoms, whatever.
You have a fondness for playful memories
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Whether it’s a London bus, royal memorabilia, Elvis statuettes, religious iconography, or a pair of monkeys, you’ll be looking for the most random pieces. If it’s fluorescent and has flashing lights or a button to make it talk, all the better.
The expression ‘neutral color palette makes you pull your hair out; muted tones are for the faint of heart. As you scan the Kitsch-style color chart, your eyes leap beyond and are instantly drawn to the most powerful colors. Experimenting with bold colors is your thing, and you don’t mind if your choices aren’t to everyone’s taste.
The shelves always feature a Bambi, Dumbo… vintage cartoon characters with big eyes, especially those from Scandinavia and Japan, making it look fancy, as the Japanese say… kawaii!
Giant animals greet their guests.
It could be a pink plastic poodle in the living room, a ceramic cockatoo lamp base in the bedroom, or a leopard sculpture in the hall—the more extravagant, the better.
The style references come from Coronation Street.
Forget Kelly Hoppen; your style icon is Hilda Ogden from Corrie. Her legendary ‘murial’ with her flying ducks has become synonymous with bad taste, which in your world is good.
A fine selection of botanical prints? No, not for you. But a giant mural depicting the story of Little Red Riding Hood? Yes, you are already liking that more. And as for the rule of having one style feature that dominates as the show’s star? Well, it’s just not for you, either. You are happily mixing extravagant paper on the walls with a checkerboard floor.
Your home is nicknamed “the party house” by all your friends.
People feel relaxed in your house, partly because the decor isn’t taken seriously and partly because there’s a sparkly ball on the ceiling and a drinks cart always stocked with various retro spirits. A punch?
Are you a lover of kitsch style? If so, consider the eclectic style; it will help you create your winning combination.
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