Interior Design as Web Design Inspiration: Betsey Johnson’s Dining Room
I can’t think of a better source for visual branding inspiration than interior design — the textures, the colors, the shapes, the representation of different eras. There’s just so much happening in a well-designed room. It’s a treasure trove for a web design style sheet.
Case in point: Betsey Johnson’s dining room, which was recently chosen by Ghislaine Viñas as her “favorite room” for an article in New York Magazine. Such a fabulous inspiration for the right website.
Can’t you just see it?
There are so many elements that would come together splendidly: graphic floral, baby pink and mustard (together at last!), a heading font inspired by the lines of the chairs…
Color Palette
Pattern
Headings
Body Copy
Social Media Buttons
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Interior designers…
Do you have a room in your portfolio that could inspire some digital design? Drop me a note. I’d love to feature your work in this series.
Everyone else…
What do you think? Would you use a favorite room to inspire a DIY rebrand or guide your brand designer? Do you have a particular room in mind?
Kat Bern | Dream Home Creator
| 29 May 2015I love this so much!!!! Can’t wait to see more beauties from this series 🙂
curioelectro
| 29 May 2015Thank you, Kat!
Katy
| 29 May 2015This is brilliant! I love this idea – I get how to create a color palette for three dimensional space, but seem to struggle with creating one for my website. Thank you for this great tip!
And Betsey Johnson’s dining room?!? Pardon me whilst I go **swoon**
curioelectro
| 29 May 2015Sigh. I know, right? I want this to be MY dining room.
Colleen
| 29 May 2015This is awesome! I love the style sheet. Perhaps my next website?
curioelectro
| 30 May 2015Sure! That’s the beauty of this idea. We COULD actually use Betsey’s Johnson’s dining room to inspire your next website:)
Sam
| 30 May 2015Sigh… and now I want a new website and colour pallet.
What a great idea!!
curioelectro
| 4 June 2015Start thinking about it for the future. Why not? We all re-do our websites eventually:)
Nela
| 4 June 2015Classy! 🙂
I love taking cues from life for website design, I have a (really old) blog post with photos of details around my apartment that lent inspiration for what is still at the moment my website design.
(I’m working on a new one, though)
Recently my partner and I went shopping for furniture and he couldn’t get me off the sofas and textile samples, I was over the moon with color combinations and patterns 🙂
curioelectro
| 4 June 2015Your comment gave me feelings. Like a strong urge to just get up, get in my car and go walk around a high-end furniture store. And I want to go find that old blog post because it sounds great.
Trista
| 4 June 2015Gah! I love this color combination, and great font choice 🙂
curioelectro
| 4 June 2015Thanks, Trista. I thought the pink and mustardy color combo was really refreshing too. You don’t see it everywhere.
Raj
| 4 June 2015This is ace. Great concept. Following for sure.
Emily
| 4 June 2015Brilliant use of inspiration and the application of that inspiration! Thanks for sharing and I can’t wait to see the next one you do. So fun!
Daniela Uslan
| 4 June 2015I love this concept! Websites are our online homes, and you really showed how that works in terms of design. Wonderful post.
Janet
| 4 June 2015Lovely! I love using things in the world as inspiration and the idea of using an part of your home as inspiration for your online home so nice! 🙂
Shauna s.
| 4 June 2015I love this idea and the colors. It’s cool to see Betsey Johnson used as an example. She is one of my favorite fashion designers. The social buttons look great.
Melissa
| 5 June 2015This is really interesting. I’d never consider drawing from a room design for a website inspiration. I love it!
Christine
| 6 November 2015Just found our website. Love your website inspiration from interiors. I am currently rethinking my website for the future. This will definately give me a lot to think about!