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How To Find Your Personal Interior Style

Finding an interior style you can commit to is about common ground. - by Anna McCooe
  • 09 Aug 2021

So you know that phenomenon of dogs and owners looking alike — well, it happens in homes, too. The personality we bring into a home intersects with the building and location’s characters. After a while, we tend to shift into the comfort zone of the overlap.

How To Find Your Personal Interior Style

Sometimes, when it comes to finding your interior style, there is a dominant aesthetic force. Take stylist Lynda Gardener (featured in marie claire Lifestyle #4), who found her Fitzroy, Melbourne, warehouse 20 years ago and used it as a canvas for her delicate style. Inside, she has created a perfect microcosm of prettiness and patina – the world according to a vintage queen. Gardener lives alone, and her creative voice is unwavering.

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Lynda Gardener

Marnie Hawson courtesy of Curate: Inspiration for an Individual Home/Hachette

Other times, concessions need to be made; when you’re Spanish Colonial but your home is Edwardian, or when you’re a minimalist and your kids love stuff. There are times when a partner’s mementoes fight against your vibe and instances when functionality throws off balance.

While preparing this issue, my little family swapped an art deco apartment by the beach for a mid-century house in the bush. Halfway through the move, we were headed for that happy place where a house and its inhabitants are a perfect fit. Then the boxes kept coming.

Through it all, I’ve swooned at model Georgia Fowler’s distilled Los Angeles pied-à-terre, with its uncompromised mix of cool and calm (as per the new issue). But Fowler’s home is headed for change when she returns to LA with her partner and new baby. It will be an adjustment – or a style evolution – and there is beauty in that.

Jess Isaac

Georgia Fowler in LA

Jess Isaac

Talking to fashion designer Deborah Sams at her marie claire Lifestyle photo shoot, she mentioned feeling slightly out of place in her grown-up hacienda-style home. Over time, she has introduced elements more aligned with her family. And I know I’ll settle into our place soon, too.

In the crux of moving, I spent the day with Vida Glow founder (and cover star) Anna Lahey at her family compound. Her one trick to stylishly inhabiting her space is storage. Sure, my flat-packed shelves might not be as polished as her bespoke joinery, but the tip is universal.

Thanks to our sponsors Bosch, my renovation ponderings now turn to kitchens. Subtle 
or dramatic? Let’s see how it plays out.

Because it turns out, mine is not the only personality urging to be represented under our roof. Interiors titan Athena Calderone calls it a “voltage” when opposite forces are juxtaposed. If you can harness that energy, that’s how you find a home’s signature style.

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Deborah Sams of Bassike

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Vida Glow's Anna Lahey

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Athena Calderone, Eyeswoon

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The new issue of marie claire Lifestyle is on stands now. 

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Anna McCooe
Anna McCooe
As the Lifestyle Editor at marie claire, Anna McCooe has the world’s best gig. She spends her days interviewing inspiring people, travelling to amazing places, looking at beautiful things and eating great food. Then she writes about it all for her favourite magazine. Seriously, she gets paid for this.

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