Style guides
Six styles, and the colours that define them.
Style names get used loosely enough to be useless. Each of these pages says what the style actually is, shows the palette it depends on, and names the one thing people get wrong with it.
Boho is a palette before it is a pattern.
What boho wall art actually is, the earthy palette it depends on, which rooms it suits, and the mistake that makes it look cluttered rather than collected.
Minimalist line artOne line, and nowhere to hide.
Where single-line drawing came from, why one small line print looks lost on a wall, and the two ways to hang it so it works.
Mid-century modernConfident shapes, and a very specific set of colours.
What mid-century modern art actually looked like between 1945 and 1965, the colours that define it, and how to use it without your room looking like a film set.
BotanicalDrawn to record a plant, not to decorate a wall.
Botanical art came from scientific record-keeping, not decoration.
JapandiThe hardest style to get right, because it is mostly nothing.
Japandi combines Japanese wabi-sabi with Scandinavian functionalism.
AbstractNo subject means nothing to argue with.
Abstract art has no subject to clash with your room, which makes it the most forgiving choice.