Finding Cohesion in Your Home

Cohesion is what makes a house feel like a home. Cultivating cohesion in your home involves an overall plan as well as specific curated selections. With smart interior design choices, the colors, furniture, accessories, and art in your home can all work together. But for many homeowners, the biggest challenges are grasping the overall vision and following it through. Our Dwell Interior designers are trained to help you find your personal style and bring that expression of your personality into your home.

Keys to Cohesion

Creating a cohesive home design is all about balancing repetition and flow. With our Dwell Interior design services, we focus on integrating elements that connect each space seamlessly. For instance, using the same flooring throughout the home creates a strong base for the design, and from there, we build mood through color, textures, and complementary styles. Cohesion doesn’t stop at finishes—your furniture and accessories should also play along. Repeating materials like metals in chair legs and accents ties everything together and makes your home feel intentionally connected.

Another means to cohesion in interior design lies in creating a harmonious flow throughout a space, ensuring each element feels connected yet distinctive. Think of it like weaving a thread that subtly ties a room together. Start with foundational choices—like flooring, wall treatments, or large furniture pieces—that create consistency. Then, layer in complementary materials, finishes, or color schemes. Repetition of textures, tones, and patterns brings balance, while carefully selected statement pieces can add just the right amount of contrast to keep things visually engaging but unified.

Cultivating Cohesive Design

Our Interior designers use a few tricks that you can try to make your home more cohesive. We’ve put together four options that might inspire you to cultivate cohesive design in your home.

• Area Rugs — A carefully selected area rug can be very effective in pulling a room together. An appropriately sized rug in the right style and colors can connect the dots between furnishings. Multiple rugs of the same color tone can create cozy vignettes in a big room, such as a great room. Area rugs can anchor a room or define a corner of a space for a specific purpose. Get area rug tips from our designers.
• Tell a Story — In interior design, storytelling refers to creating a unified theme or mood that connects the various elements of a space. It’s about ensuring that every design decision, from color palette to furniture choices, supports a cohesive narrative that reflects the client’s personality or a specific vision. Each room can feel unique yet part of a bigger story, meaning you don’t have to stick to just one design style. Developing an overarching plan gives you that cohesion. Here are a few interior design styles to inspire you.
• Curate Colors — It’s no secret that color is cohesion’s best friend, but that doesn’t necessarily mean everything is matchy-matchy! The magic of color can also reveal itself through contrasting colors that make a bold statement. Use materials or finishes that appear in multiple areas to tie spaces together. Color drenching may work for some people and some rooms, but it isn’t for everyone. Choosing colors is very personal. We know it can be one of the most difficult aspects of interior design, so don’t hesitate to request a consultation, especially when remodeling or building a home.
• Edit Accessories — Don’t have a lot of time or budget to make a big design change? No worries! Another way to nurture cohesion is to think small. Look at how you’ve accessorized the fireplace mantle, buffet, or dresser, and focus on editing just that one display to be more cohesive. Think in terms of color, height, and style and cluster vases, sculptures, and photos in groups of three or five. Pull them together with a table runner to reinforce the grouping. Ensure visual weight is distributed evenly throughout the space, whether through furniture, lighting, or accessories.

Cohesion Confusion?

If you’re not confident in your abilities to cultivate cohesion, reach out to request a consultation with an experienced interior designer. You can also stop by the showroom to see collections that will inspire you and help you discover how we pull items together in your home. Whether you need a little design guidance or a whole home redesign, Dwell Home Furnishings and Interior Design can assist you in creating a cohesive home design that fits your lifestyle.