You’re not choosing an interior. You’re choosing how you want to live.

It’s easy to start thinking of an apartment as just another purchase.

You look at the options. Choose something beautiful. Renovate. Done.

But a home works differently.

It isn’t a hotel room you’ll spend four days in. And it isn’t something you can put away in a cupboard if you grow tired of it a month later.

Most likely, you’ll live in this space for years.

Wake up. Work. Argue. Make up. Have friends over. Get sick. Rest. Raise children. Spend time on your own.

So before asking “What kind of interior do I like?”, I always suggest asking a different question:

Maybe what you need after work is absolute quiet.

Or perhaps you want a large dining table because friends are always coming over.

Maybe the beautiful open shelving you saved on Pinterest would never actually work for you because visual clutter makes you uncomfortable.

And perhaps a separate dressing room matters more than a few extra metres of living space.

For one family, the kitchen becomes the heart of the home.

For another, hardly anyone cooks.

One person wants a cocoon-like bedroom. Someone else needs plenty of natural light and a sense of openness.

There is no right answer.

There is only yours.

Pinterest can be incredibly useful during the design process.

Saved images can tell us a lot about the colours, shapes, materials and atmosphere you are drawn to.

But you can’t simply take an image you love and recreate it in another apartment.

Your light is different. Your proportions are different. Your belongings are different. Your daily rhythm is different.

That’s why a good interior doesn’t copy a reference.

It looks at what exactly drew you to it and translates that feeling into the language of your own space.

I don’t want to search for a charger next to the bed.

I don’t want things covering every surface.

I don’t want guests walking through the private part of the apartment.

I don’t want two people fighting for space at one sink every morning.

These things may sound small and purely practical.

But together, they determine something much bigger: does my home make my life easier, or am I constantly adapting to my own interior?

A beautiful interior matters.

But what matters even more is creating a space where the way you live feels right.

Sep/2026