Truly great design isn’t about rules, it’s about you. Coming home to a space that inspires you is about turning up the volume on whatever inspires YOU. And all the design inspiration you need lives in your favorite playlist.
It’s in the songs of inspired artists you use to kick things into gear, celebrate, romance, relax, and more. Because those artists live somewhere that inspires the music and sets the stage for that inspiration.
So let’s step inside a few of their homes to see what gifts they offer not just for your ears but for your living room sofa, too. Today we’ll explore the ethereal bohemian digs of Stevie Nicks, the vintage vibes of Jack White’s place, and the dynamic creative haven that is Jon Batiste with Suleika Jaouad’s home, all icons to get your home’s style vibe singing.
Bring Stevie Nicks’ Mystical Bohemian Elegance To Your Home’s Style
Stepping into Stevie Nicks’ California seaside home is like stepping into a soulful, layered retreat. It’s rich with the same kind of vibes you get from Stevie’s music.
Now, maybe you can’t get the ocean breezes where you live, but the vibe inside comes from the rich colors, textures, and lovingly curated antiques and tapestries. And it all comes together in such a way that the spaces tell stories and wrap you in cozy comfort.
Here are some tips for adding Stevie’s bohemian elegance to your home’s design playlist:
- Color palette: Think rich, deep jewel tones. Like sofa and chairs in burgundy plush velvet, lush cedar green microsuede, or midnight blue velvet. The experience you’re aiming to create is a home full of warmth and allure.
- Fabric textures: The more luxurious, luscious the textures the better. For fabrics, look to the intricacies of jacquard, the sumptuousness of velvet, or the fidget toy feels of chenille. It’s less about offering opulence and more about coming in cozy.
- Loving layers: Patterns, textures, and layers galore add personality, like throw pillows in ruby diamond Matelasse, indigo blue woven floral pattern, and more. Layering takes center stage in the bedroom with soft neutrals like a dove beige linen duvet with pillows in pearl white traditional damask and ivory white chenille.
- Eclectic decor: The more personality the better. And going full Stevie means antique decor, rugs, other ornate bits. Candles and indoor foliage bring it all together with a bit Bohemian meets biophilic.
If you’re longing for enchanting, otherworldly expansive vibes in your home, that’s what awaits in the colors, textures, layers, and eclecticness of life inside your favorite Stevie Nicks song.
Let Jack White’s Timeless Vintage Design Style Rock Your Home’s Vibe
Let’s knock on the door of iconic indie rocker and producer, Jack White of the White Stripes. There’s a raw, visceral, authenticity to Jack White’s artistry, something cutting edge and yet timeless. It feels vintage and detached from time.
Borrowing Jack’s interior design style offers much the same. His Kalamazzo, Michigan home — a modernist 1950s house — is part home, part writing retreat. It’s a mix of mid-century modern’s clean, minimalist style but with a vintage warmth. There’s classic mid-century furniture, metal and raw wood pieces, and vintage instruments adding art and function. It’s sheer simplicity with personality and purpose.
To have some of those Jack White vibes in your house:
- Color scheme: Think neutrals for your primary pieces. Like a pair of mid-century modern sofas crisply clad in burlap brown tweed and a minimalist desk chair upholstered in snow white Italian leather. The neutrals allow for bold accents like a tufted ruby red chenille chaise lounge and kitchen chairs in hunter green faux leather.
- Furniture fabrics: For your primary fabrics stick with a woven feel like tweed and duck, and classic textures like leather or faux leather. Give accent pieces a more luxurious texture like velvet, chenille, or microsuede.
- Industrial decor: For smaller furniture pieces and decor, use simple metal frame or reclaimed wood furniture — something that feels elemental. And Edison bulb light fixtures add to the vintage, industrial vibe.
- Personal flair: Display vintage or retro instruments and/or decor that says something to you and about you, adding character and personality.
Following Jack White’s design soundtrack, you’ll come home to a vintage simplicity that creates room for creativity and personality. Turn that up to 11.
Come Home To An Artistic Haven With Jon Batiste And Suleika Jaouad
And then there’s the home of music icon Jon Batiste and writer Suleika Jaouad. A celebration and amplification of connection and creativity, their home’s exactly the creative sanctuary you’d expect. Inside you’re struck by its personality, vibrancy, the tapestry of…um…tapestries, colors, and textures.
There’s earthy greens, warm and inviting yellows, rich reds, and yet plenty of neutrals, too. There’s an abundance of natural light and art everywhere. It’s part living in an art gallery and part living in a studio space where you feel free to interact with everything — and one another.
To bring out the artist retreat in your home like Jon and Suleika:
- Bold colors: Use saturated hues mixed in with warm neutrals to create a dynamic, comfortable space that beckons and energizes. Like a living room sofa in a deep but vibrant teal velvet, flanked by crescent swivel chairs in hazelnut Crypton shearling.
- Upholstery fabrics: Use loads of textures and high contrast patterns with an international flair, like char grey ikat, abstract tapestry in red, blue and more, or a burgundy traditional geometric pattern woven fabric. It’s a visual gumbo sparking creativity, conversation, and a playful curious energy.
- On display: Let your home be a gallery of art and photos you find personal, joyful, and calming. Mix mediums, textures, and feels. Jon and Suleika use velvet like it’s art, too, with warm tone velvets throughout their space, like oro gold, amber orange, and seaglass green.
- Handcrafted decor: No cookie cutter decor here, go with things lovingly made by hand like pottery, baskets, sculptures, or whatever further personalizes and deepens your space.
When your home suddenly positively exudes artistry, creativity, and love, you’ll know you’ve stuck the landing on modeling your home after Jon and Suleika.
Your Favorite Playlist Holds Design Inspiration For Your Dream Home
Whether our journey today found you leaning towards the ethereal elegance of Stevie Nicks, the vintage simplicity of Jack White, or the creative haven of Jon Batiste and Suleika Jaouad, we hope your takeaway is to look at interior design in a new way.
The inspiration behind the music you love and the artists who make it can be the foundation for arranging the style “sound” of your home’s interior design. And — as we learned today — fabrics can do so much of the heavy lifting of bringing that sound to life. Here at the largest online furniture fabric upholstery store we can help you find harmony in your home’s vibe. Reach out today, we’d love to hear the song you’re dreaming up.
