Quiz de style
Created by our design and decorating experts, this interactive quiz is just 10 questions that are easy, fun and take just a few minutes to answer. There are no wrong answers; just answer as thoughtfully as you can and have fun!
1. Select the kitchen that best reflects your style:
2. Select the bathroom that best reflects your style:
3. Select the flooring that best reflects your style:
4. Select the living room that best reflects your style:
5. Select the bedroom that best reflects your style:
6. Select the lighting that best reflects your style:
7. Select the chair that best reflects your style:
8. Select the accessories that best reflect your style:
9. Select the front door that best reflects your style:
10. Select the dream home that best reflects your style:
The Italian Impressions Style
Is the past your passion? Is your television stuck on the History Channel?
Do you crave objects aged and worn, rooms of heavy woods and wrought iron?
Is your ideal home more civilized than homogenized, more European than New World?
If so, your lifestyle is Italian Impressions Style.
It was born in countries on the Mediterranean Sea such as Italy, France and Spain. Countries where sun and soil, culture and custom, inspired charming homes and carefree lifestyles – the sweet life.
The Italian Impressions Style exhibits a European sense of history and casual elegance.
It’s all about heritage and ancient rituals: socializing in the plaza, shopping at the market.
An Italian Impressions Style home, your home, reflects sophisticated living that’s elaborate and gracious. This is a residence of detail and ornamentation.
Collected treasures from the past are proudly on display; furniture is of heavy fabric, thickly cushioned and ornate in style.
One variation of this style, European Country, showcases mismatched furniture, heavy brocade details, French antiques and tapestries.
Tuscan inspired materials, distressed furniture, and natural, old country elements are also its characteristics.
Another interpretation of Italian Impressions Style is Mediterranean.
Its ornate ceilings and woodwork, period windows, columns and arches create rooms for elegant living and inspired entertaining.
Wherever you choose to live in Italian Impressions Style, there are classic “musts”.
These include tumbled travertine marble, distressed woods and metals and Patina finishes such as copper and oil rubbed bronze.
Your home’s color palette shows greens, golden hues, chocolate browns and wine reds.
In your Italian Impressions Style kitchen, family and friends experience cherry cabinetry with chocolate glaze and oil rubbed bronze hardware.
Natural stones like Granite countertops are a given.
Your tile is in the tumbled travertine family featuring mosaic borders mixed with metal decorative tiles.
This is the Italian Impressions Style lifestyle. Your way of living.
The Rustic Reflections Style
For you, life’s greatest role model is Mother Nature. You crave the organic, avoid the artificial and celebrate what’s real.
Purity and vitality, beauty and serenity, light your fire and create a home that is earthy and elegant.
You’re a natural for the Rustic Reflections lifestyle.
Based in the arts and crafts movement, sophisticated Southwestern influences and mountain living, this style demonstrates true craftsmanship, simple design and the loving, organic combination of home, hearth and nature.
Rustic Reflections captures the pure beauty and practicality of the outdoors yet creates a soothing indoor atmosphere of relaxed living, discriminating style and discerning furnishings.
Topography dictates what architectural elements will be used to design and decorate your home, and colors take their cue from the adjacent landscape.
This lifestyle incorporates natural materials to establish a serene indoor environment where the flooring, countertops, accessories and artwork collaborate to enhance what lies outside the windows.
In many cases the fireplace, towering magnificently in stone, river rock or sandstone, is the room’s center of attraction.
Furniture is authentic and hand hewn from hickory, oak, lodge pole pine, rattan and leather.
Rustic Reflections also celebrates mismatched but thoughtfully collected furnishings and flea market finds; baskets, pottery, fine linens and antiques.
But while Rustic Reflections has variations, it’s always about bringing the outdoors in, and doing so effortlessly.
Your Rustic Reflections home showcases slates and natural stones, heavily grained woods, hammered metals and natural fibers.
Your colors are earth-toned: terra-cottas, rich browns, taupes and sage greens paint the indoor landscape.
In your kitchen, rustic is the theme, with pine, hickory or maple cabinetry in the Shaker door style, with cut-from-the-earth granite countertops and tile in tumbled slate or limestone.
This is the Rustic Reflections lifestyle. Your way of living.
The Seaside Simplicity Style
Whether it’s the sea, a lake or stream, being near water drowns your troubles and quenches your thirst for life.
And while your home may be far from water, it feels fluid, fresh and free.
All reasons why your lifestyle is Seaside Simplicity.
This style began where America was first colonized: on the coast of New England. There, water, wind and sun dictated homes with weathered shingles, heavy shutters, pitched roofs and deep porches.
Later, this movement spread across the country as a result of modern Americans vacationing near water and their desire to bring that experience back when returning to their land-locked lives.
Seaside Simplicity embraces any water – oceans, lakes, rivers, ponds, bayous – and it has architectural and cultural interpretations across the country.
It’s even inspired by storybook cottages by the sea and by the beach huts of tropical islands. Seaside Simplicity is a flexible and adaptable style; it can take the experience of living near water and create it throughout your home or in a single room. And what is that experience?
It’s oceans apart from formal, orderly and structured. It’s fresh, airy and clean – like a sea breeze off the bay.
It’s open, bright and cheery – imagine rooms without walls; veranda, deck and patio living where the sun is your constant houseguest.
Seaside Simplicity is a light, easy-going lifestyle, think Tommy Bahama.
It uses natural and unique textures to embrace living that’s casual and elegant (Shabby Chic), simple and tranquil.
Your Seaside Simplicity home is playful and uncomplicated, featuring understated architectural details and numerous windows and glass doors.
Inside, there is wave after wave of glass tiles and sleek ceramics.
Colors take their cue from beaches and landscapes: soft pastels, citrus hues, blues, greens and whitewash tones.
In your Seaside Simplicity bathrooms, fixtures are bright white with satin nickel accents, and the tile is also white, showing glass tile accents.
Bathroom countertops are awash in light colored Corian and the vanity has the look of painted furniture.
This is the Seaside Simplicity lifestyle. Your way of living.
The Stately Elegance Style
If your sense of style can be described as orderly, conservative and formal, if you’re attracted to things timeless, classic and sophisticated, welcome home.
Welcome to the Stately Elegance lifestyle.
Its roots lie in the stately elegance and historic character of the Tudor, Georgian and Colonial homes of the 18th and 19th century.
Homes of luxury and refinement, where style and substance are passed down from generation to generation.
These are residences of grand simplicity, subtle glamour and inviting warmth, with rooms that are formal and functional, elegant and entertaining, timeless and tasteful.
Among the most popular Stately Elegance variations are French Country and Colonial Revival. French Country celebrates the casual with colors of blue and yellow grounded by warm earth tones.
It mixes old with new, vintage fabric, textured rattan chairs, pine wood tables and wrought iron accessories.
Colonial Revival hails from 18th century England and dominates the designs of American furniture. Its hallmarks are the classic Chippendale chair, cherry wood 4-poster bed and an exquisitely carved dining room table.
Regardless of which variation of Stately Elegance that is reflected in you, decorating and design emphasizes order and symmetry.
Your rooms express balance: two family heirloom vases, one on each end of a crisp white mantel; two over-stuffed armchairs flanking a fireplace.
Your Stately Elegance home showcases areas of warm, inviting wood flooring and a mix of antique furniture, quality reproduction art and sentimental family collections enhance rooms.
Your home’s palette is stately and regal: deep reds and vibrant blues comfort and complement; rich golds and royal purples color your world.
In your Stately Elegance kitchen, dark cherry cabinetry, with traditional door style, is a key ingredient. Solid, enduring granite is the recipe for countertops, and the tile is marble — stately yet subtle.
This is the Stately Elegance lifestyle. Your way of living.
The Urban Chic Style
Clutter, conformity and the complicated have no place in your home. Low tech, high maintenance and the middle ground aren’t for you.
Knickknacks are a no-no, less is more, and form faithfully follows function.
Your lifestyle is Urban Chic.
It originated in the Bauhaus art movement of the 1920’s and has been called Contemporary.
Its heritage can also be traced to the 1930’s German and Scandinavian design schools. Urban Chic treats spaces almost as pieces of three-dimensional art, balancing form, shape, color and texture – texture from rough and smooth to glossy and matte.
The spaces are highly functional and well organized with lots of storage to eliminate clutter, celebrate order and meet the demands of your modern life.
Surfaces are simple, colors are clean and pure, shapes are geometric with immaculate detail. The look is linear, pared down and polished.
Your Urban Chic furnishings are sleek and strong but uncomplicated in shape, allowing them to mix effortlessly with other styles of furniture.
It all has the effect of creating a home that is cool and contemporary, urban and fresh, sophisticated and streamlined.
A recent interpretation of this style is a movement called Loft Living. These are homes of modern architectural shape featuring vaulting ceilings, open, spacious floor plans and a multitude of high, wide windows.
The look is a unique combination of industrial masculinity and refined elegance.
Art Deco, the marriage of art and industry, is another variation of Urban Chic.
Introduced in 1925, this style created geometric and asymmetric furnishings of beautiful, organic simplicity. A dining table with chrome base and glass top was a classic example.
Variations aside, the classic products for your Urban Chic home include stunning glass mosaic tiles, the widespread application of stainless steel and natural complements like honed limestone.
Your colors are serene and seductive; creative combinations of black and white, mahogany browns and stainless steel.
In your kitchen, slab door style cabinetry in dark walnut with euro rail hardware is the perfect answer. And granite countertops — in black of course — are the ideal complement.
This is the Urban Chic lifestyle. Your way of living.