Koto Designs

Flat lay: warm, rich and earthy palette.

With blackbutt timber flooring, muted green upholstery, and soft neutral linens, this scheme leans on materiality as much as colour.

The variation in texture does most of the work here. The timber adds richness, the stone keeps things grounded, and the linen brings a casual softness.

Together, it creates a sense of balance in both tone and feel, so the space ends up calm, practical, and comfortable to live in.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.

Styling wasn’t something I was directly taught as a standalone subject in design school, but many of the principles that inform it were there from the beginning.

Things like proportion, balance, rhythm, contrast, composition, and how elements relate within a space still shape how I approach the final layer of a room now.

It’s part of why I don’t think of styling as separate from design. It may sit later in the process, but it still depends on the thinking underneath it.

If you’d like to book an initial design consultation, you can submit an enquiry through my website.