Living room with beige walls, a central sofa with yellow and patterned cushions, two white armchairs with orange cushions, a coffee table with candles and pumpkins, a tall mirror, a standing lamp, and autumn decorations, including dried pampas grass and a rug.

Eclectic Interior Design

Misunderstandings are also common when it comes to the eclectic interior design style. You’ll know you’re in an eclectic space when your eye keeps catching on things that shouldn’t work together, but somehow do. A baroque mirror over a concrete console; indigo batik pillows thrown across a leather Togo sofa; Turkish kilims under Danish chairs. But here’s the specificity: every object must be curated. The style fails when it turns into an accumulation.

Despite its reputation as a kind of aesthetic free-for-all, an eclectic interior is anything but haphazard. Where modernist design smooths everything into coherence, eclectic rooms leave the seams exposed and stack aesthetics with a point. Think this way: the reason a Victorian armchair doesn’t clash with a Bauhaus light fixture is that this style thrives on contradictions deliberately left unresolved.