Furniture Plan Style Guide
+ danish lighting, Milan Design Week, & more
Hello and good morning to ya !
Aries season! All power rests in your hands, Yuppies.
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We're working on updating the website to be a styleguide, think art guide but for interiors… experimenting but its fun!
I added color pallette combos to the pinterest !
Lately, I’ve been building what I’m calling a visual furniture plan experiment—living room layouts, color combos, and designer pairings. See today’s how-to for more!
Bonus: I just updated my Substack recs —cute creatives, design thinkers, interiors content with a living pulse. Worth a skim. :)
Latest in Design
Ok, let’s get caught up on the scroll-worthy design talk:
🌀 Trade war vibes
The tariff era is here. How will this affect pricing?
Business of Home lays it out.
🌞 Third spaces & soft architecture
Think: light, color, openness. The new community design is warm, personal, and a little messy—in a good way.
ArchDaily breaks it down.
🍎 Nature, but make it Apple-core clean
Are phones our design influence now? Rounded corners, soft neutrals, no ceiling no walls… no notes.
👗 Fashion and interiors = same brain
An exhibition just dropped connecting fashion + interiors. Dressing and decorating are cousins.
Read it here.
🎬 Tilda in a museum, because duh
Your weekly cool-girl culture link:
Artnet's Tilda coverage.
🎀 90s interiors comeback
Because we never left: House & Garden explains.
🛋 Tech + tenderness = Alma seating
Designed using generative algorithms and CNC. Welcome to the future of cozy.
Meet Francisco Gomez Paz’s latest for Paola Lenti.
💡 Danish lighting is still elite
Mood lighting is a lifestyle. The Danes do it best.
Trend report via Vogue.
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🔍 Dig deeper into Milan Design Week
Designers, installations, and pure eye candy:
🎨 New drops + shopables
🧼 Spring = clean and shop
🏡 Artsy woman’s LA home
Obsessed with this LA editor/sculptor’s Craftsman bungalow:
See the tour.
Yuppie How-To: Build a Living Room Furniture Plan
Okay, time to sketch it out. Here’s a fun way to play with your living room furniture plan with personality.
🛋 Step 1: Pick your player (designer edition)
Choose your POV before you pick your pieces.
Madeline Castaing: Romantic, eclectic, French vintage
Billy Baldwin: Tailored, comfortable, grounded symmetry
Dorothy Draper: Dramatic, theatrical, high contrast
🎨 Step 2: Select layout
📐 Step 3: Play!
Use Pinterest, Canva, or paper + pen.
Focus on:
anchor pieces (sofa, chairs)
symmetry vs. asymmetry
balance of height, light, and softness
That’s all for now yuppies !
Tata,
xx Sam G
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