Pick an interior motive

Why design your home in one style when you contain multitudes? Here's how to make décor reflect every shade of you, drama too

- Christalle Fernandes

So, what do you imagine your dream home (or room) to be? Minimalism sounds elegant, until you realise how fun maximalism can be. Furniture from the 1950s is all retro-chic, until you realise that it's too chunky to play around with. Scandinavian design is hard to keep clean. Biophilic décor makes a mess. Coastal core is a dust trap. How to choose?

You don’t have to. Interior designers and architects Arzu Jaria, Jinesh Sanghavi and Gauri Khanna tell you how to mix styles when you have too many favs. The trick? Knowing how much is too much, and literally, how to read a room.