MyChoice Design Studio Six Styles

Kate

28/03/2022

When you build with McDonald Jones, you have access to the inspiring MyChoice Design Studio, a space that offers a modern and interactive experience to complete selections and create the home of their dreams.

Our dedicated team of fully qualified Interior Design Consultants in the Studio will support and guide you through every step of the way. To assist you, our team have created a simplified approach to selections with a defined approach to style identification, interior design styles, the overall look and feel of a home.

The six MyChoice Design Studio styles, each with four substyles, allow you to easily identify your unique personal style, embracing your lifestyles and a palette that truly reflects your personality and passions.

Defining personal style, with the assistance of our team, will ensure that you can enjoy the selections process and not be overwhelmed by the hundreds of leading products offered in the MyChoice Design Studio.

Let’s explore the six MyChoice Styles in detail, including their substyles.

Coastal

Coastal is a design style used in both Classic and Contempo homes and is identifiable by its perfectly relaxed, unassuming style, paying homage to its natural environment.

Coastal style draws upon a natural palette inspired by the water, sand, shells and local vegetation. Creating a light and breezy home accented with natural, sometimes weathered materials creates an effortless, calm atmosphere in any home.

Coastal substyles

The four substyles of Coastal are: Beach House, Bahamas, Modern Coastal & American Beach House

Beach House

The Beach House style evokes a light, airy feel, just like the vibe you would get whilst enjoying a beachside holiday. Expansive window and glass use throughout every room is important as is the connection to weathered timber, cladding and natural flooring.

Explore this style in the San Marino on display at Moonee Beach

Coastal Beach House Alfresco Outdoor Living space beautifull styled with a crisp white and natural stone colour palette

Bahamas

Infuse a bit of beachy flair into your home with tropical style, which combines influences from various locations like Hawaii, Bali, Fiji, Thailand and French Polynesia.

Explore this style in the Miami on display at HomeWorld Thornton

Coastal Bahamas styled Master Suite with timber, rattan and wicker furniture with stacker doors for airy and lightfilled spaces.

Modern Coastal

Living a Modern Coastal style means connecting with or being surrounded by some of the most beautiful natural environments which evoke calmness and coolness.

Glass is a major part of a modern coastal look, even if you don’t have the luxury of looking at the ocean there is still a connection to the outside required.

Explore this style in the Lakeside on display at Watagan Park

Modern Coastal styled Kitchen features glass louvers to create a light-filled and breezey space with a combination of open cabinerty and soft drift wood timbers and beautiful herringbone tiled splashback

American Beach House

American Beach Houses are famous for their look and thanks to stunning locations like Maine, Cape Cod, The Hamptons and Long Island this style will continue as a go-to style.

The difference between a typical beach house and the American is the palette. Even though a beach house introduces blue, the American has the traditional rich navy mixed with white or the addition of red to complete the look, which plays on the American flag colours.

Royal blue feature wall in the chevron patterned wall panelling and crisp classic white furiture with coastal paintings continuing the royal blue hue.

CONTEMPO

Exciting and appealing, the Contempo style borrows from many periods to pull together a home that reflects your unique style while remaining striking and practical. A modern look that is constantly evolving which embraces balance and functionality across your favourite elements.

Contempo substyles

The four substyles of Contempo are: Modern, Minimalist, Mid-Century Modern & Scandi

Modern

The focus of modern homes is simplicity. This style has the base principles of the overarching Contempo syle. This style suits many people as it has an on-trend element but also can mix furniture items from different modern eras as this is most people’s comfort zone.

Explore this style in the Miami 16 on display Sovereign Hills

Contempo Modern styling creates a chic dining and living space with dramatic feature lighting, uncluttered surfaces with modern furtiture design against the monochrome palette.

Minimalist

Minimalist homes are free of any clutter, they only contain key pieces of furniture that are essential for functional living. Minimalist interiors have a focus on simplicity, essentially the dream of any Marie Kondo fan. Rooms are generally monochromatic, usually featuring muted neutrals, soft greys and whites.

Explore this style in the Havana Encore on display HomeWorld Marsden Park

Contempo Minimalist style creates an easy welcoming home with a focus on high functionality and effortless living.

Mid-Century Modern

Mid-century-modern design is still popular today for many reasons. Its characteristics make it a perfect fit for today's contemporary, modern and eclectic home décor styles. With its clean lines and cool vibe, mid-century has continued to rise and its connection to minimalism and the incorporation of natural materials is a core feature that fuels its following. It’s the perfect style for a casual lifestyle in open floor plans.

Explore this style in the Botanica on display at Watagan Park

Contempo Mid Century Modern Living is all about open spaces, classic mod lines in furniture and accessories and vivid colours of the 70s era

Scandi

Scandinavian design is about combining beauty, simplicity and functionality. The harsh climates of northern Europe, particularly in the winters, had long influenced the Scandinavian people to take pride in practicality, far above decoration, and simplicity would follow naturally as part of that equation.

Explore this style in the Lucia on display at Huntlee

Contempo scandi styled open plan living is all about making the every day easy and light.

CLASSIC

Classic styling brings to life elegance, symmetry, and balance. This style includes a beautiful neutral palette that honours traditional architecture but always maintains a warm, welcoming, and homely environment.

Classic substyles

The four substyles of Classic are: Country, Hamptons, Plantation, Vintage.

Country

Country style is dedicated to relaxation and complete comfort with a calmness that feels at home away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

Country home design involves either a muted palette or a nod to traditional colour schemes like black or navy and white. Classic cabinetry and use of timber throughout flooring and panelling are essential, beautifully accented by vintage accessories throughout the home.

Explore this style in the Esperance at Wallis Creek Virtual Tour

Classic Country style celebrates natural, hardy and functional materials and enhances usable space to prepare and entertain.

Hamptons

Hamptons style is defined by classic and sophisticated design that meets casually beautiful beach house styling. Chic blues, off-whites, panelled walls and timber flooring are some of the ways you can recreate your house into a resort-like home.

Explore Hamptons style in the Panorama on display at Waterford Living

Classic Hamptons styling creates a comfortable and beautifully stylish classic home with coastal influences.

Plantation

Plantation interiors contain a combination of Spanish and Colonial architectural elements made popular in the antebellum South. Common features include high ceilings, French doors and detailed skirting and architraves. The entrances of plantation homes are grand and these homes are designed to create a sense of space and light.

Explore this style in the St Clair at HomeWorld Marsden Park

Classic Plantation styled homes are dramatic and use striking fixtures to enhance the livability of the home such as these beautiful dark mocha plantation shtters and teh feature ceiling fan.

Vintage

Vintage interior design is old fashioned and elegant. It involves the use of old or artificially aged furniture and decor. Generally, vintage encompasses an age of older than 30 and younger than 60 years and features natural materials; wood, stone and forged elements plus natural fabrics.

LUXE STYLE

The Luxe style is a rich, modern take on luxurious classic design, styling and architecture. Combining timeless classics with the most beautiful materials and sophisticated detailing, it’s a style that exudes glamour and allure.

Luxe substyles

The four substyles of Luxe are: Glamour, Parisian, Modern Luxe & Art Deco

Glamour

Striking neutrals, brilliant metallics, accent colours and elegant fabrics create this enchanting style. Think 'Old Hollywood', featuring brass or metallic furnishings and accessories, tufted and mirrored furniture are also important features of a glamorous home.

Explore the Luxe Glamour style in more detail at the Monte Carlo from HomeWorld Thornton

Luxe Glamour styling showcases brilliant metallics, glass, mirrored furniture and elegant fabrics and accent colours like the crimson sofa in this home theatre.

Parisian

French or Parisian interiors are just as much about design as they are lifestyle. They appear so effortless, but only because they are built to accommodate the way you move through the room. There should be creative storage throughout to make daily life a breeze and the design itself is far from relaxed but gives such a sense of effortless, luxury living.

Explore Luxe Parisian styling in the Cranbourne on display at Googong

Luxe Parisian styling is centred on a combination of effortless elegance and highly functional spaces and furniture, often featuring a monochrome palette such as this striking home, The Cranbourne on display at Googong.

Modern Luxe

Modern Luxe interiors feature a charming mix of traditional and modern styles. You’ll typically see flowing curves and lines on everything from chairs and couches to tables and sinks. Cabinets, however, have smooth, flat surfaces with little to no hardware, think sleek and sophisticated with a focus on high-quality stone finishes and feature flooring.

Explore Modern Luxe styling in the St Clair on display at Willowdale II

Modern Luxe styling offers an effortlessly curated home featuring high-quality surfaces like the herringbone flooring and Caesarstone island bench in this beautiful home

Art Deco

Inspired by French art and design from the 1920s this dramatic design aesthetic was introduced in the 1920s shortly after WWI, as the country was emerging from the flowery Art Nouveau style and transitioning into a sleeker cosmopolitan look featuring hard-edged, richly embellished designs and metal accents.

GLOBAL

The Global style is all about reflecting a deep love for global adventure. Rooted in admiration for the world’s many diverse cultures, it is a beautiful and artful blend of worldly finds, earthy materials and colours with exotic patterns.

Global style is the perfect mix of all different elements from around the world. This style suits people who love to travel and collect items from different adventures or have items that have been passed down through the generations.

Global substyles

The four substyles of Global are: Bohemian, Eclectic, Fusion & Zen

Bohemian

Bohemian-style homes are equipped with a laid-back atmosphere and place an emphasis on nature and intricate patterns. There are two versions –the neutral base one which is the mix of white, light neutrals and texture in the way of furniture and light fittings and then the version that introduces bright colors like purples, reds and pinks as the accents.

Explore the Global Bohemian style at the Santa Monica on display at Wongawillli

Global bohemian styling features numerous natural colours and materials creating a comforty and casual home such as this beautiful open plan Santa Monica on display at Wongawilli.

Eclectic

An Eclectic home design embraces numerous styles such as modern, vintage and bohemian.

A variety of materials and textures are also mixed and matched and eclectic interiors are often filled with various décor items, like vintage dinnerware, flower vases, etc. The key to an eclectic home is all about drawing on different textures, colours and styles for a unique environment that perfectly reflects your personality.

Fusion

Fusion is all about taking the wonders of design from some of the most exotic places like the Middle East and India and then applying a slightly modern take to suit the Australian way of life.

These countries' interiors boast exotic rich colours and textures. The use of rich wall colours combined with metallic feature accents and leather or pattern detailed fabrics are the perfect choices. Furniture is typically handcrafted and ornately carved and slightly rustic in appearance.

Zen

In Japanese, Zen refers to Buddhist meditation, so it’s key that Zen-style interiors have an emphasis on tranquillity, harmony and relaxation.

Balance, function and simplicity are essential in zen styling as is the limited colour palette often featuring black, white and a hint of orange or red across the lucky colour palette.

Explore the Global Zen / Contempo styled home at the San Marino At HomeWorld Warnervale

Global Zen styling features exostic rich colours with metallic features and patterned fabrcics and furnishings with a strong open air design aesthetic to create a tranquil home.

URBAN

The Urban style is all about raw, natural materials using a range of textures and tones. This strong style is brought to life through inspiration drawn from the natural environment.

Think timber, concrete, steel and stone, brick and brass making this style is perfect for people who want an edgy, architectural style.

Urban substyles

The four substyles of Urban are: Organic, Rustic, Industrial and South-Western.

Organic

Organic homes feature a relaxed style brought forth by a neutral colour palette, warm woods and natural shapes. Simplicity should be the guide to this style and the focus is to open the space and have seamless transitions from one space to the next.

Explore Urban Organic styling in the Seaview on display at Waterford Living

Urban Organic homes feature a neutral colour palette and high use of natural materials with a focus on simplicity.

Rustic

Rustic interiors have a sense of connection to the past that’s hard to resist. They feel honest and unstudied and evoke feelings of a simpler time. Rustic style is bold, aged and a little distressed allowing an emphasis on a casual, no-fuss approach to living.

Industrial

Industrial interiors give off a cool, practical and modern vibe featuring metals and materials with exposed imperfections. This style blends new and re-purposed items for a unique combination of modern and vintage for great individuality.

Explore Urban Industrial styling in the Sevilla on display at HomeWorld Marsden Park

Urban Industrial styling is highly practical use of metals and materials with exposed imperfections and

South Western

The Southwestern style is influenced by a desert palette, featuring native Spanish and American Indian textiles, ironwork and materials relevant to these cultures and their natural, living environments.

Explore Urban South-Wester styling in the Havana Enccore on display at Housing World Nowra

Urban south western style features a dersert paletter featuring native textiles, ironwork and materials relevant to American Indian and Spanish culture

With a world of options, the MyChoice Design Studio team look forward to working with you to define your personal style and create the home of your dreams.

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