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1. Upload your photo
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2. Select style and room type
Choose your design theme and confirm the room type. Add any specific details or requirements in the optional text field.
3. Download your designs
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Transitional design principles
Transitional interior design sits in the productive tension between traditional warmth and contemporary clarity. It avoids the formality of classical interiors while retaining their sense of permanence, and avoids the austerity of modern design while adopting its clean geometry and functional approach. The result is rooms that feel neither dated nor aggressively current — permanently liveable rather than momentarily fashionable.
Pair traditional forms with contemporary finishes
Transitional design often places a traditionally-shaped sofa — with rolled arms, turned legs, or a classic Chesterfield profile — in a material that reads as current: performance linen, a muted geometric fabric, or a solid mid-tone neutral. The tension between familiar form and updated finish is the source of the style's appeal. The same principle applies to case furniture, lighting, and architectural elements.
Use a neutral palette with subtle warmth
Transitional interiors avoid both the cool greys of contemporary design and the warm creams of traditional interiors. The sweet spot is a slightly warm neutral — greige, warm white, taupe, soft stone — that reads as neither strictly modern nor period. Introduce depth through texture and tone variation rather than colour contrast. Wood tones should be medium rather than very pale (Scandi) or very dark (traditional).
Mix antique or vintage pieces with new ones deliberately
The most convincing transitional rooms contain at least one piece with genuine age alongside contemporary items. An antique mirror above a modern console, a traditional painting in a slim metal frame, or a vintage rug under a clean-lined sofa all create the temporal layering that distinguishes transitional from either pure contemporary or period design. The key is that each piece should be genuinely well-designed, not just old.
Keep architectural detail moderate
Transitional design uses mouldings, cornices, and panelling where they exist but doesn't add elaborate period detail to contemporary spaces. Simple panel moulding on a door, a restrained cornice, or a classic skirting board profile is enough architectural reference. Avoid reproduced ornate period detailing — it pushes the room into traditional territory — and avoid stripping all detail — it tips it into pure contemporary.
Sunroom design considerations
A sunroom occupies an unusual position in a home — partly interior, partly exterior, designed to maximise natural light and connection to the garden while remaining sheltered from weather. Its design brief is distinct from any other room: the architecture and glazing do most of the work, and the interior furnishing must respond to those conditions — intense light, temperature variation, and visual connection to the outside — rather than fight them.
Choose materials that tolerate direct sunlight and heat
A south-facing sunroom can reach very high temperatures in summer and suffer significant UV exposure year-round. Many materials that perform well in shaded interior rooms fade, warp, or deteriorate under these conditions. Choose UV-stable fabrics — solution-dyed acrylic outdoor fabrics perform exceptionally well — and avoid dark upholstery that will absorb heat uncomfortably. Solid hardwood furniture may develop stress cracks in rooms with significant temperature and humidity fluctuation; engineered pieces or materials designed for outdoor use will outlast them.
Design for glare management alongside light maximisation
The same glazing that makes a sunroom bright and pleasant in winter can create uncomfortable glare and heat in summer. Cellular blinds or roller blinds with heat-reflective backing can be fitted within the roof glazing to reduce solar gain without eliminating daylight. Planting outside the glazed walls — deciduous climbers that provide shade in summer and admit light after leaf-fall in winter — is an elegant and effective long-term solution.
Connect the flooring to the outdoor space visually
One of the most effective design moves in a sunroom is to use a flooring material that bridges indoors and outdoors — large-format porcelain tile that continues as paving outside, or natural stone used inside and on an adjacent terrace. This visual continuity makes the garden feel like an extension of the interior rather than a separate space, which is precisely the quality that makes sunrooms valuable as living spaces.