Let’s take a look at how interior designer Peti Lau gave this midcentury home a brand new look by mixing influences, patterns, colors, and modern rugs.
Coming from a line of creatives and designers, as this home’s previous owners, this house was sure to evoke an emotional awakening to the creative couple, Maisie Culver and David Imai.
Even though they loved the house and were completely charmed by its uniqueness, they felt it needed a breath of fresh air to bring it back to its prime, and so they called interior designer Peti Lau to aid them in this project.
By using modern rugs such as the one we saw, as well as other elements, Lau managed to combine clean lines with color and create a contrast with a few callbacks to the Hollywood Regency style.
Modern rugs usually don’t use very vibrant colors, which makes them perfect for a project that requires softer, more cream color palettes.
The lines in the rug also make for a good contrast when compared with the oval shape of the sofa and some of the other elements in the room, like the round lamps, the record player, and even some of the shapes present in the painting.
Most of the modern rugs we’ll see throughout this project use relatively simple shapes and colors, since their purpose isn’t to really be the focus of the project, but to contrast with the aesthetic of the room and create dynamism.
Peti uses the color tones and lines to her advantage, maintaining the overall classic, creative aesthetic that this house always had, while simultaneously adding a much more modern and up-to-date look to this living room.
Moving on to the dining room, the tone is darker than the rest of the rooms, which meant Peti had to use a much different method in order to maintain this house’s appeal and achieve the couple’s initial vision for this home.
In this room, unlike the other modern rugs Peti used before, the patterns are much more uneven and unpredictable; however, they also make us reminisce about animal patterns, which perfectly match the more nature-focused aesthetic of this room.
Peti’s early career was spent in Thailand, Mauritius, Europe, and New York, and she thanks this phenomenal international background for making her able to make much more vivacious aesthetics for her projects through the usage of many unique elements, such as wallpapers, modern rugs, and colors.
“Peti is a very brave designer, fearless in terms of mixing influences, patterns and colors in compositions that create amazing experiences.”
David Imai
The primary bedroom is a great example of how incredible Peti is at perfectly blending comfort, relaxation, and design in a single room, all while going beyond her client’s original expectations.
The colors and the wallpaper make this room feel like an extension of the garden outside, and not a room in of itself, which makes the use of modern rugs here more of an element to bring you back down to earth, albeit not in a sudden and brutesque way, but more like a smooth, polite reminder.
The room has a high presence of different geometrical shapes, namely in the glass panels and the blankets that lie above the bed, yet it also features a wallpaper that once again reminds one of nature and its beauty.
Like the other modern rugs we have seen so far, this rug’s main goal isn’t to be the focus of our attention, but rather, to create contrast and add personality to the room, using its light cream colors as well as geometric shapes that remind us of the glass panels.
This entry foyer, although it also includes a botanical wallpaper that once again reminds us of nature, is mainly focused on keeping the house’s classic, educated roots in touch with modern times by combining classical furniture with modern elements, such as the flooring and the vase.
The modern rugs we see in this picture differ immensely from one another, since the one in the entry foyer is there to maintain a modern touch to the piano, to make sure the room doesn’t seem too old-fashioned, unlike the one in the dining room.
After her work was done with this project, the house looked like something that the clients had envisioned: Something new and exciting, that still maintained the very things that made it unique in the first place.
Peti Lau showed us in this project that it is entirely possible to balance classical and modern elements, and that a makeover can be something fun and refreshing for even a house as old as this one.
If you felt touched and inspired by Peti Lau’s masterful use of modern rugs in interior design, consider exploring our collection at Tapis Studio in order to enhance your next project.
Source: Luxe
Photography by Roger Davies
