Skip to content
How-To

Why I Design Around Pattern & Texture

Lindsay Hinkle May 20, 2025 6 min read
Why I Design Around Pattern & Texture

If you spend any time in our projects, you'll notice a theme: I can't resist a good tile or a characterful rug. Pattern and texture are where a room finds its personality.

I often start a scheme from a single hand-knotted rug or a run of tile, and let the palette grow outward from there. The colors are already in conversation — my job is to build the room around them.

Texture keeps a neutral space from feeling flat, and pattern gives the eye somewhere to rest and wander. Used with restraint, they read as soulful rather than busy.

It's the difference between a room that looks decorated and one that feels genuinely lived in — and the second is always the goal.

L

Lindsay Hinkle

Founder & Interior Designer

Continue reading

Begin your project

Let's create a home that guides you back to yourself

Tell us a little about you and the space you're dreaming of. We'd love to work together — and we reply to every enquiry within 48 hours.