Have you ever walked into a house you admire a lot because everything seemed to flow so coherently that you wouldn't want to take your eyes away from it? It doesn’t exactly match in its strictest sense, but the whole home looks so put together like somebody did everything in only a day or two. Surprisingly, the work that went behind the look you admired isn’t as easy as you thought. 

Like most homeowners, it’s normal even for the most made-up homes to have additions once in a while. Some areas may need a few trinkets, or you bought items from a yard sale that you think would complement your living room. Moreover, it can be a new room in your attic or an entire home renovation. Some go through major extensions, particularly once the family size grows. There’s nothing wrong with having home additions, as long as they can still flow seamlessly with your entire space.

So, how do you go with making home additions but they still appear coherent and do not look like a mix-and-match of different things and concepts? Continue reading for more ideas.

Avoid Decorating All At Once

Suppose you’ve just recently finished renovating one area of your home. No matter how you try to make the colors and the style blend with the rest of your home, it will still have visible differences because it’s new. To make it look coherent with the other older areas of your home, avoid decorating the space all at once.

Let your decorating evolve. Don’t force yourself to finish decorating the whole space in one go. You don’t even have to shop for all your décor from only one place.

Let time enable the ebb and flow of your home. When you take time to decorate, your home will look more cohesive, despite having new additions in some parts and older areas in others.

Determine Your Design Style

Avoid picking up random things you see and then putting them together in a room. The best approach to start is to determine your design style. Then, stick to that design style in all areas of your home.

For example, you tend to lean more toward the industrial look of homes. Hence, apply that throughout your home. However, you can play around with different style ideas, still within the industrial home department.

Do you have a space you’d like to convert into a sunroom? An aluminium conservatory could spruce it up. By sticking to the same design style, your home addition will jibe well with the rest of your home.

Set The Same Flooring

Even if the walls are painted or finished differently as per your design, you can still make your home addition look like the rest of your home by setting the same flooring. This one small detail can impact your home addition the most.

Having different flooring is one of the easiest giveaways to the idea that some parts of your home are new additions. It may make your home look disconnected and chaotic. When you use the same style and color for your floor, you’ll see a clear difference in how it will look significantly better.

Apart from the flooring, there are other across-the-board style decisions you should aim to implement uniformly in your entire house. These include:

• Window coverings
• Lighting styles 
• Neutral paint
• Neutral fabric colors
• Switches and door handles
• Metal finishes

Use Coordinating Frames

Another design element that makes a big difference when applied is coordinating frames. Remember where you sourced your wall frames, so you can use the same or at least coordinating styles in your entire room. You may do this even in your home addition.

This is an excellent trick to make your home look more elegant and organized. No one can tell that one area is a home addition when you’ve taken the extra effort to use coordinating frames. This also supports the tip of not decorating all at once. Take one item at a time, so you’re sure that no room ever gets left out.

Takeaway

When you have a home addition, it’s easy to get carried away with decorating that new space to look different from the rest of your home. Rather than making your home look better, this will only make your home look messy and uncoordinated. To avoid this, take note of design ideas like the ones discussed in this article. It's a lot of work to get done. However, when the result you get is a beautiful home you’ll be happy to spend your days in, then everything will be worth your efforts.