In a professional language, the combination of several traditions in one interior design is called fusion (from English fusion - mixing, merging). When we combine objects, colors and textures, only our feelings for a particular piece of furniture are taken into account. Fusion style organizes our space so that we can travel through eras and continents without leaving home.
What is the difference between fusion and eclecticism? According to professionals, eclecticism makes it possible to fill an interior with any objects, but it depersonalizes them, and fusion is a style that allows you to place anything in your home and at the same time create harmonious connections between various objects and elements. The main advantage of Fusion style is its unpredictability. The only condition is that all elements of an interior must be connected into a whole organic living space.
Fusion can’t be called an expensive interior design style. The key thing in Fusion style is a sense of proportion, and it is the most faithful ally of economy. What you will definitely have to spend money on creating the interior of your apartment in a fusion style is the leveling of floors and textured ceilings, the purchase of several types of wallpaper and paint colors that can be combined with each other.
All available types of materials are used in renovation of an apartment: natural wood, marble, bamboo, decorative stone, plastic, paper, glass, and metal.
Never pass by oriental fabrics. Inexpensive cuts can be used as bedspreads and capes; expensive ones, for example, the Uzbek embroidered Suzani, can be fastened over the headboards as a work of art. The same should be done with Chinese or Japanese embroidery. Buy or order a frame and put your find under glass, this fabric is worth it! Tip-caution: a good interior should have no mare that one or two strong exotic items!
Place your amateurish photographs on walls next to art masterpieces reproductions. This style allows you to combine paintings by old masters and drawings of your children on the same wall, a creative duet of delicate floral watercolors and brutal ceramic panels. It is possible to use the works of contemporary authors in any genres and styles: from realism to childish naivety.
If you decide to let the fresh fusion wind into your dear but boring interior, then here are a few rules that you should follow so as not to slide from a fancy design trend into merchant vulgarity with a place for seven elephants, a pot-bellied samovar, and an occasionally bought Gambs set:
Rule #1. It is better not to mix. The basic postulate of fusion: less is better than more. Things are designed to emphasize and set off each other, and not clutter up your square meters.
Rule #2 Remember the good taste. It should help you if you suddenly decide that the notorious samovar will perfectly fit into an interior of your Louis XIV style bedroom.
Rule #3: Don't fuss. The ability to combine things is comparable to meditation. Stand in the center of a room, close your eyes, and imagine what you would like to see before you act. Before anything else. Fusion is Feng Shui, not a chaotic Brownian movement of objects in space.
Rule number 4. Fusion loves courage. Dare! Is the general apartment design strict, straight-perpendicular, metallic-gleaming high-tech? And inside it is all in gilding and scarlet velvet a toilet, where instead of a drain handle there is a deer horn, tapestries on a wall and a shelf with expensive alcohol. It looks wild, but the outrageous element in this case is more likely to play into your hands - the guests will be stunned. Especially if you cover this Scarlett-O'Hare luxury with a modest dark door.
However, one shouldn’t forget that fusion obliges an interior to be light and cheerful. In no manner better, it is good for arranging not so much apartments (in our standard square meters you can’t really let yourself go), but country houses: an abundance of free space, almost physically perceptible “unbearable lightness of being”, clear colors that create a sharp, but not striking contrast (white is required) - these are the hallmarks of Fusion style.
The main task in this case is to be guided by your own sense of taste, the mood of an entire interior and internal logic between objects. No matter how incompatible objects seem to be, including paintings, in a Fusion they are all interconnected. This connection can be obvious - color harmony and closeness of color its contrast, or veiled. Behind the external chaos and incompatibility of fusion style objects lies the deep inner work of its creator.
It doesn’t hurt to repeat the main advice regarding the fusion style and, in general, all modern interiors: less seriousness and pretentiousness. The time of complete period looks has passed and, apparently, forever!
