Welcome to Episode 4 of Story Design School- an interior design series where each episode decodes one design topic through curated Instagram videos. Every episode comes with all links compiled in a blog post like this one- easy to save and watch at your convenience.
In this episode, we will talk about a topic within the science of interior design beyond the art of design; Scale, Proportion and the golden ratio.
Like picking preferred interior style and creating Pinterest board is not enough, because you can have all the right pieces aesthetically but if they are in the wrong scale and proportion, it is not going to feel right.
So these videos curated below offer bite-sized lessons from experienced design professionals on how to apply scale and proportion in your home or project. Be sure to save this post for later- that’s how you build your design skills over time.
Scale and Proportion is designing in relation to human use
Proportion is not visible until it is wrong
Case Study to understand Scale and Proportion in practice
The Golden ratio is a practical solution to figuring the right scale and proportion
The golden ratio applied to a real life example for getting scale right
A real life example of the golden ratio applied to a sofa in proportion to the coffee table
So in conclusion, Scale refers to ensuring that furniture and interior items are appropriate to size of room (small rug for small room vs big rug for big rug, small wall art for small room vs big wall art for big wall). While Proportion is ensuring furniture or interior items that are placed together are appropriate in size (following the golden ratio rule; one item should be two third smaller or bigger than the other depending on the situation).
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