Style and Substance, how to choose both in your home...

When furnishing your home it's easy to get caught up in the age old adage of Style or Substance. Whether to design your home around function, or to ensure that it's a beautiful, if not necessarily practical place to live.

At Casa Bella, we believe that it's possible to attain both Style, and Substance, by being smart with the fundamentals of your home, and using the right pieces, in the right places to get the most efficient home possible.

To start with, it's often the case that we worry about storage. Often forgetting that the right storage units don't have to affront us with their presence. When selected correctly, they'll always enhance the mood of a room.

For instance, the Scandinavian ranges, with their poised legs, appear to float above the floor. They delicately hold your belongings above the ground. An added positive being offering you access to the floorspace below so that you can ensure your room is clean, and open.

It's about being smart with your art...

In addition, these large surface tops found on sideboards and chests of drawers provided you with the perfect display area. Somewhere to layer the aesthetics of your style. From ornaments to family photos, it's a useful, accessible height.

It sounds like an easy decision to make, whether to prioritise aesthetics or fundamentals. However it's far easier to prioritise furniture that's easy on the eye. Rather than furniture which is offering more substance to your home.

That's the secret to Scandi furniture success, it's realising that before thinking about looks, it has to be practical, why buy a chair you'll never sit on? Eventually you'll come to regret allocating so much space to something with such a singular purpose.

This is perhaps telling in how our Scandi ranges, particularly the Oslo range, has soared in popularity in the last couple of years. People have realised that before being overcome by aesthetics and style, they need to have confidence in substance and practicality.