Sevens: Create An Exotic Balinese Style Home

With exotic palm trees, pristine landscapes, ocean breezes and tropical living comes a unique interior style that simply can’t be matched… This is Bali Style, bringing a lavish, exotic ambience to any interior.

Get the look and create your own exotic Bali-style retreat with these top tips and quality picks from Sevens…

Embrace the outdoors

Island life is all about the beautiful balance between nature and the indoors. As such, start by embracing the outdoors and pulling from nature to create your own organic interior retreat. Furthermore, Bali is a place of exotic charm, wild greenery, tropical foliage and rich flora. This vibrancy is balanced with the calming yet elegant impact of pieces crafted also from nature — woods and bamboos and very earthy ceramics. It’s a delicate balance of all of the above – into a space that feels carefree yet sublime.

Keep it simple

The key to Bali style is not to overdo it. In fact, less is more and the aim should be to create an unpretentious living space where you can enjoy life to the full. Keep furniture and finishes minimal. Opt for muted tones and natural finishes that connect you back to nature. Natural woods and textiles bring warmth. Think rattan, jute, sisal and wicker.

Let the colour come in with accessories — framed art, cushions, rugs and beautiful throws in soft wools and lush cotton — as well as natural elements. As such, incorporate large, leafy plants and tropical flowers, whether alive or designer. Bring in solid, bright elements with gold and brass vases and sculptures. And think about your balance of spirituality — one central figure can be the heart of the whole home, or giving space in room corners, by couches and even on kitchen shelves.

Use bamboo and cane in every room. This will give your space a charming, rustic and earthy quality. One of the statements in a true Bali-style home. Furthermore, these materials are sisters and cousins and lovers in Balinese style. They are structural and decorative. Insert a neat and obvious panel of lacquered bamboo poles into a grainy cement outside wall, or plant bamboo as a “wildflower” along the whole wall for texture and padding.

Indulge in cane furniture for the kitchen and the sunroom and embrace it in accessories, from vases to framing for artwork.

You can’t go wrong with statement furniture in these trending materials. Shop an immaculate range from Sevens.