Geek Chic style geeks out your home without making your guests feel like they need to wear a costume.
Geek Chic is my new favorite way to design spaces.
From obsessing about Victorian style to spoons to Harry Potter, there’s a way to makeover your home to include your favorite way to geek without looking like a theme park or a pre-teen bedroom.
Style and geeks can go together without losing either. Just takes some careful planning, dissection of the idea, and an editing eye to making the space feel calm without sacrificing the object of your geek love.
- Plan. Yes, you have to plan. If you geek about many different things, keep each space to one obsession. You’ll get greater enjoyment out of your spoon fixation if you use those spoons as wall art or a fun clock or a light fixture. If you add your passion for oars to the spoon area, it will start to lose its joy and fizzle out the happy.
- Dissection. Look at the logo for Superman or My Little Pony and take the colors and the style from the logo, instead of piling a bunch of Superman or My Little Pony collectibles on every surface in your living room. You’ll still get that happy feeling that your obsession gives you, without looking like a novelty shop or feeling weird to have your neighbor for coffee.
- Editing. The hardest part for a geek is to edit. What takes Geek to Geek Chic is the style part. So look at the space through the eye of a camera and see if it looks calm. Would someone who doesn’t know you, notice the Geek immediately? If yes, you’ve Geeked Out too hard. Put yourself in a friend’s shoes who don’t geek about hammers or Victorian collectibles. Would that friend hesitate to enter that space? Or does it look like a calm room where your friend could chill with a glass of wine? If the Geek part outweighs the Chic then you’ll need to turn down the volume until it’s balanced.
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