How to get the look of Barcelona’s architecture in your home

Earlier in the year Chauncey Zalkin, founder and creator of What Women Make, savored the delights of the Milan Furniture Fair. She told mydeco readers all about the triangle trend she spotted and her favorite design discoveries – from bath tubs in a field to tornadoes in a vase. Today she shares her pictures of the Gothic and modern architecture in her own city, Barcelona, and how you can recreate the look stateside.

This is the view from Chauncey’s window – the architecture typical in Barcelona, with round windows, splashes of color and black wrought iron window balconies. These are small but add character and really open up the rooms when the shutters are drawn:

Image credit: Chauncey Zalkin

mydeco’s free 3D room planner now lets you add circular windows to rooms and to floor plans you upload. New mydeco community member kamo29 created a red and mono 3D living room just two days ago and used a circular window to emphasise the room’s focal point of the statement red sofa.

Image credit: kamo29

Second to Paris, Barcelona is famous for its touches of Gothic architecture, as seen in the black wrought iron railings above, and in the ornate mesh ironwork around these street lamps on Calle Ferran, Barcelona.

Image credit: Chauncey Zalkin

Get the look in your home with this funky Nook Chair by the Australian designer Henry Sgourakis. On mydeco.com you can use the image clipper tool to ‘clip’ images like this from any website and store them on your mydeco profile for inspiration.

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This more contemporary wall belongs to an architect’s studio in Barrio Gotico, Barcelona. The olive green paint, abstract shapes and graffiti-esque effect injects some quirkiness (characteristic of this young Spanish city) onto the building and draws upon the foliage in the surrounding window bays.

Image credit: Chauncey Zalkin

Get the look on mydeco with contemporary designer Jonathan Adler. He often uses abstract shapes, symmetrical and/or geometric patterns and contrasting, vibrant colors that will transform a neutral room in an instant.

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mydeco’s moodboard tool is quick and easy to use (this one literally took me two minutes to create) and will keep your favorite products and styles in one place. Take a look at other Jonathan Adler-inspired moodboards created by the mydeco community.

If you feel inspired by this blog, let us know with a comment below! Or simply start shopping our huge range of products to get the Barcelona look!