Interior designer Rebecca Jansma has drawn on runway fashion influences as the inspiration for a striking new bedroom furniture collaboration.
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Runway fashion trends have inspired Geelong-based interior designer Rebecca Jansma’s latest project, resulting in a striking new bedhead design that offers style and versatility.
Rebecca has teamed up with Heatherly Design, creators of custom beds and bedroom furniture, to bring the runway into the realm of interior decor.
Rebecca has been an interior designer for 14 years, a far cry from her previous careers as a medical scientist in haematology and in mining laboratories on Tasmania’s west coast. She’d always loved interior design and helping friends and family with styling until it dawned on her that she could turn it into a career.
“I just love it. Every day I’m learning something new, from the trades that I work with to the suppliers. Everybody brings something new to the table,” Rebecca says.
“It’s a constantly evolving field, nothing stays the same. There’s always some new innovation or new material or way of thinking.
“Now sustainability and environmental considerations drive so much of what we do and the way we look at design and the built environment, that’s really important to me.”
Rebecca loves that no two days are the same as an interior designer. Picture: supplied
Rebecca doesn’t prescribe to any particular trends or styles; her work goes far beyond that.
“I think as designers we tap into a Zeitgeist and that’s something that you can’t even articulate but it’s a general feeling,” she says.
“I think trends aren’t just colour-based or style-based, I think they come from a very, very deep place within our psyche.”
Rebecca says while it can be a fragile industry, she knows the value that her expertise can bring to a project.
“Ideally we get involved at the start of a project and we’re integral in the design decision-making and spatial design to ensure that the flow is what you want in the house and you’ve got plenty of storage and the materials are functional,” she says.
Rebecca has been collaborating with Heatherly Design founder and director
Georgie Leckey since she started her business. Georgie asked Rebecca early this year to turn one of Heatherly’s existing bed designs on its head.
“Their range is quite broad and it broadens every year in the offering and they have a great range of fabrics,” Rebecca says.
“Georgie now knows the sort of things that I like and she trusts that that’s going to work and I trust that she can execute it.
“It’s a testament to the strength of that business that it has grown and lasted for as long in this industry that it has.”
Whenever Rebecca looks at “doing something completely off the wall” she always looks to fashion. Her theory is that interiors follow fashion.
It was fashion company Erdem’s striking AW24 Ready-to-Wear collection where Rebecca found her inspiration.
The Louis bedhead features a houndstooth pattern and fringe detail. It was inspired by Erderm’s AW24 Ready-to-Wear collection. Photo: Naomi Finlay
She treated Heatherly’s Louis bedhead design to a fashion makeover and it’s now upholstered in houndstooth herald foliage fabric and trimmed in chic fringe detail.
“I found this beautiful houndstooth and it had an over-painted floral motif. It was a classic black and white houndstooth and it had this yellowy, floral pattern painted over the top of it. I thought this would be fabulous on a bed,” Rebecca says.
“The bed is quite simple and then once you come closer and zoom in on it you see all this incredible detail. The houndstooth is a smaller houndstooth, it’s not a large houndstooth and then the fringe is just completely exuberant and ridiculous.
“It’s so tactile and you can’t stop running your hand over the fringing.
“It’s got this sort of seriousness because a houndstooth is a serious pattern and then it’s got this whimsy around the edge of it.”
The design is made to order in a range of colours.
Heatherly Design’s Georgie Leckey says Rebecca’s design is playful, fashionable and classic. Picture: supplied
Georgie says that Rebecca’s love of combining unexpected elements was an ideal fit to collaborate on the latest interpretation of her beloved Louis bedhead.
“She’s given it a playful, fashion edge with the generous fringe detail, but grounded it in a classic houndstooth that will suit most bedrooms year round,” Georgie adds.
Rebecca is excited to see her design come to life and represent fashion trends in bedroom design.
And she’s not afraid to break the rules – all the rules. She subscribes to the theory that you have to know the rules so that you can then break them.
Rebecca feels lucky to have found a job she loves and one that challenges her in all the best ways.
“I love that it engages the left and the right side of my brain. It’s very technical this business but it’s also very creative,” she says.
“It’s that beautiful nexus between the creative and the pragmatic which I think has always appealed to me in every job I’ve done. No two days are the same.
“If you’re not 100 per cent passionate about what you do, find what you are passionate about and life becomes a lot easier.”
Visit rebeccajansma.com.au and heatherlydesign.com.au
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