The interior design of your home should reflect the character of the 'exterior design'. A French, English or Italian style home should have the period style moldings and other decorative design details inside to complement the facade treatment. Proportions of interior arches, ceiling treatments, stairways, paneling, etc. should be as carefully designed as like aspects of the exterior. Architecture is important, whether interior or exterior and should maintain a stylistic integrity.
Those Design For Manufacture £60,000 homes look all well and good - but isn't that partly down to the way they've been kitted out? And what if the interior design departments have spent another £100,000 furnishing them? Over at The Move Channel, interior design company Roomservice gets a little well-earned publicity for furnishing a two-bedroom home from the floor up for just £6,000.
And the results look great in just the kind of contemporary-inoffensive way that makes me think developers and landlords are going to be paying very close attention.