A look
Modern Peranakan
Tile prints and jewel colours, kept modern.
Peranakan colour and pattern, kept to one wall or one floor: tile prints, jewel greens and pinks, and dark wood, with plain walls around them.
Try this look in See It Home
IllustrationColours · 60 / 30 / 10
- Rice paper · 60%
- Sea glass · 30%
- Mangosteen · 10%
Our own colour families, not a paint brand's. Take the swatch to a paint shop and ask for a match.
Materials
Shapes
Belle's three rules for this look
Belle
- One pattern, on one wall or one floor, never both.
- Pick the jewel colours from the pattern itself.
- Plain walls around it, so the pattern leads.
Ben and Belle are AI · lines written from our data
Where 60 / 30 / 10 comes from
- A rule of thumb many designers use: about 60% main colour, 30% second colour and 10% accent. 1
A floor for it
Homogeneous tiles
A pale terrazzo-look tile stays quiet under the patterned wall.
See it on the floors page
Sources
- 1Apartment Therapy, The 60-30-10 rule, explained, 28 Aug 2025A rule of thumb many designers use: about 60% main colour, 30% second colour and 10% accent.