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Can the rooms in a house be of different styles?

I'm doing a project for school that involves designing the floor plan of a mansion and doing interior design for the newly designed mansion. However, I'm wondering if the various rooms in the mansion can be of different styles. I'm working in the postmodernist style for the architecture. The mansion itself has a Baroque front with a more modern-style back (lots and lots of windows). For the master bedroom, I want the furniture to be Baroque. For the living room, I want it to be contemporary. So is it okay that the rooms in the mansion are based on different styles or does all the furniture design have to be Baroque-style or contemporary-styled, etc?

Public Comments

1. Nope...you can make the rooms different to suit your moods. How boring is a house with everything the same? By being different, you can go from room to room as your mood changes. So challenge yourself by being different.
2. Going from one heavy style period room to another would be very jarring, especially baroque to contemporary/post modern. Better (and what you learn in design school) is how to interpret these styles into a cohesive flow that works for all rooms and forms natural transitions. It is almost a cop out to do a completely traditional in style room--almost anyone can do an all baroque room or an all post-modern, etc. It takes real talent to work this into a unit that works overall.