So Your Style Is: Sci-Fi Past and Future

For some, science fiction isn’t something to enjoy in books, movies, comics and video games — it is life at home sweet home. To these forward thinkers, the concepts of the future — time travel, spaceships, weird science and technology — are inspirations for rooms they inhabit in the here and now.

What it is: This is a style that makes science fiction a decorating fact. One dictionary defines “sci-fi” as “fiction based on imagined future scientific or technological advances … frequently portraying space or time travel and life on other planets.” Substitute “design” for “fiction” and there you have it.

Why it works: A lot has been written about creating a retreat at home. With this look you can’t escape any further. Besides, when you search for “science fiction books” on Amazon, you get 366,432 results; try “science fiction” in the Houzz Products section and you get2,098 items. Can this many people be wrong?

You’ll love it if … You dream of galaxies far, far away and would consider a robot the perfect roommate.

Style Secret: Technology Old and New

Whether your technology taste is more based-on-history steampunk (à la Jules Verne or H.G. Wells) or more future tech (as in Blade Runner or Iron Man), there is an accessory to express it. In the Boston home above, dubbed The Steampunk House by ModVic, clocks outfitted with fantastical tech features (check out the lightbulbs and that oversize minute hand on the timepiece in the middle) would be right at home in a Wells novel.

A similar Time Machine style lives in the Los Angeles home at left. The large industrial gears were installed by designer Thomas Filica.

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So Your Style Is: Sci-Fi Past and Future