Interior Design

How to Design Your Entire Home Like a Slytherin

Embracing Green, Silver, and Magic

Andrea Lawrence
Wine & Home
Published in
7 min readNov 23, 2024

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A living room with green walls and a couch with a variety of pillows in emerald green, silver, white, and gray. The room looks cozy.
The Slytherin look is sophisticated, plays to a serious color palette, and has an edge of fantasy to it. | Source: Devon Janse van Rensburg, Pexels

Dim and Secretive

The Slytherin aesthetic embraces the color green, opts for dim lighting, utilizes grandiose Gothic themes, and includes accents with snakes. Slytherins are often seen as villains, but they’re really just powerful, cunning, and rebellious wizards. They don’t always play to the dark side, yet for whatever reason, they’re often drawn to nefarious deeds. They find forbidden magic intriguing.

When replicating the Slytherin look, it’s wise to consider castle dungeons and lavish basements. The Hogwarts house has preferences for the dim and damp; there should be water elements included in your home, from fountains to aquariums.

Slytherins are based on the water signs in Western astrology. This includes Cancer, Scorpio, and Pisces. The sign that is most used in the template for Slytherin is Scorpio, which is considered a powerful zodiac and carries the following symbols: the snake, the scorpion, and the Phoenix (or eagle).

A gothic style room with high ceilings and a rectangular window. The room is mostly in wood. There are intricate designs on the walls.
Look to “haunted mansions” for inspiration when it comes to designing a house based around Slytherins. | Source: Andreea Ch, Pexels

Look to Haunted Mansions

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Andrea Lawrence
Andrea Lawrence

Written by Andrea Lawrence

Poet, creative writer, loves a bit of satire, food and wine journalist, relationship writer, interior design maven, Midwestern background.

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