Modern Interior Design

Modern interiors are sleek, spacious, simple, and focus on function and organization.  No clutter or chaos allowed.  Modern design uses basic geometry (simple edges, curves and angles) and clean lines in furniture, architecture and sculpture.  This style grew from the idea to build for function, to do without traditional decoration, and to embrace industrial materials like chrome, glass and concrete, which new technologies make available.

If you hate to dust around knick-knacks or polish detailed carvings, sleek modern design makes your life easier.  Less is more.  If you enjoy open space, and don’t need to fill it in with furniture and accessories, you will enjoy the openness of modern interiors.

 Modern Furniture 

Modern furniture is streamlined with polished, smooth and sleek surfaces.  Pieces are simple, uncluttered, built for economy of form, and to serve a purpose.  Furniture pieces are kept to a bare minimum.  The driving design concept is honesty: keeping structure and building material in plain view.  Sustainability is gaining importance.   More designers are reclaiming materials for use in modern design, and building from renewable resources.

 Accessories in Modern Design

Art, rather than accessories, has a firm place in modern interiors. No cute little trinkets or blankets tossed over the furniture. Rather, art pieces are carefully chosen for their unique appeal, and to serve as a focal point in a space.  Geometric-patterned or plain area rugs provide accent colors and accentuate the bold look of modern interiors.

 about Color

From its beginnings, modern designers embraced pure color — black, white, and neutrals with vibrant primary colors.  Today, color schemes still use white and neutrals, with colorful accents.  Too many different colors will overpower the balance of your modern room.  Colors enhance the overall impact of your space.  Bold contrast using reds, greens, or black, for example, can provide a visual back drop on a wall, for large pieces;  bold color can emphasize the lines of furniture pieces.