With so many options to choose between when it comes to your home decor, how can you make sure you are making the right one? One way is to think about what kind of overall effect you want guests to be left with, or to focus on the kind of designs that you tend to enjoy yourself. Alternatively, you might be aiming to make your property look better to potential buyers and gain more value.
All of those aims can be achieved in most cases by following the simple modern decor look. In this post, we are going to discuss some of the major key features of this type of decor, so you can get started on making it a reality in your own home. These features are simple enough to introduce, once you know how.
*This is a collaborative post.
*This is a collaborative post.Exposed Structural Elements
One of the major features of the modern decor that you will want to make use of is that of leaving structural elements of the property exposed. You don’t need to leave them all exposed, but simply making sure that one or two beams are open, for instance, can make a room immediately more modern looking, while also keeping things simple and elegant. Very often, this will also make good use of the natural materials that have gone into the property, so that is something to think about pairing up with this too.
Clear Straight Lines
A major decision in all designs is whether to use straight lines or aim for curves. The fact is, if you want a simple modern decor, you are probably going to want to use straight lines more than curves. You might not even want any curves at all, in fact, or if you do then they will be few and far between. As well as being straight, they will generally want to be horizontal or vertical, with fewer diagonal lines. However, a few of these is not going to detract from the overall look all that much. The main point is that you need clear straight lines throughout the home for the desired effect.
Natural Materials
We mentioned briefly earlier that you would generally want to have natural materials when you are exposing structural elements. In fact, this is what you should aim for across the board, including in your furniture choices too. Which natural materials to use is entirely up to you, but there are a few in particular that tend to look quite good for this kind of modern home: wood and stone being two clear favourites. Whether you represent the natural materials in wooden blinds, wood flooring, or a stone countertop, you are going to find that it really helps to bring out that natural look and feel that the modern decor depends upon so strongly.
Natural Lighting
What works better for showing up the beauty of natural materials, but natural lighting? Although you are always going to need some form of artificial light, you will probably find that you want to focus mostly on natural lighting wherever you can, as that is always going to produce the best effect. There are many great ways to get more natural lighting into your home. You can open up the design so that more light comes in, you can even make your windows larger or install skylights. Or you can simply be careful about the positioning of the rooms and the building itself if you are building a home from scratch. However, you do it, having that natural lighting is always going to help those materials shine, and make the place look beautiful.
Neutral Tones
While a lot of people are already sick of the conversations around colour, the fact is that neutral tones are still your best bet when you are hoping to have a truly beautiful modern decor look. You can choose whatever hues you like, in fact, as long as they are represented in as neutral a way as possible. Neutral goes with natural, so you can see how this might be important in this kind of decor. Make sure you don’t go overboard with any one colour either but keep things as balanced as you can throughout the home.
Open
When it comes to the actual space in the home, what kind of effect are you going to go for? Most of all, you should aim for it to be open, as that is pretty much the hallmark of a stunning and strong-looking modern decor design. The fewer the divisions and divides the better, and you should aim for most of your rooms to be big open spaces. This is going to have a way of making everyone more comfortable in the home, while also ensuring that the modern effect is achieved as you are hoping to achieve it.
Big On Functionality
Do away with all of those things that are just there for show: with the simple modern look, you are aiming for all things to have functionality above all else. As long as you can say what each thing is for, you can keep it. But if there is anything that is merely ostentatious for the sake of it, you might want to do away with it as soon as you can. Go big on functionality, and you are going to find that it really helps you out a great deal, regardless of whatever else you have achieved in your home look.
Environmentally Friendly
It’s useful to remember that no decor style is static – they all change over time, based on various whims and so on. As such, you should aim to follow the latest trends in modern decor. One of the most recent and most important of these is that modern decor homes tend to be quite environmentally friendly compared to previous versions of the same style. Try to ensure that you are keeping your home within this purview, and you should find that it helps the modern feel to really come alive.
Play With Patterns
Patterns say a lot about a design, and you need to make sure that you are choosing patterns that are going to make sense with the material and shape of the rooms as a whole. Because you are using natural materials, you will basically want to follow the patterns of nature as closely as you can. And because you have open rooms, you are more likely to find it effective to have big movements rather than smaller ones. With the patterns falling in line in this way, the overall style is going to be so much more successful, so it’s worth thinking about in detail.
Less Is More
This should be self-evident in the fact that we are aiming for a simple modern decor, but it is so important that it bears clarifying. You want to generally try and do as little as possible to your decor if you want that modern look. You don’t have to go completely minimalist, but less really is more here, so make sure that you are not overdoing it at least. That is going to result in a much more successful and convincing modern style, and it will be easier to care for too.
If you can do all that, you are going to find that your home is much more attuned to the simple modern way of being, which will, in turn, mean that you are much more likely to enjoy your home for what it is. Be sure not to overlook any of these points.
*Disclaimer – This is a collaborative post. This post has been pre-written.
