Home design: modern interior – best ideas

Modern building and finishing materials, raw materials for the manufacture of furniture and decorative elements allow us not only to design our home for comfortable and functional use, but also to embody our cherished design ideas. A house is not only walls and a roof, it is a whole world for its owners, a reflection of their views on aesthetics, practicality, functionality and beauty.

The experience gained by designers over the long years of existence of such a thing as «creation of interior design», allows us to create original or traditional, practical or luxurious, avant-garde or minimalist – any options for decorating their homes, it would be the desire and the means. But in the variety of ways to create a modern, stylish and at the same time practical design for private home ownership, it is not difficult and confused.

We offer you a small collection of practical and effective tips to help you decorate your modern private apartment. The recommendations of designers, of course, are not a dogma, but they can help you make your own decisions on choosing a home design concept, decide on a color palette and style, highlight accents and ultimately create an interior of your dreams.

Best ideas for modern home design

1. Alignment of functional segments. The connection within one room of several zones does not lose its popularity. In private houses, this design technique is no less widespread than in apartments. Combining several functional segments in one room allows you to maintain space and freedom of movement even in small spaces. Typically, such studio rooms have a high level of natural light – two or more large-scale windows, in some cases glass doors (exit to the backyard). Combined spaces are also convenient in terms of operation, cleaning.

Most often, such functional areas as the living room, dining room and kitchen are to be combined. The location of these three important life segments under one roof creates a practical environment and a beautiful, bright and spacious room with high aesthetic qualities..

With the help of modern household appliances with high power, but low noise level, the organization of kitchen work processes does not interfere with relaxing in the living room segment or eating in the dining area.

But it’s not just the kitchen, dining and living areas that need to be combined. For example, the workplace can be located within the living room or bedroom. Rarely in which house is a separate room for an office is allocated (unless the main work of one of the household members takes place in the home office).

It is also rare in which private apartments there is the possibility of allocating a separate room for a library, as a rule, book shelves and cabinets are placed in the living room or bedroom (depending on the size of the premises and the personal preferences of the owners).

2. Plain wall decoration is a topical idea for interior decoration. In modern design projects, you can rarely find the use of wallpaper with a pattern for wall decoration, unless this print imitates a concrete wall, brick or masonry.

Monochrome finishing materials have become the undisputed favorites. And it’s not just that for small rooms such an approach to wall decoration is preferable – light, neutral tones help to visually increase the space.

Even in fairly spacious rooms, designers recommend using a solid color finish. Material with a print, pattern or ornament is used only to decorate accent walls or even their individual sections.

This trend is relevant for people who are not yet confident in their abilities and capabilities in the field of decorating their own home. The light, neutral tone of the finish is the perfect tone for any furnishings and decor. You don’t have to rack your brains over color combinations, combination of shades.

Even upholstery in pastel colors looks impressive against a white background, not to mention darker or brighter colors..

Using a design trick «accent wall» has not lost its popularity, it has simply undergone some modifications. If earlier in the design projects of living rooms, bedrooms, and children’s rooms, dining rooms, one could find the use of two types of wallpaper from one collection, ideally complementing each other, then in modern design options for these rooms, various imitations are increasingly common.

An accent wall is a surface of brick or masonry, finished with wood or ceramic tiles, mosaics. You can create an imitation using decorative plaster, textured or liquid wallpaper, wall panels, laminate.

So, finishing materials in a modern interior should have the following qualities:

♦ be environmentally friendly, safe for humans and the environment;

♦ if possible, let the air pass;

♦ be easy to install so that finishing can be done

independently;

♦ be unpretentious in maintenance – surfaces in rooms with high humidity and a level of possible pollution must withstand cleaning with household chemicals and not lose their aesthetic properties;

♦ should be easily combined with each other.

3.Bright, original furniture is the accent of the interior. Considering the fact that the main trend in interior decoration is neutrality, the use of plain, light-colored materials, the role of accent elements is shifted to pieces of furniture..

This trend is most clearly used in the interiors of bedrooms – the bed in such rooms is most often the only accent design object. Not only the design of the bed structure itself, but also its textile design becomes a priority.

In the rooms of living rooms, dining rooms, offices and libraries of private houses, upholstered furniture plays the role of accent elements. At the same time, a bright, variegated or contrasting dark color of upholstery of upholstered furniture may be present in more than one piece of furniture.

Advice: in the living room two sofas facing each other can be made in different, but equally accent colors.

4. Storage systems – rational use of space. In modern design projects, you can increasingly see storage systems located from the ceiling to the floor. This approach allows you to make the most of the available space..

In kitchens, we see the upper tier of cabinets, suspended from the ceiling itself (it often has two levels, different in depth). Of course, the uppermost level is not suitable for daily use; it is simply inconvenient for a person with an average height to get household items from the upper shelves. But from the point of view of storing utensils that are rarely used, this approach helps to unload storage systems in other rooms, and keep the kitchen itself clean..

If we talk about storage systems in living rooms, then they are conditionally divided into two types – built-in racks with open shelves and low modules with facades.

For books, documents and photos, open shelves are used within the framework, for everything else that the owners would like to hide from the guests’ eyes, compact dressers with drawers, low modules with hinged or sliding doors are used.

five. Lighting devices – diffused or localized lighting. No matter how large the room of a modern private house is, it rarely manages with just one source of artificial lighting..

The lighting system is not only the ability to illuminate one or another part of the room, but also the ability to create a certain atmosphere, zoning a space or highlighting especially significant segments. Well, when combining several functional zones in one space (studio room), a lighting system should be present in each.

One central chandelier is never enough in a bedroom. Even if you are not in the habit of reading before bed, lighting from local sources (wall sconces, table or floor lamps) in the bedroom is simply necessary – to create a certain atmosphere of preparing for bed.

Even in a small living room, ceiling lights are not enough. A floor lamp or table lamp is needed in a soft seating area, reading corner or near a coffee table.

6. Textile decoration – laconic design. If we talk about the drapery of window openings, then the designers recommend using the simplest textile solutions in form and execution. Traditional curtains – straight canvases falling from the ceiling itself to the floor in uniform vertical folds, can act both solo and in a company with a translucent veil (most often plain and smooth).

The use of textiles for decorating a room, then the use of sofa and other decorative pillows becomes the most striking and accent.

This is the easiest, fastest and most inexpensive way to change the character of the interior – to change the color in the performance of textile decor on the bed in the bedroom or sofas and armchairs in the living room. Replacing pillow covers is much easier than changing the wall decoration or upholstery, which is why designers and their customers love this design technique so much..

Fashionable color palette

As mentioned above, monochromatic wall decoration has become the undisputed favorite in the design of residential premises. And it will not be news to anyone that light shades in a monochromatic version are the most common way to create a universal room background..

A light tone helps to smooth out imperfections in architecture and surface treatment, will not focus on the flaws in the installation of window or door openings, will help to visually increase the volume of the room and will be an excellent background for accent furniture or decorative elements.

The use of white for wall decoration is also dictated by the influence of Scandinavian style on the formation of a modern style. Snow-white walls combined with warm wooden floors are one of the key motives for decorating Scandinavian homes.

Maximum space and light is a priority in a room of any size. Namely, the white color, which practically does not absorb the sun’s rays, is the best fit for the tasks and basic principles of the Scandinavian style..

Gray doesn’t go out of style. Its relevance can be observed for several seasons. Universal, neutral, but at the same time noble and solid – gray color is perfectly combined with various interior color solutions.

Depending on the selected shade, you can create a calm, dynamic and even dramatic atmosphere in the room. It is enough to choose a couple of tones in the company of gray color (most often white and black, or snow-white surfaces and wood) and make one bright accent – the original interior is ready.

Black and white combinations in the design of modern rooms are not the last in the list of current ideas.

Of course, for rooms of a small area, a light tone becomes the main one, a dark color is used only to emphasize the geometry and highlight especially significant interior items. In spacious and light rooms, a dark tone can be used as the main one for the execution of large furniture or finishing one of the surfaces.

Along with the relevance of using white and contrasting combinations, there is a color palette that will always be used. Warm shades of brown – from light beige, pastel to deep, dark color « chocolate» always create a cozy, comfortable environment for everyone, in which you just want to relax, rest, gain strength after a hard day for new achievements. That is why the beige color scheme can be found in a wide variety of rooms – from the bathroom to the living room, from the hallway to the kitchen..

Good luck!