No matter your preferred style – modern, traditional, rustic or eclectic – home decor pieces can help bring it all together and complete your vision of a perfect living environment. When combined together properly, they’ll make any home more welcoming than ever!
House 9 Interiors created this contemporary living room featuring an eye-catching sage green accent wall for gender neutral color and an immersive feeling. Additionally, mood lighting adds depth and complexity.
1. Natural Wood
Wood brings timeless durability and natural beauty to a living space. As design trends have moved away from cool grays towards warmer hues and organic textures in recent years, many homeowners are seeking coziness and comfort in their home design. By including natural wood elements into your design scheme and adding warmer tones into the mix, creating peace and security feels more like your sanctuary after each long day!
Wood floors are one way of incorporating natural wood into a modern space, but there are other options as well. Wooden cabinets, walls and shelving can create a warm and welcoming ambiance in any room they adorn; wooden coffee tables also add warmth and keep things balanced and livable in any setting.
Woven natural materials like wicker and macrame add warmth and texture to a modern living space, as these gender-neutral items create an airy ambience for relaxation. Furthermore, adding plants can easily bring natural elements into a modern living area for less money than you may think!
2. Texture
Modern homes tend to focus on sleek surfaces, but texture can add intrigue and visual interest to a living space. Rough textures like jute rugs or woven baskets add natural appeal, while glossy textures such as glass or polished metal offer clean, polished looks.
Textured elements can add a pop of color and texture to any room, like this modern living room in which cool blue was used throughout on its striped area rug, leather sofa, wicker chair upholstery and accent pillows (such as this Better Homes & Gardens Blue Diamond Geo Decorative Pillow at $26, Walmart). This shade was repeated throughout artwork, accessories and wall paint – giving the room an integrated and intentional appearance.
Other ways of adding texture into your home include the use of rugs and decorative pieces made of various materials, including soft fabrics, rough woods or even stone. You can place these on shelves or coffee tables to liven up surfaces while they can also be hung on walls as focal points.
3. Smart Devices
Imagine living in a home where the thermostat senses your comfort needs, lights change to suit the ambience, and coffee can even be made with voice control – this futuristic vision of modern living is now reality thanks to smart devices which offer convenience while remaining stylish and fashionable.
Smart gadgets allow you to remain in control and connected with your space without ever leaving the couch, whether that means controlling lighting with an app, browsing music through streaming services or searching the web for ideas – smart technology keeps us all connected while saving energy and saving money in the process! Plus it promotes energy efficiency, which ultimately saves money over time!
Sculptures come in all styles and finishes to suit any space, making this piece the perfect unique accent that adds form, texture, and contrast to this modern living room design. Selecting your rug first will help determine how the patterns, tones, and styles come together within the room.
4. Geometric Patterns
Geometric patterns add a distinctive and eye-catching design element to a room when used with bold colors, particularly when coupled with bold geometric designs. Their shapes and lines draw the eye inward, providing a focal point that sparks conversation or creativity and can even add visual interest across styles of decor. Geometric designs also come in handy as versatile pieces of decor!
Geometric patterns add visual interest and modernise any space. From wallpaper on one wall to furniture like side tables, geometric designs can transform your home. Peel-and-stick wallpaper also makes an effective change, adding pops of color while providing visual interest to the space.
Geometric shapes are found everywhere – floorboards in plank and herringbone parquet patterns create rectangles, windows feature squares, rectangles and circles, staircases cut a trapezium shape in the room and even ceilings have their influence on its form. To harness their potential successfully for yourself emotionally or psychologically is key – strong-lined rectangles may bring about feelings of order while circular ones could bring comfort and serenity.
5. Wooden Furniture
Wood has long been revered as an elegant choice that adds timeless beauty to modern living spaces. Its ability to blend in seamlessly with various styles makes it a favorite among homeowners and interior designers alike.
No matter if it’s an oak sectional or black modern sofa, wood’s natural aesthetic will transform any space into an urban living environment. Pair your wooden furniture with simple color palette and minimal decor for maximum effect, as seen here from Kara Mann.
Wood’s natural aesthetic brings nature into your home, creating an extension of nature in your living space. Create rustic modern decor with exposed wooden beams on the ceiling and reclaimed wood tables for your living area.
Wood furniture can also be an elegant complement to soft coastal colors. Chango & Co’s New York City loft features natural wood flooring and sandy beige velvet seating to create a soothing environment after work. Wood is easy to maintain if kept in dry environments with stable floors; simply protect it with wax or polish once every few months to preserve its beauty and protect its surface with wax protection.
6. Plants
Modern living spaces often include greenery as a decorative element. But plants offer much more than mere aesthetic value: they improve air quality, create an uplifting ambience, and help reduce anxiety and stress levels.
No matter what style of decor you prefer – be it modern loft living space or cozy farmhouse retreat – plants offer beauty without limitations. Succulents and cacti are ideal low maintenance choices in contemporary living rooms while fiddle leaf figs or monstera plants make great statement pieces in more traditional living rooms.
Hanging plants is an excellent way to bring life and excitement to an otherwise dull wall or ceiling space, elevating design by adding visual interest and heightening ceiling design. There is an assortment of planters available from small pots to more creative vessels like tin cans or wooden crates or vintage teacups which make stunning hanging decor.
A dracaena plant, for instance, can be suspended from a ceiling to bring a splash of natural color and texture into any room. With its tall yet slim form and medium to bright indirect light conditions, it makes an excellent addition to small spaces while matching contemporary furniture beautifully with its warm neutral palette.
7. Floating Shelves
Floating shelves are an iconic way to organize your home. Their clean lines blend well with modern design, and can accommodate anything from books and houseplants to decorative objects like artwork.
Make an eye-catching statement with your art by displaying it in stylish ways on shelves, like stylist Rachel Hornaday does here by placing one large-scale piece with an eye-catching pattern alongside three staggered frames on her shelf.
Shelves can also be used to showcase a collection of vases, bowls, or other decor pieces. Select shelving colors that blend in with the theme of your room and use modern bookends that will bring them into focus.
Add hooks underneath your shelving if you want it to serve a practical purpose, like in entryways for hanging up purses, scarves, and jackets. A good place for shelves near seating areas so guests can conveniently put down drinks, phones or other necessities is near seating areas – @making_edison_home’s home has some stylish streamlined wood shelves serving this function beautifully with decorative houseplants and kitchen essentials adorning their surface area.
8. Mixing & Matching
Combining different furniture styles allows for greater versatility in home decor. For instance, mixing modern sofas with rustic coffee tables or mid-century modern accent pieces with vintage mirrors creates an interesting aesthetic that adds visual interest and gives more options to play around with when styling a room.
Neutrals work well with most furniture styles, while bold hues are becoming increasingly popular in modern living rooms. You can add pops of color as accents or create an all-over monochromatic scheme like Chango & Co’s white and gray room; their graphic pattern carpet helps control noise while adding warmth; their center piece features stripes while brass lighting provides plenty of shine – the latter can even illuminate this modern NYC space! When mixing styles, select an element (such as color, shape or texture) that unifies all elements to maintain visual cohesion and avoid any discordant visuals. Modern wood surfaces, brass finishes and fluted designs are among the many trends found across traditional and contemporary designs that help create balanced yet cohesive modern decor that expresses your personal taste.
