Style determines the concept of the entire renovation: the choice of flooring, finishing materials, furniture, and decorative elements. One of the popular trends is eclecticism, a mix of styles. Combining diverse objects, prints, and textures in one project, designers skillfully combine the best traditions of the past with the requirements of the present.
You can try to embody a fashionable interior from a picture to design your own home. However, amateur experiments, not supported by knowledge of the rules of artistic and aesthetic perception, can make the interior decoration tasteless and heaped. If you decide to create a harmonious and beautiful environment on your own, it is better to stick to one direction.
Below are 5 most popular apartment designs and their main characteristics.
1. Classic style
The classical style originated in the 17th century, but even now it has not lost its relevance. The style is changing, acquiring new features, and thanks to this it remains relevant in modern interior designs of apartments and houses.
Wall decoration in the first place should be neat. It can be smooth wallpaper, and coatings with laconic patterns: stripes, monograms, and other decorations. The ceiling, as a rule, is decorated with stucco, but if you don't like to make it heavier or your house has very low ceilings, you should treat the stucco and decor carefully, it is better to leave it smooth. The floor is usually wooden. Of course, natural parquet looks better, but if you want to save money, you can find a worthy replacement among budget laminate manufacturers.
Choose pastel colors to make a room look majestic: beige, ivory, and white work great. The latter is often used as the main one, for example, in the color of the walls, and it is also used to highlight details: furniture, textiles, decor. Bright shades will help to complete the interior: you can use red, blue, dark blue, purple, and other "rich" colors.
2. Loft
The loft style distinguishes extraordinary personalities, somewhat ascetics, lovers of freedom and space. It is this direction that can emphasize the individual features of the owner since the characteristic negligence of style makes it possible to roam the imagination.
While loft usually requires a lot of space, today it is also successfully used in city apartments. It is desirable that the room isn't very small and with a sufficiently high ceiling. Often, in the loft style, two-level apartments in new buildings are decorated.
For a loft, the less decoration, the better. Ceilings and walls can be simply plastered to look like regular gray concrete. This style also loves brick - use a decorative material, but it is better for one of the walls. Often the walls in such rooms are decorated with graffiti, road signs, or a basketball hoop - this is done to create the feeling of an outer wall, raw and sloppy. Ventilation and pipes also aren’t hidden, turning them into decorative elements.
In such interiors, you don't need a lot of furniture, because the main decoration is free space. Often furniture is also a subject of zoning. For example, a bookcase can become a partition between the bedroom and the kitchen, and a bar counter between the kitchen and the living room.
3. Scandinavian style
The “Scandi” style, as its lovers call it, has become popular quite recently, but it seems to be for a long time. Scandinavian-style interiors are always minimalistic and budget-friendly, but at the same time homely and warm. The style is quite universal, there are no specific details, but there are many elements that will create comfort and coziness: light walls, minimalist upholstered furniture, green plants, textiles, and useful, but beautiful decor.
It is the functionality that is reflected in the Scandinavian style. Suffice it to recall the words of the Finnish designer Alvaro Aalto that an architect should make life more convenient - this is the definition applied to Scandi interiors.
Another distinctive feature of this direction is naturalness. It is best if the room has furniture made of natural wood, textiles are made of linen, cotton, or silk. Replace lifeless plastic chairs with wooden ones, even if you knock them together: rough unhewn wood can be an interesting detail in your Scandi room.
Despite the minimalism, each interior should be individual, this property is brought by family photos, hand-made accessories, and posters on the walls. It mustn’t be “decor for the sake of decor”, but a useful thing that reflects the character of the owners.
4. High tech
High-tech will harmoniously fit into the modern pace of life - the style is simple and functional, technological, which is why most young and energetic people love it and choose it.
The basic rule of a high-tech apartment is a large number of technological innovations. This doesn't mean at all that you need to “stuff” the apartment with electronics and household appliances, high-tech rather requires the opposite - these innovations aren’t flaunted, they are invisible, but at the same time, they are “responsible” for the comfort and convenience of residents. For example, blinds with remote control, and baseboards with heating instead of a standard radiator.
With the fact that you don't need to flaunt your technological "wealth", it is clear. How do we understand that an apartment or room is decorated in a high-tech style? First, it should have a lot of free space. There are few things in a high-tech house, they are all functional and take up a minimum of space. If the apartment is small, you can use sliding glass walls or choose a free layout so that nothing obscures sthe space.
And third is functional furniture. For example, a collapsible sofa or a bed that will be transformed from a single to a double bed. You can also often find a table pouf. Another feature of the furniture is its unusual forms. Often you can see details that seem to have arrived from space.
5. Minimalism
Minimalism in the interior should correspond to the state of mind. It is suitable for those who are in harmony with themselves and who don't need external attributes, but only silence and peace.
Minimalism is always the thoughtfulness of space, and folded composition, not just the absence of superfluous things (although, of course, you need to throw out old furniture in the first place). There should be a few things in the room, but they must be functional and simple. Clear lines and shapes prevail. Adherents of this style believe that only by discarding all unnecessary things, you can see the beauty.
The minimalist style doesn't have particular rules in color. You can use cold colors of metal, warm pastel shades, and wood. However, you should definitely take into account that one color is chosen for decoration, and others are added with accents. For example, a contrasting carpet on a plain floor.
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