The Elements of "Modern" House Design
The Elements of "Modern" House Design.
Modern architecture is sometimes synonymous with strange, cold, and unfeeling interiors made for robots to live in but the truth couldn't be further than that. The perception of modern architecture is the result of both personal taste, of course, and expectations about what a house should feel like.
The truth is that a lot of modern house design images that people see are staged to appear as neutral and clean as possible. This isn't done to make you feel bad about the cleanliness of your home but to emphasize the modern aesthetic in a way that highlights its benefits.
Crisp lines.
Interior design reflects a mood, and the modern house wants to emphasize the crispness of its lines.
These lines are an integral part of the style language, whether they're in the living room or adorning the exterior walls, there is little space for soft curves or fuzziness.
It's not a war on curves, but rather one on rounded edges. Whether you like that is up to you, but modern houses espousing the idea of crisp lines do so to create an environment that feels clean and polished.
Built-ins.
To clear up even more space, built-ins do away with the centimetres lost to being unable to push a piece of furniture flat against a wall.
A lot of modern design is about reclaiming space taken up by the superfluous. This applies to every room in the house from the bathrooms to the bedrooms. Instead of filling empty space with plush cushions, it's left for the owners to wander through and live in.
Built-ins are a natural off-shoot from the ideals of modern design. Minimizing space requirements, adhering to a clean and simple style, and letting the entire room shine instead of pulling the attention.
Simplicity.
You won't find crown moulding along the top of the walls or excessive details on the chairs or stairs.
Modern home aesthetics steer away from features that break up lines excessively. Flat surfaces are left uninterrupted for as long as possible while furnishings with big tassels or furniture with intricately carved wood are left in a storage unit somewhere.
It's all about making a space that's easy to understand quickly without too many, as some architects or interior designers would put it, distractions.
Of course, that's not for everyone. Sharp corners and the lack of plush patterned chairs can invite a sense of unease or 'catalogue-living'. Still, modern aesthetics are not necessarily 'cold' because of that simplicity.
If you're looking for visual texture, instead of finding it in embroidered patterns on chairs or rugs, you'll find it in the touch and feel of the fabric used for a sofa, for example.
The contrast that people themselves bring to the simple and clean lines will immediately make a space feel far livelier.
While it might seem like a quick job for the architect involved in the construction of a new house, there are a lot of things to take into account for modern home projects.
Built for light.
The simplicity and crisp lines are not stylistic choices that stand alone.
Both of these contribute to making the home feel bigger by optimizing the amount of natural light the home takes in.
When you look at modern house design, it might feel jarring to see rigid lines for the exteriors or how windows fill an entire facade. In that instance, modern architecture can feel alienating but there's a reason why those spaces are designed the way they are.
Large windows mean more light, and sunlight plays a huge part in how a room feels and our physical and mental health.
Neutral colours.
You could easily make the joke that the modern home is built on five shades of brown and grey.
The truth though is that you will find many modern homes with dashes of yellow or blue, rooms with a cohesive colour palette tastefully shattered by a wonderful painting or a moss wall as a focal point.
A dining room in a modern house can be an exercise in counting colours but that can easily be remedied by taking a look at another part of the modern design aesthetic.
Emphasis on materials.
It would be a little plain to just have muted neutral colours all over the place, and that's why emphasizing the materials used in the building of the furniture is one of the key aspects of modern design.
While traditional design will often have carved and painted wood, modern design will feature materials cut in clean lines without an added layer of paint. Materials like concrete, aluminum, glass, wood, stone, and steel get to shine through without being covered up.
Wood adds colour variation and a warm touch to any room. Free of paint, it stands out from the other materials inside the home and on the outside brings some much-needed contrast with the concrete and steel.
Open-floor plans.
Like we mentioned before, in modern house designs, a flat surface keeps going uninterrupted until it needs to stop - and what better way to fulfill that key element's need than having an open floor plan?
An open floor plan is a design in which all the common living spaces of a house are connected to one another, with no walls or doors separating them. This allows for greater flexibility in how the space can be used and can make the home feel larger.
All those clean lines help with creating distinct spaces by using the furniture and furnishings with their straight sharp lines to frame specific zones. The neutral colours make it easier to coordinate where the splashes of colour should land. And taking down those walls means that it's easier for light to spread throughout a room.
But it's not for everyone.
Modern architecture gets a bad rap more often than not. For good reason sometimes, it's hard to see a warm family home with all that edge and beige. That doesn't that the concept is flawed.
If you're interested in what life could look like in one of those houses, it won't hurt to talk to a real estate agent in your area.
Whether you're already all aboard the modern design train or unconvinced about it, maybe a walk through a sun-soaked home with clean, open spaces will be what you need to pull the trigger.
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