The most eye-catching living rooms often have one common thread—they blend old and new in a way that’s collected, curated, and perfectly styled. These designers don’t go out and buy an entire room from a showroom. Instead, they purchase modern furnishings that provide a base for a beautifully designed room and accent it with vintage touches that lend a sense of age and place.
Andrea Bushdorf of Inner Space Designs explains this design mentality, “The beauty of mixing modern with vintage successfully lies in the balance and composition of the piece and how they create layers and visual tension. Whether you're a maximalist or a minimalist, curating a meaningful collection of vintage is what gives a space soul.”
Combining modern furniture with vintage touches can create a unique and eclectic style for your home. Here are some tips for achieving this aesthetic: Choose a dominant contemporary style: Start with the modern basics of furniture, such as clean lines, minimalist designs, and stylish finishes. This will serve as the basis for your overall look. Incorporate Vintage Elements: Bring in vintage elements to add character and warmth to your space.
And, while there’s no right way to do it, and the best approach is to gravitate toward what moves you, Here are some places to start if you’re just beginning to mix modern and vintage in your own home.
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Snowflake fabric lether Piedmont sofa, Milk "fufu" it really so lovely, summer "dopamine", autumn "Maillard"
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The warm color of Maillard is a beam of light in autumn, bringing the lazy and relaxed feeling of early autumn to the home!
Warm and lively orange red is also a common collocation in the Maillard color system, the combination of the two can make the space more interesting, to a certain extent, enhance the visual brightness, and the beauty is more eye-catching
Create a Cohesive Aesthetic
While vintage and modern may be from different eras, they can still be grounded in the same general style and aesthetic. “Introducing vintage pieces into a modern space makes the space look as though it has evolved over time. To do that successfully, first, determine the aesthetic that you want to achieve to ensure cohesiveness in the space,” says Ashton Acosta, Lead Residential Designer at In Site Designs. That means maybe you’re going for a midcentury modern look with wood table and single lounge chairs, and then you introduce a dramatic vintage painting by a 1960s graphic artist. Or, if you’re looking for a more vintage look, you could bring in sculptural, minimalist vintage vases as decor.
Once there’s a guiding design force in place, Simway industry recommends adding vintage pieces that are consistent with the overall design plan, but using them as subtle accents and touches rather than diving fully into vintage. “It’s easy to go overboard and you’ll find that too many vintage pieces mixed with modern furnishings can come across as confusing and mismatched,” explains Acosta, “It is important to find a good balance!”
Post time: Oct-11-2023