Design An Ultra Modern Living Room
Maybe you fell in love with ultra modern furniture when you visited The Museum of Modern Art in New York City. There you found incredibly dramatic and stylish furniture designed by people like Ruth Adler Schnee and David Adjaye. You discovered that the company they work for has been around since 1938. Talk about classic furniture. Now that you are designing your own living room, maybe you want the same look that you saw at the museum.
It's true that that type of modern furniture is quite expensive. Fortunately, you can find used furniture for your own home at a much better price than the pieces in the museum would sell for. Read on for some ideas that might help you to establish a unique and attractive contemporary setting right in your own home.
The Furniture - The major draw of this type of modern furniture is its futuristic shape. Go with it!
- Start by purchasing a two- or three-seater sofa that is designed with squared off, simple lines. Grey would be a great color, as it will go with all of your other decor.
- A grey marble coffee table with a tulip design and a glass top and complementary lamp tables will be great with the sofa.
- Depending on the size of your living room, buy chairs in sets of two.
- For example, choose two mustard colored womb chairs for one area of the living room and two indigo colored egg chairs for another area.
- Lamp tables between the chairs would add interest to your living room.
- Buy a black wooden floor to ceiling wall shelf. This time, choose a more traditional style to provide contrast to your living room design.
When you select used furniture, you will find that it looks like new. To clean it, simply dust it with a soft rag and use regular window cleaner for the glass top tables.
Your modern used furniture makes a statement all by itself. However, you can add a bit more pizzazz with your own decorative touches. For instance, purchase throw pillows for the sofa that have a modern feeling to them. Frame some modern art pieces, but choose other wall art, too. For instance, framed black and white photographs of historic homes in your own city would be one good choice. Another wall could feature one huge painting that has many different colors in it. For example, a large frameless painting that has a field of different wild flowers would be beautiful.
When you're looking at designing a modern looking living room, consider looking at used knoll furniture and other used furniture for your design.