Embrace neutral hues, clean lines, and contemporary decor for a space that feels fresh and modern.
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When it comes to incorporating modern decor ideas into your home, there are plenty of ways to make it happen. Neutral palettes, natural materials, wide-open windows, clean lines, and minimal decor can all help you get the look. But before you overhaul your space, understand that even one attention-seeking piece like a maximalist abstract painting can be all the modern you need to give your space a fully refreshed feel.
To help you get started, we’re sharing our favorite ideas for incorporating modern details into every room in your home. Whether you’re assembling a modern living room or refreshing a contemporary bedroom, take inspiration from these fresh spaces.
Modern Wall Decor Ideas
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There’s no denying the modern appeal of a crisp white wall, but things can start to feel austere if it’s not properly styled. Here a collection of woven baskets create a sense of interest above a vintage sideboard with mid-century appeal. An area rug with a geometric pattern adds a pop of color.
Simple Modern Decor Ideas
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Light and airy is the name of the game in this gorgeous modern bedroom. Wide open windows, a crisp clean palette, and an abstract art piece hung just above the headboard create a thoroughly modern scene. To warm up the space, a textural rug and splash of color on the bed do the trick.
Industrial Modern Decor Ideas
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Industrial-focused elements like Crittall-style sliding doors can keep the light pouring in but also create definition between spaces in a modern way. Herringbone floors, subway tile, and a nature-inspired color palette carry the look home.
Modern Design with Contrasting Colors
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Modern decor can be a study in contrast. Here, brown tiles in varying shades carry from the countertop all the way up to the ceiling while wall-mounted fixtures not only work for the small space, but provide a little extra stylistic appeal. The light wood floors and white paneled walls keep the whole space looking bright and airy, providing the perfect balance to the moody focal point vanity.
Sleek and Stylish Built-Ins
While a glass wall of doors and windows provides a wide-open feel that draws the eye outward, there’s still plenty to behold in this inviting living room—particularly when it comes to the built-ins around the fireplace. Flush cabinetry without hardware, a wall fireplace, and inset TV create all the clean modern lines. To keep the space feeling warm, dark wood finishes reinforce the lush landscape in the yard.
Create Zones
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While our homes might be taking a more wide-open feel these days, giving them their own moment—particularly when paired with a modern edge—can create wow-worthy results. To create a cohesive feel, black, white, and wood elements are carried throughout the entire space, though each zone has its own unique feel and purpose. While it’s important for spaces to have their own character, it’s important to ensure they all relate for a cohesive feel.
Eclectic Modern Decor Ideas
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While you might have other aesthetic goals for the rest of your home, it’s possible to carve out a smaller space packed with all your favorite modern pieces. Call on a contemporary color palette that’s either used throughout your home or easily transitions from your modern space to the connected room in order to maintain a cohesive feel.
Modern Decor Ideas for a Casual Space
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Want to give your art a modern touch? Mix up your display. Add interest with wall-mounted pieces, frames resting on shelves, and even a few oversized prints situated on the floor.
Nature-Inspired Modern Color Palette
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Neutrals are big when it comes to imparting a modern feel in your space, but landing on a palette that still feels warm and inviting will give your space all the appeal. Opt for nature-inspired hues to nail that objective like a pro. Details like a blonde wood island, waterfall countertops, a slab backsplash, and bold black pendants are this kitchen’s crowning achievements.
Contrasting Modern Decor Ideas
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Texture is the name of the game in this space. An imposing (in the best kind of way) window and dark wood paneling set the room off with a contrast that’s somehow perfectly in sync. The rest of the room’s furnishings play with midcentury lines and silhouettes, with interesting details like a glass and lucite coffee table, floor cushions, furs, baskets, and more.
Natural Wood Details
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Bringing modern decor details into your space can provide a warm, natural touch, while still feeling thoroughly modern at the same time. Floating wood shelves, a wood mantel, and unstained wood coffee table provide a warm but unimposing element in the predominantly white living room.
Moody Modern Decor Ideas
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If you’re up for a challenge, you might just want to try adding a splash of black paint to a room. Paired with rectangular windows, a white wood paneled ceiling, and colorful area rug, a dark focal wall makes the whole space sing in perfect harmony.
Modern Lighting Ideas
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Create interest from the ceiling down with a modern light fixture. While the entire space might not take a thoroughly contemporary lean, crowning the space with a sculptural piece that speaks to your preference for unique design can provide enough panache to carry throughout your space.
Go Modern with the Patio
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Regardless of your home’s architectural style, it’s possible to draw on a few modern elements to create a unique space that nails your backyard goals. Here a cement floor, corrugated aluminum ceiling, and black-stained wood create a rustic, yet modern, backyard escape.
Modern Waterfall Countertops
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In the kitchen there are seemingly endless ways to lend a modern feel but one of our favorites might just be by utilizing waterfall-style countertops that drape all the way to the floor. Here the countertops even extend to lend a farmhouse-style feel to the sink that’s actually undermounted below the countertop. Light cabinetry, dark hardware, and interesting pendants overhead create a warm and inviting space that’s primed for gathering.
Modern Decor Color Palette
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If you love to play with color, starting with a crisp white palette can help create a cohesive space. From there, add playful punches with textiles, greenery, and even built-in architectural details like a stained glass transom window. Abstract art can be another impactful way to both show your stylistic personality and add in even more cheery hues.
Midcentury Modern Decor Ideas
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Do you have wood paneling, but a modern decorating style? Challenge accepted! A curated art display on one wall and built-in shelves in the center of the room where records and other collections can be displayed shows off the homeowner’s personalities and interests.
Sleek and Clean Modern Decor Ideas
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While white paint can certainly create a clean look, it’s really all in the details. Here a wall of sliding doors keeps the view to the pool wide open, while a sleek book case with inset cabinets and no hardware lend a modern edge. Pops of color throughout the space, whether books, art, textiles, or smaller furnishings, adds warmth and dimension.
Modern Decor Ideas for the Kitchen
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Creating a modern space can be as simple as adding a few of your favorite abstract art pieces to our room in a way that provides focal-point appeal—and that goes for the kitchen too! While you might not think of this space as one where art will feel at home, give it a try and we bet you’ll never look back.
Modern Decor with Linear Details
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Linear details—whether on a vent hood, with hardware, ceiling beams and wood panels, or even a symmetrical row of skylights—can lend subtle modern details that also create a crisp finish. To keep the space feeling warm, consider adding natural elements like wood cabinetry (as the homeowners did here) or playing with a nature-inspired color palette.
Natural Modern Decor Pieces
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Natural materials can go a long way in creating a modern feel in your space, and there’s no such thing as too much. Here, an impressive concrete statement bathtub provides a focal point for the space with woven baskets, a textural rug, and trough-style sink surrounds the conversation piece with style galore.
Bold Modern Countertops
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If you’re looking to give your bath a thoroughly modern feel in an unexpected way, it’s time to have some fun with your countertops. Here, a black and white cambria quartz carries from the countertops into the shower lending all the star power. Paired with a light-wood vanity and white tile floors in a herringbone pattern, the effect is stunning.
Modern Painted Floors
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We’re on board with painted floors. Especially when they pair sleek details like flat-edge countertops over a natural-toned island, crisp white cabinetry that floats all the way up to the ceiling, and stainless steel appliances.
Mix Modern Patterns
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Two are better than one when it comes to adding interest to your modern space. Opting for colors like white and black that fall on opposite ends of the color wheel can provide an interesting juxtaposition. Consider pattern in the same way, mixing and matching stripes with zigzags, slashes, dashes, and more like the homeowners did with the focal point wall and textiles in this space.
Enhance Modern Decor with Wallpaper
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Wallpaper doesn’t need to feel old-school. In fact, there are plenty of ways to let your wallpaper take charge in the quest to give your space a thoroughly modern feel. In this bath it provides a mural-like effect, balancing the abstract art and graphic flooring with natural appeal.
