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What is Modern Classic Style in Interior Design

We presented to you all about the modern classic style in interior design and the principal characteristics of this style.

What Defines  Modern Classic Style

The classic interior house design originated from European culture. Like Victorian and Art Deco also the Greek and the Roman are the main inspirations of this style.

Mixed by classic design and the modern design, the result was the European modern classic interior design.

Know your colors and materials

The furniture of this style is a combination of modern and classic style. With a touch of minimalist style and a combination of modern style with simple style.

The furniture is not very modern but still trendy today. It is simple and has less carving on it. The main color for this style is brown, beige, black, chocolate brown, gray, silver, white, and grayest blue shades.

To have this combination of classic and modern, color is the main ingredient.

Change a bit

You can make this style more attractive to you by adorning this space with several nice accessories, but do not exaggerate it.

You can choose decorations like a vase of a single flower, big painting on the wall, and some geometric patterned throw pillows.

As for the windows, you can leave them bare to bring more sunshine into the room. However, if you do not want too much light, you can install window blind for simple window treatment.

How can you have a modern classic living room?

Color

As I wrote previously, the color has much importance in the ambiance.
The high-contrast combination is sophisticated and dramatic.

You can combine the color of furniture, space, decorations to create the perfect modern classic style.

Keep it more simple as you can, and choose the perfect palette for your project. The main colors of this style are gray, silver, white, black, dark chocolate and grayest blue shades.

Accessories

Simple lines, accessories and decorations, is the strongest look. Use a vase of a single flower and put it on the table.

Paint your wall, if you like geometric patterns good use that for examples on some pillows.

Furniture

The furniture of the modern classic style has a specific design to transmit all the essence of this style.

Since the choice of materials to the colors, every detail is more precious to incorporate and create the perfect space.

Today more than a trendy style is the moment and the comfortable ambiance to live there.

Flooring

With a transitional design, flooring is neutral. Soft-colored carpets or wood floors in warm tones are generally used. Because flooring is neutral, the texture in the carpets or rugs is important. Berber carpets, hides, and sisal rugs are popular choices for transitional style.

Inspiration design books hope you liked this article and help you to understand better this style. Read also about mid-century style.

What is Modern Classic Style? — Homzie Designs

Design Styles

Written By Anna Davidson

Modern Classic style, also known as Modern Traditional, is the perfect blend of modern + traditional… aka timeless! This style features the sleek, simple, contemporary lines of the modern design style paired with traditional furniture, finishes, and accessories to take what was "then" and make it "now". This design style is a true juxtaposition of modern & traditional that somehow just works! This has become highly popular with designers like Studio Mcgee and influencers like Chris Loves Julia. Modern Classic style features mostly neutrals with a few pops of color and simple patterns like stripes, vintage, or solids. The neutrals in Modern Classic homes are the perfect blend of warm and cool colors.

As a Modern Classic fan, you can shop just about anywhere to decorate your space from Pottery Barn and Lulu and Georgia to West Elm and Ballard Designs. Don’t forget to clear out your grandparent’s garage and parent’s basement for some antique treasures you’ll want to show-off!

@studiomcgee

The best way to begin decorating in the modern classic style is to start with your modern furniture pieces. Set the stage by working in a variety of modern lined furniture - even mid-century styles have a place here. The use of clean & simple lines allows you to show off that special vintage furniture and decor. Go for comfort! This style isn’t like the stuffy, traditional, untouchable spaces of the past. Choose furnishings that feel soft, comfortable, and casual.

Mix of Modern and Traditional Furniture

@halflway_wholeistic

The best thing about the Modern Classic style is that you don’t have to have a lot of money to pull off this style. Instead, you can take what was old and give it new life! Have a traditional chest of drawers you’ve been handed down? Great! Pair the more traditional & detailed furniture with a modern mirror and simple styling to introduce the modern + traditional mashup. The key is balance! Typically, or at least currently, about 3/4ths of your furniture & decor should be modern and 1/4 should be vintage or traditional. Keeping this balance will help ensure you nail the modern classic style and don’t lean too traditional.

Simple timeless patterns

@beauxarts107

This style is all about striking a unique balance between old, weathered and storied with new, modern, and simple. When decorating with pillows, bedding, and throw blankets it’s important to keep your patterns simple. Textures work great with this style -quilted patterns, velvet and linen all fequently make an apperance when decorating in the modern classic style.

The pattern and prints you’ll see with this style are typicially solids, stripes, vintage, or small pattern prints. One thing you won’t see is bright, bold, large scale patterns in this style. Unlike other design styles, patterns should be supporting players but shouldn’t draw too much attention.

Warm and neutral color palette

@jaci.daily

The color palette associated with the modern classic style is one of it’s distinct features. It’s also one that I fully expect to evolve over time. As they say in design, everything comes back in style. Currently the modern classic style is full of rich warm neutrals with sharp black contrast. You’ll often find deep greens, navy, natural and walnut toned wood, even some warm rich brick and rust tones. The key is to keep your overall base neutral with creamy beige furnishing and build in black accents for contrast. Interestingly this style can feel both light, bright and airy while also feeling moody and rich.

Sprinkle in your vintage decor

@danielleoakeyshop

Our favorite aspect of this style is that it takes what was formally stuffy and “too precious to touch” and makes it feel casual, touchable, and nostalgic. Decorating with vintage and antique style decor is the fun part! Of course, you’ll want to start with what you have. An old record player? Vintage photos of landscapes or family? Small gold or brass object? Incorporating these pieces into your styling will give your guests something to talk about in your space, and keep your most precious memories close. However, if you don’t have actual vintage items they are easy to find! We love sourcing digital vintage art prints and adding an antique brass frame. You’ll also want to incorporate plenty of rustic textured decor items think vases, lamps, bowls, etc! The addition of these rustic items adds to the overall “old to new’ vibe that the modern classic style is known for.

Things to consider when decorating in the Modern Classic Style

Okay! So you think you are the perfect mix of both modern & traditional, great! The key to nailing this style is proportions. Keeping 3/4 of your furniture & decor modern with clean simple lines and then the other 1/4 of furniture and decor ornate, storied, and vintage. Striking this balance can be tricky, but the payoff is stunning! You’ll also want to watch your color palette! Keep things overall warm and natural and sprinkle in a little black for contrast! Lastly, enjoy the process! This style isn’t one that should be “thrown up” but rather take time to access those truly special “finds” and give them a place of honor in your space.

@chrislovesjulia

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We associate traditional classical styles with luxury and success. Therefore, they are always popular. But time dictates its conditions, and modern classics are no longer something unshakable and pompous, it is a practical and elegant style that combines comfort and beauty. This style is always up to date. nine0003

Features

Each era and country had its own ideas about the traditional classical style. Therefore, there are several such styles - antique, gothic, renaissance, baroque, modern.

Almost always, when talking about classicism, they mean a monumental and representative style with an abundance of expensive wooden furniture, expensive fabrics, complex and lush draperies, elegant and expensive wall and floor decoration, spacious rooms with high ceilings, stucco, bas-reliefs, columns, expensive paintings and works of art. nine0003

Classicism in the traditional sense stood out in the art of interior design at the beginning of the 20th century. To some extent, classicism is a counterbalance to modernity with its abundance of non-functional decorative elements and excessive pomposity. Classicism is characterized by restraint and rigor, as well as a significant simplicity of lines (especially when compared with Baroque, Renaissance, Art Nouveau).


Style transformation

The classic never goes out of fashion. The basic principle of modern classics is restrained elegance. This style combines the best ideas of many eras and trends in interior design. Modern classics in the interior is associated with prestige and prosperity (one might say, luxury). People who choose neoclassical interiors are characterized as successful and sensible adherents of traditions. nine0003

Neoclassicism in a modern interior is a compromise between the principles of classicism and the realities of today. Classic in the traditional sense of style requires significant investment, expensive materials, sophisticated finishes, very spacious rooms, luxurious furniture and works of art. Therefore, the classic interior in modern houses and apartments is a restrained stylization on the theme of the classics.

Neoclassical features

The main characteristics of modern classics: nine0003

Special requirements

The main requirement for a room in which it is planned to decorate the interior in a neoclassical style is the presence of a sufficiently large area and a ceiling height of at least 3 m. In a small room (less than 20 m2), all the beauty and elegance of the interior will simply be lost.

The second requirement is large windows. Not necessarily modern panoramic ones, but not the small and narrow "loopholes" that are sometimes found in stalinkas. nine0003

The third requirement is the sufficient width of the room. Preferably from three and a half meters.


Furniture selection principles

With a neutral color of the walls, cabinet furniture plays the first violin in the design. Cabinets and cabinets, tables and chairs in any classic style should be made of solid wood (not pine) or veneered. Nothing can replace the natural beauty of wood. It is highly undesirable to use furniture with a plastic coating that imitates the texture of natural wood. High-tech style elements are completely unacceptable: glass tables and metal furniture, especially with shiny nickel-plated elements. nine0003

Sofas and armchairs should be simple, laconic in shape, with smooth curves, not too bulky, not pretentious. Furniture can be quite massive on short modern legs and in a traditional classic style: compact armchairs and sofas on high wooden legs of a simple shape. Upholstery in discreet colors, it is possible to use striped furniture fabrics for traditional furniture with legs.

Color range

The classic implies discreet light colors: white, beige, gray, golden, coffee, sand, light brown. Sometimes pastel blue, salad, lemon, milky tones. Dark colors are not used. Aggressive colors are not used: red, coral, orange. Cherry - only in accents. It is not customary to decorate a classic interior in lilac-violet tones. The finishes can be used in golden color. nine0003

Floors - natural colors of wood or stone. No unnatural colors - green, blue, red.

The ceiling is traditionally white.


Finishing materials

A characteristic feature of the classic style is the absence of plastic coatings, glass countertops, metal furniture, racks and nickel-plated metal structures.

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It is difficult to imagine a modern classic interior without parquet. In this style, budget linoleum, artificial laminate, and just a board, albeit from exotic woods, are out of place. Parquet should not be too dark or light straw. Only natural wood tones of medium color saturation. nine0003

A possible option is natural stone or tile. Such a coating is sometimes arranged in houses with a "warm floor" heating system. It is undesirable to use a black stone.

Walls

Luxurious Venetian plaster is quite appropriate for the walls. Painting with water-based paints is undesirable. Embossed non-woven wallpaper with painting, smooth or striped vinyl look good. There should not be any drawings, flowers, and especially large abstract graphics on the wallpaper. In no case do they use loft elements (brick walls) or textured plaster in a classic interior. nine0003

Walls are often decorated with moldings (cornices). You can use imitation columns with moderately complex stucco work at the top.

In traditional classical styles, walls were often covered with painted white panels, decorated with moldings or milling in the form of panels. Now this design is rarely used. Do not cover panels with fabrics or fabric wallpapers, especially with a pattern.

Ceiling

The ceiling in classic interiors is white - traditional painted or stretched. Stretch ceilings should be matte, in no case glossy or satin. Sometimes on the ceiling it is appropriate to place a stucco rosette under the chandelier (without gilding!) nine0003

If the ceilings have two or three tiers, they should be simple in shape, the best option is to repeat the shape of the ceiling. There should be no bright color, mirror, dark inserts, photo printing, dark canvases, Swarovski crystals. Diffused ceiling lighting or a “floating” ceiling is possible.


Decoration and lighting

Lighting fixtures play a very important role in creating a classic interior. The presence of a chandelier and a wall lamp in neoclassical style is a must. The most traditional are chandeliers and sconces with gilded and bronze fittings. Simple painted fittings are allowed, for example, white, black. Under no circumstances should nickel-plated structures be used. nine0003

Plafonds and lampshades can be white, matte and transparent colored, closed and open. It is allowed to use crystal ceiling lamps - a very simple laconic form and from large parts, with a small number of pendants. Chandeliers assembled entirely from crystal beads and pendants are not compatible with a classic interior. Plafonds should not imitate flowers.

In a classic interior, decor plays a very important role. Modern applied delights are not used here - real paintings in beautiful frames should hang on the walls. And expensive watches. And no flowers in hanging pots. nine0003

Bronze sculptures are very welcome. And beautiful vases. But it is important not to overdo it with the quantity.

A showcase with a collection of art objects, luxurious dishes, exotic souvenirs will serve as a wonderful decoration of the classical style.

Blinds are not used in classical interiors. The best choice is a beautiful moderately complex drapery made of expensive fabric.

Conclusion

The popularity of such a style in the interior as modern classics is simply explained: this style allows you to create a modern interior “out of time”, without a clear reference to the year and decade of its creation. Refined elegance and good taste never go out of style. nine0003

Modern classic is a style for those who strive to be modern and at the same time take all the best from each era, preserve traditional values ​​and not seem conservative.

Interior in the style of modern classics

Apartments

The shelving is made according to the sketches of the designer, Mr Doors.

Designed by decorator Elena Markina.

This apartment has a total area of ​​84.40 sq. m is located in a Stalinist house a stone's throw from the Timiryazevsky park. The owners approached the design of its interior very consciously: before turning to the designer, they lived in the apartment for a year in order to better understand what kind of space they want to get after the repair. nine0003

As a result, the wishlist included the following items: an office, a dressing room in the bedroom, a combined living room and kitchen area, a bathroom with a bathtub and a shower, and plenty of storage space for books and household items. But the most important requirement is that the interior should be not so much the fruit of the designer's creative self-realization as comfortable for the life of its owners. Despite the quite successful layout of the apartment, it was not possible to avoid “alterations”.

Console, panel of 4 mirrors and accessories - Arteva Home. On the floor is a mosaic of natural marble. nine0003

In the process of dismantling, it turned out that the quality of the old partitions is so deplorable that almost all of them have to be rebuilt. And if so, then why not take the opportunity and make the “successful layout” even better. Thus, the partition between the living room and the bathroom was moved, which made it possible to increase the area of ​​​​the living room and equip a niche for the TV zone. Also, the window sill part was dismantled in the living room, the radiator was moved and double-leaf glass doors were installed on the balcony, which made it possible to fill the room with light. nine0003

With the help of mirrors and a raised ceiling in the living room, a sofa area is distinguished, elegant and solemn.

Coffee table and carpet - Eichholtz. Accessories, Arteva Home. Sconce, Visual Comfort. Sofa, Estetica.

Dining area. Chandelier — Eichholtz. Console, Mis en Demeure. Floor lamp, Eichholtz. Chairs, Eichholtz.

Dining area. Chandelier – Eichholtz. Console, Mis en Demeure. Floor lamp, Eichholtz. Chairs, Eichholtz.

A partition with a portal of maximum width was erected between the kitchen and the dining room. Kitchen equipment was placed in the letter "P" on all three walls, using the usable area as much as possible. A cozy place for breakfast appeared near the window, which can also serve as an additional workplace. According to the designer, the most difficult thing was to figure out how to decorate the old inactive garbage chute. Coordination of dismantling turned out to be a complicated bureaucratic matter, so the garbage chute was disguised as a kitchen column and decorated. nine0003

The frieze of the wall cabinet, in which the hood is hidden, is decorated with an inscription in Latin: Vivere in momento (“All life is moments”). The wall between the study and the bedroom was also moved a little, in order, as in the case of the living room, to increase the area of ​​​​one of the rooms.

Furniture, Arva. Household appliances, Liebherr, Smeg. Tile apron, Ceramiche Grazia. The floor is made of natural marble. Semi-bar chairs, Lammhults.

Kitchen.

Two symmetrical portals were installed in the corridor. Such a technique made it possible to divide a long uncomfortable room into 3 zones and place spacious cupboards for books and storing household items in niches along the walls. Moving the doorway to the bathroom allowed for a spacious shower room with a seat that flows into the bathtub. nine0003

Lighting for paintings, posters - Eichholtz. Floor - parquet board, Khars

The cabinets are made according to the sketches of the designer, Mr Doors. Mirrored facades of cabinets do not overload the corridor devoid of natural light, but, on the contrary, visually expand the space.

To prevent the ventilation duct from looking massive, it was lined with mirrors.

Plumbing, Villeroy & Boch. Faucets, Nicolazzi. Tiles, Vallelunga. Fixtures, Visual Comfort.

There is a washing machine behind the front of the vanity unit. nine0003

In order to visually hide the ventilation ducts in the office and at the same time not lower the ceiling, they were placed in the upper facades of the cabinet. In the same room, a functional workplace was arranged near the window with an abundance of shelves and drawers for storing stationery and documents. Ventilation in this project was given a special place: in addition to supply ventilation in the form of grilles and ducts, each room has air infiltration valves, which the designer decorated.

Furniture, Mr Doors. Mirror, posters, chandelier - Eihcholtz. Sconce, Visual Comfort. Accessories, Arteva Home. Sofa, Estetica. nine0003

Cabinet.

Cabinet.

When the redevelopment was finished, it was time to decorate the interior of the apartment. Elena suggested mixing modern classics with an American style and complementing the space with vintage accessories and elements. Since the owners wanted a bright and light interior, the designer proposed a color palette of complex natural shades that create an enveloping atmosphere of peace and relaxation. Light upholstery and an abundance of mirror surfaces visually expanded the space of the apartment, filling it with air. And bright juicy accents in the form of textiles, accessories and carpet made the interior lively and interesting. nine0003

Bed and armchair, Estetica. Console, Eichholtz. Sconce, Visual Comfort.

Bed and armchair, Estetica. Console, Eichholtz. Sconce, Visual Comfort.

Bed and armchair, Estetica.

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