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Modern style – colour things beautiful

Cool colour-blocking and straight lines define the modern style. With a nod to Sixties style, it’s a fresh take on retro furniture silhouettes and accessories in warm, rich tones. Mixed and matched as simple colours and bold patterns in textiles, and reflective surfaces like steel, glass, and chrome accessories and furniture, it’s an unfussy interior style that’s both fun and functional.

A modern style room with a dark pink wall, a grey sofa, and a yellow retro wall light.
A modern style room with a dark pink wall, a grey sofa, and a yellow retro wall light.

Modern furniture – bold and bright

Modern style furniture is all about accents. That’s because – whether working with a monochrome palette, nude hues, or bright colours – modern rooms are defined by tight edits of tones. They’re what make combining simple shapes, clean lines, exposed structural elements, and oversized accessories so easy. Because when you work with three or four colours, you leave all the fun to the silhouettes.

A modern living room with contemporary furniture of minimalist grey cabinets, a yellow armchair, and retro wall light.
Modern furniture including a yellow armchair and grey metal coffee table on casters in a modern living room.

Modern home décor accessories – choose bold, choose brilliant

In bright, bold, colour-blocky modern style rooms, it’s the accessories that change things up. With graphic patterns added as coloured cushions, transparency in smoked glass vases, and texture with rippled glasses, it’s a look that’s pared back, sleek and decorative.

Smoked and rippled glass vases are lined up with a monstera plant on the windowsill of a modern style room.
Grey metal shelving holding succulent plants in minimalist dark grey pots, and an exposed-bulb lamp.

Modern living room – a strong storage game

In modern living rooms, colour brings interest to the simple and the functional. Open floor plans are common with this interior style, where single-coloured walls and furniture provide a strong backdrop for storage and home accessories. Collections of files, boxes and baskets become decorative in themselves, arranged across shelving between accessories chosen for and grouped by shape, line, colour and texture. Think round glass lamps, curated gallery walls, and small stacks of books.

A bentwood chair stands in a yellow living room in front of a pink storage cabinet with modern home decor accessories and a round glass lamp on it.
Open blonde wood shelving stands in a yellow modern living room, stacked with box files, baskets, storage boxes, and home accessories.

Modern bedroom – cool, calm, curated

Candy-coloured textiles are layered up in the modern bedroom, where prints and patterns are of the straight-lined variety – whether as chunky stripes or big, bold checks. Larger furniture and lighting take supporting roles here, being both plain silhouette and all-white. The only decorative additions are single-cut flowers in collections of simple glass vases.

A modern bedroom with white lighting and lilac walls, featuring a checked rug and a white bed covered in coloured throw pillows.
A stack of coloured cushions on a bed in pink, green, lilac and yellow, topped with a multi-coloured striped cushion in all these colours.

Modern bathroom – clean-lined clarity

The modern bathroom has a graphic feel, with tiled walls that give a simple uniformity. This is reinforced in the straight lines of its functional open shelving, minimal bathroom cabinets, simple bathroom sink unit, and small storage boxes. And they’re interrupted by trailing leafy plants and bold-coloured textiles and storage bags that hang from wall hooks. Just add water.

A bathroom sink unit and mirror in a modern bathroom, with white tiled walls, a turquoise tiled floor, open shelving, and burnt orange textiles.
The corner of a modern bathroom, showing a make-up mirror on a windowsill beside open shelving holding simple storage boxes and a striped bag.

Modern kitchen – the sunny side of life

Sleek, functional, clutter-free and full of personality, the modern kitchen balances what’s needed with what’s nice. Both are displayed on open shelving or metal kitchen carts, so they’re always easy to see – and to reach. The colour and materials palette is small, with brushed steel and warm woods appearing in both furniture and accessories – from the metal kitchen units to the wooden pepper grinder, serving bowls, and kitchen chairs. The result is a kitchen that’s full of variation, yet completely tied together.

A modern stainless-steel kitchen with a minimalist kitchen faucet, yellow walls, wooden kitchen utensils, and a large round mirror.
A yellow kitchen trolley standing by a stainless-steel kitchen, holding salt and pepper grinders, wooden serving bowls, and a water jug.