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Modern deco style – colour things beautiful

Cool colour-blocking and straight lines define the modern deco 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 as steel, glass and chrome accessories and furniture, it’s an unfussy interior style that’s both fun and functional.

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

Modern deco style furniture – bold and bright

Modern deco style furniture is all about accents. That’s because – whether working with a monochrome palette, nude hues or bright colours – modern deco style 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 living room with modern deco style furniture of minimalist grey cabinets, a yellow armchair and retro wall light.
Modern deco style furniture including a yellow armchair and grey metal coffee table on castors in a modern living room.

Modern deco style accessories – choose bold, choose brilliant

In bright, bold, colour-blocky modern deco 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 deco style room.
Grey metal shelving holding succulent plants in minimalist dark grey pots, and an exposed-bulb lamp.

Modern deco style living room – a strong storage game

In modern deco style 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 deco style accessories and a round glass lamp on it.
Open blonde wood shelving stands in a yellow modern deco style living room, stacked with box files, baskets, storage boxes and home accessories.

Modern deco style bedroom – cool, calm, curated

Candy-coloured textiles are layered up in the modern deco style bedroom, where prints and pattern 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 of silhouette and all-white. The only decorative additions are single cut flowers in collections of simple glass vases.

A modern deco style 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 deco style bathroom – clean-lined clarity

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

Modern deco style kitchen – the sunny side of life

Sleek, functional, clutter-free and full of personality, the modern deco style kitchen balances what’s needed with what’s nice. Both are displayed on open shelving or metal kitchen trolleys, 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 deco style stainless-steel kitchen with a minimalist kitchen tap, 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.