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Modern style

The modern style combines an elegant, urban, and playful approach to design. This style is perfect for creating a refined and lively interior that feels both contemporary and inviting. Style your living room, bedroom, or dining area with these tips and ideas in mind to create a stylish modern home.

A modern living room with a beige STOCKHOLM 2025 sofa, a wooden coffee table with a glass top, and an orange throw.

What characterises the modern style?

The modern style is a blend of minimalist shapes, luxurious materials, trendy patterns, and an elegant, urban look, complemented by generous, refined furniture that radiates comfort and quality.

  • Minimal shapes and rich materials: Combine clean, simple lines with luxurious materials for a sophisticated appearance.
  • Bold patterns: Embrace contemporary trends with striking patterns in pastel shades paired with muted tones, or combinations like olive green and dusty pink, enhanced with lavender, golden yellow, and bright orange.
  • Modernist and elegant: This reflects a worldly, urban, and contemporary aesthetic, inspired by modern trends and adapted for a wide audience.
  • Generous shapes and materials: Slightly richer and softer than strict modernism, with generous forms, materials, surfaces, and colours—always with a focus on family life at home.
  • Stylish finishes: Both glossy and matte finishes are used. Common colours are deep and muted, combined with neutral tones and the occasional brighter accent.
  • Generous and refined furniture: Furniture and objects are often spacious, elegant, and inspired by Italian design heritage. Comfort and a sense of high quality are key features.

Which colours suit the modern style?

Looking to give your interior a modern twist? Opt for muted colours. This palette consists of soft, understated tones that convey elegance and sophistication. These colours range from dark to light and airy, including anthracite, midnight blue, moss green, taupe, beige, powder pink, and sand. Pastel tones combined with muted shades—such as olive green and dusty pink, lavender, golden yellow, and bright orange—also work beautifully.

Turn every room into a modern room

A modern living room with a modern sofa, a beige rug, and a white floor lamp.
A living-room wall half-covered by a white VIHALS storage combination, the other half dotted with a cluster of framed art.
A modern bedroom with a bed made up with white bedding and decorative cushions in warm colours.
A green-brown KONSTFULL vase in the kitchen
Black ÖSTANÖ chairs and a white GUNDE folding stool surrounding a white DOCKSTA table in a dining area with sliding doors.

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