Modern Furniture Design – Home Living Ideas and Furniture Decorating

Neutral palette of color throughout the living space is the best way to create an elegant and luxury impression of house. The color selections are often called modern tone, which remains of five stars hotel room when giving the warm welcome to guests with the neutral flavor of interior.

Neutral colors primarily consist of beige, ivory, taupe, black, gray, and white usually appear to be without color. Despite the different color, it can be always appear in a single tone. Tones like brown, cream, or white are the perfect one to generate the warmth elegant ambiance of each room attached. The modern contemporary look from neutral tone is applicable for living, dining or bedroom. For instance is a bedroom, a light cream work out as excellent choices for walls and ceilings or even doorframe. It is a successful alternative to white color for those who want to have warmer look inside.

As a complement to the room, the wood furniture chosen can be in the same tone. Dark brown bedside or lamp table looks gorgeous beside the platform bed. Tall dark brown close to black wooden headboard creates natural tone to add the elegant atmosphere. Dual tone of creamy brown contemporary rug is also compliment in its way.

A room would not be alive is there is no living thing in there. That is why some small pot of plantation or a vase of blooming flower would be nice to accompany the dwellers to enjoy the living space. Though the tone of room is neutral, it is not necessarily to have everything inside in the same mood. Colorful blooms liven up the room in another context of living itself.

As we know, the environmental issues have sucked a lot of attention. The scientists still develop research to overcome a number of environmental issues ranging from the crisis of water, soil, air, until the energy. That issues also affecting the climate changing causing catastrophic worldwide.

One of the victims of excessive energy consumption is the natural resources. Millions of hectares of forests destroyed to meet the lifestyle needs of modern humans. Successive disasters arise as a result of the declining quality of human life. To overcome those problems, we can’t only depend on the scientists, but we also have to involve.

If we talked about the excessive energy consumption of the natural resources, means we talked about the consumption of woods. There is much wood utilization, one of them is furniture. We can make a few changes using environmental friendly material starting from our intimate room which is bedroom. Material criteria for Eco-friendly bedroom furniture is actually just a simple bed, such as not using the wood by cutting down trees, or have a contribution to environmental damage. If using wood we should also be considered for the use of wood that can grow rapidly, or can be harvested, then replanted.

Many of furniture manufacturer have developed the environmental friendly furniture. One of them is Indonesia furniture that is made from waste teak and rosewood and reclaimed wood. They are no less beautiful as the newly felled wood. Wood materials used have an old wooden style and looks strong lines, with little touch of modern design, will look stylish with a retro look and look old. Not just the materials that you have considered, but also the finishing of your bedroom furniture. Choose water-based finishing and does not produce harmful gases, so you can sleep soundly without worrying it will disturbing your health.

“Magic Mirror on the Wall, who is the Fairest one of all?”

I’ll bet you know this quote. The step mother of Snow White always said that when she looked at the magic mirror. Proving who is the most beauty in the world. Mirror becomes one of thing which always related to beauty.

No exception for mostly women or now men either, will require mirror and vanity in their bedroom closet. Dress up, make up, hairdo also named it anything related to beauty. This is the reason why the presence of vanity and mirror becomes very important.

Dressing table is usually placed in the master bedroom. Although its main function as a dressing table, this table also has other functions. Not only as a place to dress up and make up, but also has has the function as storage spaced the personal belongings. Vanity accommodates these items such various bottles of cosmetics, perfumes, accessories, and other trinkets.

Commonly dressing table or vanity is placed in the bedroom. If you have a dressing room, there is also a great place for a dresser. The only thing it should be noted is compatibility with the needs of space availability. Many, of course, require a large closet. If it’s not possible, you should not have put a large vanity. One way to overcome it, break-select frequently used items and items that do not have to use every day. Place frequently used items on the dresser. The rest can be stored in another container, like a closet.

In terms of design solutions can also be applied. Make your own wood furniture, a dressing table with plenty of shelves and storage cabinets. Find many inspirations in the interior design magazines or websites.

Want to have a great contemporary style for your house? You should not forget about your bedroom. Never think that bedroom is a private area where no one will pay attention to instead it is a place where you will rest your self and feel the comfort there. One thing you should remember is that the furniture takes a hand in making you feel comfort.

What will bedroom without bed be? Don’t let your bed be an afterthought. Your bed will be the most prominent object in your room, so it has to go with your bedroom’s theme, color-wise, size-wise, and style-wise. A huge bed in a small room will likely look out of place as would a four-post bed in a room with sleek modern furnishings.

Bed Sizes

The most popular bed sizes are king, queen, twin and the increasingly popular California king. A California king is narrow and long, rather than the traditional king bed’s square shape. Just make sure you have the exact dimensions of your bed before you go mattress shopping, since bed manufacturers sometimes don’t follow the standard bed sizes exactly.

Bed Styles

Don’t confuse bed sizes with bed styles. Bed styles refer to the headboard and footboard. The basis of any bed is still the mattress and frame, which only vary outwardly in terms of the sizes listed above.

• Daybed

Daybeds are twin beds. What makes them special is that they can double as couches if you position them against a wall. Being compact and versatile, daybeds are great for small spaces.

• Platform

Platform beds are elegantly simple, fitting in with just about any style of decor.

• Sleigh bed

Sleigh beds have curved headboards and foot boards that look like, well…a sleigh. There are simpler and more modern sleigh bed designs, so you can get one even if you are going for a more modern-looking room.

• Four post bed

You know this bed already: it’s the one with a post sticking up out of each corner. The posts can support a canopy, but the canopy is optional.

• Pencil post bed

Pencil post beds are like four-post beds, only the posts are tall and tapered like…well, pencils. Harking back to their heyday in the 1700s, pencil-post beds fit a room with colonial furnishings especially well.

Well, which bed will be your contemporary bedroom furniture? Don’t bet your bed.

Bedroom is the most private room in the house. In this room people are get off from their physic and emotional activities. That is why people often specially design this room. The main principal element of a bedroom is must be comfortable and calm. A bedroom must full fill its two main functions;

Physical function, bedroom will provide which accommodating every kind of goods and activities of the owner, especially the private one.

Psychological function, bedroom is expected to be a place which give the optimal coziness when the owner really need some break.

Bedroom must be designed using eased interior element and natural colors. If your house is not so big and does not have many rooms, it will be better to apply bright tint on those rooms. Bright color will afford good impression, just like clean, wide and roomy. However, we must consider using these bright colors to the room that is functionally used for public area, just like living room, guest room, dining room etc. Do not forget to match or suit the color to any contemporary furniture in your house, so that it will look harmonic.

To the more private room, it will be better to use your favorite colors. For instance, you cannot force the bright color on your room or your children’s room if they are not like it.

However, you have to consider again and again in choosing the proper color for the room so that it won’t end in some shade colors; purple, silver or turquoise, because all of those color will affect to the children to be lazier in studying.

Probably, fans of The Adventures of Tin Tin will notice that he usually had big traveling chest when he was traveling around the world. His big traveling chest or used to called trunk loads many things in it. Trunk was a popular item for storage and luggage.

In early period, trunk consider as traveling bag when most commonly used for extended periods away from home, such as for boarding school, or long trips abroad. If you are fans of The Adventures of Tin Tin you will notice that he usually had it when he was traveling around the world. As mentioned before trunk loads many items on it even though it is difficult to carry, as it requires more than one person. They were made in many shapes and sizes and from various materials. Trunks were generally constructed with a base trunk box made of pine, which was then covered with protective and decorative materials. Some of the earliest trunks are covered with studded hide or leather and look much like the furniture of the same period. In the past, even some wealthier people made them in luxurious material and distinctive design, which sometimes it look like as treasure box as it appearance.

Which slight change until today, most trunks are used as either furniture such as glass-covered coffee tables or decorative storage for everything from blankets and linens to memorabilia and military paraphernalia. In modern furniture design, trunk is part of bedroom furniture, which is usually place at the end of the bed. Some of it also completed with drawers and side door. It is also made of various materials although commonly it is made of wood. As well, its design that available, either in antique or modern style thus gives preference to customers. An antique trunk generally appears like old-fashioned trunk with brass band or leather hide on it. On the other hand, contemporary or modern trunk may have distinctive design and shape that is different from the old trunk. Some of it may have drawers and tilt out door instead in flats-top model or dome top that looks like a treasure box. Alternatively there is as well made similar to bench with upholstery on it thus has double function either as storage and seating stool.  What a great idea to place it in a place beside bedroom that gives a new impression on the room.