How to Incorporate Minimalism with Modern Design Styles?

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1. Tips to Incorporate Minimalism with Modern Design Styles[+]
   1. Make Your Personality Stand Out
   2. Creating a Neutral Base
   3. Incorporate Textures
   4. Make Use of Clean Lines

Lately in the long line of popular trends, minimalism has appeared not simply as a way for individuals to express themselves, but to allow more visceral life experiences a place to exist.

Basically, the minimalist mindset focuses on reducing the ambient noise and clutter of numerous possessions. By doing so, a minimalist can focus on what truly brings them joy and achieve greater meaning in life. And this is also becoming a popular element of interior design.

To generate a sensation of openness and pleasure, the minimalist style uses only the basic elements: light, form, and beautiful materials, usually in an open-plan structure. There isn’t a lot of extraneous embellishment or decoration. Instead, the few details that are employed are simple and mix well with the environment. This might be a single piece of artwork on a living room wall or a lovely vase on top of the dining room table.

But how do you blend style with minimalism? It may appear that the two exist in opposite spheres. However, with a little innovation, you can incorporate any style while also keeping in accord with minimalist principles.

One particular style that lends greater flexibility with minimalism is that of Bohemian design, otherwise known as Boho. In the following, we’ll explore a few ways to incorporate these styles and make them blend nicely together.

Tips to Incorporate Minimalism with Modern Design Styles

Make Your Personality Stand Out

No matter if you’re a minimalist or not, there’s no better way to decorate your home than to incorporate the things that you love as accent points.

For example, perhaps you like to play music on the guitar. If this is the case, having a small space dedicated to playing music is a great way to display personal interest.

As such, a comfortable chair, a colorful rug, and a lone guitar stand incorporated into your overall design not only meets the goal of adding personal and Boho style elements, keeping it simple in this fashion also aligns itself with minimalist design principles.

Additionally, if you want to add a bit of flair to your space to make your personality stand out, you may also consider adding only a few photos of you doing the things you love. And perhaps instead of crowding your mantle with numerous photos, just a few photos will suffice.

For example, a photo of you on a rafting trip, hiking a trail, or downtown at an art festival would be ideal to display to add a bit of Boho personality to your adobe.

Creating a Neutral Base

Here’s where it can get interesting. With a neutral base, you’ll maintain a minimalist approach to design, but you’ll also open the door for many stylistic options. The trick is to start with neutral colors such as grays, tans, whites, and the like. With these as a base, you can add any other color as an accent or a compliment.

A vivid color palette is unusual for minimalism because it is based on simplification. You may always add a touch of shading to your home design using patterns and textures if you wish. You can use basic lines on the walls to contrast with the neutral colors, or you can use chrome-colored home decor and arrange it in different ways. In your minimalist home, it produces a vivid design.

If considering implementing Boho and minimalist design, the following color combos may prove useful:

• Tan and burgundy
• White and forest green
• White and yellow
• Off-white and crimson
• Gray and turquoise

The above combinations create a great contrast in color. And instead of remaining cold and neutral (which can feel uninviting), you’ll create a bit of warmth and juxtaposition for your interior space.

Incorporate Textures

Contrary to popular belief, minimalism doesn’t always lend itself to a bland or flat element of design. In fact, by adding a bit of texture, you can bring the element of warmth and comfort into your space as well.

A great way to add warmth and comfort is to incorporate textiles, fabrics, and other materials that allow for texture to be interwoven into your space. And a few you may want to consider are as follows:

• Hanging tapestries
• Partitions
• Beadery
• Shag rugs
• Statues
• Relief paintings

It’s also good to note that keeping in line with Boho chic and minimalism is usually an easy task when incorporating only one or two textured elements.

Make Use of Clean Lines

Many minimalist spaces have a linear quality about them. That is, your eye tends to be drawn toward edges and surfaces that have clean, pronounced angles. But this doesn’t mean that they have to remain bare.

While you don’t want to add Boho color in the form of haphazardly placed antiques or nic nacs, gaudy artwork, or with piles of magazines and the like, you can add splashes of color to enhance the quality of line and space.

For example, consider a bare floor where you can see the prominent edges of the floor as it meets the wall. Simply adding contrast in paint on trim can offer more warmth and reduce the feeling of empty space. Additionally, even a plant placed near right angles brings a feeling of warmth into a space.

Conclusion

Use the less is more approach to get the minimalist interior design right and edit and change out things on a regular basis from season to season to prevent a heavy, crowded, and sensory overload impact.

The arrangement of enormous vases in the den above has a gallery-like impression, as if they were genuine works of art deserving of a devoted role in the spotlight, as nothing should come across as random.

Minimalism and Bohemian design can coexist in the same space. All it takes is a little functional design know-how to bring the two together. And while your space will still be in line with minimalist principles, your home will also have the added bonus of color and style. 

Thank you for reading!