| Offices are big proponents of modern interior design | | | | and a stark brown bookshelf with books and a few |
| because they want to appear to their clients as ones | | | | knick-knacks may sit against a wall. These few pieces |
| who are up to date with the latest in technological | | | | may be all that is in the room. |
| advances. This involves a very clean look and does | | | | The furniture in modern interior design incorporates the |
| not need a great many furniture pieces. Note that if a | | | | use of low-back sectional sofas and straight-lined |
| designer is not especially skilled in modern interior | | | | chairs and tables. Primarily only straight lines are used |
| design, they can border on the boring or sterile version | | | | in the chairs that are included in modern interior design. |
| of contemporary design. | | | | You will find very few rounded-arm upholstered chairs |
| The Basic Concepts | | | | and the lamps will be high-tech looking and quite shiny. |
| The basic concepts of modern interior design consist | | | | Window treatments are most often blinds or a hard |
| of straight lines, geometric shapes, single colors, shiny | | | | treatment of some sort and some are even left |
| surfaces and the lack of clutter. Oftentimes a room will | | | | uncovered. |
| be monochromatic, or that monochromatic color might | | | | Flooring, in many cases, will be of a natural material; |
| be accented with a single bold, contrasting color or a | | | | grasses, bamboos and jute are very popular. Walls |
| deeper version of the monochromatic color. Nearly all | | | | may be left white or painted. Wallpaper is rarely used |
| of the colors of the spectrum can be used in modern | | | | in modern interior design. The artwork is modern and |
| interior design, but rarely will you see any prints unless | | | | may become the focal point with the entire room is |
| they are geometric shapes or patterns. Generally, | | | | situated around the artwork. |
| these patterns or shapes will be found in the accent | | | | Commercial modern interior design projects will boast |
| pillows. | | | | of shiny surfaces and monochromatic colors. A client |
| For example, you may have a peach-colored sofa | | | | forms a first impression of the company when he or |
| accented by large solid, bold orange and teal pillows. A | | | | she first walks through the door. For that reason, the |
| high-backed upholstered chair in the same peach | | | | business wants to show that it is updated and |
| fabric with a small accent pillow with orange and teal | | | | organized. While it all sounds terribly simple, it actually |
| stripes can be in close proximity. Coffee tables and | | | | requires a high degree of knowledge and skill to |
| end tables can be made of a peach laminate with | | | | achieve the exact specified look. To successfully |
| perhaps a piece of contemporary chocolate brown | | | | achieve any style of interior design, retaining a |
| pottery sitting on the coffee table. The lamp may be a | | | | highly-skilled interior designer is always your best option. |
| shiny chrome floor lamp with a chrome lampshade, | | | | |