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6 Interior Design Ideas for Modern Homes
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Renovating your décor can feel a little bit daunting. But don’t worry, our interior design ideas offer inspiration on how to project your vision onto the blank canvas of your house. From sophisticated and minimalist colour schemes to biophilic designs, our insider tips will help you curate a stylish, secure, and energy-efficient home that’s connected to the outdoors.
1) Neutral Colours
Some modern home styles champion minimalist simplicity and clean lines to create a neat and sophisticated look. Despite a less-is-more approach, the effect is far from cold or bland, establishing a feeling of understated elegance that can be paired with homely features.
Neutral colours, including white, grey, and beige, provide a timeless and clean foundation for a contemporary aesthetic. These tones can be implemented into your walls, countertops, and furniture alongside sleek metal appliances and hardware to achieve a cool and balanced atmosphere.
At Express, our aluminium features, such as bifold and sliding doors, can be powder-coated in any of the 200 available RAL colours to match your interior’s modernistic palette. This colour coordination should be consistent in each of your rooms for a cohesive and harmonious feel throughout.
2) Biophilic Design
A biophilic layout is another modern interior design idea that brings the natural environment into your home. This trend centres around bringing the outdoors inside, creating spaces that cultivate a stronger connection with nature as the boundary between interior and exterior spaces dissolves.
Turn your home into a calming, nature-inspired space that supports your physical and mental wellbeing with a few simple design ideas. Start by adding indoor plants. Real ones offer cleaner air and a true connection to the outdoors, but even faux plants can bring a refreshing touch of green. Use natural materials like wood and stone, and choose earthy colours and botanical patterns to complete the look. It’s an easy way to bring the soothing feel of nature inside.
The physical indoor-outdoor borders of your home should blend effortlessly into each other. Sliding doors, bifold doors, and expansive aluminium windows create a natural flow between your interior living space and your garden or patio, making your home feel larger and more connected to the outdoors.
3) Natural Light
The success of minimalist interior designs and nature-inspired décor is influenced by the amount of natural light entering your home. Structural features that increase natural light elevate a modern interior, making spaces feel brighter, larger, and more inviting.
Skylights and rooflights transform the redundant spaces of your ceiling into a cost-efficient lighting solution that naturally illuminates open-plan living spaces. Aluminium’s inherent strength means bifold doors, frameless sliding doors and French doors can be crafted with slimmer frames, increasing the size of glazed panes. And floor-to-ceiling mirrors will also improve light flow and sightlines into your garden.
But it’s not just about looks; natural light can improve your mood, reduce stress, and even ease symptoms of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). So, if you’re spending more time indoors, increasing your light sources is a simple way to boost your wellbeing.
4) Smart Home Technology
Smart home technology continues to grow in popularity, shaping the way we interact with our interior spaces by making everyday life more convenient, secure, and energy efficient. Smart locks, for example, allow you to lock and unlock your front door from your phone, so no more fumbling for keys! That’s why here at Express, we’ve partnered with Ultion to bring you the Nuki Plus smart lock, which provides keyless entry and increased security for our range of premium front doors.
Other smart devices, like programmable thermostats and voice-controlled lighting systems, help you manage your home’s temperature and ambience more efficiently. This can lower energy costs and contribute to a minimalist aesthetic, as wireless controls and centralised systems reduce the clutter of wires and multiple remote controls.
Overall, adding smart technology to your home is a simple way to bring it into the modern age while improving comfort, convenience and ROI.
5) Statement Front Door
As the first thing people see, your front door should reflect the modernist style of your home. A strong first impression, sets a tone that is harmonious with the rest of your interior design.
Our range of premium front doors are made from robust aluminium frames that incorporate large panes of glass, emphasising clean lines and transparency. There is incredible flexibility across our bespoke selection, so you can choose panel designs, colours, finishes, and hardware that complement your internal decoration. You can even add a glass canopy above your front door for a distinctive architectural feature that complements a minimalist aesthetic, whilst keeping your entryway protected.
Aluminium’s inherent strength and weather resistance craft durable and secure front doors that remain gorgeous with minimal upkeep. The industrious locking system of Express front doors utilises 3-star lock cylinders as standard, securing the door at several points along its frame to protect your home. Plus, for ultimate convenience, our modern front doors can be fitted with the same lock so that only one key is needed for all.
6) Sustainable Designs
Optimising the energy efficiency of your home, as well as its style and security is a cornerstone of modern interior design. This is a holistic approach that’s rooted in environmental consciousness, cost savings, and improving the overall comfort of your interior spaces.
Contemporary design features can boost thermal performance; patio doors and windows manufactured from thermally broken aluminium have a non-conductive material inserted into their frame, preventing the unwanted transfer of heat. Double-glazed panes also retain heat during winter and cool air in the summer, reducing energy waste and keeping a comfortable temperature in your home year-round with no condensation.
Make the most of sustainable materials during your interior renovation for a fresh style and environmental peace of mind. A biophilic design could use locally sourced stone and marble to achieve a sophisticated and contemporary feel softened by the warmth of wooden features. These green alternatives pair effortlessly with aluminium, which is highly recyclable and perfect for lighting, furniture, and architectural solutions that reduce your home’s carbon footprint.
Visit Our Showroom for More Inspiration
We hope our interior design ideas have given you plenty of inspiration for your next home interior renovation. For more interior design ideas, check out the other blogs on our website that explore the best way to use bifold doors, sliding doors, French doors, and glazed structures within modern and traditional homes alike.
Come on down to the showroom to see our bespoke structures for yourself and have a chat with our expert sales team to discover the best home solution for your needs.
