Combine classic and antique style furnishings with modern style has become an increasingly popular approach to creating comfortable and sophisticated interiors. However, it is necessary to know some strategies to create balanced environments with a practical and refined touch. Here are some advice to enhance every corner of your home.
Insert some into your home classic style furniture, with unique finishes and precious woods, offers the environment a touch of elegance. To best emphasize the existing spaces and furnishings, at our shop between Vicenza and Treviso it is possible to see in person many examples of furniture inspired by the classic style and revised in a more modern key: a classic revisited and contemporary.Find the balance between antique and modern style furnishings
When they come together two styles for furnishing your home, it is crucial to find the right balance. In order to best enhance the furniture inspired by the classic style, it is very important to know where to place it and evaluate any finishing touches to make the appearance of the home as harmonious as possible.
A visual proportion that yes extends also to complements d’arredo, ma che vede la sua massima espressione nell’inserimento di mobili come tavoli, sedie e credenze, oltre a scrivanie, librerie e cassettiere, insieme a letti, armadi e cassettoni. Nel progettare un ambiente che coniughi arredamento in stile classico e moderno, suggeriamo perciò di integrate classic pieces in all those spaces of the home that can see them as protagonists.
Mobili Bernardi Amedeo, in the shop near Bassano del Grappa (VI), offers numerous inspirations to embellish bedrooms, living rooms and studies, and it is possible to request clarifications and information also via email and by telephone.
Pay attention to color combinations
The choice of color palette plays a crucial role within a home. For this reason, when it comes to choosing furniture that combines classic and modern styles, it is necessary to pay particular attention pay attention to combinations.
The nuances that characterize the furniture inspired by the classic style are those close to brown, expanded by the various shades of lacquered colours, such as white, ivory, dove gray and also green and light blue in various shades of intensity. In the finishes of the style furniture, black and two-tone solutions represent the trend of current demand. Combining shades of brown, from the lightest to the darkest, with other colors in the same piece of furniture gives a very versatile result that allows easy combinations between modern furniture and stylish furniture. As examples of furniture with two-tone finishes, just think of Provençal-style tables with ivory white or black legs and natural wood-coloured tops; walls equipped with a walnut colored TV stand on the outside and white on the inside back panel and shelves.It is therefore important to also evaluate the shades of the furniture already present in the house and it is possible follow three approaches: insert a classic element that creates a balanced contrast; select one with similar colors to the rest of the furniture; proceed with a chromatic renovation of the environment.
Insert the right lighting to enhance the furniture
A'lighting well-studied can help put highlighting the ancient and modern furnishings of a house in an elegant and harmonious way. Knowing the best techniques to create a welcoming atmosphere is therefore essential. Thanks to the combination of artificial light e natural, it is possible to create plays of light and dark that highlight the beauty of antique-style furniture. Directing the brightness of lamps and spotlights on some details, it is possible to recreate a welcoming and intimate atmosphere throughout the room.
Play with contrasts between ancient and modern furnishings
There rule of opposites it is easy to apply: it consists of analyzing the pre-existing furniture and positioning the classic element in a chromatically and visually different point. Usually, in fact, they are the antique style furniture to give a unique and particular touch to the rooms of the house and, for this reason, they must be valorised in the right way.
Eliminate superfluous complements
The antique style furniture it is a unique piece that deserves to be valorised. One way to do this is therefore to give enough space to each piece, limiting the number of accessories inside the room and maintaining a clean and harmonious aesthetic. It is advisable to focus on a few objects to create an inspiring environment highlighting uniqueness and the beauty of the classic furnishings inside.
Evaluate the spaces available and the overall dimensions
Regardless of the size of the home, to ensure a harmonious environment and well organized it is essential to carefully consider the arrangement of the furniture. Houses once had large, spacious rooms and, consequently, so did the furnishings they were inside them of high dimensions. Today, however, the tendency is to prefer spaces more welcoming.
For this reason, before proceeding with the insertion of classic and modern style furniture, it is important evaluate the dimensions of the environment, taking into account that with Mobili Bernardi Amedeo it is possible to design a handcrafted, tailor-made piece of furniture that respects the style of the historical period from which it is inspired.
Examples of ancient and modern furniture for each room
Every room in your home can be furnished with a balanced mix of antique and modern furnishings.
- Bedroom: there are many solutions to insert a harmonious combination of styles into this room. For example, to a leatherette bed with container, you can match a dresser inlaid, a decorated cabinet or a bench covered in quality fabrics. On the contrary, when the Bed with container drawers it is classic and with a padded headboard in real leather, it is possible to combine it with design solutions such as linear chests of drawers.
- Stay: it is the heart of the house, that space dedicated to sharing moments with friends or family and the inclusion of classic or antique style furniture such as handouts, sideboards o corner cupboard gives a touch of warmth and authenticity.
- A table classic can be enhanced with transparent chairs or, in the same way, a modern one can be combined with one dispay window in ancient style.
- Study: to create an environment that combines antique style furnishings with modern style, it is possible to combine a desk classic to an ergonomic designer chair; the Chests of drawers antique style with desk lamps; the Bookshops to minimalist armchairs.
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