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When it comes to furniture design, it might be difficult to strike the ideal mix between traditional and modern styles for any given home. The good news is that- emerging as a distinctive solution- the transitional furniture style is effectively harmonizing old and new elements to help homeowners create modern yet timeless spaces. If you have never heard of transitional furniture style before, don’t worry; it is quite a new trend rapidly becoming popular for its elegant, sophisticated way of merging the past and the contemporary.
This is especially true for the traditional furniture style. If you haven’t heard of the transitional furniture style before, don’t worry because it’s a relatively new furniture movement.
It is all about combining old-fashioned furniture with contemporary furniture. You might think that this style would look strange and disjointed.
However, when done properly, you will find that this kind of style can look very sophisticated and interesting. The transitional style can certainly make it, so your home decor doesn’t look like anyone else’s.
Keep reading and learn more about how to incorporate transitional furniture options into your home.
Experiment with a Neutral Palette
Did you know that certain colors can affect a person’s behavior and mood? This is the basis of color psychology, and it plays a big role when it comes to furniture design.
Transitional furniture design is distinguished in part by its use of a neutral color palette. Focusing on tones like beige, light blue, white, dark blue, and cream makes it possible for the design and texture of the furniture to take center stage instead of allowing bright colors to overshadow the finer details of both classic and modern pieces.
BIAN: A08030 Fulton Chest of Drawers
Take the BIAN: A08030 Fulton Chest of Drawers for example. With its subtle detailing, this piece captures the core of the transitional furniture style. The light wood finish of the chest accentuates modern and vintage décor, adding flexibility to any space. Its modest design does not demand attention but instead encourages a tranquil and calm atmosphere, which is the main goal of the transitional furniture style. In other words, such neutral tones can go a long way in ensuring that the focus remains on the structure and the materials of the furniture, creating an open, airy, and welcoming space.
Details in the Transitional Furniture Style
When it comes to transitional furniture styles, the devil is in the details. While modern furniture design is mostly minimalist, traditional pieces usually feature more details. These two taken together will produce an interesting and visually balanced space. Take the MANT: Vanesio Console for example. Although this piece has a complex design that suggests its historic roots, its general simplicity fits quite nicely with modern aesthetics. Placing this console in your living room or entryway will quickly improve the area and pay homage to the elegance of the past without losing modern relevance.
Appreciating the transitional style requires introducing such specific elements without overwhelming the space. By helping to highlight these features without adding visual clutter, the neutral palette will guarantee that every piece of furniture stands out in its own right.
Embrace Modern and Traditional Styles
Many people shun old-fashioned furniture styles for the very fact that they are old-fashioned. However, the transitional furniture style does the exact opposite. This is important because many older pieces of furniture have certain styles and designs that you’ll never be able to find at a modern furniture store.
By bringing back some of these older styles into your home, you can give it a truly unique look. For example, many older pieces of furniture have elegant curves and intricate textiles that require a lot of time and effort to create. On the other hand, modern furniture is much more plain and usually doesn’t have much intricate detail.
However, this does not mean that one style is better than the other.
Harmonizing Your Transitional Furniture Styles
The transitional style aims to combine older furniture with contemporary furniture. This is because both types of furniture have unique characteristics that can be very attractive in their ways.
MANT: Chesterfield Pouf
For example, you might find that a living room full of old furniture is a bit too gaudy. On the other hand, a living room full of contemporary furniture is a bit too bland. But when you mix these two styles, you get something completely new.
Because modern and traditional furniture styles are so different, putting them together in the same room can add a sense of balance to the room. But how should you go about adding these different pieces of furniture to your home in the first place? As it turns out, it isn’t as difficult as you might think.
Finding harmony is a necessity when it comes to successfully blending modern and classic furnishings. When done properly, the variations in the modern and traditional furniture styles can accentuate one another and give your space more depth and interest.
For instance, you can create a striking contrast in a space by having the MANT: Chesterfield Pouf alongside a modern sofa. While the modern sofa guarantees the room looks current and fresh, the traditional tufted style of the pouf introduces a bit of heritage into the space. The transitional design appeals so much because of this harmony between old and modern components. Whether it’s by color, material, or texture, you need to keep a consistent theme when combining several pieces of furniture kinds in order to ensure that the area feels purposeful and well-designed instead of randomly assembled.
What You Need to Know
Whether you are into classic or modern styles, transitional furniture designs help you settle for pieces that speak to your personal taste. Still, it’s important to make sure these pieces share a common thread, may it be a similar color scheme or material.
For example, although the MANT: Tesla Corner Sofa and the BIAN: Helen Walk-in Closet have clean lines and a modern style, traditional accents like a vintage mirror or a classic armchair could accentuate them. The key idea is to make sure the overall appearance stays harmonious and cohesive.
To utilize the transitional furniture style, you’ll want to stick with the furniture that you like. Many people want to follow a certain furniture style so much that they forget to pick pieces that they like. This is essential when decorating your home.
When blending different types of furniture in your home, you’ll still want to make sure that there is a main theme among all the furniture. For example, suppose you want the main theme to focus on wood and wood textures. Both old-fashioned and modern furniture feature wood, so this wouldn’t be difficult to accomplish at all.
You could also focus on certain textures or materials such as plastic or fur. Whatever the case, the aim will be to make sure that the two furniture styles don’t clash too much. Instead, the differences between the furniture will harmonize once they come together in a room.
This is important if you want your home to look sophisticated rather than messy or strange.
Everything You Need to Know about the Transitional Furniture Style
Transitional furniture style celebrates the past and present and gives a special chance to design a house in a way that combines traditional and modern elements. Selecting items that represent both eras can help you to create a space that is uniquely yours. Visit Michelangelo Designs now to browse our collection of products that reflect the transitional look to enable you to design the house of your dreams.
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