Most Popular Interior Design Styles ,What’s Trendy in 2020:
Don’t really know your contemporary from your modern, or your industrial from your urban? Well, we are here to clear the confusion and answer all your questions!
Welcome to our main interior design styles where we list and explain the different styles and include photos.
A great starting point for an interior design project is to learn a bit about each of the styles and how they differ from one another.
- INTERIOR DESIGN STYLE 1: ART DECO
Art Deco is an iconic early twentieth century interior design style of French origin which pervaded most of the decorative arts of the 1910s to the 1930s.
The style was heavily inspired by the Industrial Revolution so metal was also incorporated into furniture design. Forms were curved or angular and the most recognisable colour palette was black, white and gold.
- INTERIOR DESIGN STYLE 2: CHALET
Recognised by its use of heavy timbers, animal hides and generously proportioned furniture, chalet style is the almost universal interior design style choice for mountain chalets and lakeside lodges.
It suitably balances the natural characteristics of its locales by incorporating appropriate natural materials and colour palettes.
Typical chalet furniture often incorporates natural elements. Dining tabletops rest on raw wood bases and side tables of petrified wood are popular. Cast iron or antler chandeliers are the most traditional lighting choices.
- INTERIOR DESIGN STYLE 3: CLASSICAL
A classical interior style references classical civilisations (predominantly Greek and Roman), antiquity and the classical tradition.
The klismos chair – a bowed back open occasional chair with saber legs – is the most enduring classical furniture piece. Other prominent motifs include laurel wreaths, urns, busts and dental mouldings.
- INTERIOR DESIGN STYLE 4: CONTEMPORARY
A contemporary interior style is the interior design aesthetic which is presently popular at any given time. The current look is best described as luxury modern.
Sofas and armchairs well-designed but comfortable, being upholstered in lustrous velvets and chenilles. Coffee tables and casegoods are understated and simplified or monolithic and sculptural.
Installation lighting is an important element of a room’s overall design as is specialist wall cladding and flooring.
- INTERIOR DESIGN STYLE 5: MID-CENTURY MODERN
Mid-century Modern is a notably American interior design style which was popularised by the designs of Florence Knoll, Vladimir Kagan and Milo Baughman.
Show wood frame furniture was popular as was the use of textiles in colourful shades.
Woods such as rosewood, teak and walnut were used regularly and canary and mustard yellow, carnation and flamingo pink, chartreuse, pale turquoise and avocado are a quintessential Mid-century colourway.