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Here are some quick styling and design tips for modern closets and their doors:

No Handles: If you can, try and get closet doors that don’t have any handles. The best options are the doors that pop open when you push them. An alternative is to have a groove carved into the doors.

Having no handles creates a flat and sleek look in the room. The closet in picture (5) shows what I mean. And picture (4) is an example of handles that are carved into the closet door. Or check out the modern sliding closet doors in picture (2). And one way to fake it is to have the handles the same color as the doors, so they blend together – just like in picture (5).

You can still use handles. But try and find ones that are not so imposing on the overall look of the door – like the handles in pictures (1) and (3)

Built In Units: A modern closet should be a built in unit that goes from the floor to the ceiling – which you can see from all of the closets in the mood board above.

Glossy: If you want to make your bedroom feel larger, then go with doors that have a shiny and glossy surface. The light in the room will bounce off of these glossy surfaces making the room feel more spacious.

Check out this post for more closet design ideas: DIY Challenge: Give Your Closet Doors a Makeover – Ideas and Design Tips

• Search all of my creative decor posts for more ideas 

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A modern home is a clutter free space. Which means that decor items are limited in modern styled rooms. There are some simple and elegant ways you can style a modern home without adding too many items to a space: such as through textures, adding greenery, paint color choice, and using premium materials for storage containers. The modern home decor ideas in this post will help you decorate your rooms in a minimalist and modern way.

Feature Pieces

More focus should be placed on the main feature pieces in a room, versus adding small decor items. Feature pieces include the furniture in a room and even the light fixtures. These items can really set the style for the space – so focus on getting modern styled pieces.

• The Right Style: Modern Kitchen Design Ideas
• Modern Bathroom Design Ideas: From Lighting Design to Color Choice
• Style Guide: Modern Basement Ideas and Designs
• Room Guide: Modern Bedroom Ideas and Designs
• Stylish Living: Modern Dining Room Ideas and Designs
• Staying Up To Date: Modern Living Room Ideas

Textures

See how you can infuse subtle textures to your rooms. In the kitchen for example, marble would be a good material to include since it has a subtle white and grey texture to it. The same goes when looking for bed sheets, curtains, wallpaper patterns, and area rugs – look for materials and fabric that have a very subtle and elegant pattern.

A Modern Gallery Wall

See if you can add a gallery wall to some of your rooms. The way to keep a gallery wall looking modern is to use matching frames. Thin black frames look best.

Or even 1 simple large art piece can do the trick, just like the living room in picture (2).

• Simple Yet Stylish Modern Wall Decor Ideas

The Color of the Room

If you take a look at pictures of modern rooms, either kitchens, bathrooms, or bedrooms, you can see that they mostly use clean neutral colors. Such as white, off white, or grey. This creates a minimalist style.

• Search for neutral colored (white, grey, black) rooms here

Adding Warmth to a Modern Room with Plants and Wood

To add some warmth into a modern room, look to have some plotted plants around the space. This will bring in shades of green. The same can be done with wooden features to bring in brown tones – use wooden chairs, tabletops, and minimalist decor pieces.

Storage as Decor

If you need to store items out in the open, then look to buy premium and good looking storage containers to store those items in. This way the storage containers themselves will act as decor pieces in the room. Look for containers made out of glass, steel, leather or brass.

Upstyling The Doors

If you have any doors in the room that you are looking to decorate (room doors, closet doors, or cabinets), see if you can give them a modern makeover. Check out my posts for DIY ideas here:

• DIY Challenge: Give Your Closet Doors a Makeover
• Design Tips for Modern Closet Doors

Try and avoid using handles when it comes to cabinet doors. See if you can get ones that push pop to open, or have a groove as a handle. You can buy the little push pop devices separately that can be fitted onto any cabinet door. Cabinet doors without handles sticking out creates a more modern and sleek look in a space – just like the kitchen in picture (6).

• Check out my other modern design posts for more ideas

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