Interior design with soul
More than just an aesthetically pleasing interior style, Organic Modern encourages a deeper connection to nature, making your home not just a place where you live but a sanctuary for your soul.
This connection to the natural world has a striking impact on everyday life. It helps to transform routine moments into opportunities for reflection and appreciation.
Simply allowing natural sunlight to beam through your windows, brings with it energy of both joyfulness and calm.
It lights up the space to reveal the tactile textures of the fabrics and furniture around the room.
What is Organic Modern?
A modern organic style embraces the connection between homes and the natural environment. Featuring flowing curves and sustainable materials inspired by a blend of relaxed-living Nordic style. Brought to life with natural materials like wood and marble, and earthy colours, creating a timeless space that is connected to nature.
So, imagine a home where every element seamlessly merges with the natural world, where the tranquillity of the outdoors becomes an integral part of your daily life.
This is what you can achieve with the essence of Organic Modern style. The result is an interior design that beautifully melds the comforts of contemporary living with the organic beauty of the natural environment.
Why choose Organic Modern over just Contemporary or Scandi?
Organic Modern, while sharing some similarities with Contemporary and Scandi styles, stands out for its unique approach to design. What sets Organic Modern apart is its emphasis on creating a harmonious connection with nature while maintaining a sleek and contemporary aesthetic.
Unlike Contemporary design, which can be diverse and ever-evolving, Organic Modern has a timeless quality. It draws inspiration from organic forms and natural materials, infusing spaces with warmth and a sense of tranquillity. This connection to nature sets it apart from the more abstract and ‘trend-focused’ elements often found in Contemporary style.
Similarly, while Scandi design focuses on minimalism, functionalism, and cosiness, Organic Modern goes further by incorporating more curves, natural textures, and sustainable materials. It focuses on capturing the essence of relaxed Nordic living while adding a touch of creative freedom, making it more flexible to personalise to your style.
In essence, Organic Modern design strikes a delicate balance between the timeless beauty of the natural world and the clean lines of contemporary design. This unique blend makes it a style that not only stands out but also resonates with those who want a deeper connection to how their living space makes them feel.
Key style points of Organic Modern
Bringing Organic Modern to life in your home is about bringing nature in while maintaining a contemporary edge. We’ve pulled together the key elements to help you achieve this in any room, and you’ll see that it’s much easier to follow than you might think.
Add textural variety
Create visual interest and tactile features by incorporating a variety of textures to your headboards, pillows or perhaps a window seat if you have one. Experiment with materials like jute (which is like hessian) rugs, boucle, linen upholstery, and wood finishes to add depth and warmth to your space.
Our textural finishes such as the newNordic Oak or some of our timeless finishes including Rustic Oak in our Fusion range are ideal for creating this organic aesthetic. Complete the look with a beautiful headboard, you can create textural layering by using a variety of materials to get that warm, effortless atmosphere.
Biophilic infusion
Enhance the connection to nature by introducing indoor plants and greenery. Biophilic design principles, such as living walls, vertical gardens or quite simply some potted plants of different heights and densities, can infuse your space with a sense of natural tranquillity.
Design simplicity
Less is more. The Organic Modern style thrives on simplicity balanced with functionality. Choose furniture and decor that serve a purpose while maintaining a clean and uncluttered look. Avoid excess styling of ornaments or details that can throw off the overall calm and uncluttered vibe.
Let in natural light
Make the most of as much natural light as possible by keeping windows unobstructed. Consider large, unadorned windows to invite sunlight into your space, again, reflecting the Nordic influence often associated with Organic Modern design.
On top of this, incorporating mirrored finishes into the room can bounce light around effortlessly. By bringing soft metal tones into the space such as copper or brass, you can catch a glint of light on the smallest of elements. On the other hand, choosing mirrored wardrobes in your bedroom, whether that’s on sliding doors or traditional doors, the effect is stunning.
Open plan spaces
Open floor plans encourage flow and connectivity within your living spaces. This is loved in the world of Organic Modern design as it allows natural light to travel freely around the space to create an inviting atmosphere.
Earthy colours
Lean into applying an earthy colour palette that mimics the natural world. Use warm browns, soft greys, muted greens, and gentle blues to encourage a harmonious and calming atmosphere.
Mixed Materials
By experimenting with a combination of materials like wood, metal, glass, and stone, you can add depth and contrast to your decor. These materials should also reflect the sustainable choices that have been made, understanding the source and story of the materials.
A hint of Hygge
It’s an interior design buzzword that you probably recognise by now. But elements of Hygge live on in styles such as Organic Modern. It’s about bringing cosiness and comfort to the space with soft, plush textures like faux fur throws, oversized cushions, and snuggly area rugs.
How to style a room using organic modern decor
With the backup of all these key style points, making it happen is the exciting part! We’ve created this handy process to help you on your journey to Organic Modern bliss. Don’t forget, with any style there’s always room to add your own personality and flair. Feel free to use these steps as the foundation to build your way.
1. Set the tone with an earthy wall colour
Often the best place to start with any room design is to settle on a wall colour. The Organic Modern style loves earthy colours such as warm browns, soft greys, or muted greens.
As well as being inspired by the natural world, they all bring an uncomplicated and contemporary edge.
Also, depending on your own personal style, you can incorporate these colours through block colour or patterned wallpaper or paint designs.
2. Step on to sustainable flooring
Extending the organic feel to your floors is a great way of setting the foundation of a sustainable feeling space.
Choosing sustainably sourced flooring materials like bamboo, wood or cork can effortlessly add natural textures, earthy colours and warmth to your space.
3. Choose no-fuss furniture and let the design do the talking
In keeping with the calm and quiet personality of Organic Modern, furniture can be kept to a minimum, but make sure to keep a cosy atmosphere. In living spaces, sofas with rounded features fit in perfectly, and when upholstered in a light and textured material, such as boucle, you sink into a cosy balance of style and comfort.
The same notion can be applied in the bedroom, bringing in touches of wood and fabric via your headboard, vanity seating or even window seat.
4. Accessorise without overdoing it
By carefully curating (handpicking) the bits and bobs, ornaments and accessories on show in your space, you can stop any clutter from taking over.
A good place to start is with some functional accessories, such as baskets made from wicker to hold your cosy blankets or to store magazines.
Or if you’re looking to style bookshelves or other shelving with a few beautiful nick-nacks and ornamental pieces, think about choosing natural stone vases of different heights and shapes (in particular curved designs) or a selection of your favourite books. The different colours and styles of the covers can bring out your personality.
5. Maximise natural light
Letting as much natural light flow around your space is key. With any sized windows, make sure to keep them free of heavy material curtains or blinds that will block light.
Instead, pick lightweight sheer fabrics such as voile or muslin.
Necessary traditional electric lighting should be kept from beaming too much light or brightness into the space at any time.
To stop this, you can integrate dimmable lighting into your furniture or pepper lamps around the space with diffusing shades.
6. Bring life with plant life
It wouldn’t be Organic Modern style without welcoming the natural world of plant life into your room. Successfully incorporating plants into any room needs a bit of planning around the space's lighting and humidity level.
Start by assessing the natural light on offer. For bright, sunlit rooms, succulents like aloe or snake plants will do well and are easy to maintain (which is a bonus!). If you have moderate light levels, more versatile options like Pothos or Spider Plants will fare better. For the low-light rooms, or just those darker corners of spaces such as alcoves, they will benefit from more hearty plants like Snake Plants or Peace Lilies.
Last but not least, a general note on choosing plants for rooms with higher humidity, think about incorporating bathroom ferns or kitchen herbs like basil that can take the heat.
Begin your transformation with Sharps
Like the sound of Organic Modern style? We can help you achieve the nature-inspired space of your dreams at Sharps. With a beautiful and elegant range of fitted furniture, your home can be a serene dream in no time. Whether you want to style our new Nordic Oak finish into your bedroom, dressing room, walk-in wardrobe or make your living spaces or home office a place for contemplation, our experts will give you all the advice you need.
Just book a Free Design Visit today to get started!
