How to choose bedding for a modern home

Have you just decorated your home and chosen a modern, no-frills style? It's time to complete the task by choosing the right bedding for your bed, finding the best way to enhance the choices you've made. There are plenty of viable options to make your bed unique, comfortable and stylish, while staying true to your minimalist choices.

The most suitable materials for modern bed sheets

First of all, let's start with the main topic, materials: people often think that design only goes along with an equally basic bed, dressed exclusively in white cotton. Sure, a nice quality cotton might be a good option, but personally I find that if you've made the effort to give your home stylish details, you should do the same when it comes to linens. It may be a professional bias, but I'm of the unwavering opinion that linen is undoubtedly the fiber that best complements the concept of functionality and beauty, so dear to the world of design.

Moreover, I am convinced that linen, with its versatility, remains the most suitable material for any kind of furnishing, from the most modern to the most classic or eclectic. In particular, our washed linen, which is always very soft to the touch and thanks to its natural crinkle that enhances the fibers, has an ability to settle and combine with any material.

Linen is perfect paired with simple masonry, wood, concrete, iron and even leather. Its mellow texture creates a refined contrast and perfectly conveys a concept of modern cleanliness. I love this fabric for the way it knows how to be precious in a way that is never shrill or vulgar: its value in fact lies in the eyes of those who know the value of this noble natural fiber.

What colors are best for a designer home?

As far as the choice of colors is concerned, even in a very modern house the choice can be vast and varied, while remaining dry. The choice in this case is very personal, it is in fact one of the most instinctive expressions of our emotions: if we analyze the change of our choices over time, we will realize how the colors follow our moods.

Even before choosing a color, we have to decide whether to play for camouflage or contrast. I generally opt for the first option and prefer solid colors that blend elegantly with the environment without being banal, for example by choosing elegant striped fabrics or monochrome geometric patterns.
There are wonderful contemporary homes played on infinite palettes of neutrals, as I've told you many times it's easy to say white or gray: every color has in itself a world of nuances and I find it particularly interesting this game of chiaroscuro of the same color side by side in an infinite wave. For this kind of house, the talc tones of Ivory, Mastic, Sea Salt and Stone will always be perfect and will give a very relaxing feeling to those who live in these bright spaces.

If, on the other hand, you like to play with contrasts, a house furnished in a modern way, with designer furniture and a few decorative elements, will become a perfect p alette for alternating over the seasons, sheets in saturated colors, played in contrast with the walls or precisely with other elements of furniture such as furniture or lamps. The effect will certainly be refined and energizing, but plan to change the combinations a little more often so as not to get tired.

A good example can be a warm purple tone, such as Moscatello or a powerful Giallo Olio for your sheets and pillowcases, to give a nice touch to a neutral room. If, on the other hand, you already have elements of color in the room, you can combine hues with the same temperature or play on the contrasts between warm and cool tones. For example, I love to combine shades of the same color: for example, a Fern green with a Forest green or a red with a Moscatello purple!

Inspirations for styling your minimal home

There are dozens of different color combinations that you can play with to dress your bed in tune with the spirit of your home without betraying your aesthetic: what about being inspired by modern and contemporary art or even architecture? The examples are endless, look at how Picasso played with colors or, again, Mondrian! Here too, there are splendid examples of the use of color as an element of rupture, and what more than textiles for the bed or the table offers you the possibility to easily vary your decor following the seasons and your moods? In the 60's and 70's whose style is often revived today, furniture offered beautiful color plays between Root pink and Sage green, or blues like our Dolphin and Terracotta. Le Corbusier spoke of architectural polychromy and said he was even guided by the colors, I report his thoughts here:

"Color is intimately linked to our being; everyone has his own color; if we often ignore it, our instincts, they, are not wrong." (Polycromie architecturale, 1932)

What about today? The color remains central even in the most minimal projects and always keep in mind, in the choice of colors nothing more than your instinct can guide you, because each color brings with it your different moods.