Are you looking for inspiration in creating a minimalist living room with stripped-down furniture and balanced volumes? Well, then, this article is for you! Check out Alias’ style in this elegant and austere setting.
A few stripped-down pieces of furniture for a minimal and spacious living room
In home decoration, there are two types of people: accumulators (in a positive sense!) and minimalists. For the former, a house isn’t a home if the walls aren’t covered with posters or the shelves aren’t full of objects. Plus, the seating should be large and ample and each piece of furniture must play an important role in the space. In contrast, minimalists enjoy limiting volumes, balancing full and empty spaces, getting rid of that which is unnecessary, and maintaining a reduced amount of furniture and decoration.
Alias’ idea is to create a minimalist living room made for those who love limiting everything to the bare minimum. Obviously, a big space helps in choosing rarefied furniture, but a smaller space can easily host this style as well.
For example, if you are able to put bookcases and cabinets in service rooms, all you need in the living room are a few simple storage pieces where you can display a few objects and images in order to create a mood without doing too much. Seating and low tables should have clean lines, sharp corners, and few bells and whistles. As far as color goes, the minimalist living is purposefully desaturated with whites, grays, blacks, and pale wood. This neutral palette also makes it possible to give the space a single splash of color, if so desired.
But for a truly professional solution, let’s check out the details that go into an Alias minimalist living room.
Alias’ modern living room: products and style ideas
Modular shelves
Low pieces of furniture and shelves are elements in the versatile Hub modular system, with which you can even create a sideboard or a bookcase. Its rigorous structure tips its cap to Japanese design and includes pillars, shelves, and open compartments alternated with panels which conceal the interiors.
A simple sofa and two refined armchairs
The sofa purposefully becomes discrete in a minimalist living room. However, seeing how minimalist does not mean predictable, two special armchairs take over this scene. The Violon has a rotating spoked-base and a unique elastic seat which adjusts to the body. It is slender yet extremely comfortable, as formal as an office chair, but padded like the best reading chairs.
Two types of low tables
In a setting like this one, a simple squared low table which takes up the lines of the shelves and sofa is a must. However, in addition to these pieces, there is also the Saen low table by Alias with its trademark upside down wine-glass form which works perfectly with the Violon armchairs (if you want to take a closer look at it, we spoke about the Saen series here!).
The isolated details: the artwork, lamp, and vase
Three details enhance the setting: a single piece of art in black and white showing brutalist architecture to further emphasize the space’s atmosphere; the Snoopy lamp, the icon of design which stands out on the shelf; and the green vase whose responsibility it is to provide this minimalist living room with its only splash of color.
