MINIMALIST HOME DESIGN, JUST TREND OR MORE THAN A NEED?

February 16, 2010 By: wawan Category: Home Design, Home Exterior, Home Interior, Minimalist home design, best home trend

Minimalist style now becomes favorite building in metropolitan. General speaking, this model is easy to find in the public housing, from simple housing till luxurious housing, or at interior design of a café or office building. First looks like uniform, but with detail adding make people know that every house reflect the owner.

Minimalist is thinking pattern, working, and life style. A new point of view in looking the design as an urban life style reflection, which commonly simple, practically, dynamic, and efficient. Building architecture creation, including minimalist modern house, is a choice to the architecture shape which born from culture and a need. Not only follow the recently trend.

For that reason, modern minimalist house comes with more real characteristic, simple shape and geometric space design, stronger with empty spaces which minimalist in ornament and furniture. Chosen furniture’s have multi function for accommodating all family member needs. The design principle is quite simple so design quality and available space function must be fitter.

But frequently ask question which usually appear is whether modern minimalist home should be simple compartment or there is other shape? The answer is the modern minimalist home shape must not follow simple compartment shape or simple geometric. If that home only need simple compartment, it’s mean that simple compartment is the result from a process of space function need, not because of forcing or following the trend.

Then people asking whether minimalist house parameter means the presence of cold feeling or less fresh impression? Minimalist is become a design foundation and also for decoration it’s self. Minimalist here is refers to simple and efficient. Minimalist interior is interior arrangement which give priority to functional and practically side. This arrangement is stressed on efficiently design. Straight lines, flat areas, surface junction that always 90 degrees, and straight upright.

Then people worry whether this minimalist design will spend a lot of money or not. The answer is relatively depending on the detail of that building it self. With minimalist design, types of material used would be effective and efficient. The use of some materials like woods, bricks, stones, glasses, or steels also can appear individually. The domination of certain material will give different effects.