When starting any interior design project or idea about your living space, you will probably wonder what design style to choose? What type of space suits? What type will make comfortable? Whether you are decorating a single room or an entire house, villa or apartment, the design style will determine and change the inherent space of the whole apartment. Let us list the most popular design styles in Vietnam. After reading this article, you will have some basic knowledge about common interior design styles, the relationship between styles and the way to create them, so that you can choose the best style for your own apartment.

Modern style 

Modern design styles included lines and focus on functionality, limit the excessive accessories and decorative elements from other styles.

Minimal texture and bold geometric shapes, striking neutral colors with a bold color, polished and unbalanced fixtures are the main identifying characteristics of a modern-style interior. This style design pattern is accurate, has no complicated backgrounds and color combinations, the basic geometric blocks used are square, rectangular, round with sharp surface, no decorations, no borders. Every detail has been simplified maximum to suit the needs of use.

* Identifying characteristics:
– Straight lines
– Neutral colors (White, Beige, Brown, Black) or use Tone colors
– Furniture is polished
– Function before form
– Avoid cumbersome decorative elements
– Minimal use of texture
– Asymmetric balance in the interior and the layout.

* Suitable for: Apartments, small space. This style makes maximized space, creates the visualizing of a room wider than reality.

SCANDINAVIAN

Scandinavia is not just the name of a place name, it refers to a part or the whole of Northern Europe. However, despite the geographic controversy, the Scandinavian style is favored by the standard of elegance, modesty but courtesy of coastal house design.

You can see the Nordic Sea style prefers white, earthy colors and natural rough materials, fur and leather. Climatic characteristics form the style that can be easily deduced from geographic and historical knowledge. However, in a modern environment, with the assistance of equipment such as glass doors, fireplaces, heaters, air conditioners, artificial materials, etc., this style has been transformed to be more modern and suitable in living environment, adaptable both in cities and apartments.

In short, Scandinavian style can use 3 words: Functional – Simple – Beautiful. Although simple in design, the lines are often combined with discreet and warm elegance, creating modest and plain feeling.

* Identifying characteristics:
– Use white as the main color
– Wood is an indispensable material, the most popular is Teak wood. The appearance of ceilings, floors, and wooden walls is very common in this style.
– Natural light is utilized
– Use patterns, subtle colors as accents.

* Suitable for: Small apartments need airy space.

MINIMALISM

Minimalism style means using simple lines, little detail, minimizing furniture, and every detail is right in its position.

The interior design of Minimalism style draws attention to the lines and textures hidden below. The arrays of walls, floors, and lighting efficiency on surfaces are key elements of a minimalist style. Using simple lines and calculated combination of planes, this interior-style space is a unified integer, coherent in layout and especially retaining beautiful, airy, spacious architectural space.

*Identifying characteristics:
– Use limited colors: Normally, there are no more than three colors in the interior space: a background color, a dominant color and an accent color.
– White wall panels used popular as a plain backdrop to increase the value of the surrounding furniture, while providing visual effect on more spacious, airy space.
– Light is an important decorative elemen to create visual and aesthetic effects
– The interior decoration components as well as utensils, tables and chairs are irreducible, both to meet the needs of use and aesthetic.

* Suitable for: Office design, small apartments and people who like to be neat, free and generous.

NEO CLASSIC

Neoclassical design style is a harmonious combination between classical and modern. This style focuses on elaborate decorative details, soft curves, combined with only the walls of the ceiling and the ceiling. Neoclassical design style is favored by its elegance and fashion.

*Identifying characteristics:
– High-quality materials: Neoclassical style is popular for leather, wood, granite. They are sophisticatedly designed to bring a shine to the space, showing the class of the homeowner.
– Noble luxury colors: The most popular are dark tones such as black, deep red, gray, moss.
– Sophisticated motifs with delicate carving
– Focus on the wall array; use a grid to create a plate that divides the space

* Suitable for: Villas or high-class apartments, with large space

ASIAN STYLE

Asian style is the intersection of many cultures, inheriting the traditional quintessence and absorbing modern beauty.

Most of the easten housing decor is influenced by Japanese and Chinese culture. The Japanese tend to decorate their houses with neutral, harmonious and minimalistic colors while the Chinese prefer colorful colors with painted or lacquered utensils.

*Identifying characteristics:
– Furniture is often simple, rustic, popular and easy to find but still very luxurious and sophisticated by small details such as paint, patterns, carvings made by hand.
– Materials of natural origin such as wood, gravel, bricks, rattan, ceramics, …
– The decorative pattern is often inspired by the desire for fortune, peace or happy life.
– Simple and scientific arrangement

INDOCHINE

Indochine is a tropical style of French style with indigenous cultural identities, climate, local floral motifs, sophisticated decorative art in ancient architecture, fine art products and forming a delicate mixture.

Indochine-style interior, beyond aesthetics, is fulfilled and suitable for living habits of tropical climate in Vietnam.

*Identifying characteristics:
– The architectural composition towards French-style – Use neutral tones (light yellow, cream yellow, white) combined with the color of wood and rattan
– Apply many decorative details, handicraft products and local materials
– Rich and sophisticated motifs and patterns, furniture structure is simple but sophisticated
– Use natural materials such as wood, rattan, bamboo, cotton bricks and baked bricks

* Suitable for: Designing small hotels or homestays, renovating apartments in the old town

RUSTIC STYLE

Rustic is a fresh, rustic and casual interior design style that focuses on natural beauty.
The main factor in modern rustic style space is a combination of modern appliances, architectural elements of nature protection, simple colors with large windows bringing natural light. This style gives an elegance, comfort and modern life.

*Identifying characteristics:
– Rough wooden beams: Both shaping the architectural space and showing the connection with the nature of the house,
– Simple natural fabrics: Fabrics from rough, slightly old natural fibers such as linen, jute, hemp, cotton, linen, wool are the typical materials of Rustic style. Non-patterned rugs, towels, upholstery, blankets, curtains, tablecloths are a perfect choice for this style.
– Large windows: Help the house flooded with light and harmony with nature,
– Modern and comfortable interior: Smart furniture is the perfect product for this style – wooden or raw leather items are the excellent material.
– Natural, soft colors (white, wood or stone) bring natural rusticity to the home,