Family Home With Dashes Of Pastel Colour Decor

We’ve all become comfortable with seeing a bit of neutral grey and white decor in our modern interior design schemes but sometimes for a family environment it might be nice to discover some colourful light relief. Even just a dash of subtle colour here and there makes surroundings a bit more interesting for the little ones (and us) and creates unexpected cheerful moments. This family home was designed at the Chinese interior design studio Nordico, with Nordic style in mind. The images by Hey!Cheese Photography picks up soft powder pink, pale olive, sand, lilac and aqua tones amongst a white and chalky grey backdrop, plus stunning patterned tiling.

The living room is a simplistic looking space with a small modern sofa and a contemporary upholstered bench seat with a cutaway back, which lets an extra amount of natural light sneak through from the window. In front of an electrical socket, a small pink box stool shields the room from the tangle of wires. A flat screen television is mounted onto a sleek stand with a small footprint, as are the slimline speakers, in lieu of a larger console cabinet.

Coffee tables are a neat place to display a few decorative items and provide a steady area to set down drinks and snacks. The one pictured here is an upholstered design that has a wipe-clean tray sunken into its surface.

Due to the small scale nature of this furniture, the room becomes a versatile space with many layout possibilities. Here we see the two settees pushed together in an L-shape arrangement instead of facing each other across the room.

Back to the original layout, a miniature storage cabinet stands beside the small pink stool.

There is no artwork on the walls of this living room. The subtle colours that are infused into the scheme via the furniture upholstery provides all of the visual interest.

A cosy throw on the light grey bench seat ties in with the hue of the sofa, and one of the dining chairs that is situated in the open plan living space.

On the tiny wood console unit, there is a cool headphone stand and a designer table lamp with black frame that matches that of the unit. The lamp you see here is the Oda style lamp, you can get the replica here.

By night the lighting scheme provides a warm and cosy atmosphere in the living room, perfect for relaxing evenings in front of the television or iPad, or listening to music and podcasts on those headphones.

The central pendant is industrial style lighting with a brushed silver finish.

Leading into the open plan home from the entryway, stunning patterned tiling with a geometric cut covers the floor. This installation continues over the kitchen and dining area but ends towards the living room where it is superseded by wood plank flooring.

Opposite the kitchen-dining area there is a large wall clock that is held a couple of inches off the wall by its mount.

A number of indoor plants are dotted around the home, the first being this large and leafy Swiss cheese plant nearby the front door.

The kitchen diner is a spacious area with plenty of cabinet storage and preparation area. The dining suite seats four people.

Two white dining pendant lights illuminate the marble effect tabletop, which is teamed with a set of geometric cut modern dining chairs that each have different contrasting coloured cushioning.

There is a floral arrangement on the dining table that brings together all of the colours of the four upholstered seats.

Running along the wall opposite the kitchen, on the way to the bedroom and home office, tall grey cabinetry offers a bank of lower cupboards for concealed storage and a selection of exposed shelves on which to store books and display decorative items like this unique plant stand.

Leading into the bedroom, a small wall rack is fitted with decorative hooks and a convenient face mirror for a last minute out-the-door appearance check.

The home office is situated in the bedroom, separated only partially by a narrow dividing wall.

Interior sliding glazed doors to the left lead off into a generously sized walk-in closet.

The white desk is teamed with a buff camel coloured stylish desk chair and a duo of stony grey decorative vases. Behind both the study area and the headboard there are chequered designs of varying proportions.

Shallow wall cupboards are nestled flush beneath a soffit above the bed. White shutters give the window a clean unfussy finish.

Wall sconces at each side of the bed have an industrial style, showcasing looped wires and exposed bulbs.

The bed is dressed with bold monochrome print cushions.

The fixtures in the bedroom have been selected in a fashionable gold finish teamed black detailing.

Despite the presence of a walk-in closet, the bedroom also has an exposed garment hanging rail for a few current favourites.

Concrete planters decorate the top of the exposed closet system, which also has a glass fronted display cabinet that is reserved for pretty perfume bottles.

Inside the large closet there is another wall hung cabinet in which to store smalls and toiletries.

The remainder of the closet is kitted out with exposed hanging rails that are individually lit with LED lighting strips, plus a selection of concealed hanging spaces and drawers.

The ensuite bathroom has another beautiful geometric tile arrangement – though different from the design used out in the kitchen-diner. More jet black trimmings are used in this light space too, including a matte black faucet.

The child’s bedroom in this house is awash with calming soft turquoise.

A fun tent canopy sits atop the kids’ bed.

In the smaller bathroom we find more elegant tiling and another warm wood vanity.

Love the work of this designer? Do check out other works we have featured from Nordico:
A Colorful Modern Home Designed With Usability In Mind
A Scandinavian Style Apartment That Exudes Chic Comfort

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Go Black or White In These Two Sloped Ceiling Apartments

Have an attic roof or sloped ceiling? Take advantage of your feature, by designing an interior that complements its angles. These two stylish apartments offer sloped-roof solutions in both light and dark decors, to show how clever detailing and furniture placement can make your slopes look scintillating. Create an angular loft, with double-height windows and a central brick column. Use ladders to reach snug sleeping lofts lined in bright yellow. Illuminate odd corners with focused LEDs, and unusual niches with triangular windows. Celebrate your home’s unique sloped roofing, with these two very-different apartments quenching your thirst for inspiration.

Visualizer: Ace Of Space  

Our first penthouse apartment keeps it light and breezy, with one-and-a-half storeys drenched in white, exposed brick and pops of industrial yellow. Looking down from a ladder, we get a view of the main living area, whose light wooden floors hold both a dining and lounge. Lit by French windows spanning across the level, strong yellows and blacks dominate the lounge, with a leather suite and coffee table perching sturdily on a rug. The kitchen and dining is kept whiter with a pinch of yellow in table edges and flowers. An exposed brick column separates the two.

A view from the lounge reveals more yellow features. The ladder’s hue is reflected in coffee table legs and the circular rug’s trim. A similar shade covers the suite’s cushions, while the roof slope leads to more yellow framing upstairs.

Helping coordinate the colour scheme, similarly-patterned cushions and throws in grey mimic those in yellow. A daschund makes the seat his home, while he contemplates the table’s vased sprig of yellow.

Dominating a separate corner, the office spills light on its accent chair through a sloped-ceiling window. Accompanied by an open filing cabinet and radiator painted white, its blank canvas focuses attention on the room’s angles. Suitcases to the side say travel, a range of plants on the windowsill a desire to stay green.

The dining room uses similar cues, with white-painted radiators and indoor plants on the sill. Using the exposed brick column as a snazzy background wall, its chairs make a feature of the radiators, with similar white-grilled seats creating a feeling of the industrial. A strong table rim in yellow reinforces the interior.

Headed by three diamond-shaped pendants, the kitchen breaks traditional boundaries by placing one bench to the side, and another in a cubby. Propped up by square drawers in a muted blue, the closer bench provides cutlery and fruit, a handy place to store platters for incoming guests. The larger bench to the right, headed by charcoal cabinetry and larger blue cabinets, offers a separate space for washing and cooking. Strong lines in yellow connect the central ladder, table’s rim and lurking upper level into one cohesive interior.

The main kitchen bench shows its stripes against an angled wall, which elongates its lower cabinets and makes its upper ones smaller. Wooden accessories play in a rolling pin and knife holder, which offer friendship to the door, a household feature in dark brown. Foregrounded by tulips, another angled wall to the side hosts a variety of herbs in the same striking yellow planters. A unique kitchen pendant light is subtle during the day, invaluable for cooking at night.

A non-intrusive feature in this boldly-accented home, mirrored doors boast storage whilst blending into the background. Reflecting the lounge or dining room, they’re an easy way to make the space appear larger.

Shedding sun from another slope, the bedroom’s ceiling goes brighter with an in-built skylight. White walls, white radiators and a matching white wardrobe keep the look fresh and airy. Pops of grey and yellow hark to the lounge, as do the similarly-patterned but differently-hued throws.

Beside the yellow rug and above a wooden bucket, a crafty wall sconce sheds light without causing drama.

As the door leads to the ensuite, a charcoal dresser holds flowers reminiscent of the kitchen. The same wooden flooring runs throughout, making maintaining flow easy.

Matching the dresser’s hue, the bathroom’s shelves display the home’s colour palette. Browns in back brushes and potted plants refer to the kitchen’s knife holder and rolling pin. Squared-off black baskets remind us of the lounge’s leather seats and office accent chair. Bright yellows found throughout the home sit amidst tiling in abundant white.

Leading us in with a yellow towel on the rail, the bathroom’s white tiling turns into a bath. Lit by LEDs in the corners, it provides a perfect place to relax and smell the scented candles.

Take a peek at the floor plans for further insight on this apartment.

Visualizer: Now Design  

Our second sloped apartment takes us on a darker journey. Starting off in the minimalist living room, a sloped ceiling offers windows side by side, as a large LED adds glow under a wall groove. A cream L-shaped sofa snakes under the light, as a bevy of cushions provide sophisticated comfort. A potted fern and coffee table in understated black accompany the scene.

Tilted to reveal a glass-walled bedroom, this inspirational example for black living rooms makes the most out its angular roof. As its slope accelerates above the potted fern’s fronds, more light abounds in a wooden floor matching the walls.

Lined detailing in the interior gives it a modern feel. Subtle grooves in the floor run parallel to joins in the glass. The stenciled leg of the coffee table matches the form of a modern floor lamp, here the Tab by Flos.

Headlined by dining pendant lights in the shape of a globe, the dining room sits pretty with an understated seating set. Gorgeous niches show in a cavity window to the side and triangular bookcase.

As we turn again, the globe pendant meets its match in a black TV on the wall. Modern dining chairs match the wall’s charcoal complexion, while the kitchen states its case in a full wooden enclave. Black appliances, a stone splashback and benching ensure it suits its darker interior.

The roof’s unusual contours allow a triangular window to mirror the bookcase. As the window streams light through the kitchen’s corridor, cabinetry steps in to make a room of two-hued halves.

Through the glass façade on the apartment’s other side, the bedroom makes itself known. Showing the lounge’s large fern and another flat screen on wood, its bed drapes in taupe leather under a sloped roof.

As two metallic bedside tables greet the bed on either side, a bedside table lamp perches upon each one. Standing out against the roof’s grainy wooden hues, they remind of the stenciled standing lamp and table in the lounge.

Decked from head to toe in the kitchen’s splashback stone, the bathroom bathes itself under an angled skylight. A varnished tree trunk acts as an unusual dressing table, as a porcelain bath and toilet relax beside candles.

Making the most of its angles, the sloped roof becomes a wall, cutting a mirror diagonally to fit its edges. A light-wooden bathroom cabinet references the wider interior’s floors.

Spread long across its width, the stone finish feels glamorous with an LED lighting over. Another glow underneath the bath, paired with the skylight and candles, is the perfect setting for a night of romance.

As a charcoal door prepares the exit, the shower hides in a glass panel. A brown-painted towel rail harks to the dining room’s chairs, while the tree trunk has the final say with pampering lotions and oils.

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