Since the internal styles become more minimalist, a shift from traditional land style has given itself to something more simplified. The writer Vivienne Ayers and the photographer Brent Darby call it the new rustic style and they show its refined look and relaxed charm in their 2024 book Life in the new rustic style By Lannoo Publishers. “This is a relaxed look with which you can easily live, mostly the Scandi minimalism and with elements of Wabi-Sabi,” say Ayers and Darby.
This new rustic style is the formality and the ray of the traditional country style in favor of a subdued approach. “In general, Modern Country is a celebration of natural materials, subdued color pallets and relaxed, nuber style,” say the authors. The new rustic aesthetics opens up rooms visually and physically and modernizes the details to achieve more today's wish to create a port at home.
Brent Darby
Key elements of the new rustic style
The modern rustic style sees a look that feels familiar, with elements that are reflected in the popular organic modern style and in the simplified Scandinavian design. “Natural materials, cozy textures and industrial-inspired elements are certainly the key to the new rustic style, as well as unique vintage pieces, bring the soul into the interior,” say Ayers and Darby.
It also shares sensitivity with relatives look like modern farmhouse style. “Modern farmhouse style and the modern country have many common denominators: the withdrawn, unsuitable element and the preference for subtle colors and the sociable, open planning, practical rooms,” say the authors. However, the modern farmhouse often has more moments of strong contrast, geometric accents, cool tones and of course Shipap.
Similar design influences have transformed the land style and acted the mutilation and superfluousness of decor against something clarified and curated trade. “The modern country style is much more relaxed, withdrawn and unfoot than the traditional country style, which is known for its feeling of formality and decorative exuberance,” say Ayers and Darby.
Here are some of the important elements of the new rustic style (and how it differs from traditional land style).
Natural materials
Natural materials are both decorative and fundamental to modern land style. Holders, beams and exposed forests hold with the traditional aesthetics, but instead of dark, rich tones, the new rustic look have with limestone, pale or raw forests.
Stone, brick and wooden floorboards are common floor coverings. The traditional land style can contain the same materials, but often more formally. Ayers and Darby notice the use of marble and cabochon floors in the older style. “Fabrics are usually also easier,” say the authors, “with a focus on natural materials such as Slubby bed linen, cottons and warm wool.”
Reserved and refreshing colors and patterns
Traditional accents such as brave and historical colors (especially yellow and red), Chintz fabrics, swags and ruffles, carpets and draped tables for simpler elements in a modern style. One of the most important style updates, which the authors mention, is the shelf of carpets and female window treatments. Instead, soft carpets the appearance and the feeling of floors, while refusing that the window tissue offered a cleaner and less formal appearance.
“Pattern is usually reserved,” adds the authors. An emerging design trend, structured walls are a staple for a modern country house. Plaster, tadel act or microcement give the walls a nuanced interest that Ayers and Darby are usually in earthy and neutral colors and in steamed or calcal colors.
But do not think that the personality, which is often connected to the land style, is given up with an updated rustic aesthetics – it is only relaxed and transformed. Ayers and Darby talk about the “evolution of the modern country” through a return to the color, whereby the special influences of Kit Kemp found and the gap felt. Modern colors come into this style through subtle elements such as “Bohemian fabrics on soft furniture and furniture”.
Another change in style is the selection of an oversized, oversized headboard instead of the more useful wood or cast iron beds. “In this sense, the brave colors, more complex details and layers of patterns have parallels to the traditional land style, but with a contemporary update,” say Ayers and Darby.
Vintage instead of antiquity
“The modern country comprises vintage and middle of the century, while traditional land tends to hug antique pieces,” say Ayers and Darby. Furniture in particular in the middle of the century is used to “inject a trendy look” to “inject a trendy look”. The style avoids the oversized furniture trend as well as the excessively decorated or overcrowded approach for furniture and layout in a traditional room. Vintage is brought up new furniture in the middle of the century style for sustainability, which is an important topic of the decoration approach.
Open layouts and industrial elements
“Modern land spaces usually offer open spaces, regardless of whether there are barns, loft-style rooms or cottages, in which rooms have been switched on,” say Ayers and Darby. Larger windows and top lights are also modern additions that are supposed to bring natural light to these layouts. This reflects the long -established trend of houses with an open concept, but subtly tends to industrial influences, which are also a key component in the new rustic style.
“In the modern country, industrial turns with” brutalist “materials such as concrete for floors or worktops are often introduced,” say Ayers and Darby. With industrial and modern country styles that use a more minimal canvas, the synergies are between the two – including a mixture of metals , simple forms and a preference for natural materials – surprising in view of their very different overall aesthetics.
Brent Darby
Tips on the scope of the new rustic style in your home
In Life in the new rustic styleAyers and Darby show the flexibility of aesthetics, from contemporary rooms with energetic patterns to healing sanctuaries. The key to accept this new rustic style is easy, natural and above all authentic.
“It is important that you Bring into your domestic things you loveVintage pieces in particular that inject personality and authenticity, ”say the authors. Art of trips or other pieces that mean something are simple examples of decor with real connections.
Ayers and Darby say that the space should be grasped to grasp the style Look as if it had been developed over time. For example, highlight the bones of the house, such as: B. historical or period characteristics. Including vintage and recovered furniture, rooms become character and define the aesthetics. It also supports sustainability, an underlying element of the modern country ethic.
“There are definitely A lifestyle element in the new rustic style“, Confirm Ayers and Darby. It increases the idea of a rural, slower pace and a home to promote it. Open floor plans are sometimes popular because they work for families, and overall the appearance and materials of the style aim to be relaxed and easy to live for a more relaxed atmosphere.