19 Modern Home Architectures You Have To See!
The modern style in architecture is easily identified by its lack of ornament and flair. The focus is on creating a simplified home with an emphasis on function, blurring the boundaries of open and exterior spaces by using an abundance of glass walls and huge windows, and creating a minimalist home while avoiding a stark look. Check out our exterior spotlight list for some great examples of key square houses elements in this style!
1) Lots Of Windows
Opening up the views from inside the house creates that desired effect of being one with the surroundings and enlarging the interior spaces.
2) Square It Up
What makes up the DNA of a modern home? Square and streamlined spaces, glass walls and minimalist design top the list.
3) Bare Designs
Keeping it minimal and undetailed is a must for a house like this. The juxtaposition of levels and spaces is the only adornment it needs.
4) Keep It Modern
Even if you are unwilling to let go of some classic house elements like this amazing wood paneling you can still go for a modern style.
5) Home With A View
Marrying a minimalist house design and beautiful landscaping makes this house a dream come true. Especially with all those windows that make the most of the amazing view.
6) Let The Sun In
One of the most important tenets of modern style is to make the most of the natural factors in a property, like light, nature, and terrain around the building.
7) Be One With The Environment
A truly minimalist house design will be inspired by its surroundings to the point if blends in completely, like this house that looks like it was made of snow.
8) Open Interior Spaces
Lots of windows and glass walls allow this type of house to open up to the outside space as no other do.
9) Work On Levels
Modern homes are renown because of how they work on different levels creating a living space that juts into the landscape and at the same time brings it in.
10) Use Great Lighting
Creating illuminated spaces inside for night time helps to accentuate the portions of the house that are open.
11) Add Greenery Inside
Creating green spaces on roofs, interior gardens and even adding potted plants help to reinforce the feeling of bringing the outside in.
12) Keep It Blocky
There is a reason why modern homes look blocky, this sense of sturdiness is created when the windows and interlocking spaces are reduced.
13) Use Rectangles
Juxtaposing rectangles in protruding space that invade the exterior scenery is a defining characteristic of modern styles.
14) Use Warm Materials
Another key element in modern homes is the use of warm materials like wood and stone to alleviate the stark elements of its construction and layout.
15) Go Monochrome
Limited use of color in striking ways makes the most of the different levels in this house and adds depth to an already interesting design.
16) Go Up
When there is little room to sprawl, the construction must go up. There is no other layout that makes the most of this situation as much as modern houses.
17) Streamline
Keeping it bare and with streamlined elements that blend together is the epitome of a minimalist house design. This house with that pool looks like it could part of the sea.
18) Use Block Building
From outside this house looks like someone built it putting blocks together like they were legos. The darker areas of stone and protected windows add depth to an otherwise plain facade.
19) Have Different Levels
When it is possible, a sprawling design can make the most of different levels, materials and of making the scenery a part of the house.
