{"id":4445,"date":"2016-10-12T20:33:04","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T20:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2026-04-07T14:29:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T14:29:27","slug":"modern-furniture-shopping-tips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/modern-furniture-shopping-tips\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Furniture Shopping Tips for the New Homeowner"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Moving in to your new modern home marks the start\u00a0of your next life chapter, full of all your hopes and dreams of a bright future\u2026. until you realize your new modern home did not come with the modern furniture from your daydreams. Daunting as it may seem as first, here are a few ways to begin modern furniture shopping while also saving you time, money and many headaches:<\/p>\n

Understand Furniture Styles:\u00a0<\/strong>The term ‘Modern Furniture’ encompasses\u00a0a broad range of styles, from contemporary designs to\u00a0well-known current designers, from Italian designs to the iconic classic furniture designed from 1920 to 1960. \u00a0Even in between are the styles which I consider more neutral or\u00a0basic American modern with some re-design of Florence Knoll and Hans Wegner. \u00a0We wrote a couple of pages to give a little background on Modern vs. Contemporary<\/a> in our website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Set a Budget<\/strong>: stop flipping through your latest Dwell, stop pinning, put the Ideabooks on hold, just don\u2019t do anything until you determine this exact number because without it, any step you make forward with your modern furniture shopping will turn into two steps backward.<\/p>\n

Create Your Floor Plan<\/strong>: whether you use one of the many room planning apps or scratch paper and crayons,\u00a0a scaled visual floor plan will determine the modern furniture\u00a0you will be buying and the size the modern furniture needs to be. \u00a0Also, seeing your future living room on paper (or iPad or whatever) instantly squelches any stress you may have had, since this seemingly overwhelming notion is now a methodically feasible plan.<\/p>\n

Prioritize Your Purchases<\/strong>: \u00a0Rome wasn’t built in a day and neither will your modern kingdom. \u00a0Taking your budget and\u00a0immediate needs\u00a0into consideration, figure out the first item to add\u00a0to your bare living\u00a0room (hint:\u00a0the easiest first item is a sofa). \u00a0Remember functionality first, so if you’re deciding between the\u00a0Exhibition Loveseats and Sofas<\/a> you will use everyday or the Sputnik Chandelier whose\u00a0only function is\u00a0sparkling, the sparkle can wait for a later date.<\/p>\n

Plan Your Palette<\/strong>: One of my favorite features in a truly modern home is a perfect pop of color you instantly notice throughout the room (I pick red, but its up to you). \u00a0Establish the\u00a0neutral palette to\u00a0occupy the majority of the room and serve as the subtle\u00a0backdrop to make your\u00a0Saarinen Side Chairs<\/a>\u00a0really ‘pop’. \u00a0Best of all, if you want to make a\u00a0change to the room in a few years, with your neutral palette already in place, its\u00a0as easy as swapping out the\u00a0color to instantly set a new tone for the whole room.<\/p>\n

With these primary plans in place, you will be ready to hit the ground running with your modern furniture shopping for your new home. \u00a0If you are looking for a great place to start, I would suggest visiting our factory showroom location in Bellingham<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moving in to your new modern home marks the start\u00a0of your next life chapter, full of all your hopes and dreams of a bright future\u2026. until you realize your new modern home did not come with the modern furniture from your daydreams. Daunting as it may seem as first, here are a few ways to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,10,1,33,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modern-furniture","category-eero-saarinen","category-furniture-notes","category-modern-furniture-fusion","category-scandinavian-modern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5189,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/5189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.modernclassics.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}