All The Finishing Materials You Need For a Modern Minimalist Home
You might think that a coat of white paint is all you need to create a modern minimalist house. But there are myriad other materials and finishes that you can use to add depth, texture, detailing, and color to this style of home.
Wood
This traditional building and finishing material can work well in a modern minimalist space. Worried about finding legal or sustainable wood? Go for engineered wood substitutes, veneers, or recycled wood.
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Concrete
Raw, unpainted concrete walls and floors are hallmarks of the modern minimalist style, and these give a cool, gritty feel to the space. Are you settling with drywall? Then you can actually “fake” a raw concrete wall finish with different layers of gray paint and some skilled blending techniques.
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Recycled materials
A lot of modern homes try their best to lessen consumption and their carbon footprint by upcycling or recycling used materials. Industrial designer Mitch Shivers used broken PVC pipes, driftwood, and other scrap objects to create his fence.
READ: Recycled Pieces Fill a Modern-Industrial Three-Storey House
Steel
Often used for structural members or roofing, steel can be used as surface cladding, or in architectural details. Here, Shivers couldn’t find an old bank door for his main door, so made one himself out of stainless steel sheets.
Bricks
Even though bricks or brick veneer have long been a favorite finish for modern industrial design, bricks can add warmth, color, and texture to a sleek space.
Glass
One of the most important materials used in modern minimalist design is glass—not only for windows and doors—but as a way of giving the rooms a sleek look, while allowing transparency and light into the space, as seen here in this glass balustrade.
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Polycarbonate
Plastic may seem counterproductive in creating sustainable modern design, but a lot of plastic or polycarbonate materials are good, affordable alternatives to stone, glass, roofing (as seen here), or cladding.
