Modern buffets & sideboards: trends for 2021
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Over the past few years, there has been a noticeable tendency in modern furnishings to return to furnishings from the past – and this includes the buffets and sideboards. Like decades ago, today, the cupboard again embodies comfort and respectability, bringing an elusive aristocracy to the interior of the kitchen, living room, or dining room. Simultaneously, one cannot fail to note another important point – noticeable deviations from its classic design in favor of a modern style’s requirements.
A traditional buffet designed to store crockery, cutlery, and textiles consist of three visual elements:
Such buffets are still organic in interiors that suggest vintage chic – such as shabby chic, French country, retro, rustic, Mediterranean, and even classic. However, modern trends dictate their conditions, and massive and voluminous cupboards no longer look organic in them. However, it is unnecessary to abandon them: in 2021, designers offer several trendy solutions that allow such furniture to complement the most fashionable and laconic furnishings, including in such popular styles as minimalism or Scandi.
Compactness
The modern style buffets and sideboards are characterized by the complete absence of an upper tier. The choice in favor of such a design is due not only to the trends of reasonable consumption that are relevant today but also to excellent ergonomics. Models without a top allow you to solve several problems at once:
Precise geometry
Modern buffets keep many values and secrets and outwardly resemble elegant but rather unapproachable guards. Precise and laconic geometric shapes help to achieve this effect.
Today’s most popular is still a parallelepiped or elongated rectangle – on a solid monolithic base or strong legs. However, in exclusive modern interiors, square and cubic forms are increasingly common, visually balancing the interior and visually stretching the room upwards.
Facade finishing – as a continuation of color and texture
It’s no secret that modern interior styles sufficiently demonstrate a negative attitude towards voluminous and elaborate furniture decor. Whimsical carvings and cornices remain with vintage furniture – and modern sideboards and buffets offer fashionable and sometimes very original solutions:
An equally suitable technique is the use of mirror inserts on the back walls of the open sideboard shelves – thanks to them, the furniture looks laconic and at the same time quite impressive and expensive.
Natural calmness of the palette
Choosing a cupboard color does not pose any particular difficulties: today, buffets are more like an organic addition to furniture than a contrasting accent. That is why the following became popular shades for them:
Also popular is the open texture of natural wood, which requires almost no additional processing, except for a couple of high-quality varnish layers. It is also worth keeping in mind that in 2021, designers recommend abandoning bright and saturated shades for buffets and relying not on visual irritation but the absolute harmony of textures and lines.
Alternating closed and opened elements
Studying the design of modern sideboards, one should not forget about such an aspect as practicality – when choosing a storage system, which is a buffet, it is of paramount importance. However, here, too, furniture brands find something to surprise: the following solutions have already been proposed for models that are relevant for 2021:
2021 buffet & sideboard trends: Conclusions + Photo gallery
The 2021 interior sideboard is a fantastic combination of rationality and elegance, compactness and spaciousness, restraint and tangible comfort. By using modern cupboards in the furnishing of a room, you find the perfect balance of tradition and the most current design and decoration techniques.