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Urban Apartment Design: Black, White, Gray and Glass

A sleekly modern contemporary decorating style often works best for urban apartment designs. Although many different color combinations could work, black, white and gray can add a lot of contrast and style to your decorating plan. These colors can add a very striking look to any room in your apartment, either used by themselves for a monochrome look or as a neutral backdrop for other bright color accents in the room, such as contemporary tropical wall hangings or wine metal art. Including glass in your room design also adds a very modern look.

Create Contrast with Black and White

Using black and white together in a room can add a lot of exciting visual contrast. There are many ways of using these colors together to create an interesting look. For example, stark white walls could be combined with a black area rug and white furniture for a stark and modern appearance. Softening the contrast with touches of gray is also a good approach. You could combine white walls, soft gray curtains, and a black bedspread in the bedroom. Add touches of glass to the room by hanging a large wall mirror, or by displaying decorative glass bottles or other kinds of glass art. In the kitchen, create a fun retro look with black and white kitchen accessories, black and white pinstripe curtain toppers, and white or soft gray mini blinds to help control the sunlight and offer additional privacy when needed. Decorative glass bowls or a wine glass collection can add just the right amount of contemporary sparkle to the kitchen. In the bath, use sleek white painted accessories combined with a black shower curtain and towels. The bathroom vanity mirror will automatically add a touch of glass without any extra effort, but you can also accentuate the vanity with a mirrored tray or decorative bottles for extra sparkle. Glass canisters can also be used to store toiletry items.

Add a Contemporary Masculine Touch with Black, White and Gray

Black, white and gray are the perfect colors to create an apartment with a modern and yet masculine look and feel. In the bedroom, use gray striped flannel sheets on the bed, combined with a solid black bedspread. A plaid or striped bedspread utilizing white, black and various shades of gray could also add a nice touch. If you wish to maximize the amount of light in the bedroom, use white curtains combined with black or slate gray mini blinds. The light colored curtains will let in plenty of natural light, while the mini blinds can be used at night or when the sun is especially bright for light control and privacy. A large wall mirror in a simple black frame can add a nice touch.

Black and white can be used to give the kitchen a very professional and contemporary look, especially when combined with stainless steel appliances. Black or white appliances can also be used effectively when decorating the kitchen using this sleek monochromatic color scheme. These high contrast colors can also be used to create an attractive and yet masculine bathroom, living room or home office.