Comfortable, clean and easy to design around, the Oria Dining chair is the perfect modern complement to your dining room set. Original price: $190 Sale price: $169 Pair these dining chairs with the Alina Dining Table also on sale for $690.

Create the backyard oasis you’ve always dreamed of with Modani Furniture’s cushy outdoor Bonifacio two-seater sofa. Save $50 on this purchase during Modani’s 7-Day Sale.  Add the coffee table for $290 or the matching armchair, also on sale, for $440.

Go bold this spring with Modani’s Calypso Rug. Bring the energy of the islands to your home with this vibrant mini carpet. During Modani Furniture’s 7-Day Sale, save $100 by purchasing for only $290.

Bring the glitz and glamour to your home with this specially carved mirror from Modani Furniture. Oversized with decorative accents, the Malipiero Oversized Mirror  is $150 off for a price of only $840. Feel the old-world romance and add this to your modern collection today.

Modani Furniture has three showrooms nationwide in Los Angeles, Miami and New York as well as three new showrooms opening in 2012. You can also visit www.modani.com to see the latest in modern, stylish and affordable furniture.

A critical point is taking a proper measure of the space. If you have low ceilings, than a platform bed might be a better choice so that you can maximize the space available to make your bedroom appear larger than it actually is.

One really good tip when looking at how to layout your bedroom is to make sure you maximize the view. If you have a gorgeous bay window overlooking the bay in Miami or a high-flung loft in New York overlooking the city, then as HGTV points out in their tips for arranging bedroom furniture, maximize the view. Instead of trying to buy bedroom sets that overpower or divert the attention, make the view a natural part of the bedrooms décor.

As part of redesigning your bedroom, after looking at layout and space, you will need to look for ways to remove clutter. Adding contemporary dressers might give you more storage space to hold items to help them from spreading all over your room.

“I always start with the bedroom,” says feng shui consultant Andrea Gerasimo of Menomonie, Wisconsin in this Natural Home and Garden article. “It’s your sanctuary.”

Gerasimo cites studies showing that what you’re thinking when you nod off affects how you sleep and your mood when you wake up. So if your last mental image is of chaos and clutter, you’re not setting the right stage for quality sleep.

As Gerasimo notes, many designers recommend starting with a bedroom first because it can become your sanctuary. If this is a new home, your bedroom furniture will be a part of your success in your new home, so make your decisions with care.

Once you’ve removed the clutter and have measured the layout, it’s time to start looking for bedroom furniture that matches your taste. Modern beds come in all shapes and colors these days and modern bedroom sets also make it easier to buy a cohesive look.

Most of us won’t have that stunning view, so as noted in this article here, the bed becomes the focal point. And the Freshome writer advises that new home owners scale décor based on the size of their bed. “Depending on the size of your bedroom, your bed will most likely be the focal point.  If you have a large bed in a small room, you will instantly feel cramped and uncomfortable,” said Freshome.  “Consider having a smaller bed, and size your table lamps and decorations in the same proportions.  If you are going through the effort and scaling down the bed, so should the accessories that surround the room.”

This includes your contemporary dressers as well, even if you need the storage space. Pick furniture that will grow with your needs over a few years. White and black is always a classic and can easily be mix and matched with interior designs around the room. Whether you want to add this year’s color, tangerine tango, to the sheets atop a white platform bed and a black shag rug for contrast or you want to keep it minimalist with all white furniture and sheets, it’s your new home and your bedroom.

Just remember to keep to the basics in size, so that you don’t overpower the room with a large modern bed. When in doubt, seek the advice of an interior designer who will best know how to incorporate your tastes and color preferences into a gorgeous design. Even visit a local showroom for a modern furniture store for inspiration before you decide. Take a look at images on the internet and use that as a guide in how you design your new bedroom.

But why contemporary furniture over other styles?

Contemporary furniture is modern, it’s modular, it’s easy to move around and it’s easy to design with. Contemporary furniture designs come in many different colors and styles and like fashion, the trends can change regularly with the season, but it doesn’t mean it has to be complicated.

For those who don’t like the classic approach of minimalist design, contemporary brings warmth and creation and colors to a room. Contemporary dining tables for example, can feel sterile in a minimalist approach though the same materials are used in contemporary design. White, black, steel, glass, wood are all mixed to make contemporary furniture. Contemporary sofas might use other types of fabrics, materials or colors to create a look such as polycarbonate and even a tempered glass that brings a modern edge to a dining table or coffee table made of wood.

“Fundamentally, simplicity, subtle sophistication, texture and clean lines help to define contemporary style decorating,” says Coral Nafie, in an About.com article. “Interiors showcase space rather than things. By focusing on color, space, and shape, contemporary interiors are sleek and fresh.”

According to HGTV.com’s style glossary (one of our favorite sites!), contemporary furniture “encompasses a wide range of styles developed in the latter half of the 20th century. Pieces feature softened and rounded lines, as opposed to the stark lines seen in modern design. Interiors contain neutral elements and bold color and focus on the basics of line, shape and form.”

In their contemporary style 101 article, HGTV authors go on to say that contemporary interiors feature tone-on-tone color palettes relying heavily on brown, taupe, cream and pure white. Shots of color are sometimes found on a single wall, in a striking floor rug or in a special piece of art.”

And it is exactly those pieces complementing a modern leather sofa that make up the rich tapestry of contemporary furniture design. By finding the right rug, the right painting, the right accessories to complete the design, you truly make the contemporary furniture come together.

Remember, furniture such as a contemporary sofa can really make a lasting impression in your living room. In addition to the browns and whites or blacks, interior designers can really add color and patterns to your basic contemporary sofa by using it as a palette to paint their design. This allows your larger pieces of furniture to have a longer shelf life. By maximizing new colors each year, you can create the epitome of modern design in your home.

The reason you should prefer to choose contemporary furniture is the flexibility that allows it to be used with a variety of colors and even designs as you experiment with the right look for your home. How you mix and match can really change a room. Think about it. If you walk into a room designed in all oranges and yellows, you will feel very different than if you walked into a room designed in all purple, for a vivid contrast.  How you design and how you decorate can really affect the feel of your contemporary furniture, from your leather sofas to your contemporary dining table.

Choosing contemporary furniture is easy – it’s diversified, varied, colorful and vibrant. From your contemporary dining tables to your contemporary bedroom set, pick from a myriad of designs and colors to create your ideal look. You’ll be glad you did.

When you come home to a living room that perfectly suits your tastes and needs, your home becomes a haven for family and friends to visit you. The living room is likely one of the most used rooms in your home so you want to make sure you get the most out of your living room furniture.

Central to your living room is the focal point or area of distinction. The layout of your living room is critical because this focal point such as a television stand, painting, fireplace or other creative space will become the gathering point of the room.

The goal is to encourage your guests to engage, or as HGTV points out in this article about creating a focal point, the goal is “sociopetal”. Sociopetal is the means of “arranging furniture to encourage a conversation.”

If you read further, HGTV explains how to arrange furniture in the living room with very specific distances apart and focusing on the shape of the furniture.

Make sure that you have natural pathways available so that you don’t have people crossing in front of the “conversation area.”  Position furniture carefully with traffic in mind so that it flows smoothly, especially if you have a large family and a lot of people in and out of your home.

When looking for a modern sofa store to setup your living room, consider how the layout will impact the room. City Living Magazine offers great layout tips in this article.

Central to their article is this statement: “Rather than investing in a large sofa and a loveseat, consider purchasing just the sofa and a couple of light-weight ottomans and club chairs for the space instead. The ottomans serve double duty: operating as trays or additional seating when you need to accommodate a fair number of guests. The club chairs can also be easily moved around to fit your needs a lot easier than an oversized couch.”

By diversifying your arrangements you create opportunities and make the most out of your living room furniture.  However, when considering placement, consider the size of your sofa.

A large living room can accommodate oversized furniture but sometimes, simpler is better, especially in small or tight spaces. A modern sofa can be found in a wide variety of colors and sizes, including large sectional sofas and small sofa beds.

By shopping at a modern sofa store, you can find the best quality and selection, particularly when looking for a leather sofa.

Leather or leatherette is a nice material to use in your living room furniture because it is durable, not easily stained and looks better over time.

This article  on the Sofa Blog outlines some great reasons why leather is a great material for your sofas. According to the writer, not only is it more durable and supple, but it has a higher fire resistance capability.

Now, the modern sofa is important to your living room, but equally critical is how you use the accent pieces such as coffee tables and side tables. Where does your lighting go? All of these little pieces are part of the bigger picture and influence the feel of a room. Do you have a second focal point? Finding the right accent pieces will be critical to making the most out of your living room furniture. Using a rug creates a location and truly adds to your room’s arrangement. Keep it simple so that other parts of the room can stand out, or use the rug to add color to your arrangement.

By shopping at the right sofa store that pairs matching accessories, you are sure to create a haven for family and friends.

The more popular woods to use are mahogany, oak, maple, beech, pine, though bamboo, teak and other more sustainable woods have become popular as well. Teak is especially popular in outdoor furniture.

However, if you are searching your furniture store for quality indoor wood furniture, it’s important to look at the colors of wood as well. Cherry and mahogany lend a red shade to the dark wood while walnut and maple is much lighter like a blond share. Oak and pine are more medium brown shades of wood to use in furniture. For solid, durable furniture, manufactured plywood or particle board is rarely a good choice because of the ease in which it falls apart. It is not appropriate for furniture design.

When choosing the best wood furniture around, these are some things to consider. Wood has long been a major staple of the furniture making industry, and will likely continue to dominate even as modern furniture design creates an emphasis on more sustainable, more functional forms of furniture. The best wood furniture is that which is solid, with a rich color that matches the rest of the furniture in your living room, bedroom or home office. Take the time to research each of the different woods to see what will work best in your next home improvement and interior design project.

If you don’t know what type of furniture you would like, first ask yourself what you need to buy to complete the interior design of your home. Are you looking to finish off your living room? If you are, what pieces of furniture do you need to complete the room? Tables? Big? Small? Do you need chairs to go with that table or a sofa to go around your coffee table? What about a sectional sofa versus a traditional sofa? Look at how big the room is and then decide. What color scheme are you looking to decorate your living room with? How many accessories will accent the room, and are they color-coordinated with your tables, chairs and sofa?

When in Los Angeles, there are many places you can buy furniture, so it’s best to do your research before you walk into the store. If you are picking out dining room furniture such as a dining table and chairs, take a picture of your kitchen and bring it with you. Write down the colors your want for your kitchen furniture and imagine how they will look in your kitchen. You can always seek the help of an expert in interior design if you don’t know what colors to pick to complement your home. Browse modern furniture online so you have an idea what you like.

Even picking out office furniture can be a big decision to make sure it captures the essence of your home. Contemporary design and modern furniture can make the typical home office look elegant and unique.

And don’t forget your outdoor and patio furniture. Living in Los Angeles means lots of opportunities to entertain outside, so when picking your Los Angeles furniture store, be sure to find one that presents options to decorate your entire room so you can create an amazing interior design package.

This allows our senses; our eyes, to be able to fully understand a piece in its totality. With ample space around a minimalist modern sofa, we are able to fully observe the piece from all sides. Intrigued as much regarding the form and nuance noted from the back as well as the sides and the front, the modern sofa becomes alive, rich in detail that might otherwise be missed if cluttered with side tables and more.

Minimalist furniture serves to accent and highlight the best in modern furniture design giving weight to each design gesture and us the time to embrace the form of each piece. It is only when we realize that the curvy three dimensional detailing on the front of the modern armoire is echoed through visual interpretation in the back rests of the dining room chairs does it begin to make sense.

It is this dynamic translation of design elements and basic volume perceptions that can provide a base for a powerful mix of form and function, dynamic color transpositions and qualities of opaque and translucent; light and dark. Shadows and light play becomes an essential element of quirky humor and stretching of the imagination.

Modern furniture design at once complements and challenges our perception of what is right and wrong, appropriate and experimental. Lines undulate in a modern recliner that provides restful respite for a sense of protective encirclement. Rich with visual tapestry; materials and textiles become one and a mosaic of texture; smooth and cool to the touch, warm and soft to our skin. Minimalism lays bare our desire to fully experience each and every sensory experience to the utmost allowing our entrance via graceful lines and jarringly straight forgiving lines that curl mysteriously just as it becomes too rigid for our pleasure. Compromising and demanding, exciting and allusive, minimalist is modern design at its core.

Even if you miss Modani Furniture deals on Google offers, Bloomspot, Living Social and other online coupon sites (watch our blog and Twitter feeds for updates on these as they go quickly!), Modani Furniture is celebrating in style with big sales across every department, from outdoor furniture to bedroom and living room designs. Visit our showrooms in Houston, Los Angeles, Miami or New York to grab these deals as well as online at www.modani.com.

Sales include our Ugo Lounge Chair Red. If you’ve always wanted a floating bubble chair (pictured left), now is the opportunity to grab one. This modern Galaxy Chair from Modani Furniture hangs from your ceiling and offers a fun, playful place to relax at home. Only $690 during the Anniversary Sale.

Other items on sale include:

This modern ceiling lamp hangs elegantly in a living room or kitchen. This silver Trio Pendule lamp is crafted with three unique circular fixtures that hang gracefully creating an ultra mod look in any home or apartment. On sale for only $190.

This ball-shaped figure is actually an outdoor table and cushioned chairs for guests. Designed to save space in small apartment homes and as a unique outdoor patio set, this ball has four chairs and a small chrome table for drinks or cards or snacks. Surprise your guests with this modern Ball Outdoor Sofa Set Black and buy for only $990 during the Anniversary sale.

Add a simple touch to your child’s room with Modani Furniture’s unique “Wall sticker. This three-foot wall sticker is available in blue or white and adds the silhouette of a little boy gazing at the stars and the moon. Reminiscent of good night moon, share a memory with your little one and decorate with this unique wall sticker. On sale for only $60.

Always a timeless classic, the Optima Armchair White is a great addition to the modern living room or bedroom.  This old-world Baroque styled chair is always a favorite for designers. Made of top-quality leather, solid wood with plenty of padding, this button-top seat is on sale for only $590 during the sale.

This is only a sampling of the items that Modani Furniture will be putting on sale during our Fall Fever Anniversary Sale. Check our sales page here frequently this month as deals will come and go quickly as we celebrate being four years old!

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About Modani: Modani Furniture was founded by Nathan Cohen, Steven Athea, and Yonel Fellous from Paris, France in Miami, Florida in 2007 and, since then, received much success in the midst of the economic downfall. Increasing sales both from the Miami showroom and online at Modani.com led the launch of their new showrooms in New York City and Los Angeles. Modani conceptualizes on showcasing Modern Furniture by using clean minimalist lines, cool tones and new modern styles with bold features. Modani has grasped the attention and decorated a variety of interiors for well-known entrepreneurs and national celebrities including the Trump Towers, P. Diddy and Lady Gaga. Modani continues to make headway locally and across the nation, generating up-to-the-minute designs for the modern furniture world.

Modern furniture designers deliberately separated themselves away from this single minded view of furniture as mere decoration and literally exploded into the world of furniture design with modern, contemporary ideas utilizing new materials and exploring construction techniques not previously considered.

With this same embracing of new ideas and concepts came the ideas regarding furniture’s new found place in the home and pushed the design to be more functional embracing places for storage and flexibility for multi-purpose use. This is a concept that many modern designers championed seeing the home and the life lived within its walls as a responsive living machine. While some did not like the reference of human beings as mechanical, it allowed for a reshaping of how we use our living spaces.

Dining room tables no longer only accommodate the Sunday special dinner and holidays, finding themselves host to children’s homework, folded laundry and not so surprising, everyday meals as well. Gone is the formality and the strict division of furniture to task but rather a more integrated way of living that is more casual and for many, more comfortable.

Large oversized chairs with hard flat wooden seats might be fit for a king but for comfortable seating it was anything but. Probably even the king did not look forward to sitting in them for any great length of time. With ergonomics in mind, the human body was explored and celebrated with functional, modern furniture that fit the new contemporary lifestyle.

Dining rooms, tired of being closed off from the rest of the home became a part of the open living concept linking spaces normally closed off from each other; the kitchen, the living room and the dining room. With this new form of architectural space planning, modern wall units gained favor as a way to create some sense of spatial separation while still allowing the easy flow of traffic and conversation between rooms. Substituting a wall unit for a wall opened up a whole new world of possibility providing storage and display space. Suddenly everything got a whole lot less cluttered.

French country dining chairs with provincial style is at home exuding a kind of cottage feel. With open ladder backs and cushioned or hand woven rush seats, they typify the essence of comfort and country charm. This same ease of design can be found in outdoor wrought iron patio furniture characterized by scrolls and twining designs reminiscent of trailing vines. Suitable for both indoor and outdoor living it provides stable, secure seating that is resistant to the elements while stylishly contemporary. Paired with a round metal table topped with break resistant glass, it provides a pleasant contrast of materials and visual weight. Perfect for sitting on the patio in the afternoon sipping fresh lemonade and admiring the nearby flowering hibiscus, its versatility is only second to its creative and whimsical styling. Care for something you can settle into a bit deeper? Look for a slightly oversized rattan chair with arms that will embrace you as you enjoy the best of nature.

If desired, French dining chairs can be a bit more formal. While maintaining a similar design of the country chairs with a ladder back, additional detailing and wood reliefs ornament the chair with additional swirls and swoops in the ladder rails and the supporting legs. While not overly ornate, they begin to recall the traditional French dining chairs of the past.

A more sophisticated line for the French dining chair is realized by substituting the open ladder back with a closed often circular and rounded back. With modern’s traditional minimalist lines, the back rest should be artfully raised above the seat in silent partnership with the seat. Supported by nothing more than slender gracefully configured supports, the back rest rises to assume its proper design position. Covered in sleek modern textiles or luxurious leather, either finish is appropriate for today’s lifestyle. With proper care, clean up should be a snap accommodating use and spills with aplomb.

If you enjoy a minimalist design palette then look for a French inspired dining chair that embraces modern design completely. Fashioned from aluminum polished stainless steel with inspiring arms and cantilevered asymmetrical front and back legs, it takes dining to a whole new level where design and good taste become synonymous.