What are you thoughts on mixing modern with antique, as far as design goes?

Definitely gonna need pics to make a proper judgment

You can really screw it up, I guess…but it’s all in the eye of the beholder. We don’t do any kind of a design in our apartment but I wouldn’t mind combining the two elements.

It can really work well.

I am more eclectic.

@Newt. I’ll post some when I get home.

Well, my mom had rather eclectic tastes. One of my favorite pieces of furniture growing up was a coffee table (located in the formal living room where we kids were not supposed to play) made from an antique samurai horse saddle tree with various symbolic silver medallions on it that had two Lucite bars inserted through slits intended for the rigging and bent to hold up a glass table top. The table is now in my father’s living room and will eventually probably pass on to me.

Bottom line is that it can work really well as long as you are careful with the pieces you choose.

My sister and BIL have done this. It makes the rooms feel very comfortable and not like a museum or grandma’s house.

It can work really well….as long as the pieces are chosen carefully. For example a retro vinyl and formica 50’s table wouldn’t go well in a dining room that opened into a Louis XIV inspired living room…with an embellished rococo French sofa and matching rococo chairs, mirror, etc. It would be too jarring. But you could possibly put two Corbusier armchairs with a French sofa and it would work. The clean lines of the Corbusier would temper the o.t.t. embellishment of the carved sofa. It’s all about lines and balance in a room.

It all depends…but once again….it is possible. Photos would help (as someone suggested).

a lot of it would also depend on the color scheme you have, taking something antique and adding it to an overall modern room with the colours in sync would give it a better blending effect; therefore eliminating, or at least, reduce the clashing of styles

@ddude1116…...My sentiments, exactly!

I just bought this and think that it’s pretty awesome.

We have a mix going on in our house. Very eclectic. I don’t want too much of any certain style. (My I’m style add)

I think balance is good, as long as it truly works together.

That’s my favorite way to decorate. :D

I bought the chair above. It is going beside my phonograph!

I do mix it up a bit but like to keep heavy duty pieces like sofas simple, modern and maximum comfy.

@Jude which one? The one with the wooden arms or without? Both are really cool. I love the wooden armed one.

The wooden armed one. :)

Good taste you have there! I really do like that look.

I love modern minimalist and I love old things too so I have a mix. I have modern leather sofas and also a wrought iron and glass table made from the antique ornate grill that covered the basement windows on my parents old house. If you like it and it makes you happy, that is all that matters.

I really dug the Louis XVI rooms at the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey, with it’s modern colors and antique furnishings.