Sometimes at the height of modernity, sometimes abandoned in favor of wood, metal is making a lasting comeback in interior design. From the living room to the kitchen, and even into the bedrooms, it’s being embraced through discreet, refined touches or bold, statement elements.
It’s hard to walk through a home decor store without coming across metal objects. With its hard, shiny appearance, this material falls into two categories: pure metals like iron, aluminum, or copper, and metal alloys, from steel to bronze to stainless steel. Once reserved for purely industrial styles, metal has reinvented itself through pieces that now suit all types of interiors. Today, it adds structure to a classic chair back, complements a soft, delicate rug, and modernizes an otherwise timeless marble table. Let’s take a closer look at this major design trend.
Metal: How to Embrace It
Firmly established in the decor of our homes and apartments, metal isn’t going anywhere—it adapts effortlessly to every space. From the entrance hall, aluminum front doors set the tone. Continue to the living room with stainless steel accessories, the year’s star material. While very contemporary interiors shine with metal, we also love vintage-inspired pieces like mushroom lamps. Picture a lounge chair with a steel frame and brown leather seat, set atop a shaggy rug, where you flip through a beautiful book resting on a silver glass-and-metal side table or a graphic accent table.
Alongside these objects, velvet, wood, fur, and textured textiles add a touch of elegance, brought to life with inviting colors like cherry, olive green, mint, terracotta, lime, chocolate, and honey yellow—not to mention timeless beige and white that soften the overall look.
Passing through a hallway adorned with a bronze steel triptych mirror, where a bench with multiple metal bars invites you to sit, you arrive in a modern kitchen. Here, dark metal bar stools meet a light marble countertop, creating contrast. Stainless steel or zinc backsplashes, industrial pendant lights, and open shelving all offer ways to introduce metal into your kitchen. And let’s not forget small items like a bread basket, soap dish, or a pretty steel tray.
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