How to Decorate Mid-Century Modern: Design Styles Explained

Mid mod is my favorite 😊 I really love the history that comes with it too, it brings along more appreciation for interior design when I'm styling my home. Thank you for this video!

Love your blouse!

Hello there!! I love mid century modern!! Thanks for info

Thank you Lindsey for this video. You gave so much great information. I did not know many of the things you mentioned here. Also, love your enthusiasm and god energy!

I would love to see a video on desert modern and Mediterranean modern💕

I’ve been waiting for this video! You’ve done a thorough breakdown of the design. I definitely lean MCM, and I love your tips about incorporating it into your home, especially with statement pieces.

I love arts and crafts design style, maybe you can do a video on that.

That was an excellent description of mid century modern. I was born in 1950 and it is wonderful to see this style endure. Your photo examples were beautiful. Seeing all of those rooms made me so nostalgic. Well done!

I am sacrificing myself to watch this video in support of my friends that enjoy this style but, I will need serious therapy after this video. At least I watched until the end. I am hard on Victorian and French style. Definitely an old soul born to late. Thanks but no my cup of tea.

Bravo Lindsay! I so enjoyed this dive into mcm. You gave us so many details and I am apprecating how long it took you to pull it together for us. Thank You. Teachers Rock!

MCM is definitely not my style; however, I do appreciate some of aspects of it, especially a few of the furniture pieces but not all. I know the younger generation has fallen in love with it though 😊😉💗

Missed this one! Another great breakdown 🙂

Excellent video. This design is excellent especially since rooms are small in many new houses. I’m not into bulky couches. My parents loved this style and today I still love the tone of teak, so terrific. Thank you for the sources🍎. Loved the apple comment, it’s true same with potatoes

Thank you, great information! I find great pieces at Crate and Barrel as well.

Cool video!

Excellent job! So well done! Thank you so much.

Thank you Lindsay , ❤👍

I like the video it was good my only issue is how you went into the description of teakwood and how it just about got depleted and that people should be looking for more sustainable options, but then you mention your leather sofa so many times not realizing that animals have to die for people to own leather furniture. Which is not sustainable and downright cruel. However nobody likes to talk about that part. If you did address this in another video then my apologies this is the first time I’ve ever seen one of your videos. But going forward and living in the world that we live in right now you may want to think about things from another perspective as well as your viewers/subs. Someone a sentient being died for your sofa I’m sure several. So give thanks and try to do better. I am all for repurposing things and keeping them out of our landfills so I do love that you do a lot of secondhand treasure finding.

Hey Sylina, wow this is great history on mid mod

Mid Cen Modern is becoming SOOO yesterday ...

Very interesting! Thank you.

Excellent.. well executed ❤

love your coffee mug. Where is if from?

Beautiful Thank you

It seems that many videos equate "mid-century modern" with Palm Springs and "blurring the line between indoors and outdoors." However, I grew up in a mid-century-built home in the Midwest, and I now live in a mid-century home in a desert city known for frying eggs on the sidewalk and roasting weiners on dashboards. Both homes lack the kind of big windows that seem to be considered a major component of mid-century modern decor. In fact, some of the homes built in the post-war era up to the 1970's were downright dark. Despite the darkness forced by the architecture, the furniture style and overall aesthetic DOES work in those darker homes as well. It's a somewhat different feel when you don't have light pouring in through a window, but it still works wonderfully.

You mentioned a link below to biophillica and mid century, but I can't find that?

Of all the videos I've watched,you're the only one that explained the difference between modern and contemporary.can I mix transitional with mcm?

What color paint is your wall?

This is helpful. I love nid century modern!!!!!!!!

The scene in Good Night and Good Luck where Edward Murrow and Fred Friendly are waiting, to speak to Charles Palin the head of CBS, in the reception. The furniture and Art are dreamlike and wonderful designs

That tip about Mad Men is really handy, thank you.

This is EXACTLY what I needed as I start designing my new apartment! Thank you 🙏🏻

Wow what an amazingly done video of my favorite style

Great informative video, thanks for making it! 🙏

I love the mid century look and just purchased a couple pieces of drexel declaration . But i also love the boho look. How can these 2 be done together? or is it a big no.. TIA

I thought walnut was the most common MCM wood.

Love this video from A To Z exactly what I needed to know. To the point and no extra information ty for the amazing video

Im thrilled to find this video! I bought a MCM home in north Texas 8 years ago and have been collecting pieces since. I now have the following MCM pieces: dining table/chairs, china hutch, headboard, 2 dressers, double-decker coffee table, sofa, buffet (now my TV cabinet), and lift-top gossip bench. I have gotten nearly all these pieces at thrift or second hand stores and a few at estate or garage sales. I am quite happy with the pieces I have now and will likely only ever buy more if it just grabs my shirttail as I walk past!! My biggest folly is the minimal art situation (or lack thereof)!! I was an art teacher and art business owner and have TONS of paintings. Every wall is a gallery wall, even though I have 5 sliding glass doors and clerestory windows!! UGH! I’m going to try to minimize the amount of art displayed this year-it’s a resolution. Maybe I can convince myself to change it out semi-regularly. Oi!

What’s the Instagram of her Mid Century friend Jen? Greetings!

I love love love mid century modern architecture and furniture. My home’s architecture is not mid century. However, I’d like to furnish it in that style. Any rules around meshing mid century interior design with homes that may be more traditional in architecture?

I just love the mid century modern look.

What does function over form mean? I tried googling it & couldn't understand.

Sorry to contradict you, but Mid Century Modern Style originated in Europe between 1920 and 1930 no U.S.A. Also, most of the designers that were part of that era came from there.

Im not sure why some women can do the over edited, scripted voice over and some can't. But when they can't, its annoying.

I like the colors and the geometrical shapes for tiling and floors. But I don’t like the furniture. I am watching because a house that I might buy is definitely MCM.

It is true that the Midcentury Modern period brought forth a lot of stylish design icons. However, Mies van der Rohe‘s and Lily Reich’s Barcelona Chair, le Corbusier‘s and Charlotte Perriand‘s LC1, LC2, LC3 and LC4 as well as Marcel Breuer‘s Wassily Chair were not designed in this period, but significantly earlier in the Bauhaus era.