Enhance modernist stark white walls with an affordable floating dark wood shelf and minimalist decor. The all consuming white whale that is four walls and a ceiling all painted the same color can be brought fully into the modernist ethos by the placement of a mahogany or cherry shelf attached with screws to the wall so the shelf appears to be floating in midair on first viewing. A handful of books all on the same subject framed between two sensual orchid plants completes this inexpensive modern decor idea.

Photographs are at home in any style of decor and it is really the manner and method of display that separates one style from another. An inexpensive modern decor idea is to showcase the shoes that you have worn throughout your life and have outgrown either physically or stylistically. Get out your old shoes and attach 18 gauge silver wire to the shoe by one end into clay placed discreetly inside the shoe’s opening. Twirl the other end of the wire in different directions so that you can attach photographs to them that stick up above the shoes. Match up the photographs from the same era as when you were most likely to wear the shoes.

Inexpensive Kitchen Flooring Ideas. Redoing your kitchen floor doesn have to be a wallet busting process. Modern vinyl and laminates recreate traditional flooring.