
Decorated in white and black colors, the interior is unusual and extravagant. These contrasting colors attract the attention of everyone who crossed the threshold of the apartment.
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Kitchen
The combination of black and white in the interior kitchens considered a universal option. These colors will look good in a small and cozy kitchen space, as well as in spacious dining rooms and kitchens that occupy a large area.
Properly applying monochrome tones, we help our clients correct existing room deficiencies. The right combination black with white helps the client to visually expand the small kitchen, make it more spacious. Contrast tones are chosen for the interior of the room in which you need to slightly raise the excessively low ceiling in the room.
And then the room will be badly perceived. Illiterately chosen combination of colors can act irritably on people who spend most of their time in it.
return to menu ↑Tips from our designers
When designing the kitchen in black and white, we recommend that you take into account the advice of our designers. It is considered impractical to use these two colors in equal proportions. The use of dark shades in the kitchen can also spoil the impression. If you ignore this recommendation, the created space can turn out gloomy and dull.
The winning base option is white. Especially it will be necessary in the following situations:
- If the kitchen area is too small, the white tones visually expand the space.
- With insufficient admission to the room natural lighting: white surfaces have the ability to reflect light particles and make the room brighter.
- In the absence of time for daily cleaning of the kitchen, white will become a real helper. Spots and dust are more visible on glossy black surfaces.
When using too much white, dark accents in the room will not be visible. The lack of necessary contrasts will make the room boring and of little interest.
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What advantages will have a living room, decorated in black and white:
- Stylish sophistication living room gives the use of monochrome tones. Into its interior fits "wall", made of birch or other valuable wood, painted in black or white.
- By adding a few bright accents, you can get a very cozy room in which family members and invited people will often gather. The right combination of white stretch ceiling, wallpaper light colors with good dark furnished creates a unique comfort and style in the room.
- A guest room with a high white ceiling, light wallpaper with a dark pattern is perceived easily and weightlessly. Despite this, the living room does not lose its thoroughness.
- The interior of the living room, dominated by light shades, relaxes a person after a long working day. In the bright living room, a person feels harmony and security.
- Contrasts, which are black and white, emphasize the unusual details of the living room. Dark furniture looks expensive and elegant in such a room. Monochrome posters help refresh the interior and highlight its individuality.
The choice of white and black colors for interior design is usually reserved for non-standard personalities and people with good taste. Owners of such interiors are not ready to go unnoticed.
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Posters, which are used in the manufacture of contrasting colors of white and black, have a special magic. According to psychologists, monochrome scenes can affect the mood of a person. Posters made in these tones evoke positive emotions. This fact may seem surprising, because the basis of the images of the posters are two contrasting monochrome.
Looking at these posters, human fantasy begins to work actively. The brain adds all the missing colors to revitalize the painted picture. Achromatic colors do not distract a person’s thoughts from a plot or object drawn on a poster. These shades only emphasize all the important points that were conceived by the designer when creating the picture.
Bedroom
When choosing an interior bedrooms need to get away from the use of a large number of gloomy tones. According to psychologists, dark colors worsen the emotional state of people and do not contribute to healthy sleep. The owners of the premises in such a bedroom will regularly feel causeless anxiety, which will interfere with good rest.
To ensure a healthy sleep in the bedroom, for which black furniture is chosen, you need to take into account a few design tips:
- With dark bed It will be good to combine bed linen shades that match the color of the bedroom wallpaper.
- Above the bed of dark colors it is good to mark several family black and white photos or small posters with a pacifying plot.
- An unusual kind of room with a dark bed will give a special light, which is set to frame the perimeter of the place to sleep.
- When choosing a dark color laminate in the bedroom is good to choose curtains, the color of which will match the color of the floor of the room. This decision will allow the owners to emphasize the unified style in which the interior of the bedroom was created.
If you follow these tips, you can create a relaxed atmosphere for quick relaxation in the room to sleep.
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The combination of black and white wallpaper will help to give the image of the room dynamism and vivid contrast. These colors give the room a simple elegance. And you can, on the contrary, add funny notes to the style of the room with the help of wallpaper in contrasting tones.
When choosing a wallpaper, we advise you to pay attention to the following nuances:
- If the wallpaper is dominated by a dark base, then they visually narrow the room. It is advisable to select such wallpaper for rooms occupying a large area. Spacious living rooms, classic bedrooms and dining rooms, decorated in this style, amaze with luxury and elegance.
- The predominance of white over black visually expands the room. Light colors make the room brighter and more joyful.
- Small patterns on black and white wallpaper will play a minor role in the holistic perception of the room. Such a pattern merges, and the wallpaper is perceived in one main color.
- Medium-sized pattern details will be discordant with posters or by pictures in room. Decorators recommend using wallpaper with a small pattern for pasting small rooms. Such motives do not attract attention, and the image of the room is perceived more holistically.
- We recommend using large patterns on wallpaper only for large areas. Large motives are perceived as separate parts of the room.
If desired, you can combine several types of wallpaper for pasting one room. The room in which the combination of wallpaper with a pattern and without it is used looks impressive.
return to menu ↑Black, white and red
The use of three colors in the interior is considered a non-standard solution. Bright red the color goes well with both white and black. If the harmony of three colors is found, then the room will look stylish and festive.
How to harmoniously combine white, black, red indoors:
- When planning the interior you need to choose one color as the basis. The basic shade should be applied on approximately 70% of the area. If you distribute the three colors in equal proportions, then being in the room will cause anxiety or apathy.
- Saturated scarlet color in the room looks beautiful and spectacular. It may be quite a bit, but it is important to try to repeat one red color in several interior details.
- If the dominance of the red tone is conceived in one part of the room, then it should not be used at all in the other part.
- In order to create a spectacular black and white red interior, it is not necessary to paint the walls red or use red wallpaper. It is enough to dilute the existing interior with beautiful accessories in red. They can be: sofa pillows, paintings and posters, wall clock or carpet for sex.
- Noble Gray color will help dilute the black and white interior, which added a bright red.
Bathroom
Achieve the right combination of monochromes when making bathroom rooms can be hard.A room may seem dull or dull with an excess or lack of a certain color.
To make the right choice, we recommend:
- Bathroom of small size and low ceiling should be framed mainly in white.
- Dark tones can be used to highlight beautiful or unusual forms of plumbing. Gray or silver accessories and light furniture are well suited for the bathroom, decorated in black and white colors.
- Mirror surfaces and partitions made of original colored glass will give a special effect to the room.
- Glossy stretch ceiling white color helps to successfully hide the shortcomings of the interior decoration or structures used in it.
- Black can be used as a base in large bathrooms. In such rooms not only separate elements, but also whole parts of the room can be dark. In spacious rooms, dramatic black is used for interior walls and floors.
Curtains
Curtains are considered to be an effective decorative solution for any room that helps to emphasize its individuality. In the interior, executed in black and white, curtains can revive the room, give the atmosphere solemnity, highlight the existing advantages and hide flaws.
In order to make the choice of curtains correct and harmonious, it is necessary to take into account the floor space:
- For small living rooms and bedrooms, the main color in the interior of which is white and milky, curtains of pastel shades are perfect. They can be: beige, ivory colors, slightly silver, nobly gray. The listed shades of curtains will give special luxury and refinement to the room in black and white.
- For spacious, well-lit rooms, you can choose curtains of bright colors. To decorate the living room in white and black, it is worth using curtains of warm, joyful shades. Can choose curtains saturated yellowluxurious red, stylish emerald green.
The classic version of the curtains for the interior in black and white are:
- black curtains;
- curtains of light colors;
- curtains in black and white stripes, which can be both horizontal and vertical.
Floor tiles
Using black and white floor tiles Ceramics is considered to be one of the classic flooring options for the room. This decorative technique does not lose its relevance over time.
Combining dark and light tiles on the floor may seem quite boring and not at all interesting. But this is not at all the case: the combination of noble black and elegant white color creates a rhythmic and spectacular balance.
Why is it important to pay attention to the right combination of monochrome colors in the interior:
- Versatility. The combination of dark and light ceramic floor tiles harmoniously fits in all different directions from the classics to minimalism.
- Time-tested classic. Combining monochrome combinations is considered acceptable in any interior style. The interior of the kitchen or dining room, which uses black and white floor tiles will not lose relevance for a long time.
- Favorable contrast. Reception allows one color to highlight the benefits of using another.
- Show perception. The alternation of monochromes allows you to create a special spectacular effect.
Interior ceiling
Effective solution will be the use of black ceiling in certain areas of the room. In an area in which the ceiling is painted in luxurious black, you can use a white floor covering. With this solution, you can visually expand the space, smooth out the deficiencies of finishing and place the necessary accents.
The use of a large number of point fixtures on the black or black and white ceiling will help create the effect of a romantic starry sky. This solution is used in the design of bedrooms with dark ceilings.
To add fresh notes to the interior with a black and white ceiling, designers recommend using beige tones in the room's decor.
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To emphasize the spectacular black and white interior, we recommend using special lighting. Among the basic rules of how to properly illuminate a room in monochrome shades, it is worth highlighting:
- Small spotlights give a special depth and sophistication of black lacquered furniture. But a large number of such lamps will make the contrast of monochrome colors used to create the interior less noticeable.
- Unusual multi-level lighting is used to give a bedroom that is furnished with dark furniture, mystery and harmony. Matte surfaces are perceived more luxurious and textured under such lighting.
- Quite rarely black and white colors are used for decoration. children rooms. When you make a child's room in monochrome colors, you need to take care of sufficient flow of sunlight into the room. Good lighting of the nursery is important to ensure when choosing dark furniture for this room. If the natural light in the nursery is not enough, the black furniture will be perceived cumbersome, and the room itself, despite the elegance and consistency of style, will be deprived of comfort.
- If the room will be illuminated with spotlights, it is important to ensure that there are enough of them in the room. Several single lamps give a hard light, creating a cold uninhabited space around dark furniture. Adequate illumination in black and white interior creates cozy, soft lines.
- Chandelier horns directed towards the ceiling give a calm, pacifying light evenly distributed throughout the ceiling. Chandeliers with horns pointing down, we do not recommend using it in monochrome tones. Such light can aggravate the atmosphere of pressure on the human psyche, especially if black has been chosen from the prevailing tone.
At observance of the listed rules, competently organized space in black and white will be perceived easily and positively.
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