
Set the mood of the room will be the main finishing material. Most often, this material is the wallpaper. There are nuances on the invoice, and on other parameters. But the main thing is to choose the color of the wallpaper in the interior correctly. The process should be approached already prepared.
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What can affect the choice of color?
They need to be separated from each other. This is done and finishing materials. Immediately you need to figure out - how will the room be used? For living room the normal state is a state of fun, hassle. Guests usually gather there. The owner of the apartment has the task of creating a bright environment so that guests do not get bored.
The opposite situation with the bedroom.In the bedroom most of the time spent at bedtime, respectively, should be a calm atmosphere. You can not use shades in the bedroom, which give a boost of energy and suppress laziness. With such an environment will not work to relax. It is impossible to discard the question of dimensions. Finishing material plays an important role in the visual perception of space. There are tricks that increase space. There are ways to compensate for too spacious rooms. It is only important not to confuse the shades.
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The choice of color is also influenced by the lighting. When the window goes to the north side, this leads to poor-quality lighting. Poor quality lighting needs to be compensated. It is not enough to put the lamps. It is also necessary to correctly select the color of the material.
You can not mindlessly use just because they liked the shade or ornament. Some styles in this regard are strict, for example, it is baroque or classic. There are fewer problems with conditional modernity, but there are also requirements. They affect the brightness. You need to be able to competently combine. You can not use different shades in the same composition. It is important to observe harmony everywhere.
The question of practicality can not be circumvented. Dirt on white shades noticeable strongly. For a bedroom or living room it is not so important. This factor is more important. for kitchen. Ceilings and the walls pollute there much faster. The proximity of the stove, the heat from the oven, cooking, lack of free space - all this makes the walls very vulnerable.
Treat this and to the children's room. Children may accidentally smear or write something on them.
Nuances of choice for the hall
Indoors, there are four factors that influence the choice of material color:
- Need to look at the orientation relative to the direction of the world.
- Rate interior style.
- Determine if there is a multi-colored furniture.
- Need to stick to your taste.
Sometimes living rooms are multifunctional. In the usual sense of the living room is needed for leisure. The kitchen is used for meals, and the bedroom is used for sleeping. If all of these actions will be performed in the living room, then versatility will be an important factor.
- It should be borne in mind that in the living room people eat, which means that the chance of pollution increases. Children will play there, so they need to create a fun environment.
- Also there will be a dream. Therefore, it is also impossible to overdo it with brightness. Sleep normally with bright colors will not work.
- Spaces need to be allocated separately. But there should be no obvious contrast. This is especially appropriate in situations where material has to be changed in several rooms at once. After moving from a pale room to a bright one, eyes may begin to ruffle. This can not be allowed.
The combination of shades of furniture and finishing material
Selection occurs after the purchase of furniture. Wallpapers should either shade furniture, or emphasize it. Overtighten the attention they should not. This sequence is simply explained. It is easier to get new than to completely change the furniture. If the contrast of the furniture is dark, then you should use light. Such warm shades as pear, mustard, sand are allowed.
This rule does not play in the opposite direction.
White furniture gives almost complete freedom in choosing.
Color can be:
- purple;
- emerald;
- sapphire.
If there is brown or reddish furniture in the room, it is worth using dark ones.
Furniture Cherry will be combined with:
- maroon;
- violet;
- saturated green.
There are recommendations on the Internet - wallpaper can be pale. This tip is more suitable for the bedroom than for the living room.
Now it is fashionable to purchase blue furniture. In appearance, it looks stylish, expensive. Blue is not boring. The background of the room depends on the purpose of the living room. The use of the living room for leisure requires the use of red or yellow.
For relaxation, you need to use wallpaper:
- beige;
- cream;
- light blue.
Peach furniture is less commonly used. When buying items of peach color you need to make the background in the room more vivid. This is the case when a brighter background will help highlight the furniture. Elegant with peach looks:
- Gray;
- blue;
- pearl shade.
Location nuances
It should be remembered about the side of the location of the living room when buying material. When the side to the east or west, it does not matter where the windows are installed.This does not apply to situations where windows are blocked by tall trees. Then there may be problems with the illumination of the room. Problems happen to the first floors when window it faces south or north or when the view of the window is interfered by trees. Then there can be two options: when there is not enough light or when there is too much light.
- If there is little light in the room, and the window faces north, it means that there will be very little light in summer. Illumination comes from the reflected light of the sky. Gray or blue can not be used. These colors will coincide with the shade of the sky in winter and summer, respectively. You can not use pale shades, cold contrasts. You can save the room with wallpaper with bright color.
- Too much light also hurts. Eyes hurt, you can not concentrate on anything. Then you should use cold ones. This is light khaki, beige gray. Dark background is allowed.
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Depending on the interior style:
- With minimalism you need to use monochrome shades. Besides white, it is beige and gray.
- For country style, yellow, blue, and red are considered native.And suitable for both rich and delicate shades.
- In style provence need to focus on the spring shades. It is pink, cream, lavender color.
- For high-tech, both bright and neutral gray rolls are equally suitable. Here you need to analyze how the furniture looks in practice.
- For a classic interior you need classic neutral shades. You can use a pastel background. There can be no bright materials here.
- In the Scandinavian style is also not welcome wallpaper with a motley gamut.
- The fusion style stands apart. There should be used rolls with different shades. To soften such rolls need brown or white furniture. The walls can be plastered and gold wallpaper.
Feng Shui commitment
Those people who believe in Eastern teachings are interested in the Feng Shui philosophy, the following information will be helpful.
According to this philosophy, there are several elements, and when arranging a room it is necessary to separate these elements..
Wood can not collide with metal, fire with water. Each of the elements has its own direction and its own set of shades.
- The choice of family direction involves the use of red and green.
- For a career, black and blue are favorable.
It is also important to consider in which sector of the apartment the living room is located.
Finding a room in the northern sector requires adhering to the element of Water. Then the wallpaper should be blue or black. It is important to choose exactly the warm shades of blue or black. Dark shades will make the gloomy room even more gloomy. Neutral white allowed.
For rooms in the western sectors other rules. There are yellow, gold, gray shades. For the north and southeast, you must use terracotta and orange, as these are the colors of the earth.
For the eastern rooms need to use green. This is the element of the tree. For rooms located in the south you need to use everything that resembles the color of Fire. It is red, orange, purple. But philosophy does not prohibit the use of a green shade for wall decoration.
Choice for bedroom
For the bedroom, you need to focus on the fact that the day will start from this room. And on what color wallpaper is used, depends on the mood of the person. Immediately it should be noted - aggressive colors are prohibited. Quality sleep will not, and annoying lead to frustration and quarrels. Too minor as well will not lead to anything good, since the room should not turn a person into a lazy creature.
Immediately it is worth considering a selection of popular shades:
- Often choose blue, as they calm, despite their coldness. You can only use blue, but not blue. Blue is allowed only for compact rooms - it can visually expand them.
- The mood of the green is perfect for the bedroom. Color gives relaxing emotions, relieves stress, allows you to relax.
- Universal not for nothing are such a title - they can be used everywhere. With white, you can combine anything. The room will be light, open, but if there are other shades along with white. Having only white will make the room faceless. For smaller bedrooms this is a good option. It combines with most popular colors. These can be used in bedrooms with poor lighting.
- The use of yellow compensates for this disadvantage. Like white, brown can be attributed to universal shades. Actually it will never pass. It acts as positively as possible. In this room you can relax.
Are there conflicting colors for the bedroom?
There are several colors that under certain circumstances can be used in the bedroom. But you need to immediately make a reservation - the colors are contradictory. For example, this is a red wallpaper. This is the color of aggression, leadership and domination. He likes the leaders, people are easy going. Color is more often used in the living room, but it can also be used in the bedroom. But then the red wallpaper will need to be diluted with a light finish.
Blue is cold. It must be diluted. Otherwise, blue wallpapers will cause anguish and depression. For small bedrooms such is prohibited.
Side of the world for the bedroom
As for the living room, for the bedroom the sides of the world play a big role. Especially if the apartment owner is interested in feng shui. If the windows face south, then there will be no problems with the light. After dinner there will be too much light, so it needs to be absorbed:
- blue;
- purple;
- terracotta.
All listed rules are relevant only for spacious bedrooms. Dark for compact bedrooms do not need to use. When you exit the window to the north side there will be a lack of light. Then even open curtains not much will fix the situation. You will need to use wallpaper beige, gold or yellow.
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It is customary to plan the general scale in advance so that in practice there is no frankly unsuccessful combination of finishing material and furniture.
- For light of furniture need to pick up materials to match. Such wallpaper can be golden, white and beige wallpaper. In rooms with large walls you can play on the contrast. That is, you can use black furniture and white wallpaper and vice versa. Warm and cold shades can not be mixed in any situations.
- As for dark furniture, it refers to warm furniture. Accordingly, cold shades in the wallpaper can not be used. Suitable colors are white, sand, ocher, brown. Furniture should act as a secondary material, while wallpaper will be the main element.
There are also some bold solutions that allow you to add some light colors to the dull interior. You can try to combine different types of wallpaper. The bottom line is that you need to use the same structure of the picture. Colors can be any. You can make a vertical or horizontal position, as well as inserts and niches.
For zoning premises used horizontal stripes. Below the premises are used dark wallpaper with a dynamic pattern. At the top of the room will be calm tones. Vertical stripes can be made monophonic. The width of the strips can be chosen the same as the dimensions of the bed. The material can, how to reach the ceiling, as well as go for it. Inserts are required in order to allocate space. Often allocate the area above the bed.
For kitchen
The kitchen has exactly the same requirements for the choice of wallpaper. It is necessary to take into account the degree of illumination, the size of the room. The lack of lighting is usually compensated by a warm gamut in the wallpaper. It:
- beige;
- creamy;
- yellow wallpaper.
A warm shade is not required if there is a lot of light in the room. Here you should choose neutral.
This is a choice:
- peach;
- wheat;
- olive wallpaper.
Muffled cold shades are suitable. They will give the kitchen an atmosphere of comfort.
More aggressive red for the kitchen is considered a bold color. It can cause irritation if you overdo it with saturation. Red is the color of confident people.The philosophy of feng shui says that red light can increase appetite. If you approach the issue from this side, then the red wallpaper for the kitchen will be useful.
Cold shades are designed to soothe. But for the kitchen, they are not suitable. In the kitchen, the main thing is to cause appetite, and blue does not affect this process. It does not add blue and coziness, but if the windows face south, they give a lot of light. Excessive illumination can be extinguished by wallpaper in blue tones. With blue look and red and white hue.
There is a risk that large red inserts will disturb the composition. Green is well perceived everywhere. For the kitchen such a shade is suitable. It has a positive effect on mental state. This can include emerald green and olive. Pear and pistachio are associated with natural beauty.
This combination allows you to achieve a welcoming atmosphere. For the kitchen is very important. Green can be only one wall in the kitchen - this will help to highlight it.
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- If there are no special thoughts in your head, you can always use white wallpapers. You can combine white and dark wallpaper. White wallpaper in compact kitchens is a classic. The snow-white setting makes the room easy. You can use white wallpaper as a shading background. Then focus on orange, olive or even red.
- To solve the problem of low ceilings can install wallpaper with vertical stripes. Color can be any. You can expand the room on the sides by wallpaper with a horizontal stripe.
- Too colorful are not suitable for the kitchen. They will get bored very quickly, and will start to annoy rather than please.
- Highlight a bright color is better than one wall, but all the walls in the room.
- If there are large enough figures, then the color should be neutral.
- In the absence of any specific ideas about color, you can choose shades of green.
- When the furniture in the room has a simple form, and textiles are just as simple, it is better to choose wallpaper with an ornament.
For the nursery
There is a strict distinction according to the age of the child, as well as according to his gender. In the first three years of a child’s life, pastel shades should surround the wallpaper. Irritating colors are not allowed. In the period from three to 6 years, the child needs vivid impressions and emotions. You can choose the most bright.
According to the images there is one nuance. They should not be very big. Large figures can scare a child. The same applies to geometric shapes with sharp corners. The presence of a composition with these elements can cause anxiety in a child. And pastel colors here will not save. As the child grows up, it is possible to use quite adult shades, turning the children's room into a room for the rest of a teenager.
If the boys are all clear, then the girls are a bit more complicated.. They prefer the colors from the warm part of the spectrum. It is necessary to use whenever possible:
- pink
- peach;
- gently green;
- warm yellow wallpaper.
The boys have the opposite situation. For them it is better to make a room with blue or gray wallpaper. The combination of yellow and green, gray and orange is welcomed. You can use the finishing material in red and brown.
Completely red wallpaper for the child's room should not be used.When living heterosexual children in the same room, it is important to identify areas. Each zones should have its own color or texture. Even if the child has become quite an adult, it is not at all necessary to make a room in black. A large amount of black color can drive melancholy. It’s not worth talking about children.
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People make the same mistakes when choosing a color. Therefore, we can highlight a few simple tips that will draw a line under the article:
- When comparing two identical rooms with green and orange works, the first one will seem cold. It provided the same lighting condition.
- In any room the colors are about the same. Green color always acts as a sedative. Yellow gives a cheerful mood and warm atmosphere. Red color is an irritant for both children and adults.
- It is important to correctly choose the lighting in the room. Cold tones require strong lighting. Warm tones allow you to weaken the lighting of the room.
- Uniformity in the color of the finish is allowed in one room, but not in the whole apartment.
- Also not allowed a strong variation in brightness shades.
- In all rooms should be a balance of brightness.
- White increases space, dark - squeezes. To draw walls and ceilings you need to use wallpaper with a vertical and horizontal stripe, respectively.
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