Color combinations of walls, floor and ceiling can transform any room beyond recognition. By choosing the right shades, you can easily make the room visually brighter, more spacious and more comfortable. Change the mood and atmosphere with decoration. Create a festive living room, austere laconic office or a warm, delicate bedroom. Let's tell you how!
Monochrome and halftone
For several years now, interiors designed in the same range, but in different shades, have been in fashion. For example, combine a white ceiling with milky walls and beige laminate flooring. Or whitewashed grayish parquet with gray walls and a tin-colored stretch ceiling - if you like non-trivial solutions.
This technique visually blurs the boundaries in the room and makes it visually larger. Pale monochrome interiors are a great choice for rooms that are constantly lacking in light. But make the transition as smooth as possible and use only light adjacent shades. Avoid bulky furniture, overly heavy textiles, or brightly colored pieces.
If you have a large spacious room and you want to visually lower the ceiling, feel free to make it dark and the walls lighter. Cold gray shades on the floor and ceiling visually repel them, but warm brown ones attract even more.
The light scale with the play of halftones is very popular in the fashionable Scandinavian style. This is a rare example when walls that are darker than other surfaces do not narrow the room, but emphasize its geometry. Against this background, light wooden furniture and bright colored textiles look good.
Pastel colors
The absolute compatibility of everything with everything is the main advantage of the pastel range. This is the rare case where you can harmoniously combine 3-5 different colors at once. Due to the fact that they are muted, the finish does not seem flashy and overwhelmed.
Pastel interiors are the atmosphere of French Provence and the eternal holiday of spring. They make the room visually brighter, lighter, more airy, without pompous seriousness. It is a good choice for a bedroom, kitchen or a girl's nursery.
Choose between bleached wood laminate or warm sand and walnut shades. It is advisable to make the ceiling a little lighter than the rest of the surfaces - so the room seems larger and more spacious.
On the walls, you can combine several colors at once: pink with lilac, blue with beige or lavender with turquoise. Use paint or companion wallpaper, alternate stripes, halve the surface, or accent walls. But then it is better to take the furniture neutral and monochromatic, without unnecessary decor.
In the kitchen, the floor, lined with a mosaic of multi-colored small tiles, looks interesting. It can be mirrored onto an apron above the work surface. Do the rest of the walls in one neutral beige or milky shade.
In fabulous children's rooms, multi-level ceilings look interesting, in which several colors are combined. Combine whimsical shapes from glossy canvases or make a sky blue ceiling.
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Gradients
A smooth transition from shade to shade, which is also used in monochrome interiors, is called a gradient. But if monochrome interiors in general plan resemble rather monochromatic ones, then gradients can be saturated and bright. For example, from white tiles to a red glossy ceiling through salmon walls. Or from the creamy ceiling through the cappuccino wallpaper to the dark walnut laminate.
If you manage to find an intermediate tone, you can even combine two bright colors. On the walls, the transitions from pink to turquoise, from orange to blue and from green to purple are very good. Modern interiors are freshly complemented by a gradient from warm beige to graphite gray.
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Contrasts
If you need to visually change the geometry of a room, contrasts are your first assistant. The principle is used in both classic and modern interiors. Most often it is white and black, but any light or dark shades will do.
If the room has a low ceiling, paint it light and make the floor dark. Choose wallpaper with an elongated pattern, vertical stripes, or accent one wall. Avoid in decoration and interior any wide contours that cut the height.
To visually balance a narrow room, make the long walls light and the short ones dark and contrasting. This technique seems to compress the room in the right direction. Make the floor and ceiling neutral, furniture light, and bright accessories add colors.
One of the classic combinations is a dark wood floor with a white ceiling, walls and bright furniture. Light finishes with colorful details look good in modern interiors. And black and white classics are universal everywhere: from minimalism to artsy modern.
Natural colors
Now naturalness is in vogue in all their manifestations: in materials, shapes and colors. Eco-style interiors combine all shades of wood and green. Other natural colors are less commonly used: yellow, red, blue, sea wave. Complement the gamut with black if you need contrasts, or white if you need to add light.
A dark wood floor with beige walls and a white ceiling looks good. They are combined with gray furnishings and vibrant green textiles. A corner with your favorite seedlings of geraniums or succulents in multi-colored clay pots will add freshness and life.
Wooden wall panels to match the laminate will help create the atmosphere of a country cottage. The Mediterranean style with rattan, woven rugs on the floor and turquoise walls also fits into the natural range.
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Cold and warm colors
Traditionally, we perceive warm colors as lighter and more comfortable, and cold ones as fresh and austere. In the northern rooms, a warm color scheme will greatly help to maintain the mood. But in the south, cold walls and ceilings will save you during the summer heat.
In the office or work shop, it is recommended to use cool shades - they improve concentration and help you focus. But warm ones are needed to relax in the bedroom or to feel that very feeling of home in the living room.
Previously, it was believed that the interior must be sustained in tones of the same type. But now cold and warm contrasts fit perfectly into eclectic fashion. For example, a discreet combination of gray and beige or an extravagant combination of red and blue. The main thing is that both shades are approximately the same brightness and saturation.
