Color is one of key points in the design of any room. Therefore, when planning to renovate your home, pay due attention to the color design of each room.
The color scheme of the interior of your home should be harmonious and at the same time creative, emphasizing home comfort and hiding possible design flaws. So, let's look at the features of choosing colors for each room.
Bedroom interior color scheme
The bedroom is intended for relaxation, so it is advisable that the walls, ceiling and pieces of furniture are designed in calm, soft colors. Aggressive black and red colors have no place here. The lighting of the room plays a big role in choosing the main color (and this applies not only to the bedroom). If the room is relatively dark, and its windows face north, west or northwest, it makes sense to add warm colors. Thanks to this, your bedroom will become visually brighter and more comfortable. If it is oriented to the south or east, you can decorate the interior in cool colors. This is how you will achieve visual expansion rooms. This move will also be successful if the bedroom is long and narrow (this is typical for many apartments in old buildings).
Kitchen interior color scheme
First, you need to decide what the role of this room is in your life. You can step into the kitchen twice a day to make coffee, or spend entire days preparing delicious home-cooked meals. Differences in layout are also important kitchen space- either this is a spacious studio combined with a dining room or living room, or a standard “Khrushchev” kitchen. Depending on these factors, the choice also changes color design premises.
As a rule, a small kitchen is visually enlarged by using cool colors. Use light ones pastel colors– they seem to move objects away. A larger kitchen can be decorated in a folklore style, which will original solution in the interior and will give extraordinary comfort. Colors of one color range(such as brown, beige and sand) can be used to create the impression of comfort and warmth of the present hearth and home in the kitchen.
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Living room interior color scheme
The living room is the “heart” of every home. Here we receive friends, here we spend most of our time, enjoying relaxation and communication with our family. Therefore, the choice of color scheme for the interior of the living room must be approached scrupulously.
In a spacious living room, feel free to use contrasting tones, and their ratio does not have to be 1:1, rather the opposite. There may be 2-3 or even more flowers, but then you can’t do it without the help of a professional.
Dark colors It is worth using only if the interior of your living room will obviously be designed in a minimalist or hi-tech style.
If you have opted for a light-colored living room design, choose several bright elements, on which it is better to focus. This can be either a piece of furniture (say, a bright red sofa), or simply a valuable thing (a large antique vase, an expensive painting). Decorate the windows with curtains in rich shades - an interesting color scheme will help emphasize the source of natural light in the interior.
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Color scheme for the hallway interior
The hallway is usually a room without windows, so the choice of color is especially important here. Consider the lighting of the room and its uniformity. You can create a hallway in a strict classic style– brown, beige, white. Or decorate the hallway in bright red, blue, yellow, fresh blue, turquoise or neutral colors (all pastel shades).
Color has always played a decisive role in the architectural decoration of our homes. It reflected the personality of the owner of the house, his tastes and preferences. Everyone sees the same shade in their own way, and it is impossible to derive any patterns here.
Each color has three main characteristics. The first is the shade, that is, in other words, its name (blue, green, yellow, or something else). The second is chromatic intensity. This refers to its saturation. For example, bright red, if black or white paint is added to it, becomes muted and less intense. And the third characteristic is brightness, which indicates how much a given shade reflects light, that is, to what extent it is dark or light. The primary colors are red, blue, yellow, and all other colors are created based on these and their mixture. There are also light shades, when white is added to a particular color, and dark when black is added.
Most people prefer natural pastel colors in apartment interior design, but some prefer brighter, more saturated tones. In any case, the color scheme for the apartment’s interior is chosen by the customer, and professionals will help him with this.
2. Color preferences and preferences
Each of us has our own color preferences and our own perception of color, it’s not for nothing that they say that “there are no comrades according to taste and color.” It is a scientifically proven fact that color preference and color perception are very individual. And what “hurts the eye” of one person brings pleasure from contemplation to another. Intelligence plays a big role in color preference: the higher the level of intelligence, the more complex and subtle shades and color combinations a person likes. An example of this is the psychologically subtle painting of a professional artist and the bright popular prints of village craftsmen.
3. Apartment interior design and color harmony
The question of the reason for the different colors of bodies has occupied the human mind since ancient times, when philosophers and scientists believed that color is a property of the body itself. Although they could not explain the change in this color depending on the time of day or lighting conditions. It was believed that various colors are obtained as a “mixture” of light and darkness. People observed the rainbow, the play of colors on the faces of diamonds and glass prisms, which were brought as a curiosity from China, but only Newton discovered the connection between the magnificent colors of the rainbow and the color of bodies.
An important discovery belonging to Newton was the division of colors into simple ones, which cannot be decomposed into components, and complex ones, which are a mixture simple flowers. The most complex color in this sense is white - it is a kind of “squeezing the rainbow”. Everyone knows that mixing simple yellow and blue gives complex green, and blue and red produces violet. By arranging simple and complex colors in order, we get the simplest model color circle.
In addition to simple and complex colors, there is also a very interesting phenomenon in optics - the presence additional colors, when colored glasses are superimposed on each other, the result is gray. Colors that seem to “cancel” each other are called complementary. Thus, a bluish-green tone is complementary to red, blue is complementary to orange, and yellow-green is complementary to violet. On the color wheel, complementary colors are located opposite each other.
In nature, pure colors without impurities are quite rare. Even in a rainbow, colors do not “jump” into each other, and this “smoothness” of the transition, that is, the gradual addition of another color to the main color, creates tones and shades, but the absence of “impurities” characterizes the purity of the color. For example, yellow stands next to green, but when transitioning into it, it goes through stages from yellow-green to green-yellow (or they also say “green to yellow”), depending on which color predominates in the tone. The predominant color in this case will be the main one, and the color added to it will be the shade.
Mixing colors, or better to say adding one color to another, as artists do when mixing paints, is possible not only in colors that are nearby in the spectrum, but also in opposite or far apart colors. This is how red appears with a hint of purple - crimson color.
Adding gray to the main color gives muted tones: gray-blue, gray-green, gray-lilac. But adding black makes the colors dark.
An admixture of white, as it were, weakens the color, and the absence of whitishness is characterized by the concept of color saturation. Velvet fabric has the most saturated colors, there is an explanation for this in physics.
If colors are placed next to each other without mixing, or a spot of one color is placed on top of another, you get a combination different colors or tones. And here the concepts of “background” and “contrast” arise. The background is the predominant color in the area on which the spot is superimposed, but the sensation of the color spot on the background is called contrast. And the more saturated the colors, the stronger the contrast.
A combination of tones that have different shades, but within the same color is called monochrome. A classic example of a monochrome combination is a black and white TV, when the degree of dilution of black with white creates a visible image on the screen.
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Of course, monochrome color combinations in apartment interior design using other colors look more interesting and provide unique decoration options. For example, in the interior of a bedroom the color yellow predominates, but different tones are used: dark yellow, yellow-brown, pale yellow, amber.
4. Color scheme and interior design of the apartment
Updated: February 8, 2017 by: Olga Kondratova
Our living space in most cases is strictly predetermined. In some rooms we work, in others we cook and eat food, in others we eat water procedures, in the fourth we rest. And each of these rooms has its own unique atmosphere. But it is especially worth highlighting the bedroom - the place where each of us spends a third of our lives. A comfortable stay in the bedroom depends on the intricacies of many factors. Style and arrangement of furniture, finishing materials, surface texture and much more. But to a greater extent, our perception of comfort is influenced by the color scheme of the interior. A well-created color scheme for the bedroom interior will allow you to restore strength as effectively as possible and promote healthy sleep.
Combination of colors and shades
The right interior color can visually increase or decrease the volume of the room, bring lightness and light, or, on the contrary, depress us. When creating a bedroom interior, you need to know how to correctly combine different colors to extract maximum benefit from being there.
The color scheme is divided into “warm”, “cool” and “neutral” colors. TO warm include red, orange and yellow, as well as all their shades. TO cold colors include blue, cyan, green, and their shades. It should be noted that green with a predominance of yellow or red is warm. And if green has more blue or blue, then it is closer to cold. Neutral colors are white, black and gray.
As already noted, certain colors can visually increase or decrease the volume of the room. You can visually enlarge the room with the help of receding colors. These include the whole range of cool shades. To visually reduce the room, protruding colors are used. These include the entire range warm shades. Using the right color combination, you can highlight or, conversely, distance each element of the bedroom decor, expand its volume, or, conversely, reduce it. For example, if the bedroom is small, then the color of its interior can be done in white and blue shades. Namely: blue wallpaper, white furniture with blue inserts, snow-white bed or white bed with blue inserts. IN in this case The blue color of the wallpaper for the bedroom will expand its boundaries, and the white furniture and bed will give the room lightness and volume.
When choosing a color scheme for the bedroom interior, you need to observe one more thing: important requirement- color harmony. Color harmony is certain combination colors, which has a beneficial effect on the artistic expressiveness of color. Color harmony can be nuanced and contrasting. The principle of nuanced harmony is to use colors that are close in tone and soft shades. Moreover, if the bedroom uses furniture in dark shades, then most of the planes are painted in light colors. Nuanced color harmony in the bedroom is typical for small rooms and is most often used for bedrooms, children's rooms, and offices.
But in addition to nuanced harmony, there is also contrasting harmony. The principle of contrast is quite simple. It is built on harmonious use various colors and shades. It is recommended to use no more than three different colors. Otherwise, the room will look cluttered and quickly tire. Most often, a contrasting solution is based on the use of two shades. For example: orange and blue, yellow and blue, white and black. But it is not at all necessary to use only these primary colors. You can use different shades of them, but only in the range of two basic colors.
Important! When creating color solutions and the selection of various colors and shades, special pantones are used. This type of pantone fan can often be seen when purchasing paint or from interior designers. But besides this, there are also special programs by which you can easily select suitable color and avoid many mistakes.
When planning the interior of a bedroom, many people wonder what color the bedroom should be, what color to choose for the bedroom in order to feel comfortable and relaxed. To do this, you need to know and understand how different colors affect our behavior and which ones are best used in the bedroom interior.
Red- this color has always been associated among people with uncontrollable energy, it causes an active and high spirits and anxiety. Rooms in scarlet colors are annoying nervous system person and quickly tire her out. Besides, overuse red reduces ability to work. Doctors note that in bedrooms where the color red predominates, blood pressure rises and breathing quickens. Using red in the bedroom requires careful approach and in moderation, best in combination with calmer tones of red. But to create a passionate atmosphere in the bedroom, this color will come in handy.
Orange- this color, like red, is warm and promotes high spirits and a bright atmosphere. But shades of orange, such as peach, are softer and promote a relaxed state.
Yellow- this color stimulates the nervous system, exudes freshness, clarity and warmth.
Green is the color of nature. It promotes calm and relaxation. As opposed to red, green reduces blood pressure and calms. Shades of green have a beneficial effect on hearing and inner harmony. Green in the bedroom is one of the preferred and favorable colors for a person, but an excess of green can negatively affect the overall atmosphere.
Light blue and blue- these colors and their shades allow you to create a feeling of spaciousness and coolness in the bedroom. For a person blue and blue and are associated with water and heaven, which has a calming effect on our psyche. But shades of blue also stimulate performance, lower blood pressure and reduce muscle tone.
Violet- this color creates a depressing impression, causing a feeling of isolation, heaviness and melancholy. This color should be used in the bedroom very carefully and in certain proportions.
White- this color symbolizes purity, order and infinity. This neutral color is used either alone or in combination with other colors. Unique property white color is to give volume and increase the brightness of other light colors. In combination with dark ones, it softens them and makes them lighter.
Brown and beige- these are the colors of earth and wood. Brown and its shades are more often used in rooms to give them respectability and style. Shades of brown can create a feeling of comfort and security, the warmth of wood and its attractiveness. They promote health, reliability and good appetite.
Today, everyone is trying to create a bedroom interior with the expectation of its maximum impact for the benefit of those living there. For this, we use both traditional images and those that came to us from other cultures. One of the home improvement traditions brought to us is Feng Shui. The interior and color of a bedroom according to Feng Shui is a clever interweaving of various aspects of life with universal laws. Special attention paid to the location of the bedroom relative to the cardinal directions and color scheme. Let's take a closer look at what Feng Shui colors for the bedroom are.
- For a bedroom oriented to the East and Southeast, green and brown colors are suitable.
- Brown and dark yellow colors are suitable for the South-West and North-West bedrooms.
- In a bedroom oriented to the South, it is worth using red and its shades.
- For a bedroom located to the North - blue color and its shades.
- But for the bedroom in the Western and Northwestern sectors, white should be used.
Bedroom color schemes
Choosing a color scheme for a bedroom can be quite difficult. After all, not everyone has the education of an interior designer and a sense of style. But you can approach this issue from the other side, namely, choose from existing popular ready-made color solutions for the bedroom.
Beige bedrooms are a combination of different soft brown shades. The main colors are brown with a yellowish or grayish tint. Beige bedrooms create an effect of calm and tranquility. Essentially beige color goes with almost all colors. And if you wish, you can bring a little color into the bedroom that particularly appeals to you.
Wenge color is a dark brown-red color, the color of elite African wood. In the bedroom interior it is used in furniture to give the room status and prosperity. But don't be fooled by luxury. A wenge-colored bedroom is minimalistic strict style Asian interior. Wenge color is used most often in the design of contrasting harmony and allows you to combine other brighter colors in the interior.
Gray color is associated with melancholy and inexpressiveness, but this color in the interior allows you to implement sophisticated and aristocratic ideas. Main feature gray color is its neutrality, which, depending on the saturation of white or black, makes it possible to visually increase or decrease the volume of the room. In addition, the neutrality of gray is unique opportunity to bring other bright warm or cool shades into the interior.
White color in the interior is used to expand the space, creating lightness and transparency. For indoors it is ideal option. But it should be noted that you should not make a sterile white bedroom; it is better to choose one of many shades. For example, milk, cream or color ivory. This bedroom will look elegant and sophisticated. Besides this white bedroom can be filled with various important accessories to more dark colors, which will make them stand out from the general background.
Purple is quite a difficult color to use and should be used with caution. This especially applies to dark shades of purple. They are dark and depressing. But lighter shades will allow purple color bring some mystery and magical aura to the bedroom. Moreover, by diluting the overall purple palette with white inserts, you can bring lightness to the bedroom and expand its boundaries.
Blue color in the bedroom is one of the most suitable for this room. It has a calming effect and helps you relax. The only thing to consider when creating a bedroom in shades of blue is its lighting. There should be quite a lot of light and it is advisable that the bedroom is located on sunny side. Also, various white interior items will not be amiss. They will expand the boundaries and add lightness to the entire room.
Green is the color of nature, and besides, this color has the most calming effect on our psyche. The most flattering tones in the bedroom will be muted green shades such as olive, marsh, gray-green and mustard. Having planned to make a bedroom in green, you need to adhere to the natural style in the interior and select other colors and shades accordingly.
Creating a bedroom interior is quite a painstaking task and you have to take quite a lot into account various factors. Not always ready-made solutions ideal for any occasion. But there are a number simple tips, following which you can correctly choose the color for the bedroom.
When choosing a color scheme for a bedroom, you need to know how the chosen color will fit into the overall interior.
- The color scheme of a bedroom interior consists of several parts: furniture, decoration, accessories, curtains, etc. All of them should be harmoniously combined with each other.
- Harmony in the interior can be achieved by using furniture and accessories in neutral colors.
- Sometimes to achieve optimal color in the bedroom you just need to use wallpaper or plaster with a certain texture and pattern. After experimenting a little with the images, you can choose the most suitable one.
- When creating the interior of any room, remember one simple rule - light colors to expand the space, and dark ones to reduce it. So, to increase the height, you can use wallpaper with vertical stripes.
- In the interior you should use only natural colors that exist in nature. This way you can make your bedroom more peaceful and comfortable.
And finally, remember that you can always turn to professionals with a sense of taste and harmony for help. You just need to describe your preferences to them.
It is believed that for a small apartment you need to use the lightest neutral colors possible, and preferably one color. At the same time best color considered white. But this is just one of them. There is some truth here, but this position greatly limits design possibilities and makes the interior boring, colorless, and inexpressive. Well, if one color is used, it even visually reduces the space. So, it will not live up to expectations: it will remain a small white room.
For decoration you need to use two or three colors. One color will visually reduce, and larger number colors are only suitable for large spaces. The choice of two or three colors depends on your preferences. At the same time, two colors are more academic, strict; two-color combinations gravitate more towards. Three colors are a more fantasy combination, this is typical for more. The basic principle of selection is this: in general, the color of the apartment should be light, without sharp contrasts, but at the same time with bright details.
One color should be the base color (there will be more of it). These could be walls, large ones architectural elements, part of the furniture. So it should be very light, including white. But the second color may already be muted bright, and you need to choose pure colors. For example, if you want to use yellow, then it should be a basic yellow color (dandelion color), and not lemon or carrot-tinged.
The second color gives the room depth. Large furniture, a wall detail or an entire wall can be presented in this color. It should be noted here that the second additional color can be a shade of the base color, but it must differ significantly in saturation (for example, very light beige and oak color). Then the base and secondary colors will not be perceived as one color.
The third color can be very bright, or even dark(including black ones). The third color gives the room expressiveness and mood. Typically this is decorative accessories, small items furniture, rugs, trinkets.
The colors should be combined in the proportion: 60: 30: 10. Here 60 percent is the base light color 30 is extra moderately bright, and 10 is the brightest accents. This proportion is the most optimal for a small apartment.
You need to arrange the colors like this: darker and brighter colors in the back of the room, light ones in the foreground. The brightest accents can be placed throughout the volume, but the larger ones are still in the background. For example, a bright orange chair, of course, should be placed further from the entrance. But orange vases can stand anywhere. In general, it is better to avoid overall variegation and use color to highlight individual zones.
And if it’s well lit, it’s cold. This applies to both additional color and accessories.
In order not only to visually increase the size of the apartment, but also to “raise” the ceiling, you can use the base color of the walls in an unusual way: use not one, but several shades of the same color on the walls, so to speak, with a “stretch”, from darker at the bottom to lighter upstairs.
The best color combinations for a small apartment these are:
Various shades of white (white is not a single color, it has many shades!) with any muted bright colors (light yellow, light pink, peach, gray, light green, light blue, bluish-greenish, muted orange , light lilac). Bright accessories With a basic white color, they can be of any color.
Cream - beige. Accessories: yellow, red or orange.
Light beige - chocolate. Accessories: red, orange, white.
Light beige - terracotta. Accessories: pink, crimson, yellow.
Cream - muted orange. Accessories: bright orange, green, terracotta, chocolate.
The color of unbleached wool is light yellow. Accessories: white, green, reddish brown.
Very pale blue - light green. Accessories: white, mother-of-pearl, blue, emerald, bright green.
Pale yellow - turquoise. Accessories: dark brown, green, orange.
The ivory color is a muted cherry. Accessories: lilac, yellow, wood color.
Pearl gray - yellow. Accessories: dark blue, white, black.
Very pale pink - light lilac. Accessories: fuchsia, purple, blue.
The color of unbleached wool is blue. Accessories: white, blue, gray, light terracotta.
Light peach is the color of wood. Accessories: black-brown, golden, cream.
Champagne is a dark wood color. Accessories: red, white, ivory.
Don't forget that you can use different shades of the same color as two primary colors. For example, light beige and dark beige or different shades of green, etc. Accordingly, accessories should be of a different color, but must be combined with this range.
When decorating a small apartment, you should avoid combinations such as red - green, yellow - blue, and orange - purple. By themselves this is very harmonious combinations, they are even called contrasting harmonies (according to color wheel), however they are only suitable for large spaces. Combination of black and white flowers It is also advisable not to use it - this is too sharp a contrast for a small apartment.
Anna Aminova told The Village how the colors of an apartment’s interior affect its inhabitants.
Anna Aminova
Head of department at the design studio Romanoff & Wood
Gray
An excellent choice for use in the interior, as it emphasizes other shades and goes with everything. It is suitable for creating memorable interiors. But when choosing gray as the dominant color, you should remember that it is associated with fatigue and sadness and has a depressing effect on a person. Ideally, this color occupies up to 20% of the main interior gamut.
Blue
Not the most popular for home interior. It refers to cold palette, so it is better not to use it in northern and poorly lit rooms. It goes with white, yellow, brown, red, gray and green. Blue has a calming effect and inspires confidence, interest and sadness. It should be used in home offices or as an accent in bathrooms and toilets.
Green
Perfect for apartments because it only causes positive emotions. Green tones create an atmosphere of complete peace. It is recommended to combine it with blue, brown, orange, white and black. Particular attention should be paid to combination with red, which acts as an additional shade for green and adds expressiveness. Interiors in green tones Suitable for decorating living room and bedroom.
Red
One of the most emotional and has a stimulating effect on the body. It is difficult to use in the interior. Too much red can lead to irritation and depression. To neutralize its effects, white is suitable. In addition, red can be combined with yellow and orange, green, brown, gray and gray-blue. If you want to create a tonic interior, you can also turn to burgundy, wine, terracotta and coral shades. Red is most often used as an accent color in prints. ceramic tiles for the bathroom. In this case, it should make up no more than 10% of the color scheme.
The brightest and lightest in the palette. It belongs to the primary colors (together with red and blue). Yellow is perfect for interior decoration and combines well with white, black, green, brown, red and gray. But you shouldn't abuse it. A lot of yellow in the interior will make it too intense and saturated. Yellow is the color most often associated with joy and surprise. In half of the interiors it is used in children's rooms.
Purple
Pairs with white, red, blue, brown and grey. It is very difficult to use because it has a contradictory effect on the human psyche (this is due to the combination of stimulating red and calming blue that it consists of). Purple is often associated with disgust and shame. Our practice shows that 80% of clients refuse to use purple in interior design.
Brown
Like green, it has a calming effect. The color of the earth symbolizes security and family hearth, therefore ideal for decorating a cozy, homely interior. In order not to overload the space, it is recommended to combine it with white, beige, yellow, green, blue and orange. Too much brown can cause fatigue. It usually takes up 40-50% of the main color of the interior and is used in textiles and furniture.
Black
The darkest, but at the same time it can create an atmosphere of luxury and severity. Too much black irritates the psyche, but when the right approach black is able to create a calm and peaceful atmosphere in the interior, giving it sophistication. It goes well with all colors and can draw attention to them. It is best used in decoration: photo frames, vases, lamps, bright graphic prints in textiles.
In our work, we use a table that allows us to create emotional profiles for each of the eight Luscher colors. Some emotions are expressed either predominantly by one color or by a uniform color combination. This refers to “fear” (black), “sadness” (gray, blue, black), “fatigue” (gray, black, brown), “joy” (yellow, red).
Chart of emotional color profiles
In the long term, color affects a person the most. Neither the shapes nor the design of accessories affect the mood as much as the interior color scheme. Therefore, it is worth thinking through to the smallest detail.
Photos: 1 – Olya Eikhenbaum, 2 – Vika Bogorodskaya, 3, 4 – Anya Garienchik, 5, 6 – Dima Tsyrenshchikov