To create a sketch of your ideal home, you need inspiration. You can draw it, starting from ready-made options for professionals, and based on this, add your own picture of the interior. It’s not scary if your personal ideas will resonate with those available in other sources. Indeed, the ability to interweave existing design ideas with their own, new with old, classics with extraordinary solutions - this is the very creative reservoir of thoughts that can be used in home improvement.
What is needed for a better interior?
First of all, to create a better interior and translate design ideas, certainty is needed. It is one thing if the living room has already been repaired, and it is necessary to complete it, and it is completely different to start from scratch.
In the first case, you need to purchase cabinets, upholstered furniture, a kitchen set, flooring, curtains, textiles and various accessories. Already at this stage, you need to think about the color scheme, decoration, texture of objects, shapes and how to combine everything correctly. In order to keep up with fashion trends, you should pay attention to design trends.
If you plan to start from scratch, then you need to create a holistic concept and follow it consistently. Ultimately, the interior should look like a single ensemble. Even before the repair begins , the design idea should move to the paper in the form of clearly marked fragments.
Graphic instruction
To make the room the most ergonomic, you need to correctly evaluate its capabilities, calculate the area:
- It is necessary to add the height of the rooms to the plan, mark the load-bearing walls, the length and width of all rooms, window and door openings.
- The functionality of each individual zone will depend on the number of people living in the house, this must be taken into account immediately.
- Further, the most interesting point is the choice of style. You need to decide on it before the start of the first purchase for the future interior.
- Calculate your budget and find out prices for furniture, building materials and others in advance. At the same time, pay attention to those things that correspond to your chosen style.
- After the building materials are acquired, make a correction of the plan, summarize.
- Decide who will carry out the repair work. Hire only good professionals.
Particular attention should be paid to color combinations, as well as the choice of furniture in accordance with the area of the house.
Styles
Popular styles that are suitable for modern apartments:
- minimalism;
- Art Nouveau;
- Scandinavian;
- Provence
- loft.
If you need to equip a country house, then you can choose the country or rustic style. They are characterized by accents on wooden accessories and require a lot of space. They are not suitable for decoration of a city apartment, as they create an atmosphere of gloom and crowding.
An interesting budget option in the loft style
This stylistic direction is suitable for rooms with a large area, high ceilings and the presence of wide window openings. Its characteristic features are brick walls in the form of masonry or its imitation, textured fragments of metal and wood.
It is beneficial to carry out repairs in the loft style in apartments of brick houses. Here you can save on the decoration of vertical surfaces by designing the textured accents of the room. For this purpose, the old plaster is removed from one or two walls, and the original masonry is varnished.
Furniture should not be too luxurious, homogeneous modules are excluded. Sofa and chairs - leather, countertops - durable, wooden. Style requires steel elements. It can be pipes, table legs, a bar counter.
A similar design idea may be suitable for a room with small parameters. The walls of a small room should then be completely finished with bricks painted in white or pale gray.
Variant of a modern room
The interior of a modern room will turn out to be truly stylish and beautiful, if you are guided by the following rule: harmony + contrast. You cannot use different materials with the same surface in the same room, for example, a laminate with wood or tiles with its imitation. Design trends are combinations of rough and smooth, soft and hard, voluminous and flat.
An example of a room in gray tones is presented in the photo below. The walls in this space are mostly white. The floors are wooden, dark, with an admixture of gray. Even, somewhat rounded forms of upholstered furniture and other items are popular. All fragments of the interior should be within the framework of a single palette of colors, but at the same time have its various shades, as well as the texture and quality of materials. For example, a velor sofa in dark gray is complemented by steel-colored pillows made of silk and several more from other types of fabrics in various colors of the same gamut. The shaggy rug will look good on the floor a tone darker than the cover itself. Furniture is allowed both the same type and textured.
Laconic interior do it yourself
The recent trend is the creation of phytowalls from indoor plants. It can be performed independently by any apartment owner. It will be especially interesting for amateur gardeners who can in any case add their own unique zest to the interior. The design idea embodied in life with your own hands can revive even a small space and bring the atmosphere of real comfort into the room. It is noteworthy that such compositions are used even in bathrooms. They are equipped with additional lighting and integrated irrigation system. The lively decor looks perfect on the background of natural stone, plain tiles or wood. It is advantageous in that it does not bind to a specific color, because greens are suitable for everything.
Instead of living plants, if necessary, you can use artificial moss, it is very difficult to distinguish from the present. To decorate the green wall, snags with ornate shapes and artificial butterflies are suitable.
The combination of stone and wood in the interior
These two natural materials, time-tested, have long been used in the interiors of houses and modern apartments. The embossed stone wall blends wonderfully with wooden elements. It can be bedside tables, doors, a frame for a mirror. It is important to remember to use different surfaces. If you opted for a smooth tree, then the stone should be selected more coarse, rough. It will be the perfect combination of contrast and harmony. Even better, if the tree will have a distinct structure characteristic of natural wood. Polished stone will work well with such a material.
If you plan to make a similar finish in the hallway of a residential building, then the highlight of your design idea may be a transparent glass insert on the front door. In this case, flowerpots with plants that would be well visible from the inside should be present on the porch. On a bedside table it would be nice to put a pot of indoor flower. This will combine the external and internal style of your home.
Classic kitchen with textured wallpaper
The arrangement of the kitchen space is a very laborious and creative process. The difficulty lies in the fact that constant evaporation of moisture occurs in this zone, fat settles on the surfaces. For these reasons, the quality requirements for materials are very high. The walls in the kitchen set the tone for the entire interior, so they need to be given special attention.
You can decorate the kitchen in the classic version with wallpaper. The design idea of a modern kitchen includes a combination of two types of finishes. Therefore, before starting repairs, the room should be divided into two zones: working and dining. There are many colors and textures, which allows you to equip an unusual and interesting space. The main thing is to bring as much creativity as possible.
The combination of a smooth surface with a relief looks very original. For the working area, it is better to purchase wallpaper that is easy to care for and made of resistant materials: non-woven, vinyl, liquid or glass. The walls around the dining table are decorated with decorative details. You can apply murals or fabric, various textured coatings. The latter are able to do real miracles with regard to the size of the room, imitate natural materials. With their help, you can create the most interesting design ideas.
Work walls should be decorated with a coating with a smooth surface, and the other part of the space should be decorated with an intricate composition using textured wallpaper. Since we are talking about the classic version of the kitchen, the joint between the two zones can be clad in gypsum molding and painted in a suitable color. In the future, the family corner was nice to decorate with stucco decoration.
The space can be divided into two parts, both by color and by relief.
Rules for translating best ideas
In the development of modern design ideas, professionals use several basic rules, such as:
- Rationality. This implies the use of the best innovative technologies with which you can save consumer resources: gas, water, electricity.
- Relevance. The room should correspond to the rhythm of life of its owner.
- Environmentally friendly building materials. This finish provides an optimal microclimate in the house.
- Comfortability In the house or apartment, all the furniture should be comfortable, and the interior itself cozy, to have a rest.
- Minimalism. This is the principle of free space, in which it is not allowed to clutter up the occupied space with unnecessary things. Thus, a lot of dust does not accumulate and an effect of perfect order is achieved.
- Functionality. In a modern interior, there should be built-in modules equipped with lifting mechanisms. Multifunctional furniture replaced various decorations, which, as a rule, remained unclaimed for a long time.
Create your own style
Beginning designers who decorate the interior with their own hands, it is recommended to apply a minimum number of textures and shades in one room. Ideally, the more different combinations, the more interesting the room looks. But if you have never been involved in interior design, it is better to start small.
You need to learn how to update the old design, and then it will be easier to develop skill to perform more complex work. For example, in the kitchen you can paint the walls in a different color and change the handles on the furniture. And in your account - to put technical cords into a braid from any flexible material, thereby turning them into decor items.
Conclusion
Unfortunately, it is impossible to describe all the options for decorating rooms, as new ideas are born every day. Have you ever tried to feel like a real designer? Perhaps you have your own creative thoughts or even finished projects. After all, the best design ideas are those in which you directly participated.