Everyone knows how difficult it is to choose a color scheme for decorating your own house or apartment, to make it cozy and comfortable for all family members.
Noble beige, with many shades, already tired of the order, although it still remains one of the most popular among homeowners. Gray is considered by many to be too boring, although this is not so if used correctly. Shades of blue and green are far from suitable for all rooms.
For this reason, we want to propose to consider the possibilities of apricot color in the interior. Use it not too often, and in vain. According to psychologists, apricot color affects a person as a kind of antidepressant: regardless of the choice of finishing material (wallpaper, paint), the walls look velvety. This is due to the association caused by juicy and tasty apricot. Being in such a room, you feel calm and joy.
Apricot color is suitable for decoration of any premises: living room, bedroom, bathroom and kitchen. It must be used dosed, combining with companion flowers.
Apricot color in the interior
Warm, gentle and at the same time surprisingly fresh, apricot can change any room beyond recognition. It looks especially good in interiors not overloaded with accessories. Apricot color is an excellent helper when you need to hide some of the shortcomings: not too smooth walls, ugly ledges.
This is a sunny and positive color, regardless of what surface the finishing materials have: matte or glossy. Many designers consider the color of ripe apricot an excellent basis for creating modern, refined interiors.
Apricot color in different styles
This color looks great in various interior directions. It looks especially harmonious in exotic interiors. The best evidence of this is Moroccan, Moorish, Mexican and Indonesian styles. Apricot blossom is often used in women's interiors: in the bedroom of a girl or teenage girl.
Apricot color softens the excessive severity of a laconic interior in the style of minimalism, and a combination with peach and orange creates a bright and positive atmosphere. In minimalism, apricot is often used in combination with beige and white.
Quite often, apricot color is used in interior design in provincial styles, as well as "antique": retro, country, Provence. They use rude objects: old and massive furniture, unprocessed flooring and beams under the ceiling. To alleviate this rudeness, different shades of apricot blossom are used.
Properly using different shades of apricot, as well as combining it with companion flowers, you can transform any room, making it sophisticated, a little mysterious and warm, which is desirable for any interior style.
Apricot Shades
This color is very versatile and has many shades. Considering them in the Pantone system, they can be classified as:
- lemon shadow;
- sunny yellow;
- golden haze;
- corn;
- golden aspen
- yellow snapdragon
- linen;
- light yellow-orange color;
- banana;
- banana cream;
- sunset gold.
What colors does the apricot blend with?
It should be recognized that today this is not a very common color in the decoration of residential premises: many consider it simple and frivolous. The homeowners are embarrassed by the too soft and warm interior, and they prefer more restrained tones. They do not even suspect that the apricot color can be business, quite strict. To do this, it is necessary to frame it with deep dark shades, and rather large objects of simple shapes should be used in the interior. In this case, a combination of apricot walls with high-quality furniture made of large natural wood will create coziness and comfort.
Designers consider this color to be difficult to combine, although if you wish, there will always be a colorful partner for it. White will be able to soften the pressure and activity of orange, which goes well with all colors and apricot is no exception.
Black color will emphasize the severity of the interior, if necessary. Like most shades of yellow, apricot goes well with beige and chocolate shades: they add color and tenderness to the room. Beige tones, as a rule, become an additional background, and brown tones are used as accents, for example, on curtains or furniture. To give the interior sophistication and depth, dark shades of burgundy, lilac, red are used.
How to use color correctly?
We have already said that apricot shades can be used in almost any room, provided that the balance with the companion color is maintained. Apricot wallpaper is acceptable in the living room. In this case, the following should be used as background and accent colors: yellow, red, orange. So the living room will turn out bright and saturated.
If you do not want the room to be too bright, use lighter wallpapers, and accessories, textiles, get in the colors of ripe apricot. By adding various accessories and wallpapers with complex drawings, you can create an interior in an oriental style.
Bedroom
The design of the bedroom in apricot tones should be approached especially carefully, because this room is designed to give rest and contribute to complete relaxation. It is for this reason that too bright, flashy tones will be inappropriate here. In this case, the walls are decorated with light wallpaper, which can be diluted with beige or its shades. Thus, you will be able to reduce the influence of strong positive emotions and create comfort in the bedroom.
It is advisable to use light-colored furniture in this room: milk, coffee with milk, cream. She will additionally add tenderness and color to the interior of the room.
Kitchen
Psychologists are sure that in the kitchen it is necessary to strengthen positive emotions and add yellow and orange shades to the apricot . Of course, if you are not overweight and do not need to strictly control the diet: apricot color increases appetite.
However, in the kitchen it is necessary to observe the measure when using this color. In most cases, it is enough to design only one wall in apricot color, and the rest in any partner color. But if you want more emotions, passion and joy that will help you tune in to your work day, then make all the walls apricot, and the floor, furniture, textiles and accessories - brighter.
Bathroom
Making a bathroom in apricot tones will interest owners of small-sized apartments, in which these rooms do not differ in spaciousness. The fact is that this color is able to visually expand the room. In addition, a little positive that this color gives here also does not hurt. Interesting companions of apricot in the bathroom can be blue and sand. These tones can be used both in the decoration of walls in the form of longitudinal or transverse stripes, and in accessories.
Children
In the room of a very small child, this color is unlikely to be appropriate, but for a teenage girl it is quite suitable, especially if the child is active. But in this case, it is better to use lighter and more gentle tones as the basis, but the accessories may well be in the color of ripe apricot.
Summarizing the above, it can be argued that the apricot color, undeservedly ignored by the attention of homeowners, will create an original and stylish, warm and attractive interior in which all households and guests will be comfortable.