Eco style (eikos) can be translated from Greek as a habitat, a house. From the name it becomes clear even to a layman that natural natural materials are used in this style.
Eco style in the interior - the embodiment of healing rest
This style is most suitable for people who are tired of glass and concrete in a modern metropolis. This is not only a beautiful and stylish interior, but an expression of one’s position regarding unreasonable environmental pollution.
Style characteristic
An eco-style room helps a person to feel the virtues of natural materials and completely relax from the stuffy and gassed city.
Eco style is expressed exclusively in its idea - natural materials, natural colors, regular shapes.
Style basics
An eco-style house involves the use of materials such as:
- a rock;
- wood;
- clay;
- natural fabrics;
- glass.
Beige, white (in combination with dark or ebony), brown, pastel soft colors are used. But more often they use natural colors:
- pale blue;
- pale green;
- the color of grass (water, wood, soil, stone).
The room decorated in this style has a lot of light, it is easy to breathe.
Features eco style
Eco style in the interior does not have any strict restrictions. The only rule that must always be observed is the use of harmless natural materials.
Modern eco-style is becoming more and more popular every year in the world. It is suitable for decoration of an apartment or a cottage, chillout in the office (lounges) and meeting room. The main principle that must be observed is naturalness in everything. Therefore, it is highly undesirable to use chipboard, chromed metal, plastic in decor and furniture.
One of the most significant advantages of eco-style is the endless possibilities for the embodiment of your wildest fantasies.
Eco style apartment
At the end of the twentieth century, designers had a new idea for home design, which began to develop actively and soon became very popular in the world.
Natural or eco style does not fit into the framework of strict themes. Nevertheless, we already spoke about one rule - natural materials. Another reading of this style is the creation of a mini-oasis on the territory of a city apartment, proximity to nature. Is it possible?
Decorating in an eco style implies the presence of free space. In other words, the apartment must be completely freed from grandmother's chests and suitcases, which litter the room and take the space.
If possible, the room should be well lit by natural light, but in any case, you will need fluorescent lamps .
Materials
Now let’s take a closer look at what materials are suitable for a particular section of your apartment.
Floors - you can use boards, piece parquet, natural stone tiles, cork. In recreation areas, woven bamboo or straw mats will be quite appropriate. And you will have to abandon the carpets completely - the eco style does not accept them. The modern eco style allows the use of bulk 3D floors to get the maximum effect of the earth.
Walls - natural stone or brickwork is quite suitable for their decoration. However, in this case, you should know the measure. It is undesirable to completely stone the interior, it is better to limit yourself to small fragments on the walls of the corridor, kitchen apron, rest area, etc.
In the bathroom or hallway, walls made of tiles look good, which imitates wood, pebbles, and facing stone. In the remaining rooms you can stick paper wallpapers. It is preferable to choose plant drawings. You can choose coatings from various natural materials, such as silk, bamboo, sisal, jute, cork or wooden wall panels.
Ceilings - most often traditional white stucco, but with imitation of beams made of wood, stretch fabric ceilings with the image of the sky in the clouds, wood paneling.
We already mentioned that the eco style involves the use of soft pastel colors. The prevailing gamut is all shades of vegetation and earth - black, green, brown. You can dilute them with other natural colors - beige, sand, blue, white. Bright accents (red, yellow, pink) are best left for accessories and plants.
Furniture
The apartment is fully furnished with furniture made of natural wood - an expensive pleasure. Therefore, various combinations are often used - for example, rattan wicker, rack or bamboo furniture. Use of MDF is allowed, but with the maximum imitation of a tree structure. And plastic, stainless steel will have to be abandoned completely. There is no place for these materials in a natural style.
Countertops are often made of natural stone, heavy wooden structures will facilitate glass shelves, shelving, various cabinets. Pay attention to the choice of upholstered furniture. It should also have a coating of natural fabrics of natural shades and be with wooden backs.
Vegetation
Probably, everyone will agree that without small details, the room looks uncomfortable and somehow empty. You can not do without them if you create an eco-style. Design in this case can be completely turned into a mini-jungle in a single apartment.
You can use large outdoor flowers, a variety of flowerpots on window sills, flowerpots, fresh flowers in vases and pots, ikebana, which very nicely decorate niches and fill the free space. Fans of home gardening can create a living wall in the apartment. For this, one of the empty partitions in the apartment is suitable.
For those who have neither the time nor the desire to care for a large number of flowers, you can recommend two or three impressive flowerpots with plants that do not require complex care. In addition, in this case, you can give preference to plant themes in textiles and paintings. Pillows and curtains, tablecloths and bedspreads - all, if desired, can be selected with imitation of the structure and color of the vegetation. Thus, you can fill the shortage in the interior of living plants.
Accessories
You should not adhere to any standards when buying accessories for an eco-style quartile. You should not copy vases or figurines that you saw with a friend or neighbor, even if you really liked them. In this case, originality and creativity are welcome. You can create with your own hands a lot of decor items that will also fulfill a functional role.
For this purpose, the materials collected during the holiday are suitable - these can be shells, from which very nice photo frames, curly shelves from non-planed boards, paintings based on herbarium, lamps from unusual materials (for example, tree bark) are obtained.
In this matter, it is important to comply with the measure. The apartment should not turn into a country house in a country style - the eco style is functionality and spaciousness. The principle of choosing accessories is the finishing touch that will allow you to achieve the effect of complete relaxation. What will help you with this - plants pleasing the eye, floral aromas, and possibly the sound of the sea surf - is up to you.
Kitchen - Luxurious Minimalism
It is no secret that in many families this room is considered the warmest and most comfortable in the house. Here in the evenings all households gather and talk about their successes (or failures) over the past day. Here it’s nice to open up with your beloved girlfriend. Therefore, today we’ll talk more about this room.
Eco-style kitchen - a special room. It includes all the principles specific to this style, but with some nuances. For example, to finish the ceiling, you can use water-based paint, drywall, textiles. In a word, it should be a natural material, but resistant to aggressive conditions, since temperature changes and high humidity will quickly do their dirty work and put the ceiling out of action.
The same can be said about the flooring. Although in some cases (with a small operation of the room) they use wooden floors, it must be admitted that in the kitchen they are impractical. Ceramic tile or stone is much more suitable. Stylish and in accordance with the spirit of eco-minimalism, a carpet of grass looks that will be appropriate in a room combined with a kitchen.
Designers believe that walls can simply be painted or wallpapered. However, many owners prefer cork, wood panels. The wall decoration, or rather, their individual sections of sea pebbles, glass mosaics, clay tiles, will look interesting and harmonious. So you can create the corners of the room and the borders of the room, combined with the kitchen.
Lighting
Eco style ideally involves windows over the entire wall, because the room should be very bright. But this is not always possible, so you often have to use artificial lighting.
In the kitchen, the light should be soft and warm. Typically, such lighting give incandescent lamps. But since this is not the most economical option, today they use LEDs or energy-saving lamps. Their number should correspond to the functionality of the room. You can use various lights - decorative lamps in the dining area, spotlights for the working surface. An original shape chandelier is placed on the ceiling.
Window decoration
This question is also very important. Most often, designers creating an interior in an eco-style abandon the usual classic curtains, preferring wooden blinds or Japanese curtains.
If desired, the windows can be decorated with curtains made of natural fabrics. Cotton or linen curtains will harmoniously fit into your interior.
What should be the furniture?
The design of the kitchen in eco style is made out of solid wood furniture. However, this is a very expensive solution, which is why many owners use natural wood only for visible walls and facades. Invisible structures are made of high-quality MDF. True, this contradicts the philosophy of this style. It is more correct to make furniture in the form of built-in wardrobes, thus, the design is significantly cheaper.
You probably noticed that in the photo of finished projects in eco-style, mats are often pasted on the facades of the headset. In addition, the doors can be pasted using bamboo and cork panels, rattan. The color of the furniture will remain natural.
The necessary little things
Not a single kitchen can do without functional details - every housewife knows this. This is a countertop, and an apron above the work surface, and much more. The wooden decoration of the furniture and the rest of the kitchen looks interesting, especially if it is combined with wall coverings.
But wood is exposed to moisture, so its use is limited, and much more often kitchen sets in eco-style are made with stone work surfaces. A similar pattern can be used on an apron if it is made of glass. However, the countertop itself may be glass. In this case, skins for the walls in the working area are decorated with photos with natural images. For example, an apron with a meadow image looks attractive.
Decorates the kitchen and dishes. It is usually located on open shelves. In the eco style, only glass, wooden or ceramic utensils are used.
Undoubtedly, such a kitchen cannot do without flowers. Flowerpots, pots with plants are placed on window sills, shelves, they can decorate the wall. Many housewives prefer a home garden. For this, special grades of herbs and vegetables are used.
As a kitchen decor, you can use birdcages, an aquarium (if the area allows), fruit baskets from straws. For walls and windows use wicker panels.