Brown color is traditional, it is used in interior design more often than all others. If your plans for home improvement include a brown kitchen, the open space for creativity is truly wide. Thinking over the future interior, consider all the features of color, do not forget about the functionality, use the experience of modern designers. And a few of our simple tips will help in your difficult task.
Before you begin, decide on the style. Brown opens up the broadest horizons, because it can be used for almost any style of the room: from ethno to hi-tech. Yes, and there are plenty of necessary materials on the market, you can easily pick up a flooring in any of the shades of brown; Find the color in the furniture manufacturer’s catalog; even brown materials for the ceiling. Moreover, even window frames of any wood shade are not uncommon. If necessary, blinds can also be selected for them, including natural (bamboo) blinds.
Psychologists' opinion: who likes brown
For some reason, many consider brown boring, puritanical and conservative. Who can like it? Probably the same boring people ...
In reality, things are somewhat different. According to psychologists, this color is chosen by those who crave coziness and want to give it to others, for whom eternal family values and warmth of the hearth are important, who consider their home to be their fortress. Brown is associated with aromatic coffee and chocolate pastries, warm rugs and logs crackling in the fire.
Brown cuisine is a great place for gatherings with friends and evenings with your family. If you are attracted to this color, do not pay attention to stereotypes, feel free to use it for design.
Eternal values: natural wood in interior design
Logically, one can easily understand that the first kitchen furniture was exactly brown, because it was made of wood. The most luxurious modern furniture is made from it.
If you think over the design of the brown kitchen in the Scandinavian style, you can not do without wooden elements. Of course, natural wood furniture and parquet are not cheap, but they will last more than one year. Professional designers call these things an investment in the future - after 30 years, their value will only increase.
By the way, not only furniture can be brown, but also facing stone, tiles on the working area, carpets, baguettes. Decorative wooden elements in the decoration of the ceilings look very impressive.
Cozy eco style
This style has not lost ground for many years. Natural materials characteristic of it attract not only with high-quality characteristics, but also with high decorativeness. Beautiful natural textures are widely used in the design of the kitchen: the aforementioned natural wood, rattan and vine, clay tiles.
The kitchen in brown, made in eco-style, is conducive to communication and cooking home-made culinary masterpieces. Do you think that there will be difficulties with the selection of modern technology? In vain! Manufacturers offer a wide selection of ovens, hobs, refrigerators and other home helpers that fit perfectly into the style. Bright examples are the vintage ovens Candy R43 / 3 RA, Nardi FRX460BR and the well-known "Hotpoint" by Ariston in beautiful copper color.
Spectacular dishes will not become a problem. By the way, it is not necessary to purchase consumer goods - the market is replete with wonderful handmade products. Wicker rugs, homespun tablecloths and curtains will perfectly fit into such an interior. Animal skins will look good.
And if in a few years you want something new, change the wicker chandelier to a vintage one, hang translucent embroidered curtains, cover the floor with a patterned carpet - it will transform into an ever-fashionable boho.
The luxury and simplicity of country
This style is able to give the kitchen of a typical apartment the coziness of a country house. The concept is based on the brown kitchen of the old ranch, which contains interior items and utensils of different generations. For this style, some old-fashioned and conservatism is required.
Snow-white walls often accentuate traditional brown furniture, and checkered textiles add special charm to the room. One of the main features of the style is the kitchen sideboard with glass doors with curtains.
Functional Constructivism
The following style is very different from previous concepts. Experts attribute it to the varieties of Art Nouveau, but this style is characterized by a large smoothness of lines and roundness of forms.
Constructivism is much more straightforward. The kitchen in brown tones, decorated in this style, is devoid of excessive decorativeness, everything is as functional and convenient as possible.
If you like constructivism, but its seemingly uncomfortability scares, furniture-like “wood-like” facades would be just the perfect solution. By the way, in this modern laconic style, the wooden floor and wood imitating wood perfectly fit: laminate, parquet, engineering board. If you like a stretch ceiling, you can easily fit it into this style.
Art Deco Contrasts
Another product of Art Nouveau. This trend has been relevant in interior fashion for decades. Unlike the previous one, the art deco style, on the contrary, gravitates to smooth curved lines, however, the severity of forms is not alien to him. And besides exceptionally functional and concise elements in such a kitchen there can even be luxuries: paintings in frames, spectacular clocks, unusual floor vases, heavy curtains.
The brown and white kitchen in the following illustration is an excellent example of art deco style.
Charming Provence
This subset of ethnicity recalls the warm Mediterranean coast, where it comes from. Another common association associated with it is the wonderful culinary traditions of old France. If you like to cook and think that the kitchen of a good housewife should be full of jars of spices, pastry tools, various dishes and other cute little things, Provence may be the ideal option for you.
A spacious beige and brown kitchen, in which there is a place for everything you need, can be organized in a variety of ways. For traditional interiors in the Provence style are characteristic:
- light walls;
- brown furniture;
- textile with floral print;
- the use of natural wood, tiled tiles, natural fabrics.
But you can go the other way. The illustration above confirms that everything can be the other way around - the walls are finished in wood with a warm brown hue and light furniture.
Classicism
A brown kitchen, the photo of which is located below, could be considered fashionable both 20 and 10 years ago. It looks modern today. Surely in a couple of decades this interior will look no less impressive.
And all because in the design the designer adhered to classical traditions. If you want to make a beautiful repair and forget about this problem for many years - choose the classics! This win-win option is perfect for the interior of the kitchen.
At the heart of the style:
- concise forms combining decorativeness and functionality;
- traditional finishing materials: tiles, facing bricks;
- lack of attachment to trends, a "squeak of fashion";
- traditional kitchen textiles.
Thinking over the design of the kitchen in a classic style, pay due attention to technology. It’s good if you can build in a refrigerator and a dishwasher in order to hide their faceless white facades behind decorative panels. If this is not possible, pick up household appliances in harmony with noble brown furniture. Maybe something in retro style is right for you.
Textiles in interior design
Modern brown kitchen will not be cozy without beautiful curtains, tablecloths, napkins. Thinking over kitchen textiles, pay due attention to color. It can belong to the brown and related beige range, or vice versa - to contrast with the main tone of the room. Many natural shades are in perfect harmony with brown: mossy green, blackberry, turquoise, calm yellow. Some elements adjacent to the fabric may be metallic. Very impressive look imitating tin, bronze or copper eyelets on the curtains, cornices, flower stands and flowerpots.
Do not forget about other decorative elements: dishes, pots with plants, paintings, wall clocks.