There are many ways with which you can enlarge a small room or make a little less and more comfortable too large, using paints only. Consider some of them.

(light ceiling, darker walls, dark floor or the same combination in reverse order)

During the decoration of residential premises, gradient transitions are often used. For example, walls separating the light ceiling and a dark floor make the "intermediate" tone. This technique is used when finishing monochrome rooms, for example, in classic style. Similar combinations look very harmonious and stylish.

Gradient transitions Pleasants for the eyes and beneficially acting on the nervous system, making harmony and peace. Such a finish option can be used in any rooms.

Depending on the intensity of the shade of finishing materials, the furniture can be bright or dark. The rooms, the floors in which have the color of the dark chocolate, the ceilings - the color of fresh cream, and the walls are a shade of cocoa with milk. White, brown, black can be selected as additional or accent colors. Furniture for room with such a combination of floor colors, walls and ceiling can be of any shade, but desired - natural wood.

(Light ceiling, bright walls, dark floor)

When painting residential premises, in addition to gradient combinations of color walls, ceiling and floor, contrasting transitions are often used. Such a combination looks very winning. It is used in different styles, and helps to make the perception of the room more harmonious, "hiding" its shortcomings.

Low ceiling. If the room is too low ceilings, choose light tones for the ceiling, and for the floor - dark. Walls can also be contrasting. In the event that you use the wallpaper, choose from the floor to the ceiling of the drawings.

With this combination of floors of the floor, walls and ceiling it will seem that the height of the ceilings is greater than it really is. One condition: ceiling eaves should not be wide, and it is better to do without them at all. The contrast tint on the walls will create the impression of the depth, and the light ceiling will "soar" above this volume.

Narrow room. If indoors are not only a low ceiling, but also the wrong proportions - for example, it is stretched in length, it can be fixed. It is necessary to paint short walls into contrast tones, and elongated - neutral. This method will help "squeeze" the room in the desired direction, it will acquire more correct proportions.

In this way, light furniture seems to have a winning room, and bright color accessories will help create a memorable interior. Also expand narrow room Objects of furniture delivered across the room will help.

Bright hues

(Light ceiling and walls, dark floor)

The combination of colors in the room can add light and air to it. For example, in small rooms, as a rule, walls and ceiling are separated by light tones, and the floor, on the contrary, dark. The shade of paint on the walls and the ceiling should be as light as possible, better - white. Also white should be eternity, platbands and plinths, in extreme cases they can have a light shade of the main tone.

To strengthen the impression of air and avoid heavy, bulky furniture, bright upholsters. Let items be a bit - only the most necessary, with their shapes should not be too fried. On the dark floor Light carpets look good - they help zonate space and facilitate his perception.

Opposite colors

(Dark ceiling, floor and blonde walls or light ceiling, floor and dark walls)

Such a combination of wall colors, ceiling and floor are universal and can be applied in rooms with a different geometry itself. This option may look very winning and at high, and at low ceilings, the difference is only in the method of using color contrasts.

• High ceilings. If the need is a need to "lower" the ceiling, so that the room becomes more comfortable, the combination of colors of the floor, walls and ceiling is done in this way: the floor and the ceiling are dark, the walls are light. And cold shades on bright wallsah will even more "move" them, and the warm on the floor and the ceiling - "bring up".
• Low ceilings. To view the ceilings to visually "raise", make them two-level. The main ceiling level is painted with dark cold tones, and suspended - light. Due to this design, the ceiling will acquire the volume and will seem higher. Dark floors in this case are necessary - they will act as a "counterweight" to balance the complex ceiling construction.

The interior of the residential premises should create a comfortable stay of people, depending on the destination: to provide the conditions for recreation, productive work or a pleasant time. Elements are selected in accordance with the specific owner of the design style, its preferences.

But remain unchanged, the requirements for harmony, a combination color solutions The main components are walls, ceiling, furniture, floors and products that fill interior opening. The combination of sexual coating and door arts plays a key role. In this regard, the question is relevant for many: how to pick up the door to the interior?

Color rules

Creating a harmonious interior - the task is serious. It requires a thoughtful approach based on basic knowledge of shades compatibility, building object composition. The correct decisions make it possible to visually increase or decrease the space of the room, emphasize the attention at its certain parts, hide individual deficiencies. rules color combinations Frequently used by designers. Some of them are shown below.

Combination of shades in the interior

Surfaces of the main walls, floor, ceiling are the basic elements of the construction general design premises. The use for their design of light tones creates the effect of expanding the size of the room, makes it light, air. But the excessive use of such tones can lead to the effect of the effect of a cold, visually pale space.

More an interesting option It is a combination of floors of dark shades and bright walls and a ceiling. Light contrast will give fullness of the room without prejudice to its volume. When using a combination of bright shades of ceiling, genital surfaces and dark walls, an image is horizontally elongated, but low room.

And with a combination of dark design of walls and floor surfaces with light ceiling colors, a gloomy image of a basement, uncomfortable place for staying is created. He smoothes the impression by the separation of space with contrasting shades of plinths and door canvases.

Color design floor

Material, the color range of the floor covering, presented by construction shops today, is quite wide. In stock Laminate, board for parquet of a wide range of shades and textures, diverse linoleum, tile tile. The choice of plinths and borders, emphasizing the distinction of the trim lines, is also wide. It is only required to determine, preferences are dark or light colors, and both are eligible for existence, subject to use in the interior of different premises.

Combination of the dark floor and light ceiling

Floor materials of light shades have good properties Reflections of light, while somewhat increase the size of the room, giving a feeling of purity and freshness. A good choice For accommodation in bedrooms, living rooms.

The use of floor coatings of dark tones as decorated walls in light colors creates a classic effect of light contrast of the surrounding surrounding, a feeling of rest arises, as well as stability.

For the premises of bathrooms, sanitary nodes, kitchens are often used as floor coverings, for corridors - linoleum. This makes it possible to realize any fantasy. For example, a kitchen floor can be made up tile tile Throw colors, apply alternation of different colors, create pictures.

The thoughtful use of such opportunities allows you to create a cheerful atmosphere in which you want to create culinary masterpieces and in a friendly atmosphere to feed with their loved ones. Of course, strict colors of the floor also not alien to the kitchen. The style of Provence with characteristic natural colors, texture of materials looks good.

Modern interiors for this use brown laminate to chocolate or practically black shades, successfully imitating boards from expensive wood species. At the same time, it should be provided for the installation of furniture suitable for this style.

It is impossible to underestimate the role of combined plinths and borders in the general picture design solutions Room decoration. Successfully selected, such elements allow you to emphasize the beauty wall coatings and fundamental sex. How to pick up a color? It can be used both contrasting color variants and continued figure of the floor covering. The border between the wall and the ceiling has an important decorative character. It can be wide, narrow, and also made in the form of modeling. Its color depends on the preferences and color of the ceiling (there must be a little lighter or darker).

Flooring and furniture

An important component of the style of the room is considered correctly selected in color and harmonious with floor-coated furniture. The rule is that flooring It should be in a small contrast with the color of the furniture (lighter or darker). Practice shows that the most suitable combinations are:

• white floor with shades of gray, harmoniously looks with a colors of wenge or furniture white color, doors color is also important;
• the contrast of the visual effect, where the warm color of the laminate can be combined with cold shades of furniture and other interior elements;
• the dark floor is harmonious with furniture from white to peach variations of the last color solutions;
• a variant of the combination of black furniture with close to such a shade of the laminate color is considered modern and fairly fashionable;
• other options for color compositions are possible, but it is important that the main colors are no more than three, since otherwise attention will not be accepted on the main line of the style.

Harmony of floor and furniture

Color of door canvases and flooring

Play an important role. In connection with these major issues, which often arise among the owners of the premises, are: how to choose the right canvas to the floor and walls; how to choose a harmonious color; It is better to choose a door leaf under the color of the floor or furniture; What if in the apartment flooring is different in color?

This kind of questions arise if the work on the combination of the color of doors and the floor of the owners plan to spend on their own. Do not be afraid to experiment - there are no stringent standards, there is only general rules and personal preferences. It is important to remember that the selection of the right and flooring can emphasize the merits of the room and hide its disadvantages.

Dark floor and doors

The predominant compositions based on two directions are predominant: contrasting towards each other or made in one color. When choosing the same kolker, it is necessary to envisage that the shade of the door canvase is a little lighter. Formula works: light floors - dark doors. The combination of the dark color of the floor and the doors requires the separation of the common space around the perimeter of the plinth of the lighter tones, the opposite solution to the shades of doors and laminate - the plinth of the dark color, with the installation in the room of contrasting furniture and additional accessories. The solution to use with dark floors is used in the case of use on the walls of pastel tones or "gilding". Light floors and saturated contrast doors are welcome in small premises.

Dark floor, light door

One of the most popular solutions in the development of the design of the rooms, many consider walls of light tones, in combination with a dark floor covering, the doors of Wenge. In addition to the above-mentioned composition of the door cloths, Wenge, in the interior are used and others are used in the condition:

• if the floor covering is purchased somewhat lighter door leaf, otherwise it is possible to obtain a sufficiently gloomy view of the room, saving which can only intensive lighting;
• use of the contrast of the door leaf and the floor surface that require exemplary compliance with surface texture, for example, a "white oak" type laminate and door canvas wenge;

Door Wenge

• the selection of "warm" or "cold" gamma is the color of a significant part of the elements of the interior (door canvases, flooring, furniture, walls);
• installations on the door of the Wenge Furniture, Harmonizing with Other Suitable Suitable Items Located in the Room;
• building extravagant interiors, a sharp contrast of the color of the surface of the laminate and doors is allowed, but it is important to prevent coincidence of the shades of the door and wall coatings, only this can lead to the desired result.

Entrance painted door

Another question that arises from the owners: what color to choose entrance doors to the apartment? Entrance door It is established, as a rule, for long time and can "survive" repeated repairs, changes in the style of all rooms. Outdoor side of the door canvas for perception internal interior The apartments of a special role does not play and may look, for example, as a simple painted metal canvas. The inner part should undergo certain changes in the object, depending on the change in the interior of the room, if the wenge style is not applied with dark colors. In this case, the door leaf will suit any style of the room and it is unlikely to require any refinement. Change the view of the door canvase, if necessary, can be uncomplicated manipulations yourself, by setting a new, suitable laminated trim.

There are various opinions on the compatibility of the color of the color systems with sex, often diametrically opposed. But practice shows that owners of house-building and apartments pick up the color of the elements of the interior, based on personal preferences, and sometimes their financial capabilities. But the main thing is that the result is desired, comfort, comfort for people living in the premises.

With an overview of the possible options for combinations of the color of door canvases and gender, you can read the video.

Imagine that you entered the room, where the walls, gender, ceiling and all furniture gray one shade. And even a vase that stands on the table too gray. Bored. The eye is not for "catching up" and therefore, discomfort begins to feel. I want to leave or sleep, the main thing is not to see this dull interior.

Of course, this is a critical case, but it is always worth remembering if you are independently developing the interior design and want to use the gray color and its shades as the main one.

Gray is a very interesting color. On the one hand, it is neutral, especially its light halftone and shades, and on the other hand, it can become overwhelming and annoying if only dark shades of gray or it is used in the interior in the interior as in the case described above.

The competent use of gray and its shades in the interior allows you to create a cozy and comfortable design of any room, ranging from living room and bedrooms and ending with the kitchen and hallway.

1. Background color
2. Gray will only furniture items or decor details
3. Mixed option when gray will be the walls and sofa as the central interior object.

Gray in interior as background

The main advantage of this use of gray in the interior is the creation of a neutral basis, which will emphasize the elegance of soft muted colors (for example, beige or gentle pink) and will smooth the aggressiveness of bright colors (for example, red or purple).

This is a background on which furniture items and decor elements look the most advantageous. First of all, it concerns the color of the walls.

Gray walls in the interior

Depending on the shade used, gray walls Will play different roles. The darker the shade, the more significant the participation of the walls in the overall picture. Although their main function is one - this is "support" the color of furniture and decor objects.

When choosing a shade of gray for walls, the following nuances should be taken into account:

• If the room is on the sunny side - we use dark shades;
• If the room is not enough natural lighting - We take bright shades;
• Walls of dark gray requires light furniture and bright decor items (pillows, vases, paintings)
• The light gray walls are well combined with both dark and bright furniture, but the first violin will play the furniture.
• For contrasting interiors, the most suitable will be dark, muted gray tones, for calm and lungs - bright.

The light gray floor is a link that completes the image of the room. His main task is not to attract attention. If you look at the following photos from this point of view, then notice that the decor and furniture is mainly noticeable. An additional bonus of light gray floor - the dust is not visible on it.

Dark gray floor requires a more thorough approach and thoughtful harmony with the color of walls and furniture. Here are several good examples Use of dark gray floor in the interior.

2 Option - Objects of furniture and gray decoration

Unlike walls and gender, furniture items, such as a sofa in a living room or bed in the bedroom, will not be invisible, even if they are light gray.

Usually, the upholstery color is selected last time, but if you already have a sofa or a bed that you like it in a concrete color, then this option is for you, and in this case the interior design will be built up from the largest furniture item.

Gray furniture will be perfectly harmonized with almost all colors, but the most successful are the combination with:

• white
• beige
• light brown
• light yellow
• blue
• pale pink.

3 option. Mixed: gray walls and furniture items

It is necessary to explain that in this case we view the room in which the walls are painted with one of the shades of gray and is a large piece of furniture of gray (sofa, sofa, bed)

With this option, it is necessary to choose the right shades of gray so that the furniture does not merge with the color of the walls. There is a rule of 3 halftone. Simply put, the difference between the color of the walls and furniture upholstery should be a little, but noticeable. See how it looks in the following photos.

To avoid monotony, in such an interior it is necessary to make bright stains. These can be curtains, contrasting decor items, such as pillows, bedspreads, vases, paintings.

Depending on the selected colors of these items, the interior will look different. So, for example, to create a cozy and comfortable space, warm colors (beige, pink, light brown) will be required, for stylish and presentable, the colors of the cold spectrum (white, blue, green), for bright and slightly causing interior, as the way can come , purple, bright green. And at the same time the main color of the walls remains the same. That is the uniqueness of the mixed version of the use of gray in the interior!

Combined other colors with gray in the interior is a separate big topic, but to understand the essence refer to the following table. This is a crib, in which premises of the combination of gray with other colors will be most appropriate and attractive.

Successful combinations of gray and their use

	Basic colors for combination	Auxiliary colors
Living room	Light brown	Turquoise Orange
	Pale pink Gentle blue	Purple
	Bright green Lilac	Purple Dark green
	Brown	Ivory
	Brown	"Wooden" colors
		Orange

IN modern design Interiors Gray becomes more popular day by day. This is primarily due to the return of minimalist interiors, the growing attractiveness of High-tech and loft style. At the same time, in other interior styles, gray is not less active.

We hope you were inspired by ideas and found a solution how to use gray in your interior!

It has always been thought that the gray floor, the gray walls in the interior are visiting longing and monotony, however, work modern designers And technologists turned this view. Today the market offers a huge variety of artificial coatings with practically unlimited options for color solutions, so interior designers have the opportunity to expand their palette.

Gray laminate and gray tiles on the floor very quickly became popular and it turned out that they can fit perfectly into any designer project.

• Features and features of gray
• Which interior styles is the gray floor?
• How to combine gray floor with other colors?
• Common mistakes with gray floor
• Gray floor in the kitchen
  • For small kitchens
  • For spacious kitchens
  • Combination of gray floor in the kitchen with walls and furniture
• Gray floor in the living room
• Gray floor in the bedroom
• Gray floor in the bathroom

Features and features of gray

• The dark gray floor in the interior can visually reduce the space of the room or make it already, while the light gray version can cause the opposite effect.
• Not too dark shades of gray is not bad help to unload cluttered furniture interior, bringing a little freshness and light into it.
• In a room with a gray floor, a calm and cozy atmosphere that contributes to a full-fledged rest and restoration of forces is felt.
• If you manage to find on sale laminate, having an unusual color (a mixture of gray with beige or brown), then with such a material you can arrange as unusual gray floor in the interior that it will turn the entire idea of \u200b\u200bthe internal setting.

But the feeling of relaxation and harmony of space, which arise from people, for a long time in such interiors, often interfere with them to focus, they have reduced performance and it becomes difficult to do any painstaking work. It is for this reason that the same designers do not recommend laying a gray parquet or laminate in the corners for study and working offices.

But Rooms B. gray tones Allow harmoniously collect their thoughts and tune in to the philosophical way.

Perfectly will look gray the floor in the bedroom interior or living room. An equally attractive may seem gray in the kitchen or in the dining area, provided that the owners do not frighten a certain coldness created by the atmosphere. However, the last disadvantage is easy to correct, bright colors or beige shades in the interior palette.

Which interior styles is the gray floor?

When developing the interior should be taken into account, what color of the walls is suitable for the gray floor and that it is not suitable for all styles equally.

It is best to enter the gray floor in the following interior styles:

• strict classic;
• high tech;
• modern.

In addition, the gray laminate will be thoroughly looked in some ethnic styles, for example, in Scandinavian.

Stock Foto Gray floor in different styles Interior (High Tech, Modern, Scandinavian):

In order not to get too cold, Deadly gray interiorIt is better to dilute it, experimenting with a warm palette of the walls of the walls, or make furniture from properly selected wood varieties. The color gamut of furniture can be quite rich, light gray floor in the interior looks great with color furniture:

• vanilla;
• zebrano;
• wenge.

If the host it seems that there is a special softness and comfort in the room, then it is possible to soften this impression using items painted in warm colors, on the texture of approximated to the wood.

How to combine gray floor with other colors?

• The extreme solemn variants are white and black. Combining them, gray shades soften their contrast, making the interior less screaming and causing. But to create compositions with this color you need to have practical experience and professional knowledge. After all, it is not so easy to understand what the walls are better to combine with a gray floor, so that there are fewer problems with the selection of furniture.

• Very harmoniously looks like a combination of gray and blue flowersThis composition will perfectly fit into the interiors of the bedroom, living room or cabinet.

• Gray is well combined with a cold color palette, including with blue and purple.

• The combination of gray and yellow meets quite rarely, and it is impossible to allow the abundance of yellow engines, but the light yellow-gray stripes will be appropriate.

• Wallpaper to the gray floor is best suitable beige or salad, they will retain the comfort of the interior and will make it simultaneously elegant.

Common mistakes with gray floor

In gray floor, the main drawback is in its coldness. If the interior is not to give warm accents, then it will turn into a completely unattractive lifeless desert. In addition, one cannot be allowed here, so if the gray doors are supplemented with a gray floor with an incorrectly selected texture, then a similar interior can be done in advance for failure.

If the project is a light gray floor, what walls can harmonize with it? For example, it is not too bright, dark wallpaper, as well as the introduction of a rather popular metallic color furniture. However, in no case can not rub everything in the gray room to the brilliance, turning it into a chrome-plated box.

To revive even hopelessly "gray" interior, you need to use unusual patterns and ornaments, work with shades, glossy and matte surfaces, combine fur, silk and other textures.

Gray floor in the kitchen

No less attractive may appear the color of the floor in the kitchen of gray or in the dining area, provided that the owners do not frighten a certain coldness of the atmosphere created by him. Gray floors in the kitchen not only looks presentable, but also unusually practical, because on a gray background, the traces of dirt, fat and divorces are visible on a gray background.

For small kitchens

The gray-white floor in the kitchen of small sizes will be acceptable no less than a combination of gray shades of different saturation, as well as gray-beige and gray-blue. In general, for small premises And the tile is needed modest sizes.

If the task is set visual increase Spaces, then it is better to install either a tile with the simplest, inconspicuous pattern, or without it without it, since, the more difficult and more noticeable drawing, the stronger it grows up the space. On the contrary, the kitchen with a floor having a smooth surface texture will seem spacious and lighter.

For spacious kitchens

Spacious kitchens can be laid ceramic tiles Any size, although large elements look better here. The tile of non-standard form, such as hexagon or with rounded edges, looks great. Here you can try a bunch of shapes and sizes as well various methods Styling (diagonal, "Christmas tree" and other) to achieve unusual view of the interior.

You can, abandoning stereotypical solutions, sweep the interlocking seams of the grout of contrasting color. Then the grid of tiled series will be shifted, which will attract attention to the floor covering. If you use a darker grout, then the tile will seem cleaner and lighter.

Photo of gray in the kitchen:

Combination of gray floor in the kitchen with walls and furniture

It is very important to find a harmonious combination of floor design, ceiling and walls. Also you can not miss the type kitchen furniture and accessories. However, it should always be remembered about the functional features of this room, therefore, even making the gray floor in the kitchen, the white walls in it are unlikely to arrange, as they are very quickly contaminated.

But if you add a white ceiling and bright (but not white) to the gray semi, then visually the cuisine works spacious and lighter.

You should not try another option where the ceiling is left with a light tone, but the walls are made darker than the flooring. With this combination, the general background becomes too dark, the room faded, becomes gloomy, and in the amount visually bored.

Choosing a wallpaper or tile for walls, combining the color of the floor in the kitchen of gray, you need to be repelled against the degree of natural light of the kitchen room:

• On the sunny side, it is wiserfully to apply cold or neutral tones (green, blue, turquoise) so that even the hot stove does not seem so hot.
• If the kitchen leaves the windows to the north, then it is better to warm its atmosphere with a warm color of the walls (orange, yellow, peach). The warming color palette of the walls will make and the perception of gray sex is more enjoyable.

Gray plinth, framing the same color floor, visually makes its area more, creating the illusion of its continuation.

Brightly on the background of dark gray flooring will look white kitchen facades, forming an elegant interior. Lovers of perky combinations can think: if you make a gray floor in the kitchen, what color of the headset in this case choose? They can combine gray with an acidic lemon or yellow color, introducing a dining room in the interior, for example, yellow chairs, and on the windows having hung a thin lemon organzaz. An excellent combination with gray floors will form cutlery, dishes and stainless steel techniques, good all this is not required long to search for sale.

And even better instead of ordinary tiles, use a gray stoneware for the floor, which is its relative, but having best Design and physical and mechanical characteristics. Gray stonework for sex in the kitchen interior can be perfectly combined with the most diverse color furniture. The neutral gray floor will be perfectly animated with colored furniture stains, no matter what they are: metallic, wenge, pine or even white.

Psychologists argue that the presence of warm tones in the kitchen excites appetite, and cold, on the contrary, reduces. This property is especially important to take into account those who seek to lose weight.

Gray floor in the living room

You can pick up such a combination of gray with warm shades of wood so that it enhances this impression.

Shades of gray can perfectly emphasize the elegance of the style of High-tech. It also needs to be guided by the rule of five colors: in the interior can be combined in addition to the main one additional color and no more than five different shades of gray.

If the gray living room lacks lighting, it is necessary to make it visually more spacious, it is necessary to highlight its walls with sofits, and so that it looks more sunny, the elements of yellow color can be used in the floor and wall decoration, for example, a large yellow panel or the same color outdoor carpet. .