We tell about the concept of a color block and its understanding in the design of interiors, as well as give advice, how to combine the colors and create an interior in this trend style.
The concept of the Color Block "Slied" with fashionable podiums and has been living in the interior sector for several years. We wrote about fashion trends and their use in the design of residential premises, the concept of a color-block is another proof that the areas of creating fashionable and stylish clothes and the same house is actually much closer than it seems to us.
Design: Daria Zinnovate
What is the Block Block?
The color block is translated as "Color Blocks", some interpret the concept as "collision of color", and in something they are right. The concept of the color-block is based on a combination of bright and contrasting colors in the interior and their skillful use. In the last, we will make a special accent today, as it is simply mixed with different colors and call it the "Block" will also be wrong. The taste is a fundamental moment of creating such interiors, and the ability and knowledge of the right color combinations.
Design: Marc Whipple
Most often, designers who specialize in the Block Color, create public interiors: draw up restaurants, cafes, hotels, even casinos and shops. In residential spaces there is a place for this reception, but with one nuance: if the owner is not afraid of "letting" color in an apartment or a house where it will spend every day. It is not simple. There are people who prefer bright interiors, without contrasts and accents, as life in them seems more comfortable and safe.
How to apply a block-block in residential interiors?
For those who are not sure that he will be comfortable in a bright interior, but who wants to try to "paint" his home environment, designers advise this in the premises, where the least time is held: in the corridor, bathroom, hallway. Transit rooms can withstand more decorative loads, not irritating the inhabitants of the apartment or at home.
Design: Daria Zinnovate
How to combine colors?
1. Use the Pantone application
The Color Institute has released an application in order to facilitate the task of the correct combination of colors. There you can fuel the picture and get the numbers of the colors used in it.
While there is only a link for an iOS application on the official site.
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2. Use the rules of the Otten color circle
Each designer knows about the color circle of yttn and its use in the color theory. With the help of a circle you can work on different schemes of combinations of colors.
- A combination of three colors of adjacent sectors.
- Contrast colors of two opposite sectors.
- "Triad" - when two colors are used from one sector and one - contrast.
- The use of three equidistant colors in a circle - as a rule, in this case one dominates, and two are complemented.
- The rectangular scheme is the use of two pairs of contrasting colors, where one should also be dominant, and three - auxiliary.
- Square diagram - variation of the previous scheme, when colors are used equidistant from each other in the circle.
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3. Use Rule 60-30-10
Another color rule in the interior is about proportions. The ideal formula is 60% of the foundation (background), 30% - additions and 10% for accents.
Design: Hayon Studio
What else is important to take into account the color block in the interiors?
To create a beautiful and stylish interior, you need to take into account several other rules, except for combinations of colors.
Design: Daria Zinnovate
- Color decor is not a color block. Large-scale spaces should be involved - walls, doors, large furniture, even the ceiling.
- It's very easy to make a mistake with the color block - a few more unnecessary things, and it turns out not at all. Enter no more than two new colors for the experiment.
- Neutral shades can also be used. Color block, of course, more about brightness, but for those who are still scary, there are assumptions - use neutral shades. We are talking about saturated colors.
Design: John Barman