Use neutral colors, choose paint, moldings, a bed with a high headboard and follow other advice from our subcorter.
American Classic is a modern look at the classic interior with the introduction of a new one: fashionable and practical. This is a transition style that left the heavyness of the classics, but did not move into modernity. It combines the features of the classical direction and modern style. Calm, elegant, elegant American style is suitable for making small apartments, if you observe some rules.
1 Apply a moderate color gamut
Classic American style Receive natural calm colors and contrasts based on these shades. Use neutral, but complex shades: natural gray, brown, beige, greenish, bluish-beige tones. For contrast, add bordeaux, blue, calm green, color of bitter chocolate.
2 Use paint for walls
For wall decoration, use matte interior paint. Wallpapers in American classics are rarely used, only for accents in niches or on separate walls. Colors choose ambiguous, mixed, interesting, but in the natural neutral palette. For example: coffee with milk, sand, olive, gray-brown, smoky blue and others.
3 Close the joints with moldings and cornices
From the classics in the American style there remains ceiling eaves with a smooth profile without a pattern and thread, as well as wall decoration with moldings. They can close the joints of the materials used or serve a decorative element by simulating the classic wall panels.
4 Remove the opening portals
Window and doorways are often separated by a platband or a carving portals with a smooth profile with small decorative inserts in the corners. Window slopes can also be separated by panels with rectangular milling.
5 Use high plinth
In American classics there is a rule - the higher the outdoor plinth, the more expensive it seems the interior.
6 Embed furniture
For storage, this style loves all sorts of built-in designs. Wardrobe, racks, cabinets are often built into the walls or recessed in a niche. Doors of cabinets must be swollen, sliding systems or doors-coupe in this style are not used. Facades - Wooden frame, scribbled or milling by milling around the perimeter of the canvas.
7 Combine different furniture handles
On American-style furniture, one kind of pens is rarely used. Combine different options in one color on drawers and on the swing doors. For example, use small round or square knobs-buttons on drawers, rails on the doors or a combination: handles-shells and standard handles brackets.
8 Use accent furniture
For American classics, it is important filled with, but not litable space. For accents in the interior, furniture of various purposes are used: consoles, dressers, couches, coffee tables, puffs. Carefully add a couple of small items even in a small area of the house and see how space will become more interesting.
9 Select a beautiful headboard bed
The headboard is an accent place in the Bedroom of American Style. Its form, color, texture set the tone of the room. The American classic loves the high headboard beds with "ears", straight and curly heads, often with a carriage tie, decorative cloves around the perimeter or snapping.
10 Use Symmetry and Balance
Make a symmetry from the sofa, chairs, tables, lamps, lamps. Sofa Choose a simple geometric shape or shape of Chesterfield. Chairs can be different: simple geometric, in French or English style, with "ears", vintage. You can combine the classic sofa and modern chairs and on the contrary.
11 Combine styles
Since this style is a mixture of directions and eras, it uses objects from different stories. And the coarse texture of the tree, and the mirror canvas for a table or dresser, glass tables with a metal base, furniture from exotic wood, antique samples, woven chairs and armchairs, as well as leather sofas, chairs and other furniture items. Furniture should not belong only to classic or modern style, it must be mixed, form a combination.
12 Diverse interior textures
To diversify a calm interior, use materials with different textures and ornaments, but in a similar color scheme. Apply generous textures: skin, suede, velveteen, sinilla, jeans, tweed, woven fabrics. In the American style is often used by one-window or drawing, imitating natural patterns.
13 Enter the geometric ornament
In the interiors of this style, rhythmic, symmetric drawings are used: zigzags, rhoms, stripes, polygons, squares, rectangles, often used four hundred and drawing "Grid". Patterns are performed in a calm color scheme, but mixed with each other, filling the space in interesting details.
14 Hang Simple Curtains
The lambrequins have long been not in fashion and even in the classic style is inferior to simple long porters. To decorate windows, use simple drapets collected on a metal or wooden cornily with laconic terminals. Additionally, use Roman curtains or blinds. In American stylistics, double curtains can be used, where one-photon cloth is connected to the patterned. Possible edging of the canvas with colored stripes or division of curtains with a decorative insertion into sections with different tissues.
15 Use an interesting decor.
Use decorative items: mirrors in metal frames, sun mirrors, live flowers, orchids, greens, candle holders, candles, figures, vases, abstract paintings and posters, family photos, books on the shelves and both stands for decor. American style loves the abundance of decor collected by groups.
16 Add Decorative Textiles
The American classic loves everything that brings comfort to the interior, warmth. Decorate the sleeping place and sofa with decorative pillows, bedspreads, plaid. Combine colors, patterns and textures, it will set the mood of the house, brings the necessary comfort to it.
American Classic is an improved classic or time outline. The interior in this stylist is easy to improve and modify with simple decorative techniques: permutation, change of textiles, repainting walls, replacement of furniture and decor. In this style, the items of different time are combined with a simple finish and neutral colors.
