We tell about the main features of the style of Provence and help make a stylish interior in the spirit of provincial chic.
Characteristic style features:
- Colors
- Materials
- Lighting
- Textile
- Furniture
- Forged details
- Decor
This decor will have to taste those who are tired of the bustle and hurry of a big city. The cozy village atmosphere, soaked in the sun, has rest and peace. Provence style in the interior of the apartment is the combination of provincial antiquity and elegant luxury. It is suitable not only for country houses. The usual urban odnushku or studio can also be transformed using simple techniques. We list the main recognizable features that can be relying when creating design.
1 Colors of Provence in an urban apartment
The French country, as is sometimes called Provence, does not like dark tones. Only pastel soft shades: white, lavender, blue, mint, sandy yellow, olive, pale gray, beige.
Most often used white. Colored wooden furniture, seat upholstery, dishes, ceiling and wall decoration. This background is remarkably applied blue spraces of textiles or decorative elements.
With white, it looks good olive, supplemented by brown decoration details.
Lavender reminds about blooming olive fields. It is represented both in the finishing materials and in the decor: pillows, paintings, print on wallpaper or textiles. Very often, the interior is decorated with real bouquets of lavender.
The hall or bedroom, decorated in Beige, look solemn and smart.
2 Natural Materials
In the finishing of surfaces, preference is given to natural materials. But in urban environments, they suffer a grandee repair in order to make a real masonry, will be considered. Therefore, it is allowed to use their imitation: decorative brick and stone, wall panels "under the tree", parquet, laminate, photo wallpaper.
Ceramic tile is widely used when creating olive interiors. On the floor in the corridor or kitchen are good porcelain stoneware or terracotta tiles.
Bathroom or bathroom refresh delicate flower motifs or snow-white bricks.
The kitchen apron is decorated with a small tile of characteristic shades.
Stretch and suspended ceilings are rare here. Preference is given to plastered surfaces. A distinctive feature is wooden ceiling beams that can be light or on the contradictional dark color. In a studio apartment in the style of Provence, they can replace decorative models from lightweight materials.
For walls use stucco or paint. Wallpaper until recently in this direction were not used. But the mixture of the directions slowly erases clear boundaries and can already be found on the walls of the photo wallpaper with the landscapes of the French deep or just blonde canvas in a small flower.
3 Good lighting
The origins of the style are located in southern France, where many sun, so to match it in our northern latitudes it is necessary to consider natural and artificial light sources. If your housing boasts large windows on the south side - excellent! If not, the position will save the suspended chandeliers with flashes of characteristic shades, sconce, flooring and table lamps on elegant legs. For the working area in the kitchen, it is allowed to enhance the illumination of point lamps or satellum. The photo presents the design design projects in the style of Provence with different light sources.
4 large amounts of textiles
A distinctive feature of Provence is an abundance in the interior of the fabric. In addition to the usual curtains, pillows and plaids, wear tablecloths, napkins, soft seats on chairs, carpets with patterns in a cage, strip or with floral ornament. All of them must be pastel shades. For window windows and bedrooms, air tulle choose, and a more dense cloth for the porter is taken to it, which is harvested with pretty pickups.
For children and kitchens use Roman curtains from translucent fabric, which misses the light well. Sometimes they are combined with ordinary straight curtains. Curtains are very suitable for this style.
5 Furniture "With History"
Choosing a situation, it is better to give preference to vintage objects or new, but carefully disguised as ancient, with cracks and scuffs.
Instead of massive Tumba, it is better to take more air shears. Such a modern piece of furniture as a wardrobe can also be "aged". For this, its facades are decorated with mirrors in a binding, imitating rustic kitchen cabinets with glass doors.
Open shelves symbolize the simplicity of rural life, where everything is in sight. Dishes, deposited, cans with spices, beautiful porcelain create a cozy home atmosphere.
6 Wrought items
Provence often use artwork details. In large bedrooms, the air headboard and a bench on elegant legs look at the air. Small rooms can be decorated with coams for colors, lamp holders, unusual chandeliers, racks, candlesticks. Even the bath can be decorated with wrought-iron legs that emphasize the style affiliation.
7 Decor of the Little Apartment in the style of Provence
The French country is an abundance of ornamental jewelry: paint plates, embroidered napkins, wicker baskets of various sizes, family photos within, clay or copper dishes, large mirrors in the frames, things made with their own hands. Remembering the fact that the birthplace of this direction is a village, a special place in the interior is given to flowers. It can be live bouquets in vases or dried bunches of herbs, woven in the kitchen, indoor plants on window sills or knitted porridge, paintings, tiles or wallpapers on plant theme.
