How to combine the wallpaper in the kitchen?

The interior of any room depends largely on how and how the walls are finished. Kitchen - multifunctional room. Here they prepare and gather for tea, receive the closest guests, and the owners of small apartments also arrange something like a workshop. In short, the kitchen combines functions that are sometimes very difficult to combine. In part, the severity of the problem can be removed with the help of finishing. How to combine the wallpaper in the kitchen, we will tell in our article.

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And why combine?

Of course, you can glue the kitchen and wallpaper of the same color - as, indeed, any other room. This is a common practice. She has only one drawback - very few opportunities for interesting design solutions.

Combined finish allows you to show a taste and imagination. In addition, it makes it possible:

• to visually change the geometry of the room:
• emphasize advantages and hide faults;
• highlight the zones;
• single out one single wall or the most attractive part of it;
• make the interior more dynamic;
• combine or split rooms.

Geometry

This is a very important parameter! If the kitchen is very narrow and long, you can make it seem almost square. Low ceilings will seem higher, too high - lower, well, and so on.

Important! For example, if you want the room to appear wider than it is - cover the short walls with lighter wallpaper."Raise" the ceiling will allow vertical combination of wallpaper, "lower" - horizontal.

Disguise of ugly places

In the kitchen there may be a part that can not be removed, but which irritates the hostess very much. The ledge, niche, vent box - all of them are perfectly masked by combining. They simply can not be seen, or they turn into very attractive fragments, and from disadvantages turn into virtues.

Zoning

To select zones, you do not need to install partitions. Dynamic, and even more so stationary, vertical planes steal volume. But what if you want to identify where the place for cooking, where - for lunch and breakfast, and where - bar or something else? Very simple.

Mark them in different colors or different invoices. In one place the wall is dark and with a pattern, in the other - light and smooth, in the third - wallpapers, there are enough options. And no serious additional costs! Just need to competently combine the wallpaper in the kitchen.

Accents

The easiest way to divert attention from anything is to emphasize something else. This applies to the kitchen. Do you have an old refrigerator and watches? It's okay, no one will look at them, if they admire the wall with admiration.

Make a beautiful wallpaper from a different color or wallpaper, and all problems are solved. You can, if desired, accent fragments of not one wall, but several - for example, the opposite.

Dynamics

Does your kitchen seem too quiet and even boring? You can make it more dynamic. For example, a bright fragment on one wall or even a whole wall, painted in juicy colors, while on the rest - pastel wallpaper.

Studio apartment

Especially important for a studio apartment, where everything is in one room - living room, kitchen, hallway. Do you want to put additional shelves and cabinets? And do not - select the zones and cover them with different wallpaper. Thus, you will save a single space, at the same time, indicate the functions of each corner.

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A little bit about

colors Before choosing wallpapers of two or even three kinds, it's useful to learn a little about colors. They can be:

• warm;
• cold.

The same room can be decorated only in warm or only in cold scales. But nothing prevents to combine different shades from that and other part of a spectrum, and even to apply contrast combinations.

What to consider when selecting?

Each part of the spectrum has its own properties. This is especially important for people who are sensitive. For example:

• Walls in a cold blue-green range can create a feeling that the room is colder than it really is. For the kitchen, where it is often hot, this is just not bad.
• Pastel shades of blue and green soothe, invigorate in the morning, but at the same time, contribute to the deterioration of appetite. As for the geometry of the premises, such tones can visually increase the size.
• Yellow, pink, gently-lilac with a predominance of pink are good for close dark kamorok. The room seems lighter and warmer than it is. Ideal for a tiny raw kitchen in a very old house.

Interior options

Interior design can be:

• achromatic;
• is chromatic.

Achromatic solution

Few people decide to use the achromatic version in the kitchen. It assumes the use of only a few colors:

• black;
• white;
• gray.

Important! In such a kitchen, even the most ardent fan of Minimalism can get depressed. Therefore, with achromatic design, one must be extremely cautious. But nothing hinders in the kitchen, where "256 shades of gray", to make a few bright fragments - for example, to paste wallpaper or to allocate a working zone with the help of bright tiles.

Chromatic solution

It is a combination of several colors. Carefully consider everything that is in your kitchen, and in any other room, too. Even if the walls are solid, there are objects of different colors in the room. They rarely reflect on this, but if you started repairs and want to give your modest kitchen an original look, it must be taken into account.

To properly combine the wallpaper in the kitchen, do not use more than five tones - in one gamut or contrast:

1. Take the color wheel.
2. Select one primary color.
3. Choose shades that are on both sides of it at equal distances.

How to choose the color of walls?

Defining shades for walls, consider several circumstances.

1. Walls are a background for kitchen furniture.
2. Color should not spoil your appetite.
3. Finishing should lift the mood of the person who cooks food.
4. It is necessary that the decoration is awake in the morning and soothes in the evening.
5. When combining, styles should not conflict with each other.

Age of inhabitants

The color of the walls depends on who lives in the apartment:

• young family;
• people of elegant age;
• several generations.

To combine the wallpaper in the kitchen correctly:

• For honeymooners or a family with a young child, bright saturated colors are suitable. They are invigorating and pleasing, make the coming day interesting and promising.
• People of elegant age are more comfortable with calm pastel colors( although, of course, the characters are different).
• If the kitchen is used by representatives of different generations - well, we will have to find a reasonable combination. For example, paint the walls in pastel colors, but make a few bright spots.

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Solid or patterned

It's easier to combine simple wallpapers. Just put the strips in one sequence or another - that's all. With flowers, the matter is more complicated, it is necessary to look for effective, at the same time, harmonious combinations. But nothing is impossible.

Vertical orientation

For example, one of the most popular combinations is a vertical combination, where intertwined monochrome stripes and paintings with floral ornament. The variants are different:

• monochrome and mottled strips - the same width, the figure is large;
• stripes of the same width, but the pattern is shallow and erratic;
• wide monophonic bands alternate with narrow ones with ornament;
• plain stripes are glued on 2-3 consecutive, then - 1 motley.

All options look impressive.

Important! The most interesting is when the monophonic coating and the motley background are made in the same scale, and the ornament itself in contrasting colors.

Insert with a bright pattern

Often used and such an option as an insert. The whole kitchen is covered with monophonic wallpaper, and the fragment of one wall - variegated with a large pattern or photo wallpaper.

This fragment can be separated from the rest of the surface by a frame - paper or wooden. It is better if the drawing is large.

Important! But there are other possible ways, for example, an insert that simulates a window. In this case, the wallpaper is edged with narrow wooden slats.

Geometric drawings

Interesting, but dangerous option - on the walls are pasted wallpaper with different in color and character geometric ornaments. This approach, however, is not good for all premises. It is completely unsuitable for Classics or Provence, but it can be successful for a room in Loft style, and if you can find suitable patterns, then Hi-tech.

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Going to the store

After thinking about what you want to do about it, look how much your dreams can turn into reality. For this, you need to look in the catalog or take a walk to the nearest building store:

1. Decide which particular wallpaper you want to paste.
2. Think about the color and texture.
3. Find out if the color you like is suitable for your furniture, unless you are going to change it.
4. Calculate how much material of both kinds you need.

Kinds of wallpapers

Not everything that manufacturers of materials for furnish of walls offer, approaches for kitchen. On sale you can find wallpaper:

• paper;
• vinyl;
• non-woven;
• textile;
• glass walls;
• liquid.

Important! Paper is cheap, but not always well withstand high humidity and temperature changes. Textile is difficult to clean, liquid - do not like water, and if they are covered with varnish - do not let the air in. The ideal wallpaper for the kitchen is vinyl, which you can wash. In any case, the main background is better to make of them, and for inserts you can use any others.

Count the number of

If you have already decided what to buy, it is equally important to understand how much material you will need:

1. Look at the width of the rolls.
2. Measure the height of the room.
3. Mark where you will stick any wallpaper.
4. Calculate which area of ​​each kind is needed.

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Design of wallpaper for the kitchen - combined versions of

Do not think that wallpaper can be glued as horrible. Even if the room is decorated in the now popular Loft style, the "mess" must be thought out.

There are certain rules - what can be combined and what should be avoided:

1. Do not combine materials that differ too much in price - a harmonious combination, most likely, will not work. The only exception is a well-designed insert of luxury wallpaper on neutral cheap.
2. The wallpaper should be the same thickness and, if possible, of the same quality: if the difference is large - joints will become very noticeable. Again, the wallpaper in the frame can be of a completely different thickness, since the edge of them is covered with edging.
3. Try to select materials with echoes. For example, with the same in form, but different in size colors. Even better, if the same elements will be on furniture and on towels or curtains.
4. A bright multi-colored panel will look better if it is surrounded by a monophonic wall( in extreme cases, it can be with a small printed or textured pattern).

Important! Interesting combinations can be obtained by combining wallpaper, imitating different materials: floral ornament or images of birds and a strip of "wood", for example, as well as different types of stone.

Vertical combination

It can be:

• symmetrical;
• asymmetric;
• "game of shadows".

For the first method, contrast combinations are suitable. The work is done in this order:

1. Find the center of the main wall.
2. Stick a strip of wallpaper.
3. On both sides, glue two strips of a different color.
4. Then alternate the webs so that they are located at the same distance from the first.

Asymmetry

This method helps to visually expand the room and even completely change its shape. You will need:

• wallpaper with wide stripes;
• wallpaper with narrow stripes, similar in color and pattern.

Combine as follows.

1. One wall is completely pasted with canvases with wide stripes.
2. On all the rest - we glue wallpaper with narrow.

Game of shadows

For this version you need wallpapers of the same quality and in the same scale, but in different shades. To glue it is necessary as well as usual, only to alternate the stripes in two or through one.

Important! You can do otherwise - to cover one wall with darker canvases, the other to make it lighter.

Horizontal combination

If the ceiling is too high, you'll have to slightly "understate" it. There are a lot of options, and if you want, you can come up with your own:

1. Bottom - monophonic or with an invisible texture pattern, top - with a large pattern.
2. Bottom - with a large pattern, the top - monophonic.
3. Top in stripes, bottom - monophonic.
4. The top is monophonic, the bottom is striped.
5. The upper and lower parts are in the same scale, but differ in texture.
6. Parts are painted in contrasting tones.
7. Wallpapers of the same color, but different texture.

Important! Other solutions are possible, no less interesting. Remember only that with horizontal combination it is very useful to make a border - in the tone of the wallpaper or contrast.

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Where to draw the accent?

There are enough design proposals for this idea. The most important thing is to decide what exactly you want to allocate. It can be:

• wall above the table;
• niche;
• wall in the work area.

How many apartments, so many can be and combinations. The main ones are just a few:

1. The walls are bright, the accent is bright or dark.
2. Single-tone walls, accent - genre painting, still life or large ornament.
3. The walls are dark, the accent is white with a similar pattern.

Important! Do not apply for accent materials of the same color, although of different texture - your efforts are unlikely to attract attention.

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Patchwork

An interesting, but rather complex way of combining. He got his name from patchwork. The technique is similar - the pieces can be cut according to the pattern, they can have different shapes:

• squares;
• triangles;
• hexagons;
• rhombuses.

Important! This work is very painstaking, but it can give an extremely effective result, if you successfully select wallpaper by color and texture.

Here we have figured out a little in how you can combine the wallpaper in the kitchen. For you, the question still remains open, as it is necessary to choose a combination that will be both interesting and effective, and will correspond to your preferences and habits. Hence - a creative and extremely exciting selection process to you in the near future is guaranteed, and it's wonderful!