Once you know all the subtleties of decorating the room in the style of Provence, you really want to change the boring design of a city apartment. Do not put off your desire in the long box and begin to make out, for example, the living room today. What will it take to do this?
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The main details of the Provence style for the living room
The most comfortable style of interior, putting in the forefront of home comfort, you can call Provence. Let this style has a tendency to a rustic way of life with old-fashioned furniture and pieces of jewelry, however, this is an original style.
Today, fans of the Provencal style make out sleeping rooms and kitchens, but the living room is still a favorite warm place.
For the design of the Provence-style living room, the main details are typical:
• Availability of wooden furniture
• the presence of a fireplace
• exceptionally natural decoration and decoration
• Simplicity of outlines of furniture and objects
• Simple color gamut of neutral shades.
The demand for naturalism is due to the peculiarity of the Provence style, which has a gravitation towards living nature. To emphasize this desire can be based on natural materials: wood, stone or brick.
The living room is characterized by simplicity and a slight taste of romance, which literally appears in everything.
These are plot pictures on the walls framed by a chic frame, vases with flowers, present everywhere: on wallpaper, on curtains, on low tables. Creating a style of Provence in the living room with your own hands, you need to think over the type of furniture.
Living room furniture
For the living room, preference is given to furniture from solid wood with open shelves, wooden shelves and chests of drawers with metal fittings. Particular importance in the living room has a sofa. At first glance at the sofa, imposingly located in the living room, you can guess that it is luxurious and comfortable.
The sofa can have a leather upholstery of dark or light tones, as well as a woolen or textile cloth.
Among the furniture for the living room of the Provence style, special attention is paid to wicker furniture.
Wicker furniture is made of various natural materials, for example rattan. You can make a cute rattan sofa yourself, as shown in the video.
The Provence style sofa always has a simple shape that can be easily draped in a cover with a floral print or in a cover made of variegated textiles.
Soft and warm textiles
The special charm of the living room Provence gives an abundance of textiles, thanks to which the interior acquires a softness of form and filling. Through textiles, you can enter bright memorable notes in the pastel shades of the interior of Provence.
This can be a variety of curtains or pillows, made and decorated with their own hands. Schemes and photos of drawings for embroidery can be borrowed on the Internet or from wildlife.
A soft blanket on the couch will not only emphasize the warmth of his embrace, but will also have a decorative function.
For the living room, handmade products are inherent: home-made linen tablecloths or napkins, woven rugs for vases. Such products are easily combined with each other, creating a kind of rainbow of colors and shades of sunny Provence.
The central place of the living room is a fireplace
The central place in the living room, of course, is a fireplace, without the presence of which the design of the room remains unfinished. To emphasize the internal heat of the fireplace can be several candlesticks, located on the portal or on low corner tables with carved legs.
Fireplaces in the style of Provence are very easy to learn among the variety of shapes of fireplaces. Such fireplaces are bright and colorful, with memorable sizes and colors. The village fireplace draws attention by its size, it is massive, even slightly enlarged, which confirms the importance and significance of the fireplace in the interior of the living room. Therefore, the fireplace stands out in the general interior and becomes a style-building element.
A massive chimney and an open fireplace portal create a monolithic structure, which is divided by a wooden decorative shelf. Decorative shelf is used for a variety of knickknacks, decorative plates and vases, as well as cute figures of birds and animals. An important decorative element, emphasizing the Provencal style, is the decorative decoration of the fireplace.
Decorative decoration "under the brick" is simple, but how spectacular it will look on the external panels of the fireplace. The roughly whitened surface of the fireplace surface will accentuate the simplicity of the village masonry of the masters of Provence.
And if you use metal forging as decorative elements, the authentic atmosphere of the Provencal way of life will be achieved.
By the way, one of the unbeatable techniques of designers is the created natural woodpile with wood, located near the fireplace.
Layout of the living room
To decorate the walls and ceiling of the living room, you can safely use decorative textured plaster or panels. When designing the walls, it is recommended to use the following palette:
• white
• aquamarine
• all shades of beige and cream
• terracotta
• the color of lavender.
The walls of the living room are plastered carelessly, it is advisable to leave missing areas for authenticity, through which the main surface of the wall shows through. This is how you can emphasize the effect of the old and natural plaster layer. Traditionally, the ceiling in the premises created in the style of Provence, heavier wooden beams, contrasting in color.
On wood rafters installed a powerful chandelier, the more so that when decorating a room, the right lighting of the living room will be a reliable ally.
How to arrange a living room lighting
The ideal lighting option for the Provence-style living room is the natural light emanating from the high French windows to the floor. As a local light source, preference should be given to low lamps with shades of juicy color.
Correctly placed accents of local lighting sources will convey the entire atmosphere of a hospitable and romantic living room, in which the warmth of human hands was invested.
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