Bamboo in the interior of the apartment: panels and partitions, curtains and blinds, original furniture and wallpaper for the walls. Wallpaper of bamboo in the interior: montage, wallpaper in the bedroom, in the bathroom, kitchen and hallway.

Modern man is increasingly experiencing discomfort from the fact that most of the objects surrounding him have an artificial origin. The desire for natural materials for decorating rooms, especially residential, is understandable: they look rich, they can create coziness and comfort, they are ecological, they have a long service life and practicality. The energy emitted by them allows a person to feel extremely comfortable.

Bamboo interior - a tribute to fashion or the desire to return to an environmentally friendly habitat

One of the stylish examples of using natural finishing material - bamboo, interesting look and quality characteristics of the stems of this plant allow using bamboo finish in a private house or apartment, it is appropriate in a room of any purpose, it can be used to create different styles of interior.

The ecological nature of this plant is ensured by the fact of its extremely rapid growth, toxic substances in it practically do not accumulate. Properties of bamboo make it possible to make from it:

• panels and partitions,
• curtains and blinds,
• ceiling materials and wallpaper for pasting walls,
• original furniture.

Popularization of bamboo in due time was positively promoted by the bamboo wallpaper that appeared on the construction market. With their elegance and sophistication, they quickly won the sympathy of consumers.

Fashion also includes textiles with bamboo print - only one image of this plant can create an atmosphere of special comfort in the room. In everyday life quite often there are towels and bedding, photoshorts with the image of this beautiful plant.

Dracaena has gained popularity, a plant that resembles bamboo in appearance, it can be grown simply in a vase of water or in ordinary ceramic pots.

Amateurs-flower growers in the conditions of ordinary city flats also began to grow real bamboo. The plant is unpretentious, special conditions and care does not require, pleases owners extremely fast growth.

Bamboo is also used as finishing racks, garden arbors, floors and stairs. Of the bamboo are made original blinds, the principle of their lifting mechanism can be created by analogy of Roman or roller blinds.

Let's see how beautiful the bamboo looks in the interior:

Using bamboo in the interior

The most interesting of all used for finishing exotic materials can safely be called bamboo used in the form of trunks. They decorate the premises inside the house, they are very successfully used in landscape design. In accordance with the author's idea, you can simply glue the bamboo on the wall, occupying its entire surface, you can make an interesting layout or arrange the head of the bed.

The trunks can be positioned in any position, horizontally or vertically. Creating inserts from the trunks on the walls is much easier to solve the problem of zoning the room. To separate the hallway and the living room or the kitchen and dining room, you can create beautiful partitions from bamboo trunks, you can also use decorative curtain walls of the same material.

Bamboo panels and their advantages

For the finishing of walls and ceilings in rooms, moisture resistant bamboo panels are very successfully used. The installation of this finishing material can be done on walls that have not been subjected to special preparation, with the help of panels it is very easy to hide all the defects and irregularities that are on their surface.

Make panels from natural mats, by impregnating with acrylic glue and pressing at high temperature. Panels can have different textures, depending on the type of weaving, and also be multilayered or single-layered. Despite the ease of raw materials, bamboo panels differ:

• strength,
• reliability,
• elasticity,
• long life.

A special effect when creating a bamboo interior is achieved if the plates are made of natural bamboo next to the panels.

They are made by hand, using for making bamboo tes. During the manufacturing process, the slabs are pressed and dried. Plates of different sizes with different number of layers are available for sale. Five and seven-layered products are called "Chinese parquet", the area of ​​its use is the finishing of floors. Chinese parquet has high sound and heat insulation properties, high resistance to moisture.

features parquet from a massive bamboo board

Bamboo flooring today can not be attributed to the popular finishing materials. Nevertheless, to learn about its positive aspects will be very interesting and useful for those who plan to carry out repairs.

This product is different:

• extreme strength,
• density, about 80% higher than the density of the oak board,
• resistant to moisture,
• wear resistance,
• not a tendency to deformation,
• ecological compatibility.

Use bamboo flooring can be in the premises of any destination, residential or even public - the margin of strength of the material is quite possible. Finishing with bamboo panels and slabs allows to give the interior naturalness, naturalness, purity, characteristic for wild nature.

Moldings and skirting boards made of bamboo

To make the finishing of walls, floors and ceilings complete, moldings and plinths are required. The most natural in the bamboo interior will be decorating the joints with bamboo finishing elements. In some cases, bamboo moldings are used as interior or exterior decoration.

Among the advantages of decorative products should be called the ability to: well conceal all the shortcomings and irregularities in the field of connections, eliminate asymmetry in the room. With the help of bamboo moldings decorate fireplaces and arches, niches, they are made from frames for mirrors and paintings, door frames. By installing skirting boards made of bamboo, a smooth connection of the surface of the walls and the floor is obtained.

Let's see how to lay bamboo parquet

Bamboo wallpapers in the interior

Bamboo wallpaper - the original natural material, which is used for decoration of walls, less often - for ceilings. Bamboo wallpaper - a thin strip, a thickness of 5 to 25 mm, glued to the fabric foundation. If the pressed material is used, its width can reach 10 cm.

how to make wallpaper

For the manufacture of the rack, young trees are used, the trunks of which are dried, sawn and polished. For interior decoration of bamboo used wallpaper, obtained from the inside of the tree trunk, softer. The canvas made from the upper part of the tree trunk can be used for finishing the outer walls of country houses, balconies or loggias, finishing the facades of cottages. As for the color of the wallpaper, it can be:

• natural light,
• more dark, obtained when heating the wood to +60 C,
• color wenge, get it by staining.

If the wallpaper is planed and not varnished, then, if desired, they can be tinted, while obtaining the desired shades, to impart certain colors, using a water-based lacquer, dark or colorless. If for the production of wallpaper used the outer part of the bamboo trunk, then their color can be vanilla, yellow, pistachio, chocolate or tortoiseshell. To obtain the last of the above-mentioned colors, a method is used to darken certain segments of the plaques.

On sale are also found bamboo wallpaper with a pattern on the ridge, they are very strong and can serve for many years. To obtain a smooth surface, lamellae from bamboo are subjected to additional processing - removal of the upper semicircular layer and grinding. In this case, the original pattern and the internal structure of the wood can be observed on the surface. The web material can have a different width from 90 cm to 2 m 50 cm and a length of from 5 to 15 m.

how to glue wallpaper

They can be installed on any surface, be it brick, wood or concrete. You can do it yourself. Fastening of wall-paper is carried out by means of the special glue made on a rubber basis with application of alcoholic solvent.

It should be noted that such glue also applies to environmentally friendly materials. To the positive qualities of the adhesive is a relatively long period of its hardening - for several minutes, you can correct the position of the glued canvas. Fold wallpaper during gluing is not recommended.

It should be noted that even with very accurate gluing of the strips, the joints between them remain noticeable. If necessary, cut the canvas along the rack, you can use the usual sharp knife, choosing the gap between the lamellas. To make the width of the canvas smaller you have to use:

• hacksaw for metal,
• saw with small teeth,
• hand saw blade.

With the latter, the quality of the cut will be much better, and the work itself will be performed much faster. To create an interesting interior, bamboo wallpaper is combined with reed material, natural wood, natural stone.

To clean such wallpaper, you can use a damp cloth or a washing vacuum cleaner. Thanks to the multifunctionality and variety of shades of lacquer, wallpaper from bamboo can be used in interiors, decorated in different styles.

bedroom

Since it is believed that bamboo and products from it contribute to the rapid restoration of energy and strength, the ideal option may be to use them in the bedroom.

To glue the whole room with such wallpaper is not required - you can use such a decoration only on one of their walls, or place them above the bed, creating a kind of panel.

bathroom and kitchen

Strength and moisture resistance of bamboo, and wallpaper made of it, allow the use of these materials for finishing rooms with an "extreme" microclimate - bathroom and kitchen. Even under conditions that involve exposure to fumes, the wallpaper will last for a long period.

The very same room with this decoration will please the owners with a special cosiness and comfort. Often in the bathrooms use a tile with a depicted plant. It coolly animates and decorates the interior, brings in it tropical notes. Sometimes it is enough to use such tiles as decoration, for example - to create a panel from them.

use in the hallway

Very often, bamboo is used when decorating hallways, given its considerable cost when designing the interior, the option is often used when wallpaper from bamboo is combined with conventional wallpaper, paper or fabric wallpaper.

Bamboo Furniture

An interesting accent in the design solution of the interior of an apartment or a country house can be furniture made of bamboo or rattan. The cost of such furniture is quite high, but this is justified by the attractiveness of the appearance and strength.

Distinctive characteristics of the products of their materials are low weight and durability, the ability to fit well in the interior, look modern and stylish. Considering the very light shades of natural raw materials, caramelized materials are often used for making furniture.

Those who decided to purchase furniture from bamboo should not forget the simple rules:

• place furniture from bamboo near heating appliances is not recommended,
• do not clean the furniture with abrasive and containing chemicals.

Beautiful interiors with bamboo furniture:

Bamboo finishing of office premises

Even modern education does not allow most of us to completely get rid of superstition, however, if they relate to the conviction that any living or non-spiritual thing can bring or preserve well-being, success and financial stability, then there is nothing wrong with that. For example, according to the teachings of Feng Shui, such a plant is bamboo.

In a living form, or in the form of a decorative material, a frame or just a beautiful image - it does not matter, but the presence of this plant in the office space should bring happiness to those who work here. To affirm or deny the validity of these beliefs does not make sense, because the presence of elegant objects that bring the eastern accent to the interior of the office makes its interior unique, contributes to the mood of employees and visitors.

Most often, when finishing offices use curtains and blinds made of bamboo. They create an excellent protection against sunlight and fill the interior with natural freshness.