How to make the interior of your house special, cozy and not depersonalized? Using materials, colors and details, the closest in spirit to you. One of these, beautiful, practical, but not yet bored coatings - wild stone."Wild" is called because of the untreated surface, rough texture and brutal appearance. But, despite these qualities, it can be used in the premises, decorated in a variety of styles: from classics to high-tech.
Practical cover
Walls near the entrance door, along the plinth quickly covered with a layer of dirt, and gentle wallpaper or plaster now and then are scratched by wheelchairs or bicycles. Result - from the very threshold your apartment looks untidy. You can avoid this by laying a strip of 20-30 cm wide by the wild stone near the floor and around the doors.
Wild stone in the kitchen looks great, if you choose a shade that harmonizes with the furniture. For natural wood, warm brownish tones are suitable, for modern kitchens made of plastic, glass and metal - neutral gray. The area near the dining table, the wall near the window, the door or archway is not a complete list of places where you can apply it. Protective kitchen apron over the working area can be laid out with tiles, set skinalli, and you can also decorate with a stone.
Grease and spray on this coating will be invisible. If the open sections of the wall laid out by the "savage" - an ornament still for more spacious kitchens, then the apron will look great even in a small room, you just need to pick a cover with a smaller texture.
Tile is the most common choice for a bathroom. But if you want something special, why not lay one of the walls or corner with an unprocessed stone. This material is excellent - it is not afraid of moisture, it is easy to clean. Do not place it directly next to the bathroom or shower, but it's quite possible to lay out the surface at the dressing table. It is best to combine as close to the color of the coating. And the main rule - the smaller the bathroom, the less it can be this material.
"Savage" in the interior of rooms
In our tradition, it is not customary to use ceramic wall tiles in living rooms, as in some other countries, for example, Italy. But in any room there are many places where the walls lose their original appearance the quickest: the areas near the switches, doors, protruding corners, arched openings, areas at the cupboards, pillars with room colors and behind the backs of favorite chairs. They can be protected just by using a wild stone, having thought up its layout in the form of islets. One or two large areas, decorated with tiles, should be supported by several small ones, distributed along the same wall or entire room.
If you do not like an excessively cold and heavy interior, but want to lay out a large area with a wild stone, for example, the area by the fireplace or the whole wall behind the home theater, then add more bright and warm details to the situation. Excellent fit orange or red pillows, upholstered furniture or carpet, vases or figurines, houseplants with large leaves. Natural greens in general is perfectly combined with stone. The system of vertical landscaping and a wall of cobblestones will complement each other as well as possible, creating a corner of the wild nature in the room. In addition, you can not be afraid that the wallpaper under the "green carpet" damp and become detached.
At first glance, the stone may not seem the most successful option for the bedroom. However, in combination with forged or deliberately rough wooden furniture, it looks appropriate and resembles interiors in the fashionable style of a dilapidated chateau. A compulsory addition is fur covers or rugs, vintage accessories.
Natural or not?
A coating that looks like an untreated stone, fancy you in the store, may not be so. Often there is an imitation of natural material in the form of tiles. They are made on the principle molding bas reliefs from natural components, weigh less, and are strong almost the same as a natural analog. They are, usually, the same width - 10 cm, and several lengths: 50, 30 and 18-15 cm, but some manufacturers offer a greater variety of sizes. Thanks to this, spreading them and selecting songs is much easier. Make the layout unintentionally, so that vertical seams are not on the same line. One of the additional advantages of a decorative stone is the variety of colors and textures.
If in the interior of the room there are only small impregnations of wild stone, you can save and choose its imitation. For large panels it is better to invest in natural material: its surface is more diverse and deeper. The color is limited by the natural scale and differs depending on the breed: golden and buffy in sandstones, dark gray and black in graphite, pearl gray in shale.
Advantages of stone as a finishing material are obvious:
- it is not afraid of water and moisture,
- does not burn out in the sun,
- is durable and durable, almost no mechanical effects are harmful to it,
- is environmentally friendly( both natural material and its imitation, which is made of acrylic resins, gypsum, white cement and natural impurities),
- is easy to install - the wall below it does not need careful alignment, the
- is significantly cheaper than marble or granite slabs, which are also often used in the interior.
If you get tired of the natural color of the stone, it can be repainted with paint on a water-based basis. Both natural and artificial material is first laid out on the floor, the pattern and arrangement of pieces are selected and only then glued to the wall.
Subtleties of design
Large areas laid out by the "savage" or its imitation, will look good only in spacious rooms. The stone visually eats space, and the coarser its texture and larger elements - the stronger. For malometrazhek and apartments, in which there is a lot of furniture, the material comes from small pieces, with an unexpressed texture.
The natural beauty of the stone needs illumination, best of all with oblique rays. Thinking about the location of the wall from the cobblestone, consider this and try to find her place not in front of the window, but on the side of it. Large areas that play a decorative role, you can additionally highlight the top or bottom. A small LED lamp, mounted under the ceiling or in the floor, is enough.
"Savage" - another way to bring to the city apartment the warmth of natural materials, create a cozy atmosphere with its own character.
