Features Scandinavian style in the interior
The second fundamental point is the relative cheapness of the interior, in which the main is practicality and convenience. This is manifested in the careful selection of only the "necessary" decor, inexpensive, but functional furniture. No style, no fancy, pomposity and demonstration of one's own prosperity.
Add to this an open plan, and throughout there will be some kind of similarity to minimalism. However, the Scandinavian interior allows a little more liberties in the selection of textiles, the use of ornaments and a number of accessories. All this makes it more cozy and slightly more family-like than minimalism. Perfect for small apartments, making the room visually more spacious.
Required item of interior - fireplace. Most often it is lined with brick or stone.
Typical colors for the Scandinavian style
In the palette of the Scandinavian interior the white color reigns. It is used for finishing walls, floor, ceiling. Moreover, even natural wood is often painted over with white paint. Only a little bit inferior to milk, light cream, ivory. Let's say muffled green and blue. Such a color scheme is actual as a basis for decorating rooms. To give them positivity, liveliness and accents, use more vivid colors - red, blue, orange.
Furniture in the Scandinavian interior
Furniture in this style is surprisingly simple, but at the same time comfortable and attractive. It is easily opened, collected and disassembled. The last moment is very important. Practical residents of northern countries strive to make the space of rooms as open to the light as possible. Furniture, which at any time can be formed "on demand" - the best solution for this.
The design of the Scandinavian interior is seldom dispensed with without upholstered furniture. However, it differs compactness, laconism and simplicity of forms.
Most often it is made from light hardwoods, for example, from birch, ash. It is permissible to use metal, plastic and glass. Often, the interior is complemented by wicker elements - armchairs, chair seats or storage boxes, which are conveniently built into the closet or chest of drawers.
Characteristic for the style of furniture:
- open wall shelves or racks;
- light chairs made of wood or plastic;
- coffee table of elongated shape;
- chest of drawers with many drawers.
Decor
The choice of decor needs to be approached thoroughly. Scandinavian style does not tolerate frills, so all accessories must have a semantic load, and in some cases, serve the idea of practicality of the interior. A vivid example are glass vases, refracting beams and making the room lighter or a box for storing small things that have found their place on shelves or a chest of drawers. Successfully fit in the interior wooden frames made by own hands, photos of family members( ancient or in modern processing).Widely used decorative wicker baskets.
Textiles play an important role, giving the rooms a special comfort and warmth. These can be cloaks for chairs and chairs, covers, rugs and small rugs. Most often they are decorated with traditional "northern" motifs - deer, snowflakes, fir-trees and are sustained in white-blue or white-green. Strips and a cell are also relevant.
Features Scandinavian style when repairing the apartment
Finishing the main surfaces of the room is not difficult. The following materials can be used for wall finishing:
- paint( mainly white, cream);
- wooden panels of light species;
- lining;
- "Swedish" wallpaper with an uncomplicated pattern or wallpaper for painting;
- plaster;
- brick.
In the kitchen and in the bathrooms, ceramic tiles or mosaics of light colors are widely used. It can be seen on the floor and on the walls.
For well-lit rooms, dilution of white walls with bright colors is possible. So, one of them can be blue or even red. Such a decision will play into the hands of zoning the room. However, this is not a pure Scandinavian style, but adapted to other climatic conditions, where there is more sunlight, and therefore, in the interior, you can allow more brightness.
The ceiling does not require the installation of tension or suspension structures, it is enough to simply paint it. Sometimes it is trimmed with boards and decorated with beams.
Special attraction is a wooden floor made of pine, beech or birch wood. Often it is covered only with a thin layer of clear lacquer and makes the interior even more natural. Alternative can be parquet or laminate( as a last resort).
Lighting
Light in Scandinavian style is given special attention. It must be a lot! This condition is due to the modest design of windows with textiles - thin, airy and without weighting drapery. If the windows can not cope, then artificial sources come to light, which in such an interior is a huge amount - sconces, floor lamps, bedside lamps, etc. The light from them is dissipated with the help of numerous glass surfaces( for example, the already mentioned vases).
Scandinavian style features in the construction of the house
A modern and cozy house, reminiscent of a fairytale forest hut, is a Scandinavian style in the architecture of low-rise residential construction. The main material of construction is wood. Usually it is light breeds( birch, pine, beech), but there can be exceptions.
If you decide to build a house in Scandinavian style, then consider the following features:
- the presence of large wooden windows( no plastic structures);
- front door is made of solid wood;
- number of floors must not exceed two;
- for construction often use frame structures or glued, profiled bar;
- for the construction of a roof suitable natural tile or copper sheets;The
- roof must be a gable roof.
Externally, this house is laconic and simple - there is no facade decoration, attic and ground floor. The structure can be white, light brown, dark blue or ocher.
