Provence kitchen is predominantly white, filled with warmth, comfort and playing paints. Provence is the name of the French style, which means "province" translated. In this style, curtains, lamps, chandeliers, tile, furniture and even textiles are intertwined with the life of old France. Provence's kitchen is suitable for owners who love colorful details, and prefers to think through everything to the smallest detail.
Features
In any country, there is a design style. Provence managed to embody the simplicity and elegance of the whole world. Despite the fact that this style, like country, belongs to rustic styles. The design of the living room is largely connected with nature.
Provence style design has features similar to the country style:
- white room in bright calm shades;
- use in the living room and in the kitchen only natural materials;
- paintings, textiles, lamps, chandeliers and other homemade decorative elements;
- angular furniture "under the old man";
- Open shelves with dishes;
- Focus on lighting living room or kitchen with chandelier.
Zoning of the room
Registration of the kitchen combined with the living room requires special attention. The purpose of the premises is different. Combine them can one style. For example, a dining room can be equipped in the living room. For separation of zones, wallpapers or curtains of different colors are used. The implementation of the zoning task depends on the parameters of the living room and financial capabilities. It can be:
- half-aircraft, which partially overlaps the passage;
- two-tier floor with steps in the living room;
- Wall tile in the work area and painted walls in the living room;
- Furniture in the form of a bar stand, "island" or dining table.
Examples of such design are presented in the photo below. But such a popular classic-style element of the zoning arch in French Provence is rarely used.
Wall decoration
A small white kitchen or dining room is more often plastered and painted, less often on the walls wallpaper with their own hands. To make the premises in the style of Provence or Country Light, you should use Wallpaper with warm shades. Wallpaper with longitudinal stripes visually make the space wider, the wallpaper with horizontal stripes increase the height. In a small apartment it is better to use wallpaper with a small pattern. But the wallpaper with large drawings, with saturated bright colors it is appropriate to use in the canteens with a large space or separate them with only one of the walls in the kitchen. Examples of this design are presented in the photo.
Not only wallpaper and paint, but also stone, bricks and boards are used for lining of the walls. In urban apartments, limited to the local application of listed materials. In the country, the tile or brick on the wall of the working area will be perfect. In the living room most often wallpaper alternate with plaster. It is extremely rare on the walls you can meet a photo wallpaper.
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Lighting
Lighting the kitchen in the style of Provence, as well as country, should be as natural as possible. If the windows overlook the north side, there is always little light inside the kitchen. Change the perception of the room will help correctly lighting. You need to install lamps and chandeliers. The main thing is that they fit into the overall interior. Not only the dimensions and form of chandeliers are of great importance, but also its placement.
The chandelier in the living room or the kitchen should be forged, ceramic or made of wood with a lampshade of light tones. In addition to the central chandelier, you should also use local lamps in the working area. Luminaires should be selected with a flower motive, an old manner. Indoor with low ceilings are used lamps of the same color as shelves.
Tip! Excellent woven, perforated and brass lamps will look.
For a kitchen-dining room, which uses light tiles, the chandelier and lamps of a warm shade close to white are perfectly suitable. Such lighting makes the situation more cozy. There are other ideas of design of the room.
Lighting a room can chandelier with a vintage glass beam. It is important that it has a simple shape and a smooth surface. Then the chandelier will be easier to be cleaned.
It is advisable to the kitchen in addition to the chandelier also to establish a dimmer regulating the intensity of light. This is especially true for the dining area. By pressing the remote button, bright lighting from the chandelier will become scattered or muted. Luminaires will also change the brightness of light every time when working on the tabletop.
Important! Designers advise the use of colored lamps in functional areas. Examples of this design are presented in the photo.
Finishing the ceiling
Traditionally, in the country decorated in the country style, the presence of ceiling beams is not masked. The modern apartment uses various decorative materials resembling beams. Especially relevant it looks in the living room or kitchen with high ceilings.
The ideas of their recreation can be different. For example, you can create imitation of beams using foam. First you need to glue several blocks, then cut them up to give the shape of a tree, and paint in "natural" color. At the final stage, "logs" are attached with their own hands on the ceiling with the help of "liquid nails" or mounting glue.
Flooring
So that the floor harmonized with the Provence or Country style, you need to use the material of the coarse texture. Very nice looking ceramic tiles in the kitchen, laminate, parquet or tree in the hall. The ideas of their use can be different. If the work area is located on the podium, then the tile can be an accent element or merge with the interior. If there is no transition in height, the tile should match the coincide in the living room. Examples of this design are presented in the photo.
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Tip! Tile in matte color is a great way to design a floor. Outdoor tiles do not contradict the style design of the room. From the point of view of service, the tile is much more practical than any other coating.
Furniture
In the style of country or provence furniture is stylized "under ancient". Finished products are expensive. Therefore, you can decorate the furniture with the help of antique objects or artificially create it with your own hands.
Furniture should be made only of natural materials. Tree, fabric, ceramics, wrought iron products - all that emphasizes elegance. Therefore, in the kitchen in the style of Provence, you can put a table with wrought-iron legs, made by your own hands, chairs with an upholstery of soft natural fabric. Examples of this design are presented in the photo.
It is extremely rare in addition to the made-up furniture gluits wallpaper walls. More often, shelves decorated with their own hands, hang pictures or use textiles.
An forged can be not only furniture, but also coasters for flowers, fittings, utensil holders. The presence of metal handles and covers is also welcomed.
Important! The furniture should be old, but not antique.
Curtains
Curtains are selected taking into account the characteristics of the room. In the kitchen, light curtains should be used, without shine and gloss, made with their hands from light fabric. Registration can be monophonic, with a floral motif or striped curtain, a cell. Popular is the image of floral bouquets. The same curtains can be used for glass door decor.
Tip! Kitchen curtains and curtains are distinguished by a large number of patterns, tassels, frills and bows. You should not use bows, fringe and brushes immediately. Curtains can be decorated with only one accessory.
The ideas of window design depend on the area of the room. Curtains and curtains with a large pattern and a simple border will look good in a large room. At the same time, the curtains with a small pattern is better to use for the decor of small windows. As for the color design, the curtains can be monophonic, painted in pastel or cold tones. Examples of this design are presented in the photo.
Tip! The optimal option for small cuisine is rectangular curtains with sewn swabs.
Other little things
Complete the interior of the kitchen at the cottage various baubles. Candlesticks, baskets, aquarium, cage with birds, paintings made by hand. Open shelves are visible everywhere. They are used for decoration with plates, in the dining room - for storing kitchen utensils.
The features of the style are such that if the kitchen accessories and the headsets can be decorated in bright colors. In order not to disturb the balance, you need to hang bright curtains or curtains, paintings, put the carpet on the floor with your own hands. Examples of this design are presented in the photo.
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Textiles may be present not only on the windows. The curtains attached to the open shelf rake look gracefully and gently. It is best to use monophonic or textiles with a geometric pattern in the form of a cell or strip.
A color scheme
It is believed that the cuisine in the style of Provence should be framed exclusively in white. But it is not. The color palette is much wider: from beige and cream to blue and sandy.
Dilute the main color can be bright shades on the curtains, tiles, painting. If the kitchen or dining room leaves the windows south, blue tump, ivory - perfect color solutions. If you need to cool the color gamut, then use cold shades and white color. "Right" combination of colors that paintings, wallpaper, curtains, furniture in the living room can be performed, are presented below.
Kitchen design in the style of Provence, made in white, looks spacious. But if you do not arrange colored accents, then the room will resemble the Hospital Chamber. To make an emphasis, do not necessarily use furniture, tiles or wallpaper with a pattern. The idea of attracting attention to the object can be different. You can hang a color plate with your own hands, a picture or put a pot with a lavender window. Examples of this design are presented in the photo.
Olive kitchen In the style of Provence or Country looks comfortable and homely. The larger the room, the darker you should pick up the tone. The ideas of using this color in the interior can be different. For example, you can use dark red furniture on the background of olive walls, or allocate only eaves. An example of such a design is presented in the photo.
Pistachio color It looks great in the kitchen-living room performed in the French country. It perfectly "refreshes" the interior and is well combined with a light or dark floor. An example of such a design is presented in the photo.
Brown furniture or Sandy color You can find each manufacturer. This is one of the most beloved designers. Modern kitchen or dining room, made in sandy color, will look great at the cottage or in a small apartment.
Kitchen or dining in blue tones Will look great on the background of sandy walls. The interior of the Provence kitchen is often performed in blue. It cools the room, introduces notes of the beauty of the sea. Such a cuisine in the style of Provence or Country is characteristic of houses on the south coast. Blue kitchen color is perfectly combined with blue, brown and white.
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