Designers Aquarius, Olga and Anna, told how to arrange an apartment in a classic style and what materials to use when finishing.
Content:
- What is a classic style
- Finishing materials
- Light and color scheme
- Furniture
- Decor and accessories
- Living room in classic style
- Classic kitchen
- Classic -style bedroom
- Classical -style bathroom
- Classical style errors
- Too bright decoration and decor
- A lot of stucco moldings
What is a classic style
This is an exquisite and cozy style that does not change over time. In the classic, the interior can be luxurious:
Or be calm and concise:
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Suitable for those who want to create design for many years. Another classic is suitable for people who want to emphasize their status. The classic style should be abandoned if a small budget is laid down for the repair of the apartment. Materials of finishes and furniture are more expensive than in a modern style. The design may not be suitable if there are children or animals in the apartment. Classic requires accuracy and careful care due to the abundance of decor and light surfaces.
In the classic style, special attention is paid to symmetry. There is definitely a center in the interior. Around it, the composition is being built. In this room in the center there is a sofa, and the objects on the right and left look the same. This is a symmetrical design.
For a classic interior, a design project is definitely needed. If it is not done, then sockets or wall sconces can be in the way of wall molding or other decorative element. This will ruin the interior.
By the way: Sometimes customers confuse a classic style with neoclassic.
It is important to remember that the classics are characterized by luxury and splendor, and neoclassic is moderation and minimalism.
It is the rejection of excesses and the simplification of the decor that distinguishes a new classics from the traditional one. The characteristic elements of the design are present, but are used with greater caution and more like a stylization of the classic style.
This is a classic:
And this is neoclassic:
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You can read more about the neoclassical style in our article.
Finishing materials
Paul in a classic style is usually a parquet or marble. More budget options are laminate and porcelain stoneware.
The ceiling in a classic style can be multi -level drywall or combined – with a stretch ceiling and drywall. A combined ceiling is cheaper than analogues. A simpler and minimalistic option is a single -level white ceiling with moldings.
By the way: It is better to use a high ceiling skirting board, not narrow.
Kesson ceilings look especially impressive, but they are more expensive than other analogues. This is a decorative ceiling that divides the surface into squares. Make a similar structure made of wood, polyurethane and drywall. Squares are decorated with moldings, stucco molding and other decorative elements.
On the walls use light paint or wallpaper. Wallpaper can be just white or with patterns. Decorate the walls with moldings, stucco moldings, columns or bas -reliefs – convex elements on the walls or ceiling.
The space of the wall is divided into squares or rectangles to make the room symmetrical and textured.
By the way: Walls covered with paint can be decorated with moldings and wallpaper. To do this, make a rectangular frame from moldings and stain it in one color with a wall. Inside the frame you can stick wallpaper with a pattern and pattern.
Important: if you need to visually increase the height of the room, then on the walls you need to use vertical structures, for example, columns.
You can also paint the ceiling skirting board in the color of the wall.
Light and color scheme
In the classic style, a light color scheme is used. White, beige or blue as the basis. Details are most often gilded, green or terracotta.
As the main lighting, a chandelier of glass or crystal with a large number of suspensions is used. The rest of the lighting can be expressed in the form of a backlight, sconces, wall and ceiling lamps.
Furniture
In the classic interior, you can use whole wood furniture. The option is more budget – furniture from MDF or chipboard pasted with veneer.
Important: It is not necessary that all the furniture is in the classical performance. Sometimes only a couple of old -fashioned things can emphasize the interior.
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Decor and accessories
Particular attention in the classic style must be paid to the design of the windows.
Classic curtains made of heavy fabrics create beautiful drapery – elegant folds.
Bastens are also used on the curtains – elegant design of the upper part of the curtains. They give additional splendor to the interior.
Mirrors and mirror tiles are also used as decor, sometimes on opposite walls. A gilding can be applied to them.
In the classic style, pillows with monograms, porcelain figurines, candlesticks, crystal objects, paintings in massive frames are appropriate.
Living room in classic style
In this interior, the center of the living room was a massive sofa and a miniature coffee table. The arrangement of furniture is symmetrical relative to the center. Opposite the sofa placed a TV on the cabinet. On the sides of the decor in the form of table lamps.
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By the way: Now there are TVs, the appearance of which is similar to the picture. Such screens are built into the frame, and the TV becomes part of the style.
In this living room, at the request of the client, the interior was made minimalistic and restrained. For this, wallpaper, wooden floor, furniture and curtains were left from the classics. But from wall moldings, stucco moldings and lambrequins decided to refuse.
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Classic kitchen
In the classic style, the kitchen is usually left separately from the living room.
When decorating walls, it is better to use the water paint. Kitchen furniture has milling facades with the presence of columns and baguette. Sometimes on the facades and elements of the kitchen use a coating for gold or silver.
In the classic interior, household appliances can be hidden behind the facades of the kitchen set or use the technique stylized for classics.
Classic -style bedroom
In this interior, they did not overload the bedroom with stucco molding and decor, but made free and bright. The bed and chairs have similar forms. The color scheme of the room was diluted with dark colors due to a chest of drawers and mirrors in a black frame.
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The room was installed in the room and two decorative lamps at the head of the bed.
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Classical -style bathroom
In this interior, porcelain tiles were used for light marble. The bath and faucets are stylized under the classics.
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A shower was also installed in the bathroom. It was allocated from the rest of the zone with tiles under a tree.
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Classical style errors
In the classics, you need to avoid those solutions that make the interior more catchy and compressed.
Too bright decoration and decor
Shiny wallpaper with gold patterns, reproductions of paintings, bulky metal lamps – all this quickly bothers. The apartment loses comfort and becomes like a museum.
A lot of stucco moldings
Stecin makes the interior interesting, but if there is a lot of it, it begins to conceal the space.
Conclusions
To make an apartment in a classic style, you need to use warm and light tones in the decoration. The ceiling is better to make multi -level backlight or just white with stucco molding. Put parquet or porcelain tiles on the floor. Windows should be decorated with curtains from heavy fabrics. Furniture is better to choose light tones. The kitchen set and cabinet doors should be with milling facades. You do not need to use too bright colors in the decoration. Stucco moldings, gilded objects and decor should be at a minimum.
