Own home is always a safe harbor where you want to moor and relax. If you are a romantic at heart and the sea is your element, then you will be comfortable relaxing in a nautical-style bedroom. This article will tell you how to create such an interior with your own hands, consider interesting design ideas.
If you decorate your bedroom in a marine style, then your house will have an island of peace. This style is not suitable for decorating an entire apartment or house, as it will look like a hotel. A bedroom in blue-blue and turquoise tones has a great effect on the psyche. These colors help to calm down and fall asleep, contribute to proper rest and relaxation. If this style suits you, then after relaxing in this room you will feel a charge of vivacity, freshness and a surge of energy. The more shades you use when decorating, the more interesting the interior will look. Next, you can look at the photo of the bedroom in a marine style.
Featuresnautical style
The term "marine" is a very conditional concept. The bedroom can be classic or modern, but the décor elements should speak of the sea.
This means that you will need to choose a lead style and complement it with interesting sea-themed details.
You can use styles like:
- Mediterranean;
- country;
- rustic.
Once the room is decorated in one of these styles, you can start decorating in a marine theme.
Optimal color palette
For most of us, the interior of a bedroom in a marine style is associated with blue and blue colors. In fact, the palette for decoration is very large. Don't just stop at these shades. There are many colors to use in a nautical bedroom.
Marine style is not only the sea and blue-blue colors. There are also orange tones of corals that chic set off a pale blue hue. A varied palette of sand shades: from white to the color of burnt sugar. Shades of dark oak are also suitable here, which will remind you of sea ships sunk somewhere in the abyss. Dark blue, almost black color will be associated with unknown depths. Also do not forget about the green tones of algae. Not very bright blurry shades of green are appropriate here: from watercolor light green to rich olive. But with green tones you need to beneat. Yet this color is not the leading color in the design of a bedroom in a marine style. Separate inclusions can be small accessories in yellow tones. But there shouldn't be many of them either.
Choice of finishing materials
Thinking about what finishing materials to use when decorating? Try to choose natural ones. What can be used? Fit here:
- natural wallpaper made of jute or bamboo;
- eco-linoleum;
- parquet board;
- solid wood board;
- wooden lining;
- woven carpet;
- plastic panels with an unusual texture that will resemble waves or clouds.
The latter you will most likely have to paint in one of the heavenly shades. Also, fragments of facing stone, shells, sea pebbles can be used as decor.
If you chose a classic style or minimalism for decoration, then the walls can simply be painted. If they are not very even, then you will first have to sheathe them with drywall.
Do you want to create a do-it-yourself nautical-style bedroom? You can paint the walls and draw a seascape on one of them. For example, a beautiful lighthouse, rocks, waves that beat against them. In the interior of a children's bedroom in a marine style, you can use a pirate theme or depict an illustration for the work "Scarlet Sails". Naturally, to carry out this idea, the designer must have good drawing skills.
The same as in the children's and in the adult bedroomyou can use beautiful photo wallpapers, which can depict the seabed with its outlandish inhabitants or a tropical forest on the ocean. Also for the children's room you can pick up wallpaper with small shells, fish, pebbles.
Finish options
To create a special atmosphere in the interior, you need to abandon artificial materials. Do not put ordinary linoleum or carpet on the floor. It is better to put bleached boards under your feet, a laminate with the texture of natural wood, or make the floor from stained planks. Ash, bamboo, oak are perfect.
Decorative plaster interspersed with shells will look very good on the walls. The ceiling can be anything. You can even just whiten it. If the height allows, then you can decorate it with beams. Now it is not necessary to use heavy wooden beams, but you can use an imitation in the form of a foam decor with an extruded wood texture. A high ceiling can also be made multi-level. Such drops will resemble a cabin on a ship.
Now let's move on to the doors. It is desirable to make them wooden, dark and heavy. Naturally, we are talking about the visual effect. If there is such an opportunity, then a small round window can be inserted into the door. The idea is more suitable for a nursery, because it is still better to put a blank door in an adult's room. If you really liked the idea with a window, then you can order it with opaque glass or stained glass.
Marine style furnishings
The best decor and storage itemthings in the bedroom in a marine style, of course, there will be a real pirate chest or its likeness. A table with a thick glass top on massive wooden legs will fit well into the interior. It is desirable to use a bed made of dark wood. It is good if all pieces of furniture are slightly aged. You can also look for real antiques at flea markets or dachas of acquaintances. They will need to be put in order and all furniture should be given a single style.
Also, forged objects look good in the interior of a bedroom in a marine style. It can be a headboard, a tall candlestick that will stand on the floor, a chandelier with imitation candles instead of light bulbs. On the wall above the bed, you can place a panel with a rope tied with a sea knot.
Textiles
Do not hang heavy curtains on the windows. An excellent solution would be natural cotton, linen, organza, light velveteen. When you let fresh air into the house, these curtains will develop like sails. At the same time, due to their translucency, they will create a barrier to sunlight. Curtains should be light. Pi this allowed blue or black stripe. Snow-white blinds on the windows will be an excellent solution. Better if they are wooden. With their help, in the bedroom of a married couple, it will be possible to create an intimate atmosphere and romance.
Lovely trinkets
Everything here should be in its place. You should not drag into such an interior all the decorative elements that you will find on store shelves or while traveling. Remember that nautical style requires maximum space, so everything you put in this room should fit perfectly into the interior. If in doubt about any thing, then it is better to remove it.
You can use as decoration:
- ship model in a bottle;
- the steering wheel of a real yacht or a small copy;
- maps and globes;
- French wine jugs;
- photo frames made of shells or topiary;
- fishing nets.
If you want to place fresh flowers in the room, it is desirable that they have large leaves. It is better to choose exotic plants. An ordinary violet will look a little strange here.
