Brown is a traditional color, it is used in interior design more often than all others. If your home improvement plans include a brown kitchen, the scope for creativity is truly wide. Thinking through the future interior, consider all the features of color, do not forget about the functionality, use the experience of modern designers. And a few of our simple tips will help in your difficult task.
Before you get started, decide on a style. Brown opens up the broadest horizons, because it can be used for almost any style of the room: from ethno to hi-tech. Yes, and there are plenty of necessary materials on the market, you can easily pick up a floor covering in any of the shades of brown; find the color in the catalog of the furniture manufacturer; even there are a lot of materials for finishing the brown ceiling. Moreover, even window frames of any wood shade are not uncommon. If necessary, you can pick up blinds for them, including natural ones (bamboo).
Psychologists' opinion: who likes brown
For some reason, many people think brown is boring, puritanicaland conservative. Who might like it? Probably the same boring personalities…
The reality is somewhat different. According to psychologists, this color is chosen by those who crave comfort and want to give it to others, for whom eternal family values and the warmth of the hearth are important, who consider their home to be their fortress. Brown is associated with fragrant coffee and chocolate pastries, warm blankets and logs crackling in the fire.
Brown kitchen is a great place for gatherings with friends and evenings with family. If this color attracts you, ignore the stereotypes, feel free to use it for design.
Eternal values: natural wood in interior design
If you think logically, you can easily understand that the first kitchen furniture was just brown, because it was made of wood. The most luxurious modern furniture is made from it.
If you are thinking about designing a Scandinavian-style brown kitchen, you can't do without wooden elements. Of course, furniture and parquet made of natural wood are not cheap, but they will last more than one year. Professional designers call such things an investment in the future - after all, in 30 years their value will only increase.
By the way, not only furniture can be brown, but also facing stone, tiles in the working area, carpets, baguettes. Decorative wooden elements in the ceiling decoration look very impressive.
Cozy eco style
This style doesn't give uppositions for many years. Natural materials characteristic of it attract not only with high quality characteristics, but also with high decorative effect. Beautiful natural textures are widely used in kitchen design: the aforementioned natural wood, rattan and wicker, clay tiles.
Kitchen in brown, designed in eco-style, conducive to communication and cooking homemade culinary masterpieces. Do you think that there will be difficulties with the selection of modern technology? In vain! Manufacturers offer a wide range of ovens, hobs, refrigerators and other home helpers that fit perfectly into the style. Vivid examples are vintage ovens Candy R43/3 RA, Nardi FRX460BR and Ariston's famous "Hotpoint" in a beautiful copper color.
Glamorous crockery won't be a problem. By the way, it is not necessary to purchase consumer goods - the market is replete with wonderful handicrafts. Wicker rugs, homespun tablecloths and curtains will perfectly fit into such an interior. Animal skins would look good.
And if in a few years you want something new, change the wicker chandelier to a vintage one, hang translucent embroidered curtains, cover the floor with a patterned carpet - eco will transform into an ever-fashionable boho.
Luxury and country simplicity
This style is able to give the kitchen of a typical apartment the comfort of a country house. The concept is based on the brown kitchen of an old ranch, which contains interior items and utensils from different generations. Required for this style.some old-fashioned and conservatism.
Traditional brown furniture is often set off by snow-white walls, and checkered textiles give a special charm to the room. One of the main style features is a kitchen sideboard with glass doors with curtains.
Functional constructivism
The following style is strikingly different from previous concepts. Experts attribute it to varieties of Art Nouveau, but this style is characterized by greater smoothness of lines and roundness of forms.
Constructivism is much more direct. The kitchen in brown tones, decorated in this style, is devoid of excessive decorativeness, everything is as functional and comfortable as possible.
If you like constructivism, but seeming uncomfortable, furniture facades "under the tree" will be just the perfect solution. By the way, wooden and wood-imitating floors fit perfectly into this modern laconic style: laminate, parquet, engineered board. If you like a stretch ceiling, you can easily fit it into this style.
Art Deco contrasts
Another creation of modernity. This direction has been relevant in interior fashion for more than a decade. Unlike the previous one, the art deco style, on the contrary, gravitates towards smooth curved lines, however, the severity of forms is not alien to it. And besides the extremely functional and concise elements in such a kitchen, there can even be luxury items: framed paintings, spectacular clocks, unusual floor vases, heavy curtains.
White and brown kitchenThe following illustration is a perfect example of art deco style.
Charming Provence
This subspecies of ethnic style is reminiscent of the warm Mediterranean coast, where it comes from. Another common association associated with it is the wonderful culinary traditions of old France. If you like to cook and think that the kitchen of a good housewife should be replete with jars of spices, confectionery equipment, various utensils and other cute little things, Provence may be the perfect option for you.
Spacious beige and brown kitchen with space for everything you need can be organized in a variety of ways. For traditional interiors in Provence style are typical:
- light walls;
- brown furniture;
- flower print textiles;
- use of natural wood, tiles, natural fabrics.
But you can go the other way. The illustration above confirms that it could be the other way around with warm brown wood paneled walls and light furniture.
Classicism
The brown kitchen, the photo of which is located below, could be considered fashionable both 20 and 10 years ago. It still looks modern today. Surely in a couple of decades this interior will look no less impressive.
And all because the designer adhered to classical traditions in the design. If you want tomake a beautiful repair and forget about this problem for many years - choose the classics! This win-win option is great for kitchen decor.
Based on style:
- concise forms that combine decorativeness and functionality;
- traditional finishing materials: tiles, facing bricks;
- lack of reference to trends, "peak fashion";
- traditional kitchen textiles.
Thinking over the design of the kitchen in a classic style, pay due attention to technology. It is good if it is possible to build in a refrigerator and a dishwasher in order to hide their featureless white facades behind decorative panels. If this is not possible, choose household appliances that are in harmony with noble brown furniture. Maybe something retro would suit you.
Textiles in interior design
Modern brown kitchen will not be cozy without beautiful curtains, tablecloths, napkins. Thinking over kitchen textiles, pay due attention to color. It can belong to brown and its related beige range, or vice versa - to contrast with the main tone of the room. Many natural shades are in perfect harmony with brown: mossy green, blackberry, turquoise, calm yellow. Some elements adjacent to the fabric may be metallic. Eyelets imitating tin, bronze or copper on curtains, cornices, flower stands and planters look very impressive.
Don't forget about other decorative items: dishes, plant pots, paintings, wall clocks.
