Decorating a gray and white bedroom

When decorating a bedroom in a modern style, more and more often, calm neutral tones, such as gray and white, are taken as a basis. Boring, you say? Not at all! It is this combination that can create not only an elegant, but also an exquisite and sophisticated space for women and brutal and textured for men.

Gray is infinitely multifaceted, however, this applies to any spectrum. Like everyone else, it has a variety of tones and halftones, characteristic pros and cons. Its advantages can be considered:

• positive effect on the visual organs, calming effect on the nervous system;

• gray tones are capable of visual correction of space;

• the gray spectrum is considered neutral, and this gives ample opportunity to combine different shades.

Disadvantages:

• general dull look - without bright accents, the room will resemble a concrete bunker, and not a living room;

• for mixing, you need to know exactly what combination of shades will make the overall impression favorable.

Knowing the conventional shortcomings of gray, you can not only play it creatively, but also create a stunning design. For example, in a women's bedroom in gray and white, you can give preference to soft pearl sheen, powdery shades. A high-tech men's bedroom-living room looks great using such a technique as grayscale with the participation of contrasting tones.

For finishing work in the bedroom, as in any other room, you will need special materials for finishing work with the ceiling, walls, floor, windows. We will not mention double-glazed windows - they should be by default.

Wall decoration gives a wider scope for creativity.

• Wallpaper. Paper ones are the most budgetary option, their problem is fragility and a tendency to burnout. More expensive non-woven, vinyl, acrylic, liquid ones will last much longer, and their quality is incomparably higher. As a rule, this type of wallpaper is produced with companion canvases. There are also fiberglass, bamboo, cork, metallized types. They all have a different texture: they can be silky, velvety, matte, glossy, etc.

• Decorative plaster finishing: acrylic, mineral, silicate - an ideal companion in the style of loft space. Manufacturers offer textured, textured, Venetian material. Which one to choose depends on the design of the room. Structural - loft, high-tech, Venetian - provence, classic, etc.

• Painting with decorative paints. Perhaps the most low-quality option is alkyd and oil paints. In modern design, they are no longer used for interior work. Decorative paints - water-based, acrylic, latex, rubber - provide a wide range of design options, they can be used to imitate silk, velvet, concrete, embossed surfaces, etc.

There is an equally rich choice for decorating floors:

• laminate;

• linoleum;

• marmoleum:

• batten;

• parquet or parquet board;

• carpet;

• ceramic tile;

• cork, PVC floors.

The choice of the type of furniture is mainly influenced by the interior style, and its color is the main gamut of the gray bedroom. Since we are talking about a gray and white palette, white furniture is a natural choice. But if preference is given to darker tones, then you need to remember about the next rule of designers. If the color matches, the furniture should not be of the same tone with the main palette. Against the background of dark gray walls, only light furniture looks good, and vice versa - the beauty of light shades is emphasized by darker models. The basic set includes, of course, a set with a bed and a wardrobe.

A gray-white bedroom does not "like" bright colors too much, except in limited quantities, otherwise the whole concept disappears. But glass and crystal on the shades of lamps, a chandelier are ideal companions of the gray scale. Black and white urban landscapes, paintings in white baguettes look organically on the walls in a cold palette. Skillfully selected curtains and curtains can also be full-fledged accents, their color depends on the design.

Bedspreads and pillows with a soft yellow print warm the gray-white room, but the presence of pink shades will give it sophistication. The presence of blue accents on a gray background speaks of the refined taste of the owner. Silver and purple shades go well with achromatic colors, but they are also cool tones. Black is no less popular in combination, but you need to be extremely careful with it. An overabundance of it could turn a bedroom into a production hall. Let it be furniture details, lamp legs, door handles, a black print on a lighter background of textiles in a white and gray bedroom design.

Gray tones actively absorb light, so the bedroom needs additional lighting sources. One ceiling chandelier is not enough - you will need lamps on bedside tables, spotlights on the suspended ceiling. The seating area or dressing table also needs additional lighting, as does the wardrobe. In addition, warm light softens the gray background, makes it cozy, and creates a mysterious twilight. And, of course, they pay great attention to natural light - windows should freely let in sunlight if necessary. This is facilitated by translucent curtains, blinds or roller blinds when open.

A selection of photographs will help to consolidate the knowledge gained.

• Gray and white bedroom. Its cold and somewhat gloomy shades actively soften white decorative elements, curtains, furniture. The accent is the black headboard of the snow-white bed. Otherwise, everything looks quite austere and restrained.

• A gray and white bedroom in a classic style looks unusually elegant and presentable. This is facilitated by the headboard carriage brace, heavy curtains against the background of snow-white tulle, the soft shine of the bedspread and bedding, white furnishings and the wall opposite to the bed. The bedside wall is covered with non-woven wallpaper with a velvety surface.

• A vintage bedroom in warm white and gray tones, softened even more by warm peach curtains. The style is emphasized by a wrought-iron bed and table-stand, as well as a high carved chest of drawers made of dark wood.

• Baroque bedroom decorated in white and gray toneswhere accents are a crystal chandelier, carved silver frames of large mirrors behind the bedside tables, as well as the design of the headboard and headboard, made using the carriage coupler technique.