Although chic and luxury cause a persistent association with expensive houses, they can be embodied even in the decoration of a modest country house or apartment in the Khrushchev. The inner content does not always correspond to the outer shell. As they say, you can't forbid living beautifully. In order to recreate the chic interior in your home, it is better to hire a professional, since such a design is based on details and does not tolerate dilettantism. The luxurious interior of the apartment will require impressive investment and genuine design talent. In a chic setting, you want to not only live, but also endlessly receive a string of guests, because the house has something to see and something to admire. Luxury housing should look expensive, elegant and spectacular, as if from the cover of a magazine about fashion trends in design. About what nuances need to be taken into account, with the improvement of expensive apartments and talk below.
How to make
Luxury is a relative concept, although rules are not alien to it. In order to get such an interior at home, you will have to arm yourself with taste and finances. Be prepared for big investments, as the execution of great ideas in cheap materials will not lead to anything good. Bad taste also adversely affect the interior composition. The unity of style must be respected in every room. So that the overall composition does not crumble into separate pieces, each room seems to be strung on an invisible common thread and at the same time retains its uniqueness. For example, the kitchen should resemble rooms that are rarely used for their intended purpose, because the wealth of the owners allows you to dine more often in restaurants than at home. The bathroom can resemble a spacious beauty salon pavilion, where you can relax with slow music or perform a range of beauty treatments. It is advisable to provide it with a jacuzzi or steam room.
The bedroom is an ideal corner for relaxation, in which you can read a book or enjoy yourself in a posh boudoir with great comfort. The living room is designed for large openings of guests and a little resembles those rooms where groups of friends play monopoly and watch football matches. An obligatory element of the interior will be the bar counter. The office is designed in a classic style with an abundance of natural leather. The main attribute of this room is the library. In spacious cottages there is a place for a dining room with a long dining table. However, such a space for the embodiment of the designer's ideas is the lot of private houses. In one-room apartments or modern studios there is no place for such maneuvers. This is not a reason to abandon the dream of expensive design. Although luxury and tight spaces are combined poorly, but a number of tricks and techniques will allow to embody the ideas of a beautiful interior in cramped frames.
Key factors and style
The secret of a luxurious interior design lies in a skillful combination of colors, proper selection and arrangement of furniture, a combination of textures of materials and polishing of furniture and decor. The chosen style will play a fundamental role in the design. That he will give a landmark for the designer. The line of elite styles includes both classic and modern trends. Although professionals more often take as a basis for the interiors of French country houses. In their style was noted a trio of timeless classics: Empire, Rococo and Baroque. The styles are similar and use an abundance of elegant decor, soft floral patterns on expensive textiles, antiques, stucco and gilding. Furniture is selected from natural wood. Walls paste over with expensive fabric wall-paper with flower drawing. These destinations are ideal for apartments with a large number of rooms, which in layout resemble palaces. A more relaxed classic prefers deep chocolate shades in combination with white, smooth shapes and lines, soft fabrics of curtains, tablecloths and furniture upholstery. Heavy chandeliers decorated with crystal and gilding hang from the ceiling. The walls are decorated with reproductions of paintings by famous artists. The floors are covered with expensive wood and rugs with patterns in soothing brown tones.
Colonial style also belongs to the line of luxury, but its chic is manifested somewhat differently. The direction welcomes bright decorative details against the background of soothing pastel shades. From the stucco and the abundance of pretentious details, this style refused. It is increasingly found angular forms, similar to the details of modern trends. Colonial style is a harmonious combination of classics and ethnicity, because such houses were settled in a foreign territory. The influence of the local culture still spilled into the interior piece of the homeland, which resulted in unusual design details: original canvases on the walls, exotic indoor plants, handmade vases and jugs, curtains with national motifs.
Neoclassicism is a fashionable medley that combines old principles against the backdrop of new design techniques. Eco-style can also be luxurious. Natural materials are always expensive. Of course, panoramic windows, wooden furniture and minimalism in detail are a little like classic luxury, but the concept of “chic” also changes over time. Even a log house can look expensive and stylish if it embodies the canons of an alpine style chalet or an industrial loft.
Features of the organization of space
Luxury accommodation implies the presence of large areas. Furniture they have at ease and at the same time use its minimum set, as there is no need to force every meter of the room. Welcome to the central composition. For example, a kitchen with an island layout, a living room with a main area in the middle of the room or a bed without a standard accent wall behind the headboard in the bedroom. To visually increase the space using a large number of reflective surfaces: mirrors and glasses.
Glamor in the interior
One of the options for a chic modern interior is a glamorous style. It focuses not on aesthetics, but on value. The decoration uses only the most expensive, branded items:
- Gems;
- Antiques;
- Original paintings;
- Leather and fur;
- Exclusive details that are created in one copy only.
Of course, all this expensive splendor, in the absence of taste, can be mixed into ridiculous combinations, therefore, it is better to invite a professional designer to design. It will stylishly arrange a glamorous collection around the perimeter of the premises and the interior will look organic.
Color design
In the color palette should be dominated by calm shades, which are combined with noble, deep tones. The second include:
- Saturated wine color;
- Deep shade of blue velvet;
- Juicy chocolate tone;
- Emerald green;
- Bright lilac color of lavender;
- Amber yellow;
- Olive;
- Steel gray;
- Light peach shade.
The interior palette should subconsciously cause an associative array with expensive things. For example, the maroon-red resembles the shade of expensive wine in a crystal glass, and blue velvet is traditionally used in upholstery of palace furniture.
When choosing colors, be guided by your inner feelings. The situation should not only comply with the canons of chic and splurge, but also be comfortable, because the owners will have to live in it and not attend occasionally during celebrations. It is the color palette that has a huge impact on the formation of the mood and "aura" of a particular room.
Furniture and fittings
Furniture is made only from natural materials. No imitations (chipboard, MDF) can be used in a luxury setting. It is advisable to select furniture sets that will be diluted with unique antiques. The handles are made of bronze, brass or other metal with gold leaf. This coating is also used in the frames of mirrors, framing framed paintings. The facades of the furniture are decorated with rosettes, moldings and elegant carved decor.
Do not forget about lighting
Lighting plays an important role in the correct perception of space. In luxury apartments it is usually a lot, since such an interior a priori cannot have flaws, the light must penetrate its most remote corners. Above we mentioned glass and mirrors, which are used in a chic design to enhance their reflective effect, lighting is combined with these elements. In the course are not only ceiling chandeliers, but sconces, lamps (floor, table) and hidden lamps, which give a diffused light.
A stylish addition to the decor will be the installation of hidden light bulbs in the ceiling space if the room was used in the design of the ceiling. This additional lighting with the chandelier turned off will create a mystical twilight.
Important interior details
Design is always brought to mind with the help of decorative trifles. They resemble the final touches on an almost finished painting, when the artist retreats a couple of steps, evaluates his creation with a critical eye and adds a couple of brush strokes that make the canvas complete. In luxurious styles they do not save on trifles, although the overall decoration of the room is already replete with handwork and numerous decorations. Sofas and beds are sure to decorate with pillows from expensive fabrics with neat patterns. The floors are covered with carpets. For example, Persian, if you can buy them. Horizontal surfaces should not be wasted, therefore antique telephone sets, lamps with statues instead of legs, elegant vases made of porcelain or stone with fresh bouquets, and family photos in neat frames are placed on them. A sculpture of a man in full growth will be a real decoration of any room. In classical styles, these can be statues of Greek gods, and in modern ones - ordinary people in unusual poses.
Conclusion
Luxury interiors remain an unattainable dream for many who do not have the finances to realize their fantasies. Unfortunately, there is no budget alternative for creating such a design. Uncompromising is one of the qualities of chic. If finances allow, but doubts about their own taste prevail, it is better to seek help from a professional. If you clarify all the nuances and choose a competent specialist, the housing will not only look expensive, but also accommodate you to live there permanently. After all, this is the trouble of many luxurious interiors: they look beautiful, but remain cool and uncomfortable in a museum style.
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