General features of the style of Provence
Simple and clear lines in the geometry of rooms and furniture, simple decor, deliberate carelessness in decoration, affordability and the democratic cost of materials - all this is Provence.
This style of interior allows you to create your own little France in your home, and let it be not a Paris, but a modest province. She is no less charming and even more colorful. Natural tones will bring you closer to nature, its purity, and natural materials will make the interior environmentally friendly and safe.
Provence is perfectly suited for decorating both an apartment and a private house. Most often this style is used for arranging living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms.
The color scheme of the Provence style
French countryside is a wide palette of pastel tones. Dominant in the interior is one color, most appropriate to individual views of peace and tranquility. It can be white or the color of melted milk, tender olive or sky blue, pearl pink or purple.
Advice from designers: "Provence" is lavender and sunflowers, so the corresponding colors must find a place in the interior.
As contrasting accents, use deep blue, ocher and terracotta. Is actual for the style of Provence and the principle of combining furniture from dark wood with light shades of walls, and light wood - with a subdued tone of finish.
Furniture in the interior of the Provence
The design of the premises in the style of Provence provides for the preferential use of simple wooden furniture. Inferior to it, but often used in the manufacture of chairs and beds, forged items. It will also be appropriate for light, tuning for a romantic fret wickerwork. Each piece of furniture is endowed with a functional and decorative meaning.
The products have a clear geometric shape, without pretentious decorative elements on the facades. For chests and cabinets is characterized by the presence of a large number of boxes of various sizes. Upholstered furniture is covered with a natural cloth. Most often it is monophonic, in a box or strip, with floral or floral motifs.
In the village there is little room for novelty, so for this style it is typical to use old furniture. If this is not possible, even the newest cabinet should look as if it had been standing in the room for several decades. To achieve this you can personally: to carelessly paint the surface of the product in white, pale pink, green and blue;use sandpaper to create abrasions.
Characteristic pieces of furniture:
- large dining table;
- chest of drawers and pedestals;
- low cabinet;
- benches.
Decor
Accessories for the interior in the style of Provence - a variety of decorative elements that are associated with home comfort and warmth of the hearth. On the sofas, armchairs, curbstones and chests of drawers there may be crocheted or embroidered napkins. The dining table must be covered with a tablecloth of linen or cotton.
Slightly heavy forged knickknacks are counterbalanced by delicate ceramics. Utensils from earthenware and porcelain are used not only for their intended purpose: they are set on open shelves of a buffet, plates are hung on the walls as an interior decoration.
Provence also means an abundance of fresh flowers and herbs. They are everywhere exhibited in vases and wicker baskets, hung in flower pots or in the form of wreaths. By the way, boxes, baskets and pots can serve as an independent interior item.
Be sure to use mirrors and paintings for painting the room( still lifes, landscapes), photos in simple wooden or forged frames.
Textiles
Textiles in Provence play a big role and take up a lot of space indoors. These are various napkins, tablecloths, towels, cloaks for chairs and armchairs, blankets, curtains for open kitchen shelves, etc. Upholstery on furniture and curtains often have a light drapery.
Preference should be given to natural fabrics - linen, cotton, chintz. They can be monophonic or have a pattern. In the second case it can be:
- strip;
- cell;
- floral or floral ornament;
- characteristic images - cock, lavender, sunflower.
Provence features in the repair of the apartment
The basic principle of finishing the room in the style of Provence - the maximum presence of natural materials.
- Walls. Usually textured, roughly plastered or decorated with wood panels with a well-visible texture. You can apply stylization to a stone or brick. If the walls are partially covered with wallpaper, it is worth choosing a dense pattern of small flowers.
- Ceiling. Plastered and painted in a light tone, it is complemented by coarse, as carelessly treated ceiling beams of a darker color. Perhaps the presence of small knots and other irregularities, emphasizing the naturalness of the design.
- Gender. Usually it is a board( of light wood) or lined with stone, sandstone tiles. It is permissible to use ceramic tiles that imitate the rough handling of natural materials.
Building a house in the style of Provence
Houses in the style of Provence are deprived of pomposity and pretentiousness. These are rather modest buildings in 1-2 floors. The ceilings do not differ in height, which makes the house visually small, compact. For the decoration of the facade used light colors - white, milky or sunburned brown, yellowish. As the finishing material of the walls, plaster, paint or wood panels are perfect. The roof is covered with tiles - red, brown or in the color of the facade.
Please note: there is practically no plinth in such houses, which is due to the climatic conditions of Provence. In our latitudes, it may well be the case. As for the roof, it is more remarkable - with a large number of dormer windows and a lot of stingrays. It can even be decorated with turrets.
