When designing the interior design of a room, many are faced with the question of what color to choose wallpaper to match the color of the floor? Or vice versa, if the walls are already covered, which floor to choose? AT this material consider the basic color combinations of wallpaper and floor.
White floor
Such floors include parquet or light maple laminate and bleached oak... Most often I use it in minimalist interiors. Wallpaper of dark shades will not work. In a combination of wallpaper for such floors, it is better to use colors of a delicate palette: light green, turquoise, pink
Gray floor
The elegant gray floor goes well with wallpaper in black or white... The standard option will be gray wallpaper. Such a room will look stylish, but rather boring. A more fun design can be combined with yellow walls.
Yellow floor in the interior
It can be oak, maple, birch, ash or pine. A fairly versatile color suitable for any room. You can use gray wallpaper, as well as bright yellow shades to match the color of the laminate.
Red floors
Such floors include Milanese walnut or cherry boards. An interesting solution would be wallpaper with red flowers. For a children's room, you can use yellow walls, and for a bedroom, a stylish solution can be the use of, for example, bluish-green shades.
Brown floors
Oak board will go well with wallpaper in yellow, green and cream colors. Gray walls can be a universal solution. And for a bright room, you can experiment with wallpaper in purple shades.
Black floor
Extravagant black floors will look good with gentle calm walls and rather pretentious with gold and silver. Wallpaper in dark shades is also suitable. A universal option is gray walls.
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Are you thinking of making repairs in an apartment or in a country house with your own hands? Do you want to lay the popular laminate on the floor and wallpaper on the walls? If so, this article will be helpful to you.
Features of choice for residential premises
When renovating an apartment, many compatriots use one or another combination of wallpaper and laminate. These popular materials are good because they are inexpensive, look good and at the same time are easy to install.
If you have the desire, the right materials and tools, you can independently cope with gluing the finishing material on the walls and lay it with your own hands flooring on the base of the floor.
If you are interested in making the interior of the room look organic and not cause contradictory sensations, decoration Materials must be combined with each other. For advice on what works and what doesn't, go directly to the store where you will buy your flooring or wallpaper.
But here it should be understood that a sales assistant, giving advice, relies on his experience and on his impressions, which may not correspond to your perception. Therefore, try to rely on your own taste and your sense of harmony.
In principle, there is nothing complicated about this, just try to take into account the following recommendations:
- Warm and cold shades applied at the same time for decoration should not conflict with each other. Often this moment is not taken into account or is deliberately ignored in order to obtain contrast.
- When deciding how to choose a laminate for wallpaper, remember that through some combinations you can visually expand the room or, on the contrary, make it visually less spacious. You can also achieve a visual change in the parameters of a room through the competent use of lines and ornaments in the design of wallpaper.
- The traditional colors of the laminate (under the expensive wood species) will not be suitable for "cheerful", colorful and multi-colored decorated walls. Using this combination, you will get an atmosphere of disharmony in the room, which will negatively affect the comfort of everyday life.
- Laminate, decorated under the Karelian birch, zebrano and other wood species with a heterogeneous cut color, on the contrary, goes well with and looks bad with plain wallpaper with a low-textured texture.
- In rooms with low ceilings, dark laminate and light wallpaper look good, and vice versa, a light floor and dark walls will visually expand the room horizontally and shrink vertically.
The choice of wallpaper and laminate for the children's room
Colorful wallpaper and low-contrast floor are an excellent solution for a nursery
A children's room is a special room that requires a special approach to decoration. In this room, bright colors and "cheerful" color combinations of finishing materials will be appropriate. Here, with equal success, you can apply colored wallpaper for a light laminate or a bright floor design for monophonic, contrast-matched materials for wall decoration.
On the other hand, the main task in this case will be the choice of finishes not in terms of color compatibility, but in terms of ease of cleaning and the service life of materials.
It's no secret that laminate flooring collects dust no less than fleecy floor coverings, so cleaning in the children's room should be carried out as often as possible. Therefore, before giving preference to this or that type of coating, you need to find out how many dry and wet cleaning it is designed for.
As a rule, the higher the price of the laminate, the stronger and more durable it is, the same can be said about wallpaper.
Important: When choosing wallpaper for a laminate for a children's room, remember about environmental safety.
Try not to buy imported products, the price of which is suspiciously low.
Most often overly available materials can cause allergies and feel unwell.
If your budget is tight, you can consider an assortment of inexpensive offers from domestic brands.
The choice of finishing materials for kitchens and hallways
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Now you know what the instructions for choosing wallpaper and flooring for different rooms are. It remains to get acquainted with the assortment of specialized stores, purchase everything you need and you can get to work. If you still have questions that require clarification, watch the video in this article.
The gray floor in the living room is a vast field for further arrangement. The vintage design and the trendy throwback to the 50s and 60s of the 20th century are some of the most attractive solutions with this floor. Gray laminate flooring in the interior of the apartment is an idea that will be in fashion for many years. Not everyone knows that this color is versatile and provides us with various room design options.
With a simple change of additives, you can easily introduce an aura of a warm, cozy atmosphere, or vice versa - cool and minimalistic. How can gray laminate flooring be used in a living room, kitchen or bedroom in different styles?
Color psychologists believe that a person whose home is dominated by shades of gray, trying to prove to others that he is not addicted and copes well with all problems. Gray is also one of the favorite colors of shy people who don't like to stand out. Consider how gray affects the interior. How to create an impression of classic elegance with it that won't overwhelm.
Gray flooring is currently a hit in interior design. It will be perfect for minimalist styling and also when we want a raw and aesthetic look.
The effect of a gray floor can be provided by various materials: from classic parquet flooring to laminate, wood, tiles, porcelain stoneware, cement screed... Depending on what effect needs to be achieved, and in what style the interior will be, we decide on the material.
Gray is a great option for those who can't choose between dark and light laminate colors. The rise in popularity of gray laminate is, of course, also linked to the huge interest in Scandinavian-style interior design and the ubiquitous gray shades in fashion magazines. It provides the perfect backdrop for bold colors and more conservative designs. Light gray or bleached flooring is also associated with the fashion trend for vintage and antique interiors. It is suitable for a room where we want to present the most beautiful furniture in retro and vintage styles.
As you can see, gray flooring is a very versatile solution. It suits modern interiors, Scandinavian minimalist arrangements, and also provides the perfect backdrop for vintage furniture, retro and shabby chic.
Gray laminate flooring looks very impressive when placed throughout the apartment, from the entrance to the living room, kitchen, bedroom and other rooms. Once you decide on an AC4 abrasion class laminate (which uses a very high density HDF board and a very scratch resistant surface), you don't have to worry about placing it throughout your home or apartment, even in the hallway.
In a classic interior
It is known that the classic interior looks better in the company of wooden floors. However, wood can successfully replace the modern gray oak laminate, in the interior of the classic type it will give elegance and chic, especially if you can choose an option that very accurately imitates the texture of natural wood.
Contemporary styles - loft and eclecticism
A dark gray laminate in a loft interior will look good if you use the option with an aging effect that imitates a natural board or panels of different shades.
Loft style and gray laminate ininterior - photo
In eclectic interiors where we combine different styles, any option will do. It is important to demonstrate ingenuity and imagination here.
Scandinavian classics and provence
A light gray laminate in a Scandinavian style interior will be a real decoration of the room, giving the atmosphere a sense of spaciousness and airiness. Combined with white or beige walls and wooden furnishings, this base creates a noble ambience with a modest Scandinavian charm. This space invites you to relax, there are no saturated colors and dominant accents here. The arrangement also comes in handy with a rug with white fur, which heats up the raw and minimalist interior.
A white-gray laminate in a Provence style interior will emphasize the climate of the French province, imitating aged painted boards.
This floor is also an integral part of the shabby chic style, which includes deliberately aged furniture, household items and finishes in order to achieve an effect full of charm. Additives can be pastel accents in the room - for example, a light blue table with thin legs and a pale pink chest of drawers.
This flooring is perfect for a cottage style that is reminiscent of the countryside of England - elegant and full of charm.
Floors in this color are successfully used in high-tech and minimalist interiors, which are equipped with simple furniture. But gray flooring is also a great starting point for most interiors. This in itself is a fairly neutral basis. Any details such as textiles or furniture can be placed on it to give the room style, tone and expression.
TO gray floor furniture will fit:
- dark wood (for example, wenge);
- pine wood of light natural color;
- from light and dark oak;
- black and anthracite cabinets and shelves;
- in the colors of walnut and ash;
- dark, light and colored sofas and armchairs.
It is important that the room does not look gloomy with dark furniture. To do this, you can enliven the interior with colorful additions, which can be in the form of colored pillows, a bright armchair or a graphic wallpaper pattern on one of the walls, for example, on the wall behind the sofa. An interesting solution is a graphic and bright carpet. In a monochrome combination of gray laminate and anthracite furniture, it will look phenomenal and add chic to the entire arrangement.
Gray will always go well with gray, no matter the shade, so don't be afraid to play with this color in the same space.
A gray laminate in the kitchen can be a neutral backdrop for further variations:
- you can place on it kitchen furniture with a veneered facade in walnut colors, in a warm, nutmeg shade of beige - this is an excellent combination for arranging a warm and cozy kitchen;
- such a floor can decorate modern kitchen with lacquered glossy MDF kitchen cabinets in graphite or black;
- the color of aluminum will also show itself perfectly here;
- will look harmonious a natural stone on the walls, for example, slate stone with an interesting texture;
- elegantly presented on this basis white kitchenthat will reflect from it, sparkling with purity and freshness;
- red, green, pink, brown facades of kitchen furniture will go well with such a base.
Not everyone knows that light gray as a base in the interior can be interpreted in two polarized options - it can be both cold and warm. In this case, this feature will be determined by the color of furniture and accessories bordering the floor.
To make an interior with such a base warmer, you need to use the following colors:
- white,
- beige,
- brown,
- nut,
- shades of nutmeg,
- cinnamon,
- vanilla,
- accessories made of copper or gold.
A photo. Interiors with gray laminate with a warm atmosphere. The presence of wood and accessories in warm colors (yellow and pale pink, vanilla) create an atmosphere of warmth and comfort against a seemingly cold background.
To make an interior with such a base cooler, you should use the colors of furniture and accessories:
- dark grey,
- the black,
- white,
- cold cobalt,
- intense blue,
- blue,
- ashen.
... Here, cool colors of walls and furniture add volume and cool atmosphere to the interior.
Of course, it all depends on the interior, its shape, ceiling height, amount of natural and artificial light. In a dimly lit room, a crisp white background can be absolutely essential.
If we chose dark furniture (or almost black wenge) for the gray floor, in order to get the effect of a light, cozy space, we need to complement the interior with such shades as light beige, coffee with milk, pastel.
Using certain elements of the interior, you can create a warm and cozy atmosphere or a cold fresh space. It all depends on what effect we want to get. By choosing the right additions, we can make the interior warm or cold. In some versions, the floor and walls merge into a gray color and we get the effect of a room that seems to be bathed in smoke. But interiors, where there are beautiful contrasts - strong or fuzzy, still look better. All bright elements will be especially visible against such a background. For example, a stylish miniature yellow table in such an interior looks like a gem.
For years, interior designers have underestimated gray, which is associated with elegance and class. Now, this color is back in fashion and is harmoniously combined with intense and bright colors. Gray, due to its neutrality, goes well with many colors and is one of the best shades to display against its background in houseplants. The fashion for this universal color was immediately reflected in the new products of many flooring manufacturers. Many manufacturers produce gray laminate flooring: Balterio, Quickstep, Berryfloor and Tarkett.
This finishing material is great for modern interiors and is often combined with white skirting boards or lacquered doors. It is very practical because it is easy to keep clean and can also be good at masking any signs of wear. Elegance, aesthetic appearance and ease of maintenance are why gray laminate is so popular and is presented in large quantities in modern interiors.
At the end of the renovation, the owner wants to get a stylish and cozy home. But, unfortunately, not everyone gets desired result... A common reason for this is the wrong color scheme of the room. First of all, this concerns the combination of colors of finishing materials. It is especially important to know how to match the laminate to the wallpaper. Of course, sometimes it is better to entrust such work to professionals. The selected laminate and walls should be organically combined.
Color selection features
Before choosing a laminate, you should decide on its functionality. The fact is that with the help of color you can enlarge or reduce a room, create a warm or cool atmosphere. How to choose wallpaper for a laminate, taking into account the characteristics of the room?
To visually enlarge the room, it is worth using light wallpaper and dark laminate. Thus, the floor will have a noble and solid appearance, which will give the walls lightness. In such a room, it is better to use light-colored furniture. Its contours will stand out clearly on a dark floor.
To visually reduce the room, a combination of dark walls and a light floor is used. Often this combination of finishing coatings allows you to correct the shape of a long room. If, on the contrary, it needs to be pulled out, then optimal solution the floor and walls will become light.
It is worth considering that the tone of the wallpaper and flooring should be slightly different, otherwise the effect of a box will be created.
Practical finish
When choosing a floor and wallpaper, it is worth considering the practicality of finishing coatings. If the windows face the sunny side, then the floor illumination will be maximum. In such cases, it is worth refusing to use laminate in dark shades. Otherwise, the floor will look dusty. This will make cleaning the room much more difficult.
Also, dark floors should not be used in rooms where there is very little natural light. Here, the installation of such a laminate will create a gloomy and boring atmosphere.
White laminate is especially popular among consumers. With its help, a luxurious floor is created, which will become the color of the entire room. But, there are cases when it is better to refuse such a finish. If there are animals or small children in the house, then a white floor is not the best solution. The fact is that in such conditions the risk of contamination of the floor covering is very high. As a result, the floor will quickly lose its original shine. It is better to opt for a beige floor material.
When choosing a floor, it is worth considering the cardinal points to which the windows of the room face. If the windows face the north side, then it is better to choose the floor in light and warm colors. Do not use a gray shade here, as it will create a feeling of eternal cold. The warm wood texture will create a cozy home atmosphere.
On the sunny south side, it is better to use a cold palette for decoration. This will create a feeling of lightness and coolness.
In the video: combination of laminate in the interior.
Features of the white floor
When combining finishing materials, it is worth considering that the atmosphere of the room and the style of the interior will depend on this. The main role here is played by the floor and walls. Therefore, their decoration must be approached very carefully. This is especially true for the use of white laminate.
Such material fits perfectly into a modern and minimalist style. It is also used to decorate a high-tech room. When laying such a floor covering, it is worth considering that it is very pretentious to the design of the surrounding interior. So, the walls should not be finished in white. Otherwise, light laminate and wallpaper is a combination that is easy enough to perceive.
Among the main combinations are the following:
- Combined with green wallpaper white laminate will become perfect solution for decorating a rest room. This combination will create a feeling of freshness and peace.
- Combination of white and purple can be used in almost any style.
- The combination of white and crimson colors also have some features. So, if a white laminate is used for decoration, then its effect can be enhanced by a furniture set of the same color. It is also appropriate to use light stucco and figurines here. Otherwise, the design will look unfinished.
- In a small room it is best to use combination of white floor and blue wallpaper... This will create a feeling of weightlessness and lightness.
- White flooring and red wallpaper create a play of contrasts. Therefore, use this combination carefully. It is better to do this in the kitchen and living room. White and red design allows you to visually enlarge the room.
- The classic option is yellow and white decoration... In such rooms, a feeling of spaciousness and lightness will be created. This style uses a combination of white flooring and brown walls.
Do not forget that in houses where there are animals and children, such material will not be the most suitable option. A heavy load will lead to the fact that the light laminate will quickly lose its original appearance.
What to combine gray floor with
One of the most common options is gray laminate. This neutral and unassuming material can be combined with any shade.
Of course, do not forget that this option has some features:
- Combine gray floor with green walls you need to be careful. This combination can destroy even the most interesting design idea. As a result, the interior can become simple and discreet.
- Gray laminate works well with wallpaper that has yellow patterns. Of course, such decorative elements there should be a little.
- The combination of gray and red looks trendy and modern... But, despite this, you need to approach the interior design very carefully. To make it easier to perceive the contrast of colors, it is worth installing elements with white or neutral shades in the room.
- Gray laminate beige wallpaper is often used in a classic style. Also, this combination can be used to decorate a room in a modern style.
- Gray laminate can also be combined with orange and purple wallpaper... This room design will look unusual and spectacular.
Despite the fact that gray laminate is very popular among designers, it must be applied very carefully.
Wood laminate
The texture of light woods is neutral and versatile. It can be combined with various colors and used in any interior. The most successful combinations:
- The combination of wood flooring with black or light walls will add austerity to the interior.
- Woody yellow decoration will make the room brighter and more radiant.
- Wood laminate and brown wallpaper will add austerity and nobility to the interior.
- Mahogany laminate flooring harmoniously looks with green, blue and yellow wallpaper.
In fact, there are quite a few options for combining the color of the floor and walls. Therefore, you need to select a laminate based on personal preference, and carefully. So, for example, if you use a different combination in each room, it will visually reduce the area of \u200b\u200bthe house.
Color combinations (40 photos)
- A functional approach to color selection
- Color basics: what goes with white floor
- Features of gray laminate
- Woody shades
- Mistakes that can be avoided
Starting a renovation, everyone dreams of creating a stylish and cozy home, similar to those that flaunt on the covers of glossy magazines. But the result does not always meet expectations. A frequent reason for this is the wrong color scheme in the selection of wallpaper and laminate, which either conceal the beauty of each other, turning the room into a dull semblance of a hospital ward, or come into conflict and cause dissonance.
It should be noted that the tone of the walls and the laminate does not match, otherwise the box effect will appear.
How to correctly combine the colors of floors and walls? What mistakes can be made and how can they be prevented? These are the questions to ask when embarking on the final repair phase.
It is best if the design of the room is thought out in advance, before materials are purchased. However, people often create an image in stages. First, they choose the color of the walls, and everything else to them. If your walls are already ready, you should especially carefully and carefully select the laminate for them.
Here you need to focus on several strong points: tasks that should be solved with the help of flooring, practicality in operation and the creation of a complete style.
A functional approach to color selection
First you need to decide on the task. With the color of the laminate, you can easily increase or decrease the height of the room, narrow or expand the room, create an atmosphere of warmth or coolness. How to master the space by playing on a combination of color effects on walls and floors?
To make the room seem taller and more spacious, a laminate of dark colors is selected for light wallpaper. Such a floor looks solid and noble, highlighting the lightness and "airiness" of the walls. It will look advantageous in such an interior dark furniture, whose shape and texture will clearly stand out against the background of light wallpaper.
Visually reduce the space and emphasize the horizontal lines will help the combination of dark shades of wallpaper with light flooring. This will save the room from excessive elongation.
You can achieve the opposite result and "stretch" the room by pasting the walls with light wallpaper in combination with a light floor. but the tone of the walls and floors should never be the same, otherwise a box effect will appear.
The next point to pay attention to is practicality. If direct sunlight hits your room and shines brightly on the floor, you should not lay a laminate in dark shades. Such floors constantly appear to be dusty. And the most zealous hostesses cannot win the war for perfect purity. Indeed, even in a room with closed doors and the windows are constantly dusting. Only about 30% of it is minerals; the dirt we are accustomed to. The rest is microparticles of skin, hair, textiles, paper and other household derivatives.
The question often arises, how to choose a laminate for a dark room? It is definitely not worth laying dark floors here, so as not to create a gloomy, hopeless atmosphere that brings boredom and blues.
White laminate is best rejected by families with small children and pets. The struggle for the purity of these sexes can become paranoid. Better to stay on beige options.
The cardinal points that your rooms face also play a decisive role in the selection of color shades. Northern rooms are best decorated in light and warm colors. The gray laminate on the north side can create the feeling of "permafrost". Warm woody textures will recreate the comfort of a home.
A cold palette is more suitable for the south side, exposed to sun attacks. It will help create a cool feeling.
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Color basics: what goes with a white floor
White laminate is perfect for a minimalist or ultra-modern style.
Both the atmosphere of the room and its style depend on the color combinations of interior items. The main load is taken by the walls and the floor, therefore the greatest importance is attached to their design.
White laminate will blend harmoniously with minimalist or ultra-modern style. Can be justified in high-tech style. This floor color is pretentious to the surrounding interior and requires laconic design. Does not tolerate the neighborhood of white walls, but it goes well with almost any other color.
In the lounge, white laminate flooring will be a good backdrop for rich green wallpaper, which will help create an atmosphere of freshness and spring mischief.
Purple wallpaper combined with white laminate looks elegant, luxurious, but not pretentious. This color scheme will suit any design style.
If you decide to purchase a white laminate for raspberry wallpaper, remember that white should become the dominant one in your interior. Support the floor with white furniture, stucco, white figurines, and more. Only then will you be able to recreate an atmosphere of lightness and playfulness. A white floor without color support against a background of crimson wallpaper will give a feeling of incompleteness.
Small rooms with white laminate are preferable to be decorated in blue tones. This will make them airy and give a feeling of weightlessness.
The white floor and red walls are a play of contrasts, with the floor as the backdrop for the rest of the decor. This technique visually enlarges the room and excites the spirit. Therefore, it is preferable to use it in living rooms and kitchens. Sometimes it is justified in children, if the child is not too temperamental. Such a home design will not work for hyperactive children.
The yellow walls on the white floor are a classic. There is a feeling of cleanliness and spaciousness, the room is additionally filled with light.
Brown wallpaper with white laminate looks representative. Like the previous version, it is perfect for a classic style.
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Features of gray laminate
Gray laminate flooring with beige wallpaper is surprisingly comfortable.
One of the most popular laminate colors is gray. At first glance, it seems neutral, unassuming, and well combined. However, this is not quite true. The use of gray requires some care.
For example, a gray floor in a green room can kill even the most interesting idea, making the interior rustic and discreet.
The gray laminate goes well with wallpaper that contains yellow pattern elements. However, there should be less yellow than the rest.
Be careful with the gray floor if the walls of your room are red. Despite the fact that this combination looks modern and fashionable, it is quite difficult to perceive it. Therefore, this combination requires additional elaboration on the part of the rest of the decor. It must be diluted with white or another neutral color.
In the classic style, a combination of a gray floor with beige wallpaper is often used. Such a palette is also suitable for a modern design.
A surprisingly comfortable combination of gray and orange colors. Can be applied in a glamorous style. So did the purple walls on the gray floor. It all looks impressive and unusual.
Modern trends include a mixture of gray floors with pink walls... It looks feminine, airy and innocent.
