Fantasies on a theme of gray color - a classical reception of designers at registration of premises. It is good as a tone of decoration materials and wallpapers, perfectly suited for painting wooden furniture, successfully looks in the objects of decor. Brilliant facades of the kitchen set in silvery tones will confirm the owners 'commitment to modern design, and a soft gray sofa in the interior of the living room, office, ladies' boudoir or nursery can emphasize any style from classics to country.
Monochrome scale perfectly solves complex problems:
- create depth, emphasize the amount of space;
- create a neutral background in the room;
- accent rigor, classic style of the room;
- add softness, make the house a "cozy nest".
Different shades of gray, combined with other colors of the spectrum, are able to impart a decorated character to the decorated space:
- Dramatic, active: a union of gray and red, black and light blue with gray;
- Intriguing: a combination of gray and purple, purple;
- Relaxing: gray with the addition of muted pink, tender shades of green, blue.
Color variety: choose the right shade
The large-scale hobby for "turn-key European style" made neutral tones of warm range (beige, sandy, brown) too worn, to combine them became a sign of bad taste. Today, the favorite is gray - its range allows you to paint in pearl shades all the room, starting from the walls and ceiling, and finishing with the furnishings: grayish, this interior will not look ordinary.
Gamma gray is extremely extensive: from the shade of unbleached canvas to the dark color of wet asphalt, almost black. Its intermediate variations - adding to the main color of other colors of the spectrum - offers a choice of innumerable combinations. It is important to emphasize the correctness of the combination: mixing gray with warm tones often gives the effect of a "dirty" color. In this case, it is preferable to use the colors separately: make gray the main background of the sofa, and yellow, red, mustard for decorative elements (pillows, padded stools, overhead armrests).
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Gray sofa: there are many pluses, minuses are not important
Main advantages:
- A gray sofa can be like the starting point of an interior trip - the favorite option will determine the entire style of the interior, and the final chord;
- The variety of shades of gray scale is so great that it is quite easy to choose a suitable piece of soft furniture;
- Cushioned upholstery in shades of gray is less susceptible to contamination, there are modern anti-vandal fabrics.
By the minuses can be attributed the likelihood that over time the padding will cease to like, dark color bores. However, gray is an excellent background: you can change the mood by changing decorative pillows and curtains.
Ideal sofa: we choose the size and shape
The size range of modern sofa products is almost unlimited, depends only on the volume of the premises. It is important to observe the harmony of proportions:
- too large an object will occupy the entire space, deprive a person of freedom of movement, a large-scale color spot will subdue the other colors present in the interior;
- too little sofa is lost in the room, will raise the question of its practical benefit.
Most manufacturers offer two and three-seat models, however, in the halls of country houses of modern design, options for 5-8 people are needed. Such items are made up of several modules, or are specially manufactured.
An interesting form is the two-sided sofas - designs with S-shaped in the back, allowing the interlocutors to be side by side, but to look in opposite directions. Dimensional variants of this kind are often used in voluminous halls, foyer, t. they fill the space non-standard, organize the movement in a spiral. Small forms (canapés, ottomans) are appropriate in private rooms: bedrooms, boudoir, ladies' offices. Wide corner sofas are often placed in the living rooms, and thanks to the narrow save space around the table in small kitchens Khrushchev.
Options for facing: leather, fabric, other materials
Modern fabrics, impregnated with mud and water-repellent compositions, facilitate the care of upholstered furniture. Shades of gray scale are considered to be the least marquee, but this is not their only advantage, especially since different styles suggest the production of sofas not only of soft options.
| Coating Options | Using | Forms | Suitable styles |
| Natural, artificial leather | Sofa groups in offices, home offices, living rooms, home theaters | Classic (wooden parts, deep stitch back), modern (metal parts and decor) | Any variants of classics, modern design |
| Natural, artificial fabrics | Any space requiring soft furniture | Full-fledged sofas, small sofas, canapés, ottomans, goats, sofas-recamines | All Styles |
| Plastic | Modern interiors, furniture for children's rooms | Streamlined objects, repeating the bends of the human body, sofas-transformers, modular kits | Modern Art Nouveau High tech Minimalism Scandinavian style |
| Tree | Reception areas, halls, classrooms | Low sofa with removable pillows, sofa of curved wooden parts, hollow inside, sofa-bed | Japanese minimalism Scandinavian design |
Each style has its own gray sofa
To any interior direction you can choose a suitable sofa, it is important to correctly combine the shape, volume of the product and upholstery.
Excellent looking leather sofas of any shades of gray in the open spaces of brick lofts, and roughly processed concrete walls advantageously shade anthracite, silver, mother of pearl fabric upholstery. To differ in texture from the haze of concrete, upholstery fabric should have a velvet surface, or a light "mica" shine.
Living room in a country style is suitable for a sofa with a folded skirt that covers the legs, and accents on the canvas background will be decorative cushions in a flower, cage, stripes, trimmed with frills.
Carved wooden details, gray textured tapestry or dense canvas upholstery, handmade knitted napkins attached to the back, a sofa like this can decorate a romantic bedroom or a room in the style of a shebbie-chic.
Sofa in high-tech style: matte fabric, shiny metal, glossy plastic
Using a minimum of colors to decorate the interior, high-tech places emphasis on the difference of textures. It is within this space of technological space that modern art constructions of a drop-shaped, curved shape become objects attracting the eye. The reflective surface of glossy plastic or lacquered wood makes the utilitarian sofa a work of conceptual art. New developments of furniture designers are represented by sofas from lamellas (separate bars, connected structurally) with internal neon lights - a bright light reinforces the impression of an unusual shape, the gray color begins to shine. Standard models of low sofas with metal parts are made in dark fabric or leather versions.
Gray sofa: unchanged classic in the interior
The interior of any classical style (Baroque, Art Nouveau, Empire style, Romanticism) presupposes a lively dialogue between people: it is filled with horizontal soft furnishings to accommodate several people. In all the variety are presented sofas of different sizes with bent legs, small goats, elegant recamines. Modern reading of this type of sofas leaves a classic configuration, but offers new types of upholstery.
Denim fabric, artificial long-bellows fur, ribbon satin weave, hand-painted canvas organically fit the antique furniture into the newest interior classics.
The guest of honor of the modern interior
A gray sofa in modern design is an important accent of the interior. Comfortable, ergonomic, designed for a relaxing rest, or hard, making you keep your back straight, it enhances the meaning of the room, depending on the design features suitable for any room at home. In a small guest room, such a sofa can successfully replace the wardrobe and armchair - arriving for a few days, guests will be able to decompose their belongings. The embossed surface of the upholstery will emphasize the comfort of the soft sofa of Art Nouveau style, and the cubic shape with rounded corners and rich gray color will help balance the violence of the colors of pop art.
We combine objects, colors, textures
To obtain the necessary visual effect in the interior, color harmony is required. Gray can dominate, shade, combine different colors. An interesting background for the modern sofa ashen colors can be black and white wallpaper, overly restrained design of Scandinavian style furniture will soften the cushions of light shades of natural wool. Here you can play with invoices: use artificial fur, materials of "homespun" weave. Recently, fashion products were made from knitted fabrics of large mating with embossed patterns.
Endowed with the function of a single color accent, a massive gray sofa that catches your eye as soon as you open the door - it's dark and uninteresting. Blossom it with pillows, decorate the room with curtains or carpet with a suitable print - the interior will play bright colors.
Choose a company sofa: relevant bright spots
Modern interior design offers bold color combinations of soft furniture: the chairs, matching the tone with the sofa, seem obsolete. In place of the monotony, characteristic of traditional styles, contrast comes. Especially cheerfully next to the dark gray sofa are yellow, orange soft seats, the popular color is "red orange". Choose models of simple forms with armrests flowing into the back.
Another option for creating a bright, action-packed space involves replacing the gray upholstery of the seats with a bright red ruby cloth. This method is suitable for decorating the living room, office, active spaces.
For adherents of the European classics, it will be interesting to unite in one group an ash-colored sofa of a calm form and a violet or emerald armchair with high quilted backs, curved armrests, a "eared" headboard. The most advantageous these colors give fabrics with a velvety effect.
Gray sofa: a fashionable trend and a well-established classic
Annual European salons allow you to be aware of the latest trends in the world of furniture fashion. The sofas of the gray scale are presented there with an enviable regularity. The popularity of color is explained by the possibility to pick up the overall object of the furniture for any style, and the variety of the palette can support every color solution of the interior.
