Black-and-white interiors are a challenge and a provocation in advance. Black - a synonym for elegance, aristocracy, white - purity, airiness. The combination of two such polar colors in one room gives a stunningly beautiful result, most suitable for a living room. After all, this is a special place in the house, several obligations are imposed on it: to reflect the character of the owners, their individuality, and at the same time to be a comfortable place for themselves. To create a unique black and white interior, creating exactly the atmosphere of the living room, which was planned, it is better to know all the design techniques tested by practice.
To realize in your living room the combination of key advantages, it is enough to follow simple rules:
- Domination of one color. The same proportion will create an effect of indistinctness, will not attract attention.
- Let the furniture take the main interior position. At the peak of popularity, complex shapes, with non-standard graphics, perhaps a few fanciful elements, but against the background of a monochrome they acquire a special sound.
- Numerous, curved lines and contours, even smooth, add dynamics: visually tire and do not exactly contribute to rest. The goal is for the living room - coziness and tranquility: it turns out only by the ratio of a small number of items of pure black and pure white.
Two colors - many styles
There are stylistic solutions, as if created to embody the black and white ideas. They are very different, but each is perfect for a living room.
The most fashionable:
| Minimalism | This is the most common style, to give individuality can be beautiful wallpaper with an image in a characteristic range, for example, the Eiffel Tower. |
| Scandinavian | Laconic style, which excellently manifests itself in the predominant position of white. |
| Art Deco | Like artificially created for such solutions with its various textures: black leather, snow-white plaster statues, black and white marble. |
| Loft | Its main variant in the form of an accent wall made of white brick finds continuation in the smooth monochrome surfaces of the remaining walls, floor and ceiling. |
| High tech | Use of this style is especially important for dark rooms. The effect of the joint interaction of all kinds of diode lighting elements with a white background - the ceiling, niches, plinth. |
Wall-papers can help out any style, because besides the standard options, you can always make them to order, giving the interior exclusivity.
Acceptable accents
One of the micro-trends: adding color intrigue. Against the background of black and white monochroma, any color inclusion causes a special interest, animating the entire interior and transforming it into a unique category:
- Bright accent colors. A couple of three bold accents of red, yellow, turquoise colors are enough.
- A slightly creamy shade of individual items will soften the interior - the curtains, the floor of a light shade of natural wood.
- Gray - the last of the trio of achromatic colors, the logical completion of the black and white design of the hall. Option: metallic shade of gray.
- Glass and bronze. A few larger elements are permissible: a transparent table, curtains, cushions of the characteristic color of a dark, copper tint.
- Live greens are a natural phytoact, but only in a black and white pot.
- A library area with a black bookcase filled with books with naturally colorful bindings.
3 secretions
Black-and-white interiors are really very diverse, and before you look for a ready-made solution on a photo, you need to clearly determine which color of the two is preferred. The predominance of black, despite the stereotypes, for the living room is a reasonable enough solution, if the goal is to create a more secluded, caramel atmosphere. The main black color in the interior of the room is perfect for modern young men. Black and white high-tech design, loft: brutal and epic.
What you need to know if the main active color is black:
- He has too many shades - it's better to stick to one key for all the black components of the interior.
- Avoid the multiplicity of small objects.
- Preference for gloss - a special beauty and depth, the manifestation of a shade, for example, the tone of black with a purple podtonom.
There are combinations of gloss and matte surfaces. The leading role in any case is given to lighting: different and sufficient. Variants: luminous stretch ceiling, all kinds of LEDs, always spot lighting. It will help at the same time to conduct zoning if necessary, to allocate a working zone. When choosing a room for a black and white living room, a small room with a single window to the north will remain in the loser beforehand.
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Black is considered an achromatic color, devoid of shades (they are already gray by definition), but one must be ready that the manufacturers of furniture and building materials will be stunned by the number of names. From more or less understandable: graphite black, to quite exotic: midnight, black amber or onyx.
White walls or vice versa?
One of the most challenging decisions of execution is the black walls in the hall. Conditionally it is possible to divide into two groups, depending on the final result. Walls are obtained:
- Expressive. Wallpaper with embossed, texture, imitating a brick, fabric, marble. All textured wallpaper, with a popular 3D design - on the main accent wall.
- Smooth. Black paint on the walls is an excellent background for snow-white furnishings and unique decor. But you have to spend money on furniture of complex shapes, carving, delicate decor, baguette paintings. It's also a great background for color accent elements.
Choosing the basic color of white - it's just a mega-way to visually increase the space. For Scandinavian styles, minimalism dominant white in the interior is particularly suitable. For example, completely white execution of surfaces is diluted by black wall shelves, charismatic television zone - like much, thoroughly, but gently and easily. This harmony is bestowed on white interiors.
Traditionally, the ceiling is left white, but there are cardinal variants with non-standard execution in the form of black and white combinations. Purely, the black ceiling is too oppressive.
Lightweight furnishing
Furnishing for black and white interior solutions will pleasantly surprise by the variety: one-color or combined. The latter should be selected with special diligence, so as not to spoil the overall effect, not to disturb the harmony of the room. Modular systems pick up all the easier - they can be combined to your taste.
No less interesting is the selection of black furniture. The pledge of one hundred percent success is not to overdo with the number of objects and their peculiar form. It can be unusual armrests of armchairs, an unusual kind of chairs - the main thing, the basis, that is, the floor, should be light; for wood - shades of white rocks.
If the preference is given to the white upholstery of the sofa group, then in the future this choice, in the presence of children and pets, can be a serious test for the faint-hearted. How to acquire spectacular furniture and not regret after a couple of weeks:
- removable covers;
- leather - natural or artificial.
You can make a sofa in this bright accent in the living room. On the turquoise shade of the "Tiffany Blue" shade, the spots are not as noticeable as on the snow-white.
Before buying any covers for a soft band, make sure that they can be washed in a conventional washing machine, whilst the white one also bleaches.
Such a different decor
Stereotypes and associations only on hand, when you want to give the final touches:
- The zebra skin on the floor or its imitation. Do not just turn the entire interior into this animal.
- Black and white photo - on white substrates in thin black frames.
- Chess theme: the variant of execution of a combined floor in an interior of a drawing room that can be supported by corresponding accessories.
- "Yin Yang". Subtle items of the opposite color can also subtly emphasize the style: identical vases.
- Piano keys.
Fashionable satin texture will come to the rescue when the gloss, velvet can not cope with the tasks. Even the lampshades look very elegant, made of black satin.
Attention in the room can focus on another important decorative component, which has a functional meaning - curtains. They can be just luxurious: with drapes, lambrequins, pickings. Due to more than a laconic color scheme they will not look too flashy and pretentious. Additional elements, for example from silver metal: eyelets, cornices only emphasize sophistication.
If the selected style provides a more peaceful execution of the "window dress", then black-and-white curtains-screens (other name - Japanese) will do. For a special laconicism they are chosen by men, and the name does not obligate only to hieroglyphs on a white background.
Epilogue
Interior with such polar colors requires a thoughtful reflection, before it is specifically embodied in the living room. The most important thing is not to get involved, for example, to complicate ornaments, sometimes conciseness and simple lines - the best solution. The undoubted advantage of such interiors is the opportunity to create a room that strikes with its chic appearance, which is important for the living room, but at the same time very harmonious, because, as we know, opposites attract. Or maybe you are so impressed with the result that you want to add polarity to the kitchen or bathroom.
