Modern designers offer interior design in any color range - whether it's a private "royal house" or a Soviet "Khrushchev", "Stalin". Someone decorates the entire apartment with the same flowers, and some of each room is made different - a green living room, a lilac vestibule, a blue kitchen, a brown bedroom. Well-chosen shades will help create a favorable atmosphere for this or that activity, rest, sleep. More details on how to equip the bedroom in brown tones, the best ways of finishing it and choosing the right furniture in the text of this article.

Brown is a complex color, it is formed by mixing red with green, yellow with purple, gray with orange. There are about 195 shadings, here are some of them:

• chocolate;
• терракотовый;
• pale gold;
• sandstorm;
• copper;
• almond;
• suberic;
• bronze, caramel;
• gray-brown;
• mustard honey;
• lead-brown;
• walnut;
• camel;
• blueberry-brown;
• coffee with milk;
• tannin;
• pine bark;
• dusty brick;
• Sepia;
• chestnut;
• махагонь;
• mink;
• coffee liqueur;
• bison;
• red-brown;
• cocoa and others.

       

Light brown improves memory, dark - soothes, reduces excessive irritability, excitement, stress. Warm colors slightly reduce the pressure, cold - help to breathe in full breasts.

Advantages of a brown bedroom

In a brown bedroom, a person rests much better than in rooms of other colors. This is especially noticeable if important tasks are to be held in the morning, requiring concentration of attention, certain certainty in oneself - exams, meetings, important negotiations, trips, etc. It is strongly recommended to do morning exercises in a brown room - this color enhances stamina, a person feels security.

       

If in the chocolate tones the bedroom of the newlyweds is framed, then in the family there will be a long time harmony, calmness, mutual understanding. The room of the representatives of the older generation, arranged in red and brown tones, will help to get enough sleep at night, keeping the pep in the daytime.

In what styles do you use

Brown, one way or another, is used in most modern styles of interiors. The most in demand in:

• classical and neoclassical;
• Baroque and Gothic;
• ampire and art-deco;
• constructivism and eclecticism;
• provence and country;
• ethnic and eastern;
• loft and industrial;
• hi-tech and techno;
• Scandinavian and European;
• eco and retro;
• minimalism and modernism.

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Traditional styles can not be imagined without coffee, chocolate, bronze shades. Ethnic are decorated with sepia, terracotta, and shades of mustard. European combines light chestnut furniture with mahogany, cocoa.

Finishing methods

Spacious bedrooms with large windows facing the south side are finished with cold colors. "Northern" spaces, especially small ones, with few windows - light, warm. Whichever style is chosen, it is unlikely to manage without brown.

The flooring material is suitable for floorboards of various types of wood, parquet, laminate. The color of the floor is preferably at least two or three shades darker than the walls to visually create stability. In the big bedroom it is made black-brown, under mahogany, in a small - ginger, sea-buckthorn, brown, nutty shade.

       

Honey-colored walls perfectly fit into the art deco style, modern, and untreated red-brown brick will become the basis of the loft style, industrial. Natural, artificial stone will be organically combined with colorful wall-paper depicting a hot desert with a camel caravan, a steppe sunset, forest brown bears, floral bouquets of cream shades. Conventional wallpaper is preferred with dark and light stripes - if the ceiling is high, then horizontal, low - vertical. Decorative plaster or "liquid wallpaper" can be designed as a gradient transition - from the dark bottom of the room to the lighter top.

       

A stretch ceiling of praline or brown jasper color will decorate the Provence-interior, dark brown, unobtrusive beams - will become a highlight of the loft style. Plastic "stucco", ceiling rosettes with elements of bronze will complement the room in the Baroque style, neoclassic.

Choosing furniture

Most of the furniture for "expensive" interiors is made of wood or veneered fiberboard. Used wood of walnut, oak, beech, hornbeam, wenge, pine, mahogany, cherry, teak, ash, etc. The most expensive are stained oak and sequoia. Design furniture from them is the most durable, looks good, does not lose its attractive appearance for many years.

       

The color of the furniture is contrasted with the walls - if the walls are dark, the furnishings are light and vice versa. Forged, carved details look good in all the traditional styles of bedroom design, chrome, covered with thick layers of paint, glass will fit almost any of the modern interiors.

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The central place of the bedroom is occupied by a bed, preferably half-torn or double. Its headboard is often made volumetric - it is decorated with carvings, leather decorative elements, covered with fur. For particularly refined interiors, the bed is equipped with a canopy. Bed in the style of minimalism will stand on four thick legs of a square section, have a headboard in the form of a clear rectangle or semicircle.

       

Many furniture manufacturers sell it at once with sets - in a standard set for a bedroom there is a bed, one or two bedside tables, a wardrobe or a chest of drawers for laundry. In addition, it houses a dressing table or dressing table, a small desk with a chair, a pair of hinged shelves, floor hangers.

For styles loft, eclecticism, ethnic, art-belief bed and all the rest of the furnishings do by hand from the previously "sanded", painted or varnished parts of euro pallets.

       

Curtains and other textiles

For a light brown bedroom, linen, jacquard, satin curtains are suitable. They can have a small amount of embroidery, brushes, fringe at the bottom. The color of the curtains should differ from the coloring of the walls, the smaller the window openings, the lighter the light curtains are selected. Bedspreads, design cushions should create a single ensemble with drapes on the windows, doors, not necessarily completely coinciding with them for the color decision.

Individual elements of textiles represent a bright color accent of chocolate, caramel interior - green cushions, combined with individual elements of photo wallpapers, purple curtains, harmonizing with eggplant squares on the coverlet, etc. In the rustic, Gothic, eco-style and some other walls partially or completely upholstered cloth - monochrome or with a small pattern.

       

Decor and Accessories

As a decor, natural or artificial animal skins, different types of fur are used. On the windows are placed a couple of potted plants, for the oriental interior the bonsai tree is suitable, for the African - any cactuses, the European - violets. The more spacious the room, the more it can accommodate a variety of decor. A small bedroom is not to be cluttered up - it only accommodates the most necessary things.

A few decorative vases, caskets, statuettes will give the decoration a touch of refinement, photographs or embroidered pictures within the framework will add uniqueness. A fluffy carpet on the floor will make the room more comfortable, floor lamps with patterned shades will create a romantic atmosphere.

       

Lighting

When the room is decorated in dark colors, there should be a lot of light. If the bedroom has several functional areas, then each of them has a separate lighting device plus the main "top light". In the women's bedroom, LED lighting surrounds the makeup mirror above the dressing table. In the men's bright light stands out the working area, where a person is engaged in a favorite hobby. Above the bed, the lighting is preferably scattered, unless it is planned to read or work on the laptop right in bed. The wardrobe or part of the room, allocated for the wardrobe, can have a backlight, built directly into the furniture.

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If the walls are painted in dark colors, then they also need to be highlighted - the smaller the room, the more brightly the highlight is selected, the more bulbs should be placed. In the case when there are pictures on the walls, photos, shelves, lamps are placed there. Large mirrors, glass surfaces, visually expand the space, increasing the amount of light at times.

Color combinations

Brown is perfectly combined with most colors of the famous palette - in this respect it is also universal. Recommended combinations:

• with olive green, khaki, emerald - remind of nature;
• light blue, turquoise - refreshing;
• with beige, bodily - favors full rest;
• white, black, blue - create a contrast or a smooth transition;
• with yellow-ohristym, red-orange - invigorate, cheer up;
• pink, violet - tune to a romantic mood;
• with gray, purple - in the bedroom to combine is not desirable.

       

It is not recommended to combine more than three colors in one interior at the same time.

Brown color in the children's bedroom

Children in the brown bedroom get enough sleep - the younger ones fall asleep better, are less capricious, the more senior students get better at school, the motivation increases. In the room of a little girl or boy it is recommended to use light shades - blueberry-chocolate shades often frighten kids. For teens of both sexes, the basic colors are dark - in such a room the child is much easier to concentrate. Do not forget about sufficient coverage of all places where children read, write, play games or hobbies. It is desirable that daylight is abundantly penetrated into the room - the curtains are chosen light, warm colors. Bright elements are added to the design of the bedroom at the request of the child - if he is already able to clearly formulate what he wants.

Conclusion

Make brown only the bedroom or completely the whole apartment, a private country house is the personal choice of each family. A person who sleeps well at night, is capable of productive activities during the day, which has a favorable effect on the state of health, the general mood. It is better to make contrasts in a sleeping room at a minimum, and if it is not possible to apply color beautifully, you can always turn to professional interior designers who will select the most suitable palette of shades.