How to choose wallpaper

We list some features of the choice of wallpaper.

Vertical stripes, especially narrow, visuallyincrease the height of the walls and thereby visually "lift" the ceiling. Cross strips, rhombuses, large ornament in the form of leaves and flowers have the opposite effect - the room seems lower and more spacious. Moreover, the wider the strip, the lower the ceiling.

Interesting effects are obtained by combining twodifferent types of wallpaper, delimited by a horizontal strip - border. By combining the color of the wallpaper and the level of the curb in height, you can visually expand or narrow the room. Using a combination of two types of wallpaper with a curb, especially if the wallpaper in a cross strip or with large ornamentation, gives the effect of "lowering" the ceiling. The reverse effect is obtained when painting walls with light wallpaper of cold tones of different saturation - the upper third of the wall to the border light light colors, the lower two thirds - more intense cold tones.

A small room with walls of light tones or withdiscreet small picture will seem more spacious. In the larger room, it is better to use wallpaper of more saturated colors with a large pattern, otherwise the room will look like a large cold throne room in the palace.

Cozy looks like a large room, decorateddark wallpaper with a large discreet drawing. But be careful - unnecessarily dark colors will turn the comfort in the twilight. Do not forget: a large picture on the wallpaper should be of soft colors, otherwise the one entering the room will be filled with eyes.

Also, do not forget that the dark and brighttone visually reduce the size of the room, and light and soft - increase. If you have a small room, it is better to choose a wallpaper of light tones. In a large room, the wallpaper looks more saturated.

The red-yellow tones are visually perceived as voluminous, outstanding forward and, accordingly, "pull together" the walls, blue and blue tones, on the contrary, "distance" the walls from each other, increasing the room.

An important role is played by natural light. A small room with one window, covered with dark wallpaper, will turn into a gloomy cell. In small rooms with windows to the north, north-east and north-west, the wallpaper of light warm colors will look good: cream, lemon, beige. Also suitable are orange, orange-pink, golden, fawn, apricot, coffee, brown, chocolate, pink-yellow, light red shades of wallpaper. Attractively will look pale blue, light gray, pearl shades. It is interesting to look green tones with a predominance of yellow.

If the room windows face south or southeast,then the use of wallpaper saturated colors - golden-orange, dark-blue will compensate for excess light. In such rooms are appropriate wallpaper "cold" tones (blue, lilac, pink, blue, silvery, also all shades of green with a predominance of blue). Admissible deep and darker colors - bordeaux, aquamarine, terracotta.

Often, the color and pattern of the wallpaper will helpmask some wall defects. For example, small irregularities on the walls will perfectly smooth the light wallpaper with a soft fine ornament. More noticeable defects, beams, ledges (problems of all old houses) can be visually corrected by selecting wallpaper with a motley pattern.

If you are gluing several adjacent rooms andyou want diversity, you need to take into account some of the subtleties - in adjacent rooms, smooth transitions of color and tones will look good. For example, in a large room you can glue wallpapers of golden and terracotta tones, in a small one - beige or light lemon, and make the entranceway brown under the tree.

Of course, if planning allows and youtrust your taste, you can experiment and beat color contrasts, but in case of failure you risk getting a traffic light effect and, accordingly, discomfort.