Photo: instrurents.ru Boring monotonous shades have not been in fashion for several seasons. Complex, multifaceted colors come to the fore, playing completely differently in each interior. Including elegant turquoise in all its diversity from delicate pastel to dirty dark. Do you want something bright, but still elegant and not too flashy? Then the turquoise color in the interior is created just for you!
How does turquoise color affect a person?
This color is also called sea wave color. It is suitable for decorating living rooms. Associations associated with this color bring back pleasant memories associated with the sea and vacations.
Therefore, in such a living room it is pleasant to dream and make decisions regarding important issues in life. You can relax and recharge your batteries in it.
The main thing is not to overdo it with the use of color and combination with other shades, so that the design of the room is not provocative.
Turquoise color is used in various design styles. It can be the main one or used as an addition to another color. It needs to be combined with neutral shades so that it is fully revealed and perceived correctly. It can be the main one in a sunny and bright room.
If the room is not lit as it should be, then you need to think about artificial lighting to create coziness and remove dullness. The combination with warm shades also contributes to the creation of not only a beautiful design, but also removes gloom.
Lighting secrets
A certain lighting angle and its brightness can greatly affect the color and its perception. This is especially true for glossy surfaces and very bright shades - aquamarine, cyan, sea wave.
Light can change hue. For example, under a warm light stream, a green tint will appear, and a cold light stream will enhance the blue tint. If such scenarios are undesirable, then it is better to choose lamps with neutral or soft light.
Regardless of the color scheme, remember the basic rules for organizing lighting in the kitchen, which are stated below.
Artificial lighting should be uniform and sufficient. To do this, it is necessary to provide several light sources and correctly distribute the lamps across all main areas of the kitchen. At a minimum, it is necessary to provide lighting for the work area, dining area and basic, general lighting. The latter can be represented by one chandelier or several spotlights.
What colors to combine with
Turquoise is a color that can be combined with different color schemes. Each combination is unique and beautiful.
- White is considered a classic pairing with aquamarine. But in such a room there will be a cold atmosphere, which is diluted with yellow or green colors.
- To create a bohemian look in the living room, the color of aqua can be combined with gold and silver. This room looks luxurious and presentable.
- Mother of pearl can be used in decoration. These could be frames for photographs or paintings, figurines and pillows on the sofa, patterns on wallpaper and curtains.
- Chocolate shades look noble on aquamarine. In this tandem, you can use chocolate as the main color and cover the floor or walls with it, and choose turquoise furniture and dilute the design with snow-white curtains.
- Gray colors will complement a turquoise room with style and elegance. But this combination is considered cold, so it is better to dilute it with yellow curtains if the room’s windows do not face the sunny side.
- Black color goes harmoniously with aquamarine, but in this case you need to find the right combination so that the room does not become gloomy. It is good to use black decorative elements in the form of figurines, embossing on curtains or vases on a turquoise background. Such rooms are more suitable for men. Women prefer something lighter.
- Purple color in combination with turquoise creates a mystical image in the living room, so not everyone likes it.
- Although plum color goes well with sea green decor.
- Pink tones are suitable for decoration to bring the freshness of spring flowers into the interior. But you can’t overdo it with pink, so as not to turn the living room into a powder room.
- The orange tint will bring light and brightness to the room. This combination works well on the mood in cloudy weather. Orange is believed to bring comfort and can even treat depression.
General Features
The living room is considered the center and soul of the home, so the owners want to see it beautiful and comfortable. Turquoise will help solve this problem. She has a special captivating magical aura, she is reminiscent of exotic islands, she is considered the color of the sea on a cloudless summer day.
Decorative turquoise plaster in the living room Turquoise sofa in the living room design
Turquoise bay window curtains with floral pattern
The turquoise tone is elegance, boldness, freshness, sophistication, nobility, purity and romanticism.
Turquoise color in ethnic living room design
Turquoise living room
The basis of turquoise color is blue and green. However, turquoise has a multifaceted palette - it has many shades, tones and halftones: grassy, aquamarine, greenish-blue, blue-green.
Turquoise color is called the color of healing, mercy, faith, love. It has medicinal properties. For example, it relieves fatigue, panic, attacks of anger, and restores mental balance. Psychology experts advise taking a turquoise product with you when going to an important meeting. Ladies can wear jewelry with this enchanting stone.
Turquoise chest of drawers in the living room
Turquoise carpet in the living room
Turquoise is revered in different cultures. The Indians believed that it was a heavenly stone that could charge a person with vital energy and drive away evil spirits.
Turquoise chair in living room decor
Turquoise furniture in the living room interior
What style to use
Turquoise color can be used in various design styles, namely:
- In Scandinavian style using aquamarine as a finish and combined with white, blue and gray colors.
- In the Mediterranean, where turquoise is a natural color for such geographical places, and it is used as the main color, and is combined with white and blue.
- In high-tech it is used in tandem with gray shades.
- In French Provence, it is diluted with yellow and blue colors if used as the main color or as decoration and decoration.
- In a classic style with gold, silver and mother-of-pearl decor.
- In American modernism, the presence of white motifs against a turquoise background is mandatory.
Looking at the photo of the design in the color of sea green, we can safely say that you should not be afraid to use it in the design of the living room.
After all, if you choose the right combination of color and style, you can achieve excellent results. This color looks especially good in a room that has large windows and the floors are covered with light finishing material.
Decoration Materials
Pay attention to how cheap the interior is made of artificial materials in turquoise color - plastic, PVC. And this marine shade is revealed in a completely different way through noble natural materials - wood, ceramics, glass, stone, etc.
Wood painted turquoise in the interior will look more stylish and beautiful than plastic in the same shade, and cheap aquamarine wallpaper will look less advantageous than decorative plaster with a chaotic pattern, painted in the same color.
There are many more such comparisons that can be made, and you can clearly see this for yourself using the example of the interior photos below. Next, we’ll talk about whether it’s worth using turquoise in finishing materials, and how to do it correctly.
Floor, walls, ceiling
If you are not sure that this color will not get boring in a year or two, and its large content in the interior does not scare you, then you can buy wallpaper or paint in this shade.
It is not recommended to decorate all the walls in bright turquoise; it is better to choose only one plane for emphasis. Another option is to reduce the degree of color saturation; a paler shade can now be safely used in the design of all walls.
A non-standard solution is a bright turquoise floor, which can be obtained by laying tiles of this color or painting parquet boards. Colored linoleum or PVC tiles have their place, but if the material is of poor quality and cheap, it can greatly spoil the overall appearance.
Is it possible to make a turquoise ceiling? Easily, using stretch fabric, paint or a hanging structure. But the question is: is it worth it?
In a small kitchen or a kitchen with low ceilings, you should definitely abandon this idea and use more familiar, traditional solutions. In a spacious room with a high ceiling, this idea has a place, provided that the finishing materials are noble and natural (and, as a rule, expensive).
For example, a wooden ceiling painted turquoise will look beautiful in a Mediterranean-style kitchen.
You should not use plastic and cheap glossy PVC fabric to decorate the ceiling in this color.
Apron
You can focus on the apron by choosing ceramic tiles of the desired shade, mosaic or skins to decorate it.
The tiles laid out in a pattern with contrasting white or black grout look beautiful.
To bring together the color scheme of the interior, the shade of the apron can be supported by other interior elements, for example, by purchasing chairs or curtains in the same color.
Tabletop
The most successful and win-win tabletop design options:
- white or light with a tint and pattern similar to natural stone;
- gray for concrete or granite;
- under the tree.
Wood in its natural shade neutralizes the coldness and activity of turquoise, so a beech, oak or walnut countertop is the best solution if you want to add coziness, softness and warmth to the kitchen.
You can find successful combinations of cyan facades and black glossy countertops. For a kitchen in the Art Deco style, such an active and bright duo would be appropriate, but the glossy black countertop is very difficult to maintain. If practicality is of great importance to you, then when choosing a dark countertop, it is better to choose a matte dark gray rather than black.
What furniture to choose
In any living room, each owner selects the interior depending on his desires and preferences. But if this room is decorated in turquoise tones, then the choice of furniture must be approached responsibly in order to create a unique and at the same time unobtrusive design.
- If the living room is well lit, then furniture can be chosen in dark colors.
- But if the room faces north, then it is better to choose light furniture so as not to make the room even duller and gloomier.
- When there is turquoise wallpaper on the walls, you can choose beige and light brown colors for upholstered furniture and cabinets.
- Bright pillows are placed on the sofas to create a sunny mood.
- It is better to choose not heavy curtains for the windows, but to give preference to thin snow-white tulle.
- If you can’t do without curtains, then you can choose them with a gold or mother-of-pearl pattern.
- If the room is decorated in other colors, then turquoise furniture with the addition of light colors will elegantly decorate the living room.
What decor to choose
No living room is complete without decorative items. Therefore, its choice must also be approached responsibly so as not to harm the overall picture of the perception of the interior.
- Gold frames on paintings hung on turquoise walls look gorgeous and rich.
- Spotlights and sconces on the walls illuminate the darkest corners of the room and create coziness.
- A glass chandelier with the addition of gilded decorative elements and a large number of light bulbs will completely illuminate the room in the evening and create a festive atmosphere.
Decorative elements are easier and cheaper to create coziness and beauty in the living room than to re-paste wallpaper to match the chosen decor.
Therefore, if you decide to live in a turquoise room for some time, then you can involve specialist designers who know all the subtleties of combinations of styles and colors in choosing the decor.
