Light shades of natural colors, simple motifs and a combination of aristocracy with rural simplicity - some such pictures arise when you are offered to describe the kitchen-living room in the style of Provence. At first glance it may seem that it is very simple to create it on your square meters. However, every detail from the tablecloth to the hood in such a kitchen will have to be chosen with a special predilection and pay attention to things in a certain style. What is a small kitchen in an urban apartment in the style of Provence or spacious in a large country house?
Decorating the kitchen in the style of Provence
So, you wondered about decorating your kitchen in country or provence style. Then we'll start our search for the characteristic pieces of furniture and household, decorating techniques, and also the choice of textiles.
Any renovation begins with the choice of wall and floor finishes. In our case, the kitchen will have to select wallpapers and tiles with elements of Provence. Wallpapers are less common, but in the end they look neither worse. Excellent will look in the kitchen in the style of the French Provence of small and medium-sized drawings. These can be small household items like spoons or teapots, the classic solution in the form of cells and flowers also remain relevant.
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If we talk about ceramic tiles, then usually for the kitchen use the imitation of stone, natural granite, also a provance tree will suit. Usually the shade for the floor is selected in such a way that it has a little in common with the beams on the ceiling. It is the massive and slightly rough beams that are also considered a characteristic element of the style. When decorating an apron for the kitchen, Provence also usually use tiles. This matte square elements, often with imitation frescoes, volumetric image.
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For registration of a provence to choose curtains on kitchen we shall necessarily from simple not synthetic fabric, in natural color scale. Typically, for the style of Provence in the kitchen use light flax, cotton or almost transparent natural material like cotton. From the pictures we stop on the cage, the vegetative elements, necessarily of medium-small sizes in simple execution. We will hang curtains in the kitchen of Provence on forged cornices, wooden massive ones will do. With regard to the type of curtains, then here will be appropriate as the classic curtains-cafes, and modern Roman, just drop-down with picks also fit into the overall picture.
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Furniture classic for kitchen Provence
Well, now actually about the headset. Traditionally for the kitchen choose furniture from the Provence series of white and cream shades. However, this is not the only option and you can safely look for furniture in pastel colors. For example, the blue palette of the cool spectrum, typical of the Provence, will fit perfectly into the kitchen of a country house. For the kitchen in the apartment is more suitable green, more accurately the color of olives, furniture Provence , as this color is often used to separate the rest of the premises.
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Even for the modern Provence, it is desirable to hide in the kitchen all domestic large and small equipment behind the wooden facades . For furniture in the kitchen-dining room Provence characterized by good quality and a sense of solidity. Such furniture is as if alive, not made at the factory in hundreds of copies. For white (and other shades) kitchen countertop in the style of Provence is to choose from natural materials such as stone or granite, the mosaic and ceramic tiles will perfectly fit. The best addition and at the same time the highlight of the kitchen-living room in the style of Provence will be the fittings and shelves of wrought iron. Also necessary for the design of the kitchen are looking for accessories in the style of Provence made of copper, white porcelain with a floral pattern, wooden decor elements.
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