When decorating homes, designers use complex shapes, artificial materials and bright colors, the abundance of which is tiring for the psyche. In contrast to modern trends, the rustic style gravitates towards naturalness and simplicity. To recreate the design in a country house or apartment, you need to understand the features of the direction.
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What is rustic style: main features
This direction gravitates towards country, chalet and, to some extent, Provence style designs. The difference is that “rustic” rooms do not have elaborate decor and complex design elements. Therefore, visually it looks more rough than the above trends, somewhat reminiscent of an old house in the village: it has its own soul, but can easily accommodate modern technologies and amenities.
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The interior does not need to be specially “combed” or embellished. All beauty is in primitiveness. Here are some other differences between the rustic style:
- The real roughness of natural materials. The wood will not be sanded to perfect smoothness and evenness. Clay products will also have their original roughness.
- The interior colors are clay, wood, splashes of green, pastel shades of turquoise.
- Large furniture, not distinguished by grace. Massive legs of chairs and tables, untreated saw cuts or a piece of stone instead of a tabletop are accents of a rustic interior.
- Modern household appliances (and even kitchen appliances) are hidden under a facade that matches the direction. If this is not done, electronics will stand out from the overall picture and turn a stylish home into a sloppy old house.
- The ceiling is that part of the interior that receives little attention. The smoothness of tensile structures or drywall is unacceptable here: only natural finishes, ideally open wooden beams.
- Fireplace block. It will create an atmosphere of comfort and warmth, but without being too modern and pretentious. Ideally, a natural design with a chimney.
Details
If your apartment has high ceilings, and you want to use this height to organize storage, you need to have a stepladder on hand. What if we make it part of the interior? A wooden staircase, as if borrowed from a dacha, will become a nice element of rustic style in any room and will decorate it. And when you need its functional component, you won’t have to go far.
By the way, such a ladder will make an excellent hanger or shelves. More ideas: “Stairs and stepladders in the service of design.”
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Features of rustic style - materials and finishes
The interiors of houses and apartments are reminiscent of antiquity. The design direction will be better revealed in spacious rooms. When decorating the space, natural materials are used, so despite all the visual simplicity, the interior is very expensive.
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The rustic style uses a lot of wood. Both stained oak and elegant cherry are suitable for wall decoration. With minimal processing of raw materials, small cracks and knots are left on the surface. If wood is used in a nursery or bedroom, then the material is sanded and covered with stain. The massive beams on the ceiling look darkened with age.
The design does not welcome the glossy shine of varnish, granite or marble. For cladding, stone (sandstone, quartz), brick or gypsum imitations are used. Rough, uncouth elements have a “natural” shape. Ceramic tiles with a uniform texture are often placed on the floor.
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In the rustic style, metal is used in doses. There are no chrome or gold plated surfaces in the interior; there is bronze and brass with a patinated effect. Artificially aged or forged elements fit harmoniously into the design:
- headboards;
- lamp stands;
- furniture fittings;
- decorative grilles.
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In a rustic style, traditional finishing materials can be used to decorate walls. Paper or liquid wallpaper with a voluminous surface looks original. When using decorative plaster, they leave handprints or traces of spatulas.
When decorating a room in a country house, the ceiling is opened as much as possible and decorated with beams. In limited space, designers recommend whitewashing the area or using light wood panels. The room should feel large and spacious.
Color palette
Rustic style completely excludes the use of bright colors, unnatural textures and shades. The gamma is created using the following colors:
- all shades of wood (wenge, cherry, bleached oak, ash, alder, etc.);
- sand;
- dry herbs:
- all shades of stone;
- earth and clay.
When using wood, it is not recommended to paint it or shade it with unnatural colors. It is permissible to change the color using stain, and cover the surfaces only with varnish.
Applying style in the house and apartment
The rustic style works well in the open spaces of a private home with no partitions between the living room and dining room/dining room and hallway/kitchen and living room. Rooms created in the same manner seem to flow into each other, creating a unique composition. Of course, such an effect is quite difficult to achieve in an apartment limited by small rooms and fairly narrow passages between them.
Living room
A rustic living room is a place for warm meetings with friends, evening gatherings with a glass of wine by the fireplace. And designers advise diluting the deliberate roughness of surfaces with elements such as a soft sofa and armchairs made of leatherette or nubuck. A rug without flashy decor in muted colors near the fireplace will also soften the interior.
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In a rustic style room, there is no place for elegant coffee tables: instead, rough wooden boxes or small tables with sawn wood instead of a table top are suitable.
The traditional wardrobe will also have to be abandoned. Designers advise paying attention to antique chests or chests of drawers made of natural wood.
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It is difficult to imagine a rustic style in the interior without a warm fireplace. It can be either built into the wall or used as a zoning element if the space cannot boast of size.
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Bedroom
With a shortage of useful squares, it is difficult to create a rustic style. Instead of cladding with wood and stone, wallpaper (plaster) is used, which visually replicates the texture of the material. The ceiling has whitewash and decorative panels resembling beams. The color palette is light, in warm (sunny) tones.
Furniture
The furniture chosen is rough, high-quality, and decorated in an antique style. Her lines are deliberately simple - smoothness and elegance are practically absent. The main material is natural wood, but high-quality imitation is acceptable. The presence of carved elements and colored stained glass is welcome, but not required. Forged metal parts will decorate and diversify the overall appearance of the rooms. Various fabrics are used for upholstery of upholstered furniture, mainly natural, plain, leather, leatherette.
Amateurs make part of the furniture from available materials - round timber, clapboards, slabs, Euro pallets. The board is preferably thick, wide - from 40 mm thick, from 200 mm wide. Complex designs should be abandoned - modular, transformable, folding furniture is completely inappropriate.
The abundance of open shelves, on which cute pictures in frames, clay, bone, and porcelain figurines are placed, creates a real homely feeling.
What can you combine the rustic style with?
The brutality of the style can be softened by combining wall decoration with different materials in the same color scheme. You can also carefully leave some decorative items - photographs in frames (not as rough as other interior items). Small bouquets of dried flowers are hung on the walls.
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Against the background of massive and rough furniture, textiles in light shades, light covers on chairs and linen curtains on the windows, and blankets made in patchwork style look good.
Colors
Even without using solid wooden tables, you can make the interior a little rustic: just choose a neutral, natural color scheme. All shades of wood and earth are suitable, a white base and the absence of bright color accents, except for small splashes of greenery. In the photo below, only the basket and bowl on the coffee table directly refer to rustic, but the atmosphere can be read perfectly.
Rustic style of a wooden house
The rustic style is often used in the design of wooden houses, since it is in them that the full potential of the direction is revealed: in such a house one feels warmth, comfort and maximum closeness to nature. Wall decoration does not hide valuable space, because, as a rule, there is a lot of it.
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If there are no finished beams on the ceiling, it is dismantled and the rafter structures are left bare. They can be whitewashed if you want to visually raise the ceiling level.
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More warmth? Fireplace!
The fireplace is not just the semantic center of the room around which the composition is built. He is also responsible for the atmosphere.
Rustic is not about a universal interior. This is about an atmosphere that is not suitable for everyone. Before you decide on a wood-rich interior, try testing it on a country trip or vacation. Stay in such a house for a few days or maybe weeks. To understand whether you like textures and massiveness, or do you still want something lighter? The interior we dream about is not always the interior that suits us. So be careful!
Classification of wooden fencing
Before you start building a fence, you need to decide on the answers to the following questions:
- purpose of the fence;
- its height and type;
- opening method;
- whether any other materials will be used;
- what fence posts are planned from;
- type of wood;
- price.
Wooden fences can be of the following types:
- Christmas tree. The design in this case is similar to solid siding. But, if you look closely, you can see gaps. This rather unusual design looks quite impressive.
- Classic. It is a tightly fitted canvas consisting of vertically or horizontally arranged boards. The base is a foundation made of brick or stone. The pillars can be made of brick, wood, metal or stone.
- Wattle fence. This type of fencing creates warm emotions like no other. The first mentions of it go back centuries. Pletni are distinguished by their unique decorative effect.
- Ranch. This type of fence originated in the USA. It originally served as a cattle fence. But today there are also beautiful variations that can be safely used to fence a site.
- Lattice. This is one of the most original fence options. Such structures look light and airy and can serve as a decoration for the area.
- Palisade Has a long history. Nowadays it is usually used exclusively for decorative purposes.
- Fence. Such fences are the most common. Their popularity is so great that in addition to wood, they also produce metal picket fences. A wooden picket fence is a structure made of picket fences, which can have different sizes.
- Chess. This is a combination of three types of fences: a regular picket fence, a classic fence and a picket fence. The essence is a picket fence nailed in 2 rows. The fence turns out to be blank.
Decor, textiles, accessories
The most acceptable decorative items are unglazed clay dishes, ceramic bells, whistles, and panels. Wooden crafts and items woven from wicker also look organic. The windows are often decorated with blinds made of rice straw and reeds, and there is a reed mat on the floor that occupies the entire center of the room. Curtains in calm gray-beige-brown shades are designed to protect from daylight, but should not become an independent decor or have a lot of decorations, lace, and flounces. Straight, plain, to the floor are preferred.
The fabrics used are mainly natural - cotton, silk, linen, wool. Rugs woven, hand-woven, knitted or made using the patchwork technique, bedspreads, blankets, blankets, and pillows are welcome. The skin of any animal or its imitation will complement the interior.
Potted plants in clay pots are used as decoration. They are selected as similar as possible to those that grow in temperate climates - birch, geranium, violets, jasmine, tradescantia, ragwort, nephrolepis, indoor roses. Palm trees, cacti, and other succulents are completely out of place.
Non-standard methods of fastening boards
Does simple vertical fastening of boards seem too primitive and boring to you? No problem, there are many more interesting solutions!
For example, you can assemble a fence using the wattle fence principle. The boards are attached in a curved state. Trying to straighten out, they will fit quite tightly to the support pillars.
Another great option is to fill the space between the supports with wood siding. We fasten the sheathing boards starting from the bottom, maintaining a 25 mm overlap.
Fences made in the form of blinds look no less original. By laying the boards with a downward slope towards the street, you will create an invisible fence that is resistant to wind loads.
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The boards can also be nailed at the ends. To perform the highest quality cladding, we first make markings on each rack.
If metal posts are installed, they can be hidden by sheathing the posts on both sides. We close the metal supports on top with wooden plugs.
If desired, you can make the fence more original using wooden support posts. We make inclined cuts-grooves in the supports, and then insert the ends of the lamellas into them. Additionally, we fasten each strip with self-tapping screws. To hide the fastening points, we cover the screws with wooden covers. We crown the upper part of the supports with plugs.
To make the fence look more original and modern, we can fill the boards with a small gap (up to 15 mm). At the same time, the narrower the boards are (of course, within reasonable limits), the more interesting the fence design will be.
You can also use boards of different widths. When choosing this cladding method, be sure to ensure that the pattern on adjacent sections matches.
There are a lot of options for designing a wooden fence. Choose the one you like and start building the fence. You already have all the knowledge necessary for this.
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Good luck!
Variety of options
The modern atmosphere implies smoothed and fuzzy corners, the use of tempered glass, and decorative brick. Good results are also achieved when using natural stone, ceramic tiles or mosaics. These materials have almost completely replaced wooden floors from use, since they are not only stronger and more practical, but also look much better. Fireplaces and isolated sections of walls are covered with stone.
Wooden doors also recede under the pressure of glass structures. They provide an elegant appearance and are completely functional at the same time. If the concept does not include wood in the decoration at all, this is the solution that turns out to be optimal for customers. Art Nouveau (another name for Art Nouveau, generally accepted in countries of Romanesque culture) is characterized by the active use of plant motifs and blurred contour lines. It is possible (and even necessary!) to deliberately break symmetry if it helps to make a certain object more unique, inimitable in appearance.
Half-timbered buildings are much older than modernism, and the appearance of buildings designed in this way leaves no one indifferent. The fabulous and romantic concept of a gingerbread house has had admirers for over 800 years. A characteristic feature is the beams protruding outward. For the first time such an idea was invented in the mountains of Bavaria, but later it was picked up in other states.
It is also worth noting such a possible option as the Alpine style, also known as the chalet style. The spirit of a ski resort and serene mountain peaks is relatively easy to transfer to a bathhouse. But it is important to take into account that its construction will be quite expensive - after all, you will need to form a high base made of natural stone.
