Imagine that there is the most beautiful sunset in the world. This is the romantic style of Santorini Island in Greece. It is natural and rustic, but it is refreshing and romantic in the Mediterranean style. From the vision, you can perceive the slow pace of leisure. If you want to enjoy the Aegean-style leisure life, you don't need to take a dozen hours to arrive by plane, master the key points of planning, open the door, and live in a Mediterranean style.

Mediterranean Style Home

Line

Natural Mediterranean style is not limited to neat line cutting. It is common to feel the natural feel of hand plastered walls, and through classic doors and windows lines such as arches, semi-arches and horseshoes, the Mediterranean style is more in place.

 Natural Mediterranean style

Color

The color that best represents the Mediterranean style, of course, is the combination of blue and white. From the color system, you can feel the leisurely feeling of the blue sky and the sea. Then, the color of the natural stone is used to present the image of the stone road, and it is scattered in the field. Ample daylight.

Naturally show the romantic feelings of Mediterranean style. There are also yellow, khaki and reddish brown to match.

Khaki and Reddish Brown

Material

In a Mediterranean-style home, it includes furniture software such as curtains, sofas, table cloths and bedding.

They are mainly made of natural cotton and linen fabrics, and the idyllic Mediterranean style can choose small floral, plaid or striped patterns with low chroma on the fabric, with rounded wooden furniture.

Mediterranean-style Home

Handmade Jewelry

The Mediterranean-style home pursues the simple temperature of the natural touch. Therefore, the ornaments are mainly decorated with handicrafts, iron castings and other handicrafts, including model ships, anchors, wooden accessories, marine life... and other marine-style accessories. In addition, small stones, mosaic tiles, glass beads and other elements are often used to decorate.

Handmade Jewelry

Greenery

Indoor green planting is also an important part of the Mediterranean style, allowing vine plants to be attached to the wall porch.

Or place lush landscape plants next to the rattan rocking chair, and potted plants on the coffee table fireplace, which can create a natural atmosphere in the home space.

Greenery

The Mediterranean-style decoration technique has very distinctive features. For example, the furniture should be made of wooden furniture with low chroma, simple lines and rounded edges. The ground is covered with terracotta or slate. Indoors, curtains, doilies, sofa covers, lampshades, etc. are dominated by low-color shades and cotton fabrics. The elegant small fine floral striped lattice pattern is the main style.

Mediterranean-style Decoration

In the Mediterranean style, there are 3 typical color combinations according to the region. Blue and white: This is a typical Mediterranean color combination. The coasts of Spain and Morocco extend to Greece, the east coast of the Mediterranean. The white villages of Greece are connected with the beach, the blue sea and the blue sky. Earth yellow and reddish brown: This is the natural landscape color unique to North Africa, such as desert, rocks, mud, sand, etc., complemented by the deep red and indigo of North African native plants, plus brass, it brings a land-like sense of vastness.

The Mediterranean-style decoration technique has very distinctive features. For example, the furniture should be made of wooden furniture with low chroma, simple lines and rounded edges. The ground is covered with terracotta or slate. Mosaic inlays and collages are relatively gorgeous decorations in the Mediterranean style. Mainly use materials such as small stones, ceramic tiles, shellfish, glass flakes, glass beads, etc., and then creatively combine after cutting. Indoors, curtains, doilies, sofa covers, lampshades, etc. are dominated by low-color shades and cotton fabrics. The elegant small fine floral striped lattice pattern is the main style. The unique forged iron furniture is also a unique aesthetic product of the Mediterranean style. At the same time, Mediterranean-style homes should also pay attention to greening, creeping plants and green potted plants are common home plants.

Mediterranean-style Decoration

Every romantic person desires to live in a world facing the sea and spring, and the Mediterranean Sea is such a wonderful place. The buildings there have a color that blends with the sea and the sea. Facing the sea, there are lavender. .... I believe you also like such a beautiful Mediterranean.

More and more urban people are tired of the busy and uniform living environment of the city, and the home is a harbor for the soul, so some casual home styles are more and more used in decorative design. The Mediterranean style does not have the glory of European style, no modern dazzling, and only a simple life.

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The Scandinavian style is designed to be unfeeling and unattractive, and perhaps this color matching principle is the only difference.

After seeing a lot of pictures of home furnishing, I also want to make my home into an authentic Scandinavian style model room, paint a large white wall, and buy explosive furniture, but I always feel so bad. So here comes a multi-dimensional talk about how to make your home a comfortable, pleasant and sustainable Scandinavian style.

Sustainable Scandinavian style

How to match colors

Color matching is one of the most distinctive characteristics of the Nordic style. It is usually based on white, with main colors such as gray and wood color, supplemented by a small amount of solid colors as an embellishment. The overall trend is to light colors, giving a clean and bright feeling.

Solid Colors

Color Matching Ratio

Only by paying attention to proportion can we highlight the key points. The background color accounts for 60%, the main color accounts for 30%, and the embellishment color accounts for 10%. It is the most conservative and error-free choice.

White is the background, wood color and gray are the main body, and green is the embellishment.

Color Matching Ratio

Background color

That is the color of the walls and roof. Located in the Arctic Circle, the long winter and night make the Nordic people cherish the sun more. White has the strongest ability to reflect light, so it has become the most iconic color of the Nordic wind.

Color of the Nordic Wind

In addition to white, you can also use gray, Morandi colors (some neutral colors with very low saturation).

Morandi colors

The bedroom is a place to sleep, and the requirements for light are much lower. The walls do not need to be so bright to reflect the light. Sometimes, they are bold and the wall color is not too heavy.

Bold Colors

Main color

The vegetation coverage in the Nordic area is quite high, so in the life of the Nordic people, there are many wooden floors, and the color of the wood is an indispensable color. The wood color floor is almost versatile, and can match well with the above various wall colors.

In addition, the furniture can be echoed with the floor, which is conducive to the unification of the overall style, such as sofas with wooden legs, coffee tables, and wooden cabinets.

Wooden Floors

Embellishment color

Bright colors such as candy colors are mainly used to increase the brightness of the room and break the monotony. They can be carpets, pillows, or small furniture. The use area is not much, the purpose is to "finish the finishing touch".

Scandinavian Vegetation Coverage

How to choose furniture

Scandinavian furniture looks very simple. The more "simple", the more carefully thought out the design, and ultimately the coexistence of aesthetics and practicality. What you see is what you use, no more cumbersome decoration.

Scandinavian Furniture

Furniture Material

The Nordic forests are rich in resources, which determines that the furniture of the Nordic style is mainly solid wood. Of course, it is not limited to solid wood. Materials such as cloth, iron, and acrylic are common. Use more mashups, it is easier to show the desired effect.

Scandinavian Furniture

Furniture color

In the choice of furniture colors, we must adhere to the style characteristics of the Nordic style, mix the wood color and white, and use appropriate neutral colors to enrich the level of the space; use bright colors in individual places to highlight the vitality of the space; And small items can form an echo in color.

Furniture Color

How to choose a carpet

The existence of the carpet is usually to highlight the style of the furniture. To put it bluntly, it is the supporting role in the home, but it is like a scene where the conflict between the protagonist and the supporting role appears to be ups and downs, and the combination of carpets and furniture in the space seems to be rich. full. And the soft nature of the carpet makes the home more casual and lazy.

Scandinavian Carpet

How to choose lamps

Lamps and lanterns are one of the important tools for creating an atmosphere in the home. Choosing a lamp, even if the bland furniture combination, may also bring visual impact. The materials of the Nordic style lamps are flexible and changeable, as long as the lines are simple and smooth, iron, glass, wood, PVC can be tried.

 Lamps are Flexible and Changeable

How to choose green plants

Because the Nordic style pursues natural ecology, green plants are an essential decoration. In the selection of varieties, the main focus is on tall and large green leaves, which form a bright large color block, which brings vitality to the white-dominated space.

Jean Ficus Cunia

Jean ficus cunia, the the number one net red plant in the world. Because the leaves are shaped like violins and the plants are shaped like lollipops, they easily capture the hearts of literary men and women, but Jean ficus cunia is also famous for being squeamish and difficult to support.

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Mixing Styles Scandinavian Japanese Minimalist Home Tour

First, let's take a look at the theme of Nordic style: simplicity. This is also the main place that is easily confused with Japanese style. We know that the emphasis on Nordic style "simple" emphasizes the practicality and comfort of the overall interior space. The reason for continuing this view is that the political, economic, and cultural environment of the Nordic countries is closely related to the natural human environment. In the 1920s, Northern Europe spawned a modernist movement, and the Nordic style began to add color.

In the mid-twentieth century, the economy developed rapidly. People continued the simple aesthetics and paid attention to practicability, forming a pleasing Nordic style, which is still used today.

Scandinavian Style

Let's talk about the simplicity of Japanese style. The core of the Japanese-style minimalist theme lies in a "Zen" character. This is also the theme of all Japanese style design. Although sometimes there are different combinations, imitations, and borrowings in the designer's hand, and there are innovations and uniqueness. But they cannot do without this "Zen". It can be said here that it is complementary to the religious culture of Japan, and its main purpose is to reflect a kind of silent beauty.

Japan is a country that is good at imitating. After the Industrial Revolution, many cultures were "learned" from other countries, but it is not a simple reference, but it is integrated into the unique things of its own country and innovated to form a unique style.

Japanese Design

Generally, the overall home improvement style of the Nordic style is mainly black and white and gray, and some colorful colors are added to embellish it. However, most of the designers enrich the monotonous feeling of the space on the basis of simplicity and achieve saturation. The effect of perfect degree and obvious publicity. Common color combinations in Northern Europe: black and white gray, pink with gray, white with green, blue with gray, white with wood color, yellow with gray, etc.

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The color tone of Japanese style is much different from that of Northern Europe. Because the color tone of Japanese style is rigorous. His colors are mainly used to achieve soft, restrained, quiet and fresh effects. And good at using logs as the main color base, other color matching is also mainly configured for its proximity.

And the Japanese-style white wall is slightly different from Northern Europe. The white wall in Northern Europe is pure white, while the Japanese-style white wall is off-white.

Japanese Design

In terms of hard clothes and soft clothes, the Nordic style of home furnishing is relatively lively and free, unlike the Japanese style, which is not strictly rigorous to achieve "zen". Although it is also based on raw wood materials, the main purpose of matching other materials, such as metal, glass and silica, is to create a viewing angle effect with a variety of furniture colors.

Scandinavian Style

The furniture for Japanese hard and soft furniture is relatively fixed. It mainly focuses on logs and bamboo, rattan, cotton, hemp and other natural materials, with elegant colors.

The Scandinavian style is simple, direct, comfortable, free and practical. It combines minimalism with modern industrial design and embodies the green, environmentally friendly and people-oriented design concept on the second floor.

Ferm living

Generally, it adopts clear lines. The rooms are elegantly and cleanly furnished, with a strong geometric sense. The wooden door, translucent camphor paper and tatami wood floor Style characteristics.

Japanese Room Decorations