Today we will tell you about wall niches that are notnot only help to beautifully store all sorts of trinkets, but also visually expand the space. It is always pleasant to sort out holiday gifts: you tear open the gift wrapping, and there is... a long-awaited addition to your favorite collection of porcelain frogs, for example. Or a poster with the first Soviet advertisement. Now it remains to decide where to place the dear copy. You can, of course, buy a mahogany cabinet, or you can organize an exhibition in the living room, making a niche in the wall. This is a unique addition to the interior, which will also save a lot of space. How? Read in our article.
The first niches were dug in the walls of buildings in the southcountries where they were built from clay. They had a decorative rather than functional basis: various decorations were stored in the recesses. The style of the niche should depend on the design of the room itself. For interiors designed in country style, niches are decorated with wood or painted in a shade close to the main palette of the space. Niches can also slightly adjust the interior, for example, soften the setting with their rounded shapes. And niches are filled with anything - from crystal vases to heavy ancient folios.
In the bedroom, a shallow wall niche can becomean excellent gallery for family photos. The niches in the headboard of the bed will replace the nightstand: you can place an alarm clock, a phone with a charger, a lamp, candles and much more in them. In a deep niche, it is convenient to place equipment and hide numerous wires.
Niches in the living room can not only transformher, but also to organize an additional functional zone. A good option is to make several symmetrical illuminated recesses in the wall and fill them with things dear to the heart. If in the evening you turn off the main lighting and turn on only the niche lighting, the atmosphere of the room will completely change. And if there is not enough space in the living room for a bookcase, you can place several volumes in the niche and put an armchair with a floor lamp next to it - here you have a reading corner.
Niches can not only perform a decorative function, but also serve as a source of multi-level lighting. This will make the living room more dynamic, lively and interesting.
Modern minimalist interiors are more logicalall will be complemented by niches of strict geometric shape. As for the color scheme, with its help the niche can be accentuated or "hidden" in the main shade of the palette, highlighting the recesses only with backlighting.
Wall niches may differ from each otherby shape and have a different number of recesses. If these are shelves along the entire wall, then an exhibition of items from the collection will look good on them. In order to protect things dear to the heart from dust, the niche should be closed with glass doors.
More than a wall: wall niches
