Want to create the kitchen of your dreams?How about Scandinavian style? Today we will show you 25 beautiful Scandinavian kitchens, tell you about their main features and share practical design tips. Scandinavian style is gaining more and more popularity every day, including in Russia. It captivates with its laconic forms, extraordinary lightness, naturalness and simplicity. If you want your kitchen to be functional, cozy and without any pretentiousness, Scandinavian style will be just right. Let's look at its main features using real examples.
Scandinavian style is perfect forkitchens of various sizes and layouts. A spacious room will look even more airy, with such a stylistic solution you can emphasize its size.
But still, the most useful for you will bethis style if you have a small kitchen, because you can visually enlarge the space, make it more ergonomic and bright. So feel free to use the Scandinavian style if you want to "squeeze" the maximum out of your "baby".
The most popular color for Scandinavian kitchen interior design is white. You have probably noticed that it is a kind of business card of this style.
Black is most often used in combination with white,This solution allows you to highlight some details, make the space more spectacular and graphic. Some highlight only small objects, and the bravest even dare to use dark color in large quantities.
Sometimes you want to get away from all thissnow-white, then gentle pastel shades will come to the rescue. In addition to white and black, the Scandinavian style allows the use of other colors. A kitchen with furniture in barely perceptible blue tones looks very harmonious.
Kitchen set in pastel mint shadealso looks quite unusual, but at the same time stylish and appropriate. The main thing is not to overload the space with a large number of bright colors, let them appear only in the form of small accents. Otherwise, Scandinavian magic will not work.
Please note that in Scandinavian kitchensQuite often, the upper modules of the kitchen set are missing, thus it is possible to “lighten” the space and fill it with even more light.
If you don’t want to leave this space completely empty, you can make open shelves, which look visually lighter than closed upper cabinets.
Another characteristic feature of Scandinaviankitchen, and indeed any room in this style - an abundance of natural wood. It adds warmth and coziness, without it there may be a feeling that something is missing.
Natural earthy tones will also help create a warmer atmosphere with their presence.
In the decoration of Scandinavian kitchens it is very commonbrick is present. This simple material can instantly transform a room, it will help make the space more textured and shade the white interior.
You can decorate one wall with brick, making itaccent of the room. And what about the apron? Also quite an interesting option. Our editorial team, however, would advise covering it with a sheet of glass on top, to make it more practical.
If you don’t want to bother with brick, you can go another way, using tiles called “metro” or “hog”.
In addition, the apron in a Scandinavian kitchen can be presented in a variety of designs: from glass to mosaic.
The floor in a Scandinavian interior is mostlyIn some cases, it is covered with light wood planks or laminate. Choose a covering that will blend in with the rest of the interior and will not attract special attention.
The floor should serve as a backdrop for furniture and fabrics,it can even be called the fifth wall. By the way, a board painted white looks very nice. You will get a great result - all the boundaries of the room are blurred and the kitchen seems much larger than it actually is.
To prevent the floor from looking cold and uncomfortable, it is enough to lay a small cute rug. Choose something colorful, this will also liven up the white kitchen.
Scandinavians treat striped black and white rugs with special love and trepidation. Elegant and universal, nothing to say.
A good alternative to wooden floors orThe laminate will be made of tiles laid out in a checkerboard pattern. Speaking of the color combination, it should be said that here the classic of the genre is white in combination with black.
Why not add a little brightness to your Scandinavian kitchen? A deep yellow lamp would be perfect here.
Or it could be bright textiles paired with a painting on the wall. Fresh flowers also do a good job in this role.
Have you noticed that almost all of themAre there no curtains or blinds on the windows in the photos? This is also a distinctive feature of Scandinavian interiors. If "bare" windows are a taboo for you, hang light curtains made of translucent fabric that will let in as much natural light as possible.
And finally: we shouldn’t forget that Scandinavian cuisine loves minimalism.
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Kitchen in Scandinavian style: features and interior elements
