If not everyone, then most people love the sea. In every person, the sea awakens its own associations: beach holidays or travel, the adventures of pirates or the discoveries of pioneers, modern liners or ancient galleons.
But for everyone, without exception, the sea is always wonderful and positive. A room in a nautical style will become cozy place for those who like to dream, this style is perfect for decorating a nursery, office, living room or bedroom.
Modern designers distinguish three types of marine style:
- Beach bungalow. Indispensable for those who love lying on the beach. The interior should give the impression of a tropical hut, so the number of items in the room is minimal; natural materials are used in decoration - bamboo, rattan.
- Yacht. Most popular look nautical style, which allows you to turn a room into a cabin or a captain's bridge.
- A summer house on the seaside is intended for relaxation, so the interior is dominated by light colors, light wicker furniture and translucent fabrics are used.
Advice: you need to clearly decide what type of nautical style will be implemented in the room in order to avoid bad taste and confusion.
Decorating a room in a marine style
Choosing a color palette
When creating a living room, children's room or bedroom in a marine style, designers advise choosing the right color scheme, which determines the character of the room.
Of course, the main color is white, it is necessarily present in any case.
- Beach colors are blue, cyan, sunny yellow, sand, which are diluted with red, grass, cherry.
- Colors such as:
- dark blue and blue;
- black;
- gray;
- bright red, as well as green and yellow, are used as accents.
- House on the coast. The interior contains:
- warm wood tones;
- blue;
- turquoise;
- azure;
- coral;
- For color accents- bright yellow, blue.
In this case, not pure white is used, but shades of ivory, linen, and cream.
Finishing materials
When creating an interior in a marine style, it is necessary to use high-quality natural materials, because the finishing harmonizes the interior, giving style completeness. IN in this case plastics and plastics are used only if they successfully imitate natural finishing materials.
If you choose a marine-style room design, the photos in the gallery will help you determine suitable finishing options.
- Walls. You can decorate the walls either on a budget or using expensive finishing textured materials. Options:
- painting with water-based paint;
- wallpaper finishing - plain or paintable;
- combined materials - light tinted ones are placed up to half the wall wood panels or lining, above - wallpaper or painting.
Note! To implement a marine style, it is good to make one wall the color and texture accent of the room.
To do this:
- a mural is created, maps, sailboats, a compass rose, a steering wheel or a view of the ocean from a porthole are depicted on the wall;
- the wall is plastered under a sandy surface, inclusions of shells are possible;
- painted or pasted over with bright wallpaper, including stripes or checkered ones;
- lay out a mosaic from small ceramic tiles or natural stones.
- Floor. It leaves a feeling of warm, pleasant to the touch, so the material is selected accordingly:
- bleached parquet board or laminate;
- maple, ash or bamboo batten;
- ceramic tiles imitating shells, pebbles, sand;
- self-leveling floors with a 3D effect that recreates the sea surf;
- cork;
- low-pile sand-colored carpet.
- A properly designed ceiling maintains stylistic unity. Ceiling finishing is done in different ways:
- plastering and painting white or light blue color(painting dark blue is not recommended, as it negatively affects people’s mental state);
- multi-level plasterboard structures;
- suspended ceilings in white or with a marine pattern;
- a combined method - drywall and PVC film, which allows you to create a view from the porthole of the starry sky or the expanse of the sea;
- wood - light boards with which the ceiling is sheathed, or beams on which a hammock or ropes are attached.
Lighting
To support the nautical style, lighting fixtures either neutral, white, or deliberately antique, with copper or steel trim are selected.
Depending on the purpose of the room, different lamps are needed:
- Wall lamps in the shape of sea creatures look good in the nursery;
- in the living room - an antique chandelier-fan, with copper blades or a sconce-wheel or anchor;
- in the bedroom there are fishing lanterns or lamps decorated with pearls and shells.
Marine style room design
Arranging any room in the apartment in the style of sea open spaces or beach holiday, special attention should be paid to the choice of furniture. In this case, products made of plastic, glass, metal, heavy and elaborate in shape, with many decorations are not suitable. It is better to purchase wicker or wooden furniture of simple geometric shapes.
Furniture products are decorated with light abrasions and aging. The color scheme is predominantly soft, pastel shades of brown, blue, turquoise, sand, or even better, just white.
The marine style is maintained in the room not by the number of accessories, but by their quality. The more natural and natural they look, the better. The following items will decorate the room:
- compass, barometer;
- a mirror designed as a porthole;
- collection of sea knots;
- vases with seafood - shells, multi-colored sand;
- thematic paintings and photographs;
- souvenirs brought from a cruise or summer vacation;
- sofa cushions to match the style.
Textiles match the interior. Therefore, the windows are decorated with light curtains made of canvas, linen or thin transparent fabrics. In one case, rope knots serve as grabs, in the other, shell-shaped grabs are used.
Important! The design of a room is largely determined by the carpeting.
Cotton carpets with images of ships, anchors, sea animals, as well as with a wavy pattern or stripes fit well into the marine style.
Marine style room for a boy
Depending on the child’s wishes, the room is designed as follows:
- cabins of a respectable yacht;
- pirate sailing ship;
- modern liner;
- warship.
Based on the option, materials for decorating walls, floors and ceilings, as well as colors, are selected.
Advice: don’t get carried away with blue and white colors - it makes the room boring.
A dedicated wall looks interesting, on which a painting is applied depicting an ancient map of the world, or photo wallpaper with a seascape is pasted.
You can cover the walls with white boards, creating the impression of a real cockpit.
A room for a boy in a nautical style (photos of various options are offered) should have a number of decorative elements that maintain stylistic unity. They could be:
- models of ancient ships;
- wooden or forged chest;
- signal flags;
- flags of different countries;
- ship's bell;
- helm-clock;
- maps, globe.
Whatever version of the nautical style is chosen for implementation, the boy will find it useful sports corner, where there is always a rope and a rope ladder. A hammock stretched across the room looks interesting (and can also be used for its intended purpose).
Marine style room for a girl
Optimal for a young beauty suitable option“House on the coast”, providing an abundance of light draperies, elegant furniture and charming decor in pastel colors.
Such a room should be bright, it is good if it is oriented to the south or southwest. Large windows slightly covered with light curtains made of thin fabrics, such as muslin. If you need to protect the room from light, it is better to hang horizontal blinds with wooden slats.
The floors and walls are finished with light materials; it is preferable to use the following colors:
- white warm tones;
- coral;
- sand;
- azure;
- a strip combining variations of these tones.
The floor and walls should give the impression of being bleached in the hot sun, warm and pleasant to the touch. Therefore, most often the walls are painted or covered with discreet wallpaper, and parquet, boards or laminate are laid on the floor.
Note! Of particular importance is correct selection furniture items.
Such a room in a marine style (photos of the best interior designs are offered in the gallery) is often furnished with wooden or wicker furniture made from bamboo and rattan. For furniture, worn wood of white, ocher or light brown colors is used. Products made of plastic, glass, chromed metal inappropriate, however, products with finishing in the form of forged elements fit beautifully into the interior. Furniture with slatted fronts is appropriate. Upholstery on upholstered furniture should be with a floral print or striped in pastel colors.
It is important not to overload a girl’s room with accessories, because the nautical style is quite ascetic and simple.
As a nice decor for a beach house, you can use various items that will perform additional functions:
- wicker baskets and wooden chests for storing things;
- soft floor pillow instead of a chair;
- be sure to have a mirror in a beautiful frame;
- a tulle canopy that can be placed above the bed;
- plates with shells, vases that will decorate the room;
- photographs, paintings with seascapes;
- exotic crafts made of wood or bamboo.
This implementation of the nautical style will suit any romantic girl, and the room will become a cozy corner for her.
Marine style in the interior of the house makes the space airy, free, and functional. Previously interior country house nautical style was considered aerobatics; today city apartments are also decorated in this style.
Any room can be decorated in a marine theme. This does not require complex objects. The space can easily be transformed into a Mediterranean paradise. Anyone can afford such a design, regardless of the state of their finances.
Peculiarities
Marine themes can be seen in modern apartments quite clearly. Any person entering such a room will immediately understand the stylistic idea, and all because the design has bright distinctive characteristics.
The interior is done in blue, white and brown cool colors. The blue range can have many tones: from blue to turquoise. White color is most often used in its pure form, sometimes beige, milky, and caramel shades are acceptable.
The marine interior is based on contrasting colors. Pastel shades are combined with rich blues, browns, dark greens and purples.
Some designers use warm colors to decorate the space with an underwater theme. Elements are made in red, yellow, creamy tones. A marine-style interior does not tolerate a complex, multi-component color scheme.
Water motifs should not overload the room. It should remain airy. In no big room a minimum of details is used. For a standard room, one main color is used, which is complemented by a contrasting shade and a couple of bright details.
It is optimal to use materials and objects from natural wood, cork, stone, etc. For children's rooms you can use hemp, canvas materials, sandstone.
Water motifs are recognizable due to their patterns. Rooms with this design are decorated with striped wallpaper or wallpaper with patterns of anchors, waves, and clouds. Sometimes patterns are combined with each other. For a small room it is better to choose one basic pattern.
Furniture for the rooms is chosen from solid wood; the seats of chairs and sofas are covered with canvas, linen, cotton fabric or matting. The atmosphere should be concise. To support the theme, low furniture reminiscent of a ship is used.
Sometimes you can find rattan furniture in the design, which helps to recreate the atmosphere of southern resorts in the apartment.
Items of this theme are often made by hand.
Which rooms is it suitable for?
Any room can be decorated in a marine style, but bathrooms or children's rooms look most advantageous. Sometimes bedrooms and living rooms are decorated this way.
To decorate a room, you need to choose a special color scheme and the right furniture. The interior includes a marine theme: shells, anchors, sandstone. The curtains in the room should be translucent, and the tulle should be weightless. Wooden blinds are installed on the window. They are decorated with shells. Photo wallpaper with images of ships, palm trees or the ocean is glued to one of the walls. The room focuses on the ceiling. It can be not just white and stretched; designers offer ceilings of a plain blue color or white with painted clouds.
Color combinations
To decorate a room, you should stick to a blue and white palette, diluting it with natural wood materials. At first glance, this design may seem simple, but it is not. There should be harmony in the room.
The fashion for shades of blue changes from year to year. Lately, designers have been focusing on light, blue shades. The marine interior is classic, which implies the obligatory use of a dark blue color called navy (marine). This shade is deep and quite calm. Marine design suggests using this color when decorating windows or as upholstery for a set. Sofa cushions and carpets look original in this color.
When decorating the walls, combine several colors. For example, they glue contrasting striped wallpaper. The papered wall is used as a color spot for accessories. A child’s room should be cheerful, so it is diluted with colored elements and shells. Orange or red details are added to such a room. You can create your own decor.
Some designers are against the use of black shades when decorating a home. Black color breaks up the airy nautical design.
Recently, the interior in a marine style has been diluted with beige tones. Warm shades: milky, caramel, ecru enrich the interior, making it calm, warm and serene.
In the living room
The apartment must be made in the same style. The rooms should not contradict each other in design. The living room should be decorated in a marine style if general view The apartments are close to Mediterranean standards.
When decorating a living room, we advise you to consider which side the windows face. For a marine style, rooms with views to the south or west are selected. These rooms are always light and sunny. The north side is considered more gloomy, as a result of which the sea or ocean theme does not look cheerful.
In sunny rooms, cool colors will sparkle with new colors, giving the room a feeling of airiness and coolness. The use of white and blue tones as the main ones, correctly selected natural furniture and accessories will make the living room original. The decor helps to stylistically complete the image of the room.
Furniture
We advise you to properly furnish your living room. Furnishings must be durable, high quality and natural, like on a ship. It is necessary to take into account the size of the living room. Massive furniture, such as oak or ash, is installed in spacious rooms. To make the room look easier, mirrors are hung in it and glass tables are installed. Rattan or bamboo furniture is installed in a small living room.
Low furniture is placed for guests. Rocking chairs are also installed. Instead of chests of drawers, chests made of solid wood are installed. To store books, hang massive shelves with forged elements or install an elegant cabinet with glass doors. Accessories in the form of shells, sandstone or vessels with pebbles are placed on the shelves.
Wall decoration and lighting
The walls of the living room are covered with clapboard or decorated with caramel-colored decorative plaster. Designers recommend having a light ceiling in the living room. It can be hung, stretched, made multi-level, but it should be light and low, like in a ship's cabin. To support the sea theme, it is necessary to install a lamp in the same style. It can be made in the form of an anchor or a steering wheel decorated with shells.
The living room should be light. At night, the room should be well lit with large quantity LED lamps or multi-level lighting. In addition, the walls can be decorated with sconces or wall lamps decorated with artificial pearls or natural shells. In the reading area, you can install a floor lamp in the form of a deck lantern.
Decor
You can put an aquarium in the living room. A model of a sunken ship and pirate treasures are placed at the bottom. Instead of a sunken ship, you can place a reef decoration in the aquarium with lots of corals, colorful stones and algae. In a large living room, a model of a real ship in reduced size is often suspended from the ceiling.
When decorating a living room, one of the walls is decorated with photo wallpaper depicting the sea. If desired, madders can be hung on the walls. Many people decorate their walls with homemade panels made from natural shells, pebbles or macrame products. Marine decor brings originality to the room.
The design looks original when hung wall clock, made in the form of a ship's wheel or lifebuoy. Those who love to travel should complement the interior of their home with a world map or globe.
Provençal jugs or heavy vases made of clay, woven with vines, are placed on cabinets or shelves. Elements with rope details fit organically into the interior. The living room can be decorated with topiary. If desired, the interior can be diluted with live plants such as ficus, vines, and yucca, which are placed in pots directly on the floor.
Textile
Textiles in the living room should be light and airy. It is better to give preference to white or blue. Fabrics containing metallized threads look advantageous. They play in the sun like the iridescence of the sea. To decorate the living room, it is acceptable to use yellow. However, it needs to be dosed. Yellow sofa cushions look appropriate and are reminiscent of citrus fruits. Textiles look harmonious in the living room turquoise color.
It is better to decorate windows with natural fabrics. Heavy curtains made of linen look beautiful in combination with light veil from organza. With the help of properly selected curtains you can create a real ship's sail. The living room, decorated with a real fishing net, looks exotic.
In the bedroom
Not everyone can afford a house on the seashore. We invite you to decorate your bedroom in a marine theme so that before going to bed you can dream about distant travels.
The bedroom should not be oversaturated with details. Color palette should promote relaxation and serenity. Bedroom design focuses on color and patterns.
The sea can be different. Some see it as a wide space and relaxing holiday among white sand and tall palm trees. For others, the sea is associated with treasure hunting and pirates. The interior is chosen based on its vision.
The bedroom is decorated with solid wood, natural stone, shells and textiles. A parquet board or blue carpet is placed on the floor. The first creates the feeling of walking on the deck of a ship. In the second case, the bedroom “sinks” to the bottom of the sea.
Walls
To decorate the walls, choose those painted in white wood panels. You can plaster the walls using accessories such as pebbles or shells. To decorate the walls, you should hang paintings by marine painters or paste photo wallpaper.
A classic solution for decorating walls is to use striped wallpaper. More often, blue and white stripes alternate with each other. Modern design gradually moving away from the usual classics. Today they glue wallpaper with a wave-like pattern.
The interior of the bedroom should be supported by natural colors. To make it more lively, use bright spots. This must be done carefully so as not to lose the room, since the bedroom is a resting place. For bright spots it is permissible to use rich, sunny shades.
Decor
To decorate the bedroom, select the right furniture and decor. The bedroom should be designed in the same style. Wooden or textile materials are used to decorate the house.
An excellent solution is aged furniture. Such additional elements how a map, a clock-wheel, a chest contribute to maintaining the style. The mirror in the bedroom is decorated with your own hands using twine or rope. Table lamps in the form of lanterns, sinks on cabinets - all this adds a touch of adventurism.
The bedroom windows are decorated with canvas, linen curtains, cotton curtains. They are beautifully tied into sea knots. Blue, striped or with anchors bedding is laid on the bed. Sometimes it is allowed to use a red bedding set. The bedroom is where you can go overboard with the elements. In design, you need to adhere to the rule - the simpler, the better.
In the kitchen
There is an opinion that marine themes are only good for bathrooms and children's rooms. However, it is also suitable for decorating kitchens. Kitchens in this style look original and fresh.
The kitchen can be styled as:
- wardroom;
- galley;
- shore;
- sandy beach;
- a fisherman's yacht or schooner;
- villa by the sea, etc.
The decor of the room must be created carefully, since going overboard with details is fraught with a desire for change and dissatisfaction. It is better to use several details that will be bright accents.
The interior design called “fisherman's schooner” is based on the use of nets, rough dining furniture, aged objects, open wooden shelves, ropes. This interior can be transformed into a “villa by the sea” if you hide the nets and ropes, but hang light tulle, and place pots with flowers on the windows. indoor plants and interior items. Rough table They cover it with a beautiful tablecloth, and throw cute pillows on the benches. An interchangeable interior never gets boring, but can change the kitchen beyond recognition without difficulty or renovation.
Kitchen combined with living room
If the kitchen is combined with the living room, then there is more room for imagination. In any case, such rooms require wicker chests and baskets, rattan furniture, chairs with decorative pillows. Looks original in the kitchen combined with the living room massive table made of dark wood. Both a rough bench and chairs with high backs, covered with blue covers, are suitable for the table.
The walls of combined areas are decorated with wallpaper and wood panels so that everything fits together naturally. Wallpaper is suitable for the living area, and wood panels are installed in the kitchen. There may be a thick pile carpet on the floor.
Decor rules
Small kitchens can be decorated in a marine style without any problems. You just need to adhere to the following rules:
- the kitchen set should have simple shapes;
- the kitchen should be designed in blue tones;
- the apron can be made either yellow with images of the inhabitants of the underwater world or white with applications made of natural shells or pebbles;
- the kitchen window is decorated with airy tulle;
- a light tablecloth with ruffles is placed on the table;
- install a small lamp;
- kitchen shelves are decorated with shells, shells, pebbles, and corals;
- in the kitchen they use bright clay dishes;
- flooring made of sand-colored porcelain stoneware;
- the walls are decorated with wood panels in combination with wallpaper.
Standard kitchen decor
If the kitchen is medium in size, then the theme may be more pronounced. The ceiling in the kitchen is made white, but you can play with the flooring. For example, it is possible to make a wave of blue and yellow tiles. In this case, the walls of the room are covered with yellow wallpaper and decorated with beautiful madders.
In such a kitchen, a glossy kitchen set looks beautiful. If there are many various shelves, then they are decorated with bottles entwined with vines. A wooden table is installed in the kitchen rectangular shape. Chairs with fabric seats are selected for it. They put it on the windowsill beautiful flowerpots With exotic flowers or low palm trees. You can make a ceiling lamp with your own hands in the form of a forged chandelier or steering wheel.
A piece of the sea in the nursery
A children's room in a nautical style does not lose its relevance over a long period of time. In the nursery, the child feels cozy and comfortable. Thanks to the style, the room maintains summer mood throughout the year. You don't need a lot of money to decorate a nursery. The main thing is to follow the advice of designers and rely on your imagination.
When designing, the gender of the child is taken into account, since a nursery for a boy is different from a room for a girl. For the latter, the style of a beach villa is suitable when the room has rattan furniture, and the textiles are rich in ruffles and lace. Shells and corals are used as decoration. The nursery for a girl is decorated in pastel colors.
Male children prefer a nautical theme. Massive furniture is installed in children's rooms, and rough decorations such as anchors, models of navigation devices, etc. are chosen as decor. When decorating the walls, they stop at striped wallpaper. Very often, parents buy a bed in the shape of a ship for a boy.
Floors
The flooring in the nursery depends on the parent's budget. A children's room with a wooden or cork covering looks stylish. Installation of laminate or parquet board. There may be a fluffy white or blue carpet on the floor, which will be associated with the sea. A carpet in the shape of a world map looks more original. It can be made to order. If you have a high budget, you can install self-leveling floors made in 3D design. These floors imitate the underwater world.
Ceilings may look different. A children's room with a ceiling in the form of a cloudy or starry sky looks beautiful. This ceiling is universal and suitable for both boys and girls. To enhance the feeling of the sea, you can resort to photo printing or luminescent patterns that give off their light in the dark. It is not necessary to make the ceiling colored. Some people opt for a white surface, decorating it with beautiful ceiling lamps in the form of ship's wheels or lanterns.
Walls
The walls in the nursery should be properly decorated. If your budget is small, opt for vinyl stickers with images of underwater inhabitants. One of the walls can be covered with photo wallpaper or decorated with a large navigation map. Some parents prefer more classic design children's room, choosing wallpaper in white, turquoise, caramel colors. It is also important to take into account the age of the child. Kids will love the images of cartoon characters. For older children, it is better to choose decor in the form of steering wheels, palm trees, and pirate treasures.
Kids love bright colors, but a marine theme does not imply the use of many bright colors. This does not mean that they are prohibited for use. Colorful decorative elements help make the nursery more lively. They should be used sparingly. Designers do not recommend introducing black into children's rooms. It will negatively affect the child's psyche.
Furniture
Furniture in the nursery should match the theme. Looks interesting bunk bed in the form of a ship. On the first tier the child can play, on the second tier there is a sleeping place. You can stay with a regular bed, but choose a beautiful sleeping set with an image of anchors for it.
A hammock hanging in a nursery looks original. Wardrobe you can install a standard one by replacing the fittings with a marine theme. Handles in the shape of underwater inhabitants look beautiful. Chests are also placed in the children's room. Desk complement table lamp in the shape of a fish. For older children, you can install an aquarium built into a niche.
Textile
Curtains should support the underwater theme. In a boy's room, rope curtains tied together look impressive. sea knots. It is better to choose rooms for girls air curtains with ruffles.
You can create accessories for the nursery with your own hands. We suggest sewing a flag of real pirates and decorating one of the walls or ceiling with it. Some decorate sofa cushions or bedspreads with marine paraphernalia. This is how the children's room becomes stylish and cozy.
Marine style in the bathroom involves the use of solid wood and natural stone. To decorate your bathroom, you need to choose the right flooring. 3D self-leveling floors that recreate the underwater world look unusual. A more classic option is porcelain stoneware with natural pebble inserts. Some choose mosaic coverings blue color. When laying the floor, you can combine various textured coatings, for example, natural stone and moisture-resistant laminate.
Walls and ceilings
The bathroom can be decorated in blue and sand shades. The walls are leveled and painted with matte monochromatic paint or tiled tiles. Madder panels are often installed above the bathtub. If your budget allows, you can apply a relief to one of the walls and tint it with natural stone chips.
The bathroom is not always large, so you should not install a bulky ceiling in it. It's better to stick with the standard white color. In rare cases, ceilings are painted with clouds or frescoes.
Furniture and decor
But you can experiment with plumbing fixtures. For example, install a wooden bathtub or create a mosaic podium under it, equipped with a sail-shaped curtain. Bathroom furniture should be discreet. Facades with craquelure look original.
The design of the room involves the use various decor in the form of shells and starfish. Items are laid out around the perimeter of the bath. For toothbrushes and soap purchase marine accessories for interior. So the bathroom will sparkle with new colors.
The bathroom is a small room. You need to place the accents correctly. If the walls are accentuated, we advise you to choose white plumbing fixtures. If the emphasis is on plumbing, stop at pastel design walls
Lighting
The underwater theme in the arrangement combines airiness and freshness. Nautical-style decor is popular with people living in large cities and dreaming of a vacation on the coast. This style is classic, laconic, with a lot of open space, so it is important to choose the right lighting for it.
The interior suggests a lot of flowing light, associated with the sun. You need to select lighting based on the specifics of the room itself. Very often, designers use wall lamps in the form of anchors, ceiling lamps-rudders, pendants in the shape of ships, made by hand. When recreating the seabed, the rooms are supplemented with lamps in the form of inhabitants of the underwater depths. Mother-of-pearl or pearl sconces, as well as forged lanterns, are suitable for this style.
Lamps must match the style. When decorating rooms, preference is given to models in blue or white colors, lighting fixtures with marine patterns and ornaments, and ceiling lamps in the style of Christopher Columbus.
Furniture
Furnishing your home in a marine style involves choosing simple furniture. It should look as if it had just been put together from scrap material. In some cases it is acceptable to age furniture facades. The craquelure technique is especially welcome. It is unacceptable to use pretentious decor, but rattan or bamboo furniture is appropriate. This light furniture allows you to relax and promotes a romantic mood. In rooms stylized as a sea, you can find wooden or wicker chests, hammocks, armchairs in the shape of barrels, beds in the shape of ships or boats.
The rooms are not overloaded with furniture. The principle here is that the simpler the better. If the room is equipped with standard furniture, then it is given a seaside shade by replacing the fittings or by aging some of its elements. Instead of handles, marine figures and rope elements are attached. They prefer low furniture. The sofas are covered with canvas covers. Furniture should be made of natural wood. In rare cases, you can use materials that imitate it.
Decor and accessories
In rooms decorated in a marine style, photo frames decorated with shells, transparent vases with ropes, starfish and other items. However, designers do not advise storing many elements in a room at the same time.
One of the walls is decorated with a real fishing net or a homemade pirate flag. Some designers create original paintings. For example, they tie pirate knots, place them under glass and frame them. Such paintings can be used in the living room or nursery.
Don't ignore textiles. It can be used to beautifully style homes. Blankets with white-blue or red-blue stripes are thrown over sofas or beds. They are also decorated with sofa cushions. The design allows the use of yellow or orange pillows. The windows are decorated with light tulle, linen or canvas curtains. On the floor there can be a fluffy carpet in blue, white or, as an accent, red. Rough materials such as matting, linen, and canvas are suitable for such an interior.
Marine style is that amazing design that has remained fresh and relevant for more than a century. During this time, he underwent minor changes, especially in clothing and furniture, but just like a century ago, the marine style in the interior is easily recognizable and loved. This is a completely unique image that defines a calm emotional background. This is an easy, relaxing, unobtrusive, romantic style and that is why it is relevant. To create it you will need bright furniture in summer colors, decorative items on a marine theme.
Variations on a nautical theme
There are several ways to decorate your interior in a marine style. Choosing an avant-garde theme, the room is designed to resemble the seaside. The required color palette in this case is azure, sky blue tones, as well as the colors of sea sand and pebbles. The naval style is based on a blue and white color scheme with the addition of gray and sand. You can also use a limited amount of red.
Suitable rooms where marine design will look most harmonious are:
- Children's room;
- Bathroom;
- Kitchen.
Advice: In the living room or bedroom it is better to use a few decorative elements on this theme.
Features and secrets of style
The main features that are characteristic marine theme- This:
- Window shutters or light billowing curtains;
- Bleached floorboard or other covering with a pronounced texture in neutral tones;
- Bright decorations that give the feeling of being on the seashore;
- Wooden furniture treated so that it appears sun-bleached;
- Blue and white palette with the addition of other bright colors;
- Wall design imitating ship plating (lining).
Decorating an interior in a marine style does not require a huge investment of time and money. But to stay on topic, you need to arm yourself with knowledge and take into account some of the secrets of this image:
- Dominant neutral shades.
- Natural fibers.
- Aged wood in light tones.
- Open space.
- Sea treasures.
White is the main color of a nautical interior and if it is used correctly, the room can have a mesmerizing appearance precisely because of the simplicity of this color. If asceticism is not particularly attractive, add khaki, beige, and cream colors.
Advice: use matte surfaces. Marine design does not like gloss.
Your soul calls for more vibrant colors, give your home a tropical coastal feel that calls for orange, lime and turquoise sea colors. Or add coral tones. The main thing is to decide right away what image you want to see and do not mix both the nautical vest and the exotic.
Natural materials from which furniture, carpeting, and accessories can be made can add texture and warmth to the design of a room. A sense of proportion is a must. Wicker chairs and a table standing on a coarse fiber carpet will be too much. And the same chair next to the table will fit perfectly into the interior, just like rope knots on panels or handrails.
Wooden surfaces should look like they have been exposed to sea water and then faded in the sun: a little dilapidated and dilapidated. Light woods, ash, bamboo and maple are used. Exotic materials are suitable for rooms decorated in a tropical style.
An apartment decorated in a marine style should be spacious and open to air flow. No need to force her a large number furniture or accessories. If it is possible to add enough funds to the design, remodel, remove some doors, walls, where possible.
Go through shells, pebbles and other little things that you brought from your travels. Select the most worthy examples and add marine accents to the rooms. A couple of stars, a few shells, and maybe that same piece of wood washed ashore is the right landmark.
Advice: You can allocate a separate shelf or cabinet for souvenirs if there are a lot of reminders, but do not place them throughout the room. If such items are not available, hang photographs and paintings of seascapes, ships, and the like on the walls.
Room design
When decorating a living room, you should follow two principles: remember the main purpose of this room and unobtrusively play with the theme. To do this, you need to wisely choose the method of finishing surfaces and not make mistakes when choosing decorations. The main wishes are the following:
- Light ceiling, maybe suspended.
- Neutral colored flooring (carpet or wood planks).
- Special emphasis on the walls (paint them blue or azure or wallpaper them in the same color scheme).
- Simple natural furniture.
- Decorative items should not overload the interior, but clearly speak about the design theme. Desirable interior items in such a living room would be an aquarium with live fish, ship models, a dummy anchor, and the like.
Large matte furniture, leather chests, wicker baskets, chairs, bamboo blinds, and bed linen with marine-themed designs are suitable for decorating a bedroom. The result should be a light atmosphere, not overloaded with decorative elements. Instead of blinds, you can use blue curtains, and to achieve the effect of waves on the sea, gather them a little. The dominant blue can be diluted with a red lampshade.
A marine-style interior in the kitchen can be implemented in many ways. This:
- walls tiled with a corresponding theme or lined with clapboard;
- tiling in blue and white tones;
- the floor can be made of wooden boards, and the ceiling is left white;
- From sea treasures you can lay out panels or simply place them on a shelf;
- fits perfectly into the design, rough but reliable light furniture made of solid wood, artificially aged.
Advice: use dishes and napkins in white and blue tones, bamboo blinds, textile pillows on wooden chairs as additions.
It is difficult to find a person who will remain indifferent to the sea after seeing it at least once. I really want to take a piece of him with me when I leave. To cope with the sadness of parting, create an interior reminiscent of the beach, surf, sea voyage and summer will settle in your home for a while, the sun will warm you in cold weather, evoke romantic thoughts and dreams of an imminent vacation.
The living room, decorated in a marine style, combines pleasant nautical accessories, reminiscent of a holiday on the seashore, and pleasing colors.
This design fills the room with the warmth and freshness of the sea, creating romantic atmosphere.
Fans of long sea voyages will love this interior.
Style Features
You can create a paradise on the seaside in any apartment, even one located in a huge metropolis. The main thing is to think through the design to the smallest detail.
Marine style is very individual. It should not be diluted with decorative elements from other directions other than the Mediterranean.
The following features can be distinguished from the features:
- the predominance of light shades, giving the living room freshness and spaciousness;
- use only natural tones, without gloss or gloss;
- keeping furniture and fabric coverings in perfect condition.
The marine stripe in the interior should be parallel, without kinks or wrinkles, in all decorative elements.
The nautical style amazes with its grace and theatricality. With its help you can recreate an original ship's cabin from a children's bedroom, fill the living room with the freshness and vastness of the sea, or decorate small room young girl in romantic style using sand and azure colors.
The positive side of the nautical style is its ability to adapt to spaces of different sizes.
Using it in a large room with high ceilings will add maritime immensity to the space, and for a small room – mystery and dreams of adventure.
Interior design
Marine style requires a careful approach to interior design.
The color scheme mainly consists of various shades of blue, green, and cyan.
A harmonious combination will be colors - white, sand, brown or pearlescent. A special place should be given to the white and blue striped colors.
It is enough to decorate a couple of objects (pillows, curtains, covers for chairs or a sofa) in the living room with stripes and you will already have a marine style for the room.
It is better to make floors for a marine interior from parquet or laminate in natural shades.
Natural materials bring you closer to natural beauty.
And cover the walls with light wallpaper. You should try to use PVC panels as little as possible.
If you want to set a ship theme to the room, you need to add ropes to the interior, wooden beams, barometer, portholes. The walls will be decorated with round paintings in wooden frames.
The ceilings can be decorated with images of the sky, clouds, or they can be plastered and painted white. It is better to leave the windows wooden, matching the color of the floor.
Decorative elements of marine style
All decorative elements should be made from natural materials - wood, stone, rope, shells. This could be a rope placed under the ceiling, wooden beam, or a clock in the form of a steering wheel.
Can be added to the interior functional table in the form of a pirate chest, small sofas and rocking chairs, natural linen curtains, striped pillows.
Photo frames, boxes, decorated bottles will look original seashells and stars or bottles with ships inside.
By the way, you can decorate decorative elements with shells and pebbles with your own hands.
A living room designed in a marine style will remind you of the wonderful time spent on the seashore and brighten up the anticipation of your next vacation.
If you like to travel through the sea, then this interior design will be a great solution for you.