How to choose wallpaper in a room of two colors?

Wall decoration of any room is a very important element of interior design. Today in the arsenal of professional masters there are a lot of ways to decorate walls - painting, decorative plastering, decorating walls for concrete, decoration with 3D panels, wood paneling, ceramic tiles and, of course, wallpaper. We can mix different colors and patterns, combining them with decorative painting, plaster, as well as apply many other original solutions. How to choose wallpaper in a room of two colors so that it looks harmonious and non-trivial? This article addresses this issue.

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Simplest idea

The wallpaper is faced with the task of not only decorating the walls, but also creating the entire interior, giving it some specific style. There are many possible ways to use them. Choosing the type of decoration, we have a wide choice: wallpaper you can paste over the entire wall or just one fragment, combining it with another decoration or creating contrasts between them.

The easiest way is to use wallpaper to cover all the walls in the room. You can use one type as the main background, plus add decor in the form of a border or a decorative belt.

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Room decoration with wallpaper of two colors or more

Creating the design of the walls with wallpaper of two colors, we can get a very interesting arrangement of rooms. When using several types of this finishing material at once, it is extremely important to correctly select their colors:

• The best result will come when the wall is decorated with different wallpapers that beautifully harmonize with each other in pattern, color. However, do not forget that harmoniously combining two patterns is not so simple. Therefore, if you want to finish with a pattern, it is advisable to combine them with a plain surface.

Important! Expressive motifs, patterns are best combined with neutral and subtle patterns - thanks to such combinations, you can create incredibly beautiful combinations of wallpaper.

• Now it’s very fashionable to combine different wallpapers on one wall. You can decorate entire walls with stripes or squares with various motifs. But here it should be remembered that with this type of room decoration discipline is important, otherwise it will result in chaos.
• Recently, the style of patchwork is gaining popularity in the design of walls. It makes it possible to combine among themselves a wide variety of patterns, however, combining more than two colors in this case is undesirable.
• You can combine different patterns, cells, patterns, dots, flowers or stripes together. But you should highlight one single consecutive element in your interior, which will be repeated on them, as well as on some interior items. For example, it could be a color.

Important! The most common option for combining two colors is to divide the room into two parts horizontally and decorate each of them in two different colors and designs. The joints that form between them are decorated with a special decor. As a rule, the bottom is made darker, and the top is brighter, although other options are possible.

The easiest way to accomplish this task is by choosing a ready-made collection where the manufacturer offers competently selected and matching wallpapers and decors for combining in one room.

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Combining wallpaper interior: rules for combining

The combination of different types of wallpaper in the interior is a rather new direction in the world of design and repair, and it is very successful. Combining wallpaper with each other, we get an interesting view of the room with the ability to emphasize the advantages, as well as hide the imperfections of the walls and the room as a whole.

Too dark a room can be visually lightened, but too light - on the contrary, slightly darken.

Wallpaper Combination Options:

• Combination of wallpapers by material - you can combine wallpapers of several materials: paper, vinyl, non-woven, wallpaper for painting.
• The combination of wallpaper by color, shade - here it is advisable to resort to using a range of colors in order to choose the most suitable color transitions.
• Combination of wallpaper on the texture - when they combine on one wall the wallpaper of several textures, ornaments.

Important! With any kind of wallpaper combination, it is necessary to maintain the correct color scheme so that they are united by something, for example, color, background, pattern or print.

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Good combination options

Before creating a combination of several types of wallpapers in your interior, you should know the most successful, and most importantly, the most correct ideas and types:

• Combination of wallpaper with inserts - the base color of the wallpaper is used, breaking it with all kinds of inserts and other colors, textures or shades in any variation: vertically, horizontally, at an angle or - as you want.
• The combination of wallpaper overlays - successfully performs the function of decorating the wall, is used as a decor.
• Vertical combination - a combination of the same or different in size, color, shade of wallpaper stripes vertically.
• Horizontal combination - finishing the upper and lower parts of the room. As a rule, with the help of finishing with a horizontal line, the room is divided into two equal parts by wallpaper, creating a background of the upper part of the walls, giving some specific coloring of the lower part.

Important! If you select the wallpaper in a room of two colors horizontally, this somewhat hides the area of ​​the room - the height of the walls, ceiling decreases visually, and a vertical combination, on the contrary, increases the area, height of the ceiling and walls.

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Color Wallpaper Combination

As previously mentioned, with a combination of wallpaper among themselves, it is necessary to select one basic color, which will then be traced in the room and small details of the interior, and choose suitable colors from the spectrum that will be harmoniously combined with each other.

The range of colors offered 9 primary colors: black, white, purple, blue, cyan, green, yellow, orange and red.

According to the color scheme, the combination of wallpaper can have several options:

• A simple combination - two adjacent color spectrum;
• A complex combination - several colors at once;
• A bold combination is a combination of colors that are opposite in spectrum.

To choose the right wallpaper in a room of two colors or more:

• For a room with a small area, it is advisable to choose light shades of wallpaper, but in large rooms with color you can experiment.
• If the room is decorated in light and calm colors and in the same color scheme, it is advisable to choose the neighboring colors in the spectrum of green and yellow, for example, their shades.
• Well, if the room is created with dark wallpaper, then they should be combined with opposite colors in the spectrum.

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How to choose the color of wallpaper for different rooms?

Naturally, any color recreates a particular atmosphere, so you need to choose wallpaper in a room of two colors for a nursery or living room in different shades of color. Consider the following options.

Children's room

Increasingly, they use zoning of different sites, which directly depend on their purpose. To do this, glue the wallpaper of two types:

• in the working area (zone of classes and active games) with rich and vibrant tones;
• in the recreation area (sleeping place) - soothing colors with white, yellow and beige shades, without bright and large patterns.

Important! Suitable paper cloths or vinyl-coated with special children's themes, depending on the gender and age of the child. Up to 2 years it is better to use unsaturated soft tones, from 2 to 8 - coverings with funny patterns that will develop the imagination and horizons of the child.

Bedroom

Any wallpaper will do, but it’s best to use non-woven or silk screen. The pastel gamma of tones is most successful for this room. The ideal solution would be to design the room in blue tones, which will create a feeling of coolness that will help keep the nervous system in good shape.

Hall, living room

Here you can also use any options. Since all the celebrations and receptions of the guests are mainly held in the hall or living room, velor paintings, foil wallpapers imitating gold leaf decoration or silk-screen printing will be the ideal solution for a refined interior.

Regarding the choice of color - there are no strict rules, the main thing is to create an attractive and festive room. Light canvases of pastel and warm colors visually enlarge the room and lighten it, and beige, sand, grayish make the living room or room light and spacious.

Kitchen, hallway and hallway

These rooms are most susceptible to pollution, so it is best for them to use wallpapers that can be washed or wiped with a damp cloth in the future. For these purposes, thick kitchen vinyls designed for painting or silk-screening are good.

As for the shades:

• All warm tones are wonderful for the kitchen: yellow, red, orange, which will contribute to a good mood and good appetite.
• Dark shades look best in the hallway and hallway, however they should not contrast with other walls of the room.

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Application options for masking flaws

Decorative wall decoration should be done after leveling is completed. However, it is not always possible to completely hide the flaws, and sometimes they become visible already in the process.

There are tricks here:

• They can be hidden with the help of wallpaper of dark colors - against their background dents and protrusions are less visible.
• If dark colors do not fit into the overall design, you can fix the flaw by using texture wallpapers. Vinyl, fiberglass and non-woven fabrics will come to your aid. Their texture surface will hide minor irregularities under a rather thick relief canvas.

In the old Khrushchevs, there is often no right angle between the ceiling and the wall. This rounded smooth transition can be stylishly and effectively beat with wallpapers of different colors, for this you need:

1. Paste the surface with plain colorful wallpaper to the level at which the curvature of the angle between the ceiling and the walls begins.
2. Make this gap a canvas of white color.
3. Stick molding on the borders of the color transition.

In this design can be used canvases of the same or different types, for example, silk-screen printing or a combination of paper and vinyl wallpaper.

Important! Properly selected combination will help to correct the wrong lighting of the room. Sites where bright color falls are pasted over with opaque surfaces and dark colors. If the room does not have enough sunlight, use wallpaper with a reflective glossy surface.

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As you can see, there are many options for how to choose wallpaper in a room of two colors or more.Be based on your own perception of different shades, on what sensations they cause for each member of your family, what result you want to achieve - to make the interior more vibrant, or vice versa - calm. Do not rush to immediately use the first combination you like, try to leave the sample segments for a few days in a prominent place in the room where the repair is planned. And only then, if you did not like anything more interesting, and the selected combination did not start to annoy, get to work. Have a good repair!