Whatever style you have in mind for the design, skillfully selected checkered wallpaper in the kitchen will help give your interior a special chic. Despite the somewhat prosaic nature of the cage as an ornament, there is no doubt about its design abilities.
The cage is a classic of the genre in home decoration and clothing design, going back several centuries. The traditional nature of the cell gives rise to associations with such concepts as home, family, solidity.
A cell is a clear figure of perpendicular lines and right angles that form a square or rectangle. And where everything is clear, there is usually peace and order. In addition, a cage is a figure that is perceived subconsciously as a solid structure, which means it is a reflection of good quality in all its manifestations. Do you want such sensations from your kitchen interior? Then bring some cage into it. For example, in wallpaper.
Checkered wallpaper can make your interior aristocratic and strict, or it can fill the room with homeliness and warmth. Let's consider what types of checkered wallpaper are best used in various interior styles.
English style
Do you want your kitchen or dining room to look like the home of an English aristocracy? This is quite a bold idea for a kitchen space, but with the right approach it is possible.
The English style is characterized by a Scottish check pattern called “tartan”. Traditional tartan designs are filled with rich reds, blues and greens. Due to their brightness on wallpaper, they can be a difficult solution for the kitchen interior. Therefore, very often tartan is used in combination with lighter plain or striped wallpaper, as in the photo below.
We must remember that the cage is an ornament that requires a tastefully selected environment. If your style is English, then do not forget to add natural materials to the interior. Scottish patterns go well with leather furniture, dark wood furniture, brick walls, the presence of natural leather, stone and wrought iron items.
Application in a modern interior
To decorate modern kitchens, designers often use materials that have large geometric patterns on the wallpaper. Such finishing materials perfectly imitate natural tiles, so it is rational to place them above the work area in the kitchen.
Attention! When selecting materials for rooms with high humidity, try to choose types of wallpaper that do not have a beautiful geometric pattern, but also easily tolerate high humidity and can withstand cleaning with modern detergents.
Circles and tartan will be appropriate when creating rooms in a classic style. Similar wallpaper options are traditionally purchased for offices and living rooms, hallways and corridors. When choosing such decor, you need to pay special attention to the remaining details of the interior being created. For example, a tartan check is appropriate in a classic interior, but in a modern style it will look very vulgar.
The “country” cage option with its many varieties is suitable for decorating terraces, kitchens, and living rooms. This solution can be considered ideal for a country house. The presence of an unobtrusive ornament on the walls will favorably emphasize the natural tones chosen for interior design and highlight furniture made from natural wood. Interesting options for using “cage” design are presented in the video fragment
Provence and country
The cage is a sign of coziness and comfort, so it is firmly established in the so-called “rustic” styles, such as country and Provence. These styles are closest in spirit to being implemented in the kitchen. They combine pastel colors, natural wood, vintage ceramic and glassware, floral prints and light-colored checks that are less contrasting than tartan.
The Provence style is closer to the Vichy checkered style. This is a two-color print made of cells of two colors, smoothly transitioning into each other. Most often, “Vichy” is a combination of white with blue, red or black, as in this photo.
Country and Provence easily allow the combination of checkered wallpaper with floral motifs in the same color scheme. A variant of this combination is a cage on the wallpaper and bright flowers in the upholstery.
Another option is a combination of two types of wallpaper with different patterns in one kitchen space.
If you decide to combine two types of ornaments in one space, keep in mind that the wallpaper must match each other. By material, texture and color scheme.
The combination of wallpaper does not mean that they must be the same texture or color. Most likely, they should be made of the same material, and the texture or color can be either in contrast or in the same design solution (in the same style or in the same theme).
Bold design solutions can combine the calm Provence style with graphic plaid based on white. To do this, it is enough to place checkered wallpaper on only one wall of the room. And, for example, complement them with baguette decoration, which enhances the sophistication of the interior.
Varieties of ornaments
Professional designers distinguish the following geometric patterns:
"Chess". This pattern is considered the simplest and involves a sequence of contrasts made in contrasting colors. In the classic version, we are talking about a combination of white and black colors, and when creating wallpaper, it is allowed to use a different color scheme.
The photo shows a sample of wallpaper with a “checkerboard” pattern.
Scottish check (tartan) is recognized as the most popular ornament. The drawing is interesting due to its unusual interweaving of perpendicular lines of varying thicknesses.
Advice! A cage in brown, green, and blue looks best in the interior.
Country. It is considered a type of Scottish check, which has less contrast. A distinctive feature of this pattern is the use of pastel colors. A sample of such wallpaper is shown in the photo.
Option "chicken foot". This is what designers call a pattern that consists of rhombuses, the corners of which are extended with small strokes. This unusual texture is optimal for rooms with low ceilings; it allows you to visually increase the height of the ceiling. Designers often use wallpaper with this pattern to decorate living rooms.
“Nova” is an ornament that is made up of four different colors at once. Among the favorites of this fashion trend: black, red, white, beige tones.
“Glencheck” involves a complex geometry of dark and light tones in an ornament, the basis of which is the color gray.
Attention! In modern decoration there are many terms that came into residential design from the history of fashion.
The reason lies in the fact that previously the walls were decorated with natural fabrics used in tailoring.
Of course, the types of wallpaper geometry we have listed are not the entire list of such decorative materials. This segment is represented by wallpaper with circles, various squares, differing in size and color.
High-tech, modern, minimalism, loft
Surprisingly, the classic check perfectly complements modern styles. For example, a high-tech kitchen can be decorated with a bright Scandinavian-style wall by adding wallpaper with a gray-lilac pattern.
But most often, modern styles are decorated with a “checkerboard” - a cage consisting of plain contrasting squares. Traditionally, these are black and white squares. There are many others, but always 2-color solutions. Sometimes the “chess” is replaced by the “Vichy” square, which is similar in style.
The loft tends to be tartan, but can easily be adapted into a checkerboard pattern into your interior.
"Cage" in a modern bedroom
A room such as a bedroom is considered by designers to be one of the most difficult places to work. When decorating a bedroom, you need to select wallpaper with a slight geometric pattern. A good option would be wallpaper with “chicken feet” or “tartan”. When decorating bedrooms, professionals recommend not experimenting with contrasting shades and choosing dark-colored decor against an even darker wallpaper background. What types of squares and diamonds on wallpaper can be purchased for the bedroom? This question worries many city apartment owners, so let’s try to find the answer together. Wallpaper with a smooth texture, which features a diagonal check, fits perfectly into a modern bedroom interior. Professionals give preference to wallpaper in which the cells are made of two or three contrasting colors at once.
Design solutions with checkered wallpaper
A cage in the interior will play its role perfectly if it is complemented with appropriate furniture and accessories. An additional element of checkered fabric in the same style will look good with checkered wallpaper. Curtains or chair upholstery, a tablecloth on the table, a checkered lampshade or a couple of pillows on the sofa. The main thing is not to overdo it. Therefore, use one, maximum two additional accents. For example, checkered napkins and a checkered sofa.
With the help of checkered wallpaper in the kitchen, you can zone the space by highlighting the dining area with a checkered wallpaper pattern.
If you are planning to make a bar counter in your kitchen, then pay attention to the design in the style of an English pub. In such an interior, tartan will certainly create the right atmosphere for you.
The cage surprisingly easily joins ethnic patterns in the interior and combines ideally with monochromatic interior solutions. These can be plain, wallpaper-free walls, or plain fabric for curtains or furniture. The interior looks very harmonious, where the tone of the surrounding surfaces and one of the shades of the wallpaper cage matches.
You can choose wallpaper and combine them, placing a plain material in the upper part and a checkered material in the lower part. And divide the upper and lower parts with a cheerful border from the same series.
In any case, checkered wallpaper in the kitchen will add originality to your interior. A bright check will lift your mood and energy, a light check will bring harmony and tranquility.
Wallpaper base
To make checkered wallpaper, designers use a variety of materials. Among the most common materials, the leading position belongs to paper wallpaper (option in the photo).
But you can also find models with a pattern, made of textiles and non-woven fabric.
Attention! The most expensive wallpapers currently are those made on a fabric basis. It is important to take into account that these decorative materials have unique wear-resistant characteristics.
Recommendations
- Checkered wallpaper itself has a rather variegated pattern, so small interior accessories - paintings, clocks, shelves - will get lost in the variegatedness of the checkered pattern. Remember this and decorate the walls only with large objects.
- The size and color of the cage, of course, have their meaning when it comes to the area of the room. The rules here are simple. For small kitchens, choose a medium and small size cage; for a large kitchen, choose a large cage.
- If you like a small checkered wallpaper, consider sticking it to only part of the walls. Otherwise it will dazzle your eyes in the truest sense of the word.
- The checkered pattern will very cleverly help you hide uneven walls. Use this if necessary.
- Don’t forget that a cage is a cage, but the wallpaper in the kitchen should be made of a material that easily tolerates moisture and at the same time is easy to clean.
Advice from professionals
The “cage” on the wallpaper seems to be reborn anew, introducing logic, peace, and order into the crazy rhythm of life of a modern person. Nowadays, it is increasingly rare to find walls in the interior that are painted the same color. Traditional wallpaper intended for painting walls is gradually becoming obsolete. They are being replaced by trellises with plant patterns and geometric patterns. They can be seen as a path to personal harmony. Psychologists confirm the positive influence of such decorative material on the human psyche. All components of a cell have a certain order. People who live in rooms decorated with similar geometric patterns are in complete harmony with the people around them, they are calm and peaceful. The cage is associated with the solidity of the owner of the room, his respectability. The use of a cage indicates a person’s commitment to traditional classical things.
In order for the “cage” to become an addition to the interior, and not its only bright spot, it is necessary to choose the right shades and colors. A subtle checkered pattern adds calm to the room, while bright and rich colors bring positive energy into the room. The cage can be called a historical design element; it was used in different eras by representatives of different countries of the world. For example, the red and blue Vichy checkered design is popular in Scotland, while in Russia a four-color checkered pattern was in demand.
Wallpaper "country" and "tartan" are suitable for decorating libraries and workrooms in country mansions. In addition, such trellises are appropriate when designing rooms for young men. An excellent addition to the created image would be to install a solid leather chair in the library and use massive furniture made from natural wood.
If you have chosen a Scandinavian interior, it will require gray-purple checkered wallpaper. American style is associated with white and red.
Attention! If you choose checkered wallpaper, there should not be a large number of hanging structures, posters, photographs, paintings on the wall. Otherwise, all objects will simply merge into one point, and you will not achieve the desired result.
The high-tech style involves the use of white and black cages, combined with metal or plastic furniture. Do not forget that when choosing wallpaper with a similar geometric pattern, you can achieve a visual expansion of the space in the room. You will hide various defects on the wall under such wallpaper. The size of the cage varies from the dimensions of a matchbox to parameters corresponding to the size of a window. A gray checkered pattern looks great as an addition to yellow furniture. Choosing wallpaper for walls is considered an important step in decorating a room's interior. The first impression that is created when examining this type of trellis depends on the emotional mood of the homeowner. To some, such wallpapers seem too simple, but this is not so. In addition to the positive attitude that is guaranteed for the owner of a checkered room, such decorative materials completely change the appearance of the room.
Photos of design solutions
What to combine the cage with
The cage is classified as an ornament with intense, dominant “energy”. Regardless of the color scheme, it will suppress any other pattern if placed next to it. Checkered surfaces are best combined with plain elements. The combination of colors is selected based on the principle of analogy, since contrast is not the best option for an overly active pattern. In rare cases, a pastel check can look organically paired with a soft, floral ornament made in the same colors.
The cage is out of fashion. Despite the design's abandonment of many ornaments that had become traditional, this pattern does not age or gather dust on a shelf, but decorates even ultra-modern apartments. Due to its versatility and wide “range” of variations, the cage is easy to match to almost any interior. She can be calm, mischievous, homely, careless, airy, strict and elegant. All that remains is to choose and implement it in decoration. Then your interior will become like a clan tartan - unique and inimitable.
How to choose furniture to match checkered wallpaper in a room
In the kitchen, in addition to wallpaper, you can decorate the interior with a similar pattern in the same tones:
- towels;
- lamp shades;
- hot mittens;
- tablecloths;
- curtains;
- napkins;
- hot coasters;
- soft upholstery of chairs and a corner sofa.
You can even glue panels to the ceiling in a similar pattern. To make the room look harmonious, purchase dishes with the same pattern.
In the living room you can place furniture with the same pattern as on the walls: a sofa, armchairs, chairs, carpets, rugs, pillows. It is good to combine a brown-sand cage with black and white photographs, a bright blue or light blue sofa and a steel laminate on the floor.
In a children's room, in addition to checkered wallpaper, you can put the same linen and bedspread, blanket, curtains on the bed, and make identical sofa upholstery. You can also paint the shelves in your bookcase in a large colored checkered pattern.
The cage has the unique property of making the decor look more expensive. This is good to use if there are not enough funds for repairs.
This pattern has a large number of varieties. It differs not only in colors, but also in the location of the lines, their thickness and clarity.
