Wall decor in the kitchen: original ideas

Whatever the kitchen is - small or large, square or narrow, with or without a partition - there are always things, objects, pictures that create coziness, a feeling of warmth, they invite you to gather at a common table for a chat or drink tea. But it happens that you find yourself in a kitchen where the hostess has overdone the decor: too many things, motley, not in the subject. How to avoid mistakes when decorating the most popular place in the house - the kitchen?

Kitchen wall decoration has several features.

• If bulky items are chosen for decoration, then the principle of "a small room is a small thing" must be observed.
• Bulky items - shelves, clocks, paintings - should not interfere with cooking and eating. And, of course, they must be securely fastened to the wall.
• It is imperative to observe the color balance: variegated wallpaper can be "soothed" with a composition of monochromatic decorative plates; a bright sticker or drawing will be a bright spot on a monochrome wall.
• Competently selected wallpaper (especially with 3D effect) not only decorates the walls, but also visually enlarges the kitchen.
• Posters, paintings, small photographs, drawings are placed at eye level.
• Wall decoration in the working area should be protected as much as possible from water, dirt, fire.
• Any item should be easy to clean (wash). Therefore, it is safer to insert drawings and photographs into frames with glass, if this will correspond to the design style.
• If a dry bouquet hangs over the table, then you need to be sure that it will not crumble into the plate.
• The kitchen is a damp room. Decorations should not be afraid of fumes, otherwise panels, clay figurines may crack.
• Pupae, fabric applications will absorb odors. If the hood is not very good, then you should refuse such a decor.

Decor is not only pictures, plates, panels or shelves. This is also directly wall decoration with different materials. In this case, the choice of material depends on the humidity in the room, the size of the kitchen, the presence of small family members or animals. We will try to highlight to the maximum what materials can be used for wall decoration in the kitchen.

• Decorative plaster - beautiful, elegant, warm. To make the curly plaster last longer, it is varnished (after preliminary painting). Additional hinged decorative elements will look great on such a monochrome wall.

• Decorative rock - texture, practicality, comfort. A huge choice of shape, size, color of stones will make the kitchen special, not like everyone else's. This decor can be used on any kitchen wall, partially or completely decorating it. But since the stone is rough, it will not be easy to wash it. Therefore, it is better to close the "apron" made of such material with plexiglass on top.

• Fiberboard - inexpensive, fast, beautiful. Fiberboard can be used as a roughing material for leveling walls. But manufacturers offer laminated fiberboard as a cheaper analogue of MDF. Laminating film can be of completely different colors.

• Mirror - light, space, versatility.Decorating with mirrors is not a new idea. Small mirrors can be folded in the form of flowers on an empty wall, a large mirror in a gilded frame is a symbol of the classic style.

• Ceramic tile - classic, variety, comfort. Tiles can be smooth or textured, glossy or matte, rectangular or square. It looks beautiful, easy to care for, perfect for a kitchen backsplash. Plain light colored tiles will resemble a hospital room, so it will need additional decor in the form of stickers or drawings. It can serve for several decades, but not everyone can install it on their own.

• Brickwork or natural stone - environmental friendliness, brutality, safety. The masonry is rarely polished. Natural irregularities, roughness - all this causes a slight sadness: you can hear how firewood crackles in the fireplace, and a pine forest or the sea rustles outside the window. When using natural materials, they decorate the wall itself: with photographs, shelves, lamps.

• MDF - modernity, variety, ease of installation. A higher quality material compared to fiberboard, but it also needs a bioprotective impregnation against mold. The variety of PVC films is incredible: there are photos, ceramic tiles, drawings, a mirror, and a brick. Plates are used on all walls.

• Mosaic - multi-colored shards, picture, grace. Even if the mosaic is just small squares of all shades of blue, it looks very beautiful. And if the pieces of tiles or glass are folded into a stained glass window, then it is mesmerizing. And this despite the fact that now the mosaic can be bought in the form of squares on a self-adhesive film, and not every small piece can be glued, but part of the canvas on a substrate. She can upload pictures. For example, on an empty wall near the table, you can create a panel with your own hands on any topic.

• Wallpaper can be selected absolutely for any kitchen. The beauty of using wallpaper is that just about anyone can stick it on. Canvases can be combined, painted; applications can be made from smooth ones, and volumetric drawings can be made from liquid ones; use metallized instead of a mirror, and linkrusta instead of stucco.

• Plastic can be different: ABS, acrylic glass, PVC. With the help of ABS, you can get not only an excellent "apron", but also a wonderful canvas as a decorative design of the dining area. Photo printed acrylic glass can also be used in the work area and dining area. And PVC panels are so popular that they have long been a means of leveling and protecting walls from high humidity. Plain color panels can be decorated with other elements; printed panels do not need such decor.

• Painting walls - easy, inexpensive, fast. This decor option is available to everyone. The paint can be combined not only with other colors, but also with other materials. Painting is carried out on smooth walls or decorative plastered. This decor option is combined, perhaps, with all elements: photographs, drawings, mirrors, paintings, panels, shelves, flowers.

• Glass is beautiful, elegant, expensive. Such material can be used in any area: a partition between the kitchen and the dining room, skins in the work area, drawings in a glass frame, interestingly shaped jars and bottles on the shelves, flower vases on the walls, stained glass windows made of multi-colored glass.

In order to correctly decorate the walls of the kitchen, you need to understand that not all materials are suitable for decorating different kitchen areas.

The wall between the horizontal work surface and the wall cabinets is called the apron. From the name it is clear that it must protect the wall from water, grease, dirt, heat. The decor uses ceramics, tempered glass, MDF, fiberboard, brick, stone. Wallpaper and hard-to-clean materials are covered with a protective screen.

"Apron" made of mirror tiles - and your house will be filled with sunbeams. But connoisseurs of Feng Shui do not advise using mirrors in the kitchen: the reflection breaks to the brink, which means that life is broken. And the number of drops hitting the mirror doubles.

Very often, a mosaic is used on the "apron" in the form of a plot pattern or a multi-colored canvas.

The concept of "working area" can be used as:

• a place above work surfaces (stove, countertop);
• kitchen, separated from the dining room or living room by a partition.

In the first case, we are talking about open shelves above the "apron" or walls above the countertop, not decorated with an "apron". Open shelves are often decorated with decorative plates, glass jars of interesting shapes with colorful spices and herbs, cereals and pasta. Color variety is appreciated here.

Or a minimalist style is chosen, when there are one or two decorative elements on a monochrome wall in the form of an unusual clock or a black and white photograph.

When a partition wall is used, there are more options here. You can hang a fancy wine bottle holder, modular artwork, or build in an aquarium shelf on an empty wall.

Free wall near the table decorate in a variety of ways:

• you can hang transparent cones with flowers;
• make an art gallery of family members, including animals;
• hang children's drawings in a frame;
• make a blackboard - a notebook from self-adhesive chalk (marker) wallpaper;
• if the kitchen is very light, plant greens in beautiful pots or plant ordinary indoor flowers;
• paste over with decorative stone, photowall-paper, mirrors of various sizes;
• hang a panel or picture;
• decorate with lamps with natural light;
• use modern LED lighting;
• make a shelf for children's crafts;
• glue wallpaper of a different texture, color, edging it with a border tape or molding.

For each of us, the concept of originality is individual. If earlier the house had smooth gray walls without any decorations, and now there are bright multi-colored wallpapers, then this is already original for this kitchen. But still, handmade items are really original.

• In order for a butterfly to appear on a flower on a flat one-color wall, you will need a self-adhesive vinyl film and a drawing based on it. If you don't know how to draw, use stencils that are easy to find on the Internet.
• Newly fashionable plates on the walls are a popular decor element. But it can be not only white ceramics, but also multi-colored saucers or wooden dishes under the Gzhel or Zhostovo painting. Choosing the right cymbal holders is important.
• To create a wall picture, you only need wallpaper for painting, pencils or paints. And also the author of the future masterpiece.
• The panel "Money Tree", made with your own hands, is not a shame to hang in any room of the house. But, looking at him, I would like to wish everyone well-being. So why not do it in the kitchen?
• A very unusual original "apron" is presented in this photo. And you can do it yourself. This will require a self-adhesive marker film, fluorescent markers for it and plexiglass to protect this unusual light-accumulative pattern.

• Sitting under such a picture, glowing in the dark, you want to forget about all your problems, enjoy delicious food and think about good things.

• See what a good combination. Pieces of different wallpaper on the back walls of the shelves are successfully combined. Transparent jars saturate with color. The variety of forms creates not a cacophony, but an integral composition. But these are just old boxes.

• Glass blocks, folded into a kitchen partition, have themselves become a decorative element. Corrugated glass, refracting rays, fills the room with light.

How to decorate the wall with your own hands, see the next video.