The attitude to it depends on what color the room is decided on: whether it is pleasant, comfortable to be in it, whether you want to stay longer or, conversely, to escape as soon as possible.
Turquoise is one of the fresh and fashionable trends in interior design. Especially often this tone is used to design living rooms. Traditionally, these rooms are usually made neutral: beige, dairy, white, light coffee. Such facilities add calm and tranquility. However, to refresh emotions and feelings, to give originality, bright color accents are needed, and turquoise in this situation is ideal.
This tone is not sharp, does not hit the eyes, but it is quite saturated to be called neutral and remain invisible.
Color shades
You should not think of turquoise as a single tone, the range of its subtones is quite extensive. There are several main ones.
- Heavenly. This is a clean and bright shade that gives the room energy, vivacity. As the basis of the interior is too saturated, and as an accent - perfect. The most spectacular in the living room will look sky-blue textile - curtains, pillowcases of sofa cushions, decorative chair covers.
- Blue blue - This tone is much deeper than the previous one and, unlike it, tunes you to a calm mood. It is suitable for decorating walls - both wallpaper and paint. If it is decided to leave the walls in neutral tones, blue-blue will be good for upholstering sofas and armchairs, as well as on the floor - whether it is carpet or tile, or on windows - as curtains.
- Blue-green. This is a very bold color, it is not for indecisive.Ideal for creating bright color "spots", it can act as a solo as a companion to the neutral interior, or be combined with other bright colors - for example, canary yellow, ecru or orange.
Compatibility
Since turquoise is a color that at the same time gives peace to being overly active and invigorates those who are bored, it is quite universal. Symbolizing generosity, creativity, healing and love, he eliminates depressive states, groundless fears, anxieties.
Turquoise has no limitations in style decisions. It can act as the basis of the whole design, or be an additional color, or even set bright accents. With their help, you can "stir up" any of the most boring interior. First of all, because associations with turquoise are the sea, the beach, vacation, harmony.
In such an atmosphere, the mood is steadily increasing, and thoughts themselves move in the direction of positive.
And here are the most frequent and successful combinations with turquoise in the living rooms.
- White. This is a classic combination, at the same time simple and luxurious. If there is not enough sun in the room, you can “add” it with the help of yellow, mustard or lemon accents. Equally spectacular are turquoise as the basis of design, and white is accent, and vice versa. The living room will be filled with air and freshness.
- Silver and gold. Any of these tones gives luxury and sophistication to the interior in which it is used. The most spectacular in gold or silver will be the details - vases, decorative figurines, lamps, fittings, mirror frame. No less interesting are the impregnations of golden or silver in textiles - upholstery, curtains.
It is important to remember that both gold and silver should be used as an accent, which means that it is dosed.
- Grayscale in combination with turquoise they give a very effective combination, which gives at the same time nobility and sophistication of the living room. It is important to consider that the room for such a combination should not be small.
- Orange - Not the easiest “companion” for turquoise, but it can give a very beautiful result in combination with it. The living room will definitely become very warm from this design, but two saturated colors will require a third - neutral, which will soften the sharpness of the combination.
- Shades of pink refresh the turquoise, but it should be exactly the shades, and not a bright saturated puppet-pink. With this combination, you should be careful, and in the right dosage it is very beautiful.
- Chocolate - Another atypical companion for turquoise, but very original and beautiful. The combination of dark chocolate with green-blue gives a truly European, stylish, effective result. It is pleasant to be in such a living room, as brown, “earthly” tones calm, harmonize the atmosphere, and heavenly ones tone you up to thoughts about the pleasant.
Styles
Shades of green and blue are universal, they harmoniously fit into any of the known styles of interior design.
In a classic style, soft tones of turquoise are recommended., They go well with gray, chocolate, golden. It is better if turquoise is not the main tone, but it fits perfectly as upholstery for sofas and armchairs.
In a room designed in a modern style, turquoise can be either a base - on the walls and / or floor, or an additional color in the form of furniture.
The retro living room is ideal for turquoise furniture, original antique lamps, as well as curtains and sofa cushions with tassels.
One of the most spectacular styles for serving turquoise is Mediterranean. In a company with snow-white, emerald, ultramarine and yellow, it looks really bright and rich. Turquoise is better to place accents.
In a Scandinavian monochrome design turquoise can be used in microscopic doses, but they are quite enough to give the interior a missing “highlight”.Against the background of white, gray or light blue, the color of the sea wave will look very expressive.
An eclectic style, as its name implies, is a mixture of all styles. Therefore, there can be no primary color, each of the shades used plays a role. Using turquoise, you can set up both large color accents - for example, painting one of the walls, and small ones - using textiles, picture frames and mirrors, and small details of the decor.
In the company, shades of wood, yellow, orange and brick red are suitable for turquoise.
Ethnic African style is characterized by a combination of sky blue with red, yellow and brown. Having designed a living room in these colors, you can get a room filled with color, light and energy.
Design options
Deciding to decorate the living room in turquoise tones (or with a little use of this color), it is important to consider the location of the room in the apartment and its general style. If all the other rooms are decorated in a modern or classic style, then the living room, decided in ethnic style, will look strange. Especially if it is located in the center of the apartment or is a passage room.
There are a lot of options for introducing turquoise into the interior. You can paint the walls (or one wall) in this color, you can wallpaper. It looks interesting combination of plain walls and floor, laid out with mosaic or hexagon tiles in the same color. Unusual tiles look especially appropriate in the Mediterranean style, creating the full feeling that you are not in a city apartment, but somewhere in a cottage in Sardinia.
Furniture upholstered in turquoise is also a curious solution. Depending on the style of the living room, the texture and pattern on the fabric, as well as the model of the sofa and armchairs, are selected.
For arranging turquoise accents, any interior details are suitable - from textiles (curtains, furniture covers, sofa cushions, carpets) to figurines and mirror frames. The lamps in this color look spectacular.
Beautiful examples
And some more interesting ideas to follow:
- living room in a modern style;
- the combination of turquoise and yellow gives freshness and energy to the room;
- lemon is also an excellent companion for turquoise in the interior;
- the floor in chocolate tones perfectly sets off the turquoise details in the interior;
- details - this is what makes this interior so stylish;
- a little orange is always welcome, including for a turquoise living room;
- The Mediterranean style is perfect for turquoise.