Styles

Grunge style in the interior

Grunge living room with leather sofa and unusual lamps

One of the most popular trends in contemporary art is gaining widespread popularity - the grunge style in the interior. Today's world is developing rapidly, we often rush somewhere, quickly get tired. In such circumstances, everyone wants to have a place where you can relax, relax, forgetting for a while about the problems. Designing a house or apartment in grunge design, we create a cozy nest where we will relax from the hustle and bustle of everyday life. Style combines antiquity and novelty, so admirers of the fashion trend are found among people of different ages.

History of occurrence

Style was born in the 19th century in France. The beginning was laid by the French aristocracy, which, tired of city life, loved to spend time in the villages. Classicism, with its luxury and pomposity, was poorly suited for the arrangement of rural estates, so less expensive materials that were more suitable for suburban life began to be used in the arrangement of houses, but the interior looked elegant.

Large spacious bedroom with unusual grunge lighting

The aristocratic style harmoniously coexisted with the rustic. Or, the French bourgeois brought from the village to their city houses some kind of sweet-hearted things - figurines, lamps, beautiful vases. These items successfully complemented the classic interior, added a certain zest to it, brought in a bit of nostalgia for rural life.

Cozy bedroom with a wooden bed and a nightstand in grunge style

Such an interior was designed to create a cozy and comfortable atmosphere, so that it would be nice for the whole family to gather at home, have conversations, and relax from the urban rhythm of life.

Grunge kitchen with silver apron and retro lights over work area

So there was a grunge that combines elitism and provincialism, elegance and affordability. Let us consider in more detail what constitutes a style in the design of the room.

Style in the interior

For more than two hundred years of existence, grunge has become quite popular. Many people want to arrange an apartment in this spirit. Grunge in the interior of the house is primarily a classic, but not artsy and expensive, but more restrained and affordable.

Small cabinet in grunge style with wooden retro furniture

There is no place for gold, stucco molding. Forged elements come to replace. This style is comfortable and concise. His goal is to create a cozy, practical interior for many years. Dark rooms with low ceilings are not suitable for grunge. He needs spacious, bright rooms with high ceilings.

White kids room in grunge style.

Please note that extra items are missing. Preference is given only to functional furniture and decor items.

Forged parts are another hallmark of grunge. Forging should not shine. It should bear the imprint of time. Grunge allows the use of carpets. Usually they are soft, natural colors, which gives even greater comfort.

Cabinet interior on the balcony in grunge style

The style is good in that you can change your interior around yourself by adding or removing certain details. For example, to lay out small decorative pillows made of linen, cotton, satin in calm tones on the sofa, and hang portraits of family members on the walls - this detail is also characteristic of grunge.

Luxurious grunge style glass wall bathroom

Materials

The materials that are used to create the interior are natural. When decorating, they prefer stone, wood, brick, and often they are not even processed, striving for even greater naturalness.

Living room with huge windows in grunge style.

The decoration is dominated by fabrics such as linen, cotton, silk, wool, leather. Cotton makes excellent light curtains on the windows, and upholstered furniture is covered with woolen blankets. Natural materials are designed to emphasize unity with nature. Often they are artificially aged. Metal details are also characteristic of grunge. Forged decorative elements are widespread - frames for portraits or mirrors, furniture legs, grilles.

Bright living room in grunge style

Wooden beams of different sizes, bamboo decorative panels, textiles are used in the design of the walls. Often in the interior you can see the walls, which are brickwork, not reaching the ceiling, but breaking off in the middle by uneven waves. In this case, raw brick is used, or they simply do not touch the already existing masonry. Also, the walls are faced with pebbles.

A long room made under the cabinet with bright elements of decor in grunge style

The floor may be stone or wood. When laying it out, wooden beams are not always used. Parquet, laminate flooring look no less harmonious in a similar interior.

Furniture and decor

The elegant environment is replaced by simpler analogues. Oak furniture replaces teak furniture. This tree is as durable as oak, but less expensive. When choosing, preference is given to light colors. The contours of the furniture should be smooth.

Modern antiquity in a large bright bedroom - grunge style

Wicker sofas are popular. They look simple but beautiful. It is noteworthy that large bulky cabinets are not typical. Instead, they choose light wooden or metal shelving, low tables, cabinets. But as a frame for a mirror, on the contrary, often appear massive wooden frames covered with soft bronze or gilding, which give the appearance of antiquity.

Modern living room in grunge style.

The presence of decorative elements should be concise and justified, since the style itself is already quite interesting, implies the presence of many features designed to decorate the space, such as uneven brickwork, rough wood in the wall and ceiling cladding, wicker furniture and more. Forged, or most importantly, a functional element of the decor can be a forged or wooden lamp.

Hallway with open hanger in grunge style

Lighting and colors

A distinctive feature of grunge is large spaces with an abundance of daylight, which should prevail over artificial. The windows are usually large with simple single-layer curtains, so that nothing interferes with the penetration of daylight. Chandeliers, floor lamps, sconces, lamps are not rarely framed by gilding or bronze, since aristocracy is still inherent in style.

The combination of painted and brick walls in the living room in grunge style.

It is important that the gilding and bronze are dull or artificially aged, but not shiny and defiantly luxurious.

The color palette is designed to create a sense of calm, to have creativity. A sharp contrast is unacceptable, so the colors are usually discreet. The main color palette of the style includes all shades of white, beige, brown, black, gray. Gold, silver, copper colors are used for accents, however they should be muted.

Living room with fitted wardrobes in grunge style

Style features

To summarize, we outline the main distinguishing features of grunge in the interior:

  • the use of natural materials such as stone, wood, brick;
  • dim colors - gray, white, brown, navy, beige, black;
  • refusal of luxury for the sake of practicality and functionality;
  • lack of deliberate negligence, the interior looks simple but elegant;
  • artificially aged objects or genuine antique, but inexpensive things;
  • furniture, decor items have smooth outlines;
  • a lot of free space and daylight.

Grunge long kitchenUsing all of the above techniques for decorating grunge-style rooms, you will be able to create a cozy living space, where it will be pleasant to return after a hard working day. Natural materials will ensure the longevity of the finish, and the peculiar flexibility of style allows you to complement the interior of the house with new details or remove old ones, while maintaining the overall concept.

White hallway in the style of grazh

Most often, such a style is preferred by creative natures or retro lovers, but this does not mean at all that the style is not suitable for practical urban residents. The grunge style in the interior skillfully combines various elements in itself, which is why people of different ages, incomes, and perceptions choose it and thanks to this, grunge has been around for 200 years without losing its relevance.



Graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technology and Design. More than 100 completed design projects.


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