- In the decoration of the room there is a tree. It can be wooden panels on the walls, wooden furniture, wooden accessories.
- The walls, as a rule, are decorated with panels, and are divided into separate parts by moldings.
- Boards or parquet are used as flooring. Their imitation is admissible. Self-leveling floors or ceramic tiles are not allowed.
- A fireplace is an indispensable accessory of style. It can be wood, electric or decorative.
- A chair by the fireplace is also an indispensable style attribute, and should be luxurious - large, comfortable, with carved decorations and upholstery made of expensive fabrics.
- Decor items must have their own history, they can belong to different generations of the family.
- Textiles must be expensive and of high quality, preferably using natural fabrics.
- The design of the bedroom in the English style should be strict, but at the same time elegant, furniture must comply with this rule.
Walls
The lower part of the walls is usually covered with wooden panels - this is practical, and also increases the thermal insulation properties of the walls. Above the panels, the wall is finished with moldings, sockets, friezes are used. On the walls can be either fabric or paper wallpaper in a small flower or one tone. The colors are muted, dim.
As a flooring, it is desirable to use wood. It can be expensive parquet, or simple boards - but be sure to keep a picture of wood on them. Boards are best treated with stain - floors that are too light for the English bedroom are not suitable. Top they can be waxed or varnished. It is appropriate to decorate the floor in the bedroom with a floral carpet.
Furniture
The design of the bedroom in the English style allows you to furnish the room with high-quality, expensive furniture made of noble varieties of wood, such as oak or mahogany.
When choosing furniture in an English-style bedroom, you should take a closer look at the legs of the furniture, because this is an important element of the stylistic direction. So, the shape of the legs should be curved or in the form of an inverted comma.
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Such legs will give the furniture sophisticated sophistication and make the interior noble and elegant.
Upholstery for upholstered furniture, due to its color scheme and texture, should focus on the luxury of furniture, so it should be covered with leather or velvet. Elements of furniture should be decorated with carvings.
The sleeping place should also correspond to the style of the room, first of all, the bed should be high. Moreover, it should not only stand on high legs, but also on it you need to put a few feather-beds. The bed can also be supplemented with a canopy.
The interior in the English style involves the use of a large number of textiles, so the designers recommend decorating upholstered furniture with beautiful sofa cushions and rugs with delicate patterns, laying a blanket decorated with complex embroidery on the bed, and hanging curtains with luxurious drapery on the windows.
It is quite difficult to imagine a house in Old England without a fireplace, a fireplace in English houses is not just a tribute to traditions, it is also a full-fledged element of the interior in the English style that will turn any bedroom into a warm, comfortable room.
Key Design Features
The first thing you pay attention to when entering the English bedroom is quality in everything. The decor of this room should be expensive, but not flashy, ostentatious, but restrained, tasteful. Everything here must be of high quality and expensive - from accessories to textiles.
Further, this interior is recognized by:
- floral, "Scottish" print,
- massive furniture
- white ceiling with a beautiful chandelier,
- lush curtains
- a fireplace
- only natural materials
- the complete lack of modern technology, gadgets,
- a combination of monumentality and elegant little things.
In such a bedroom everything is thought out, everything is in its place, everything is justified and functional. There is no place for disorder, chaos, puffiness, brightness, tastelessness.
Such an interior is built very deliberately, without rush and fuss. The room is decorated for a long time period, during which, usually, no changes are made: conservatism and traditions are another sign of the English style.
Important! In such a bedroom, no one will often perekleivat wallpaper, change, or even just rearrange the furniture.
Over the years, all objects will be in the places once chosen for them.
Color palette and lighting
The English style in the interior of the bedroom is characterized by a simultaneous mixture of aristocratic restraint and domestic warmth. Therefore, a calm color palette here can be combined, for example, with a floral print on the walls or bright accents. If the brightness is chosen for the walls, the furniture should be more calm shades. White in the bedroom will be present on the ceiling, door leafs, window frames, baseboards.
If the room faces the north side, the design should prefer a warmer palette with a predominance of gold, yellow, brown. If the windows face south - cold, in which azure, green, blue will dominate.
We should not forget that in the bedroom you will rest and relax, therefore there can be nothing too bright, “cutting eyes”, exciting in color: thoughtful harmony should reign in the room.
Important! The lighting in the British bedroom is necessarily soft and diffused.
To do this, a chandelier with a lot of decorating elements is usually located on the ceiling, there are table and floor lamps with fabric shades, sconces that look like candelabra. Lighting should not only calm and relax, but also demonstrate the excellent taste of the owner. And still very often the English bedroom is illuminated by reflections of the real fire in the fireplace and nothing else. Admiring them, you can very quickly fall into a dream or a light nap!
Design of the bedroom in the English style: floral prints, tartan
A truly British design cannot be imagined without two things - a floral print and a tartan ornament. Flowers can be present on almost everything - furniture, walls, textiles, carpets. This furniture upholstery, and curtains, and wallpaper.
Moreover, on each element the print can be its own, and in it, in turn, flowers and plant abstraction can be combined. However, one should not think that the choice in favor of floral motifs is a simple solution, since successfully and harmoniously combining them with each other is a very difficult task. Here you can choose some coloring element, which will be repeated everywhere with a certain leitmotif, or choose something as neutral as possible.
The tartan, or “Scottish cage” ornament is a true symbol for the British interior in general, and for the bedroom in particular. It is impossible to imagine a room without him. Usually it goes well with stripes, flowers, and crow's feet. The cage is found in textiles, upholstery, decor and creates a cozy, warm atmosphere in the room.
Finishing the surfaces of the floor, walls, ceiling
The walls of the English bedroom are rarely plain. The main materials for the walls are wallpaper, paint. But they must be expensive, solid, solid. Therefore, it is worth giving preference to wallpaper made of fabric with silk-screen printing and embossing elements. An English-style bedroom, of course, can have painted walls.
In this case, the background colors should be muffled pastel, matte, and from above manually ornament is applied either original or screen, gold, bronze with shine. And in order not to be mistaken in the correctness of the combinations, look at the photo: taste and harmony must be observed!
The English floor must be made of expensive wood. It can be parquet or boards. Modern realities allow their replacement with a laminate. But he must imitate the texture of the tree, be expensive and high quality. The color of the floor is chosen dark, saturated. And to save him from the "gloom" will help carpets soft, pastel palettes in flower, cage, strip. In this case, the color is often slightly faded, not juicy.
The ceiling in the British bedroom is usually painted white. No tension, suspension structures, panels, wallpaper. It can be decorated with wooden beams, but only if the ceiling height allows it (at least 280 cm!). Otherwise, the beams will simply "take" the space, and the ceiling will begin to "crush", causing discomfort, and sometimes claustrophobia. If the ceiling is simply painted (without beams), you can supplement it with moldings, “sockets”, decorative borders, baseboards.
English furniture
In order for the bedroom interior to be truly English, the following furniture elements must be present in it:
- massive bed (main element),
- chair pair (expensive upholstery, curved legs),
- chairs (the design is identical to the chairs),
- shelves or bookcase (required),
- tea, coffee table,
- dressing table
- sofa, bench.
The interior of the bedroom in the English style the main place is assigned to the bed. This is evidenced by absolutely all photos illustrating articles and manuals on this interior. Moreover, the bed (or bedroom suite) must meet certain requirements. Namely: to have the maximum possible sizes, tall, carved, bent legs, fabric canopy or canopy, massive, soft, fabric headboard with thread or forged elements.
Naturally, such a bed is made exclusively of expensive wood. There should be nightstands on either side of the bed. Paired lamps, sconces and ... bookshelves should be hung over the bed. Since true English people love lying in bed, read before bedtime.
Despite the fact that furniture is usually kept in the same style, the British like to combine elements from different manufacturers. Therefore, often in the bedroom you can find an English bed and a sofa, a banquet from India. Do not forget about the law of pairing: bedside tables, chairs, armchairs in the British bedroom must be in pairs.
They usually stand by the window, fireplace, and next to them are floor lamps. Upholstery should be leather, velvet, tapestry, often with gold embroidery.
Textiles & Accessories
An English bedroom interior is not possible without a lot of textiles. And in this sense, the interior is more inclined towards the rustic than the castle, Gregorian. Therefore, the use of hand-made items is welcome: knitted pillowcases, rugs, blankets, napkins. Curtains on the windows should have several layers, lush folds, waves, be decorated with lambrequins, tassels, fall down to the floor. The colors, respectively, are floral and vegetable with embossing.
The main colors of the textile are sand, terracotta, burgundy, green, brown. In a word, muffled, deep, but not bright. All textile elements - from pillowcases to floor lamps - must be sustained in a single style, in harmony and combination. And the materials for them are selected exclusively natural.
To look at the room and say with confidence that we have a bedroom in the English style, the design of the room is impossible without a huge number of accessories. Moreover, the central place here should be occupied, as can be seen in the proposed photos, family heirlooms, books.
In addition to the objects and a fireplace already indicated above, the room should contain vases with natural flowers, porcelain figurines, napkins, pillows, paintings with natural, rural subjects (watercolor, oil), ceramics. And, of course, many family photos in expensive wooden frames. They usually stand on bedside tables or occupy one of the central walls.
Doors and windows
Like doors, windows are made out of wood only. Large windows are divided into small rectangles, and the sashes do not swing open, but move. Heavy curtains on the windows can be picked up from below and decorated with fringe.
Fireplace
The design of the bedroom in the English style suggests the presence of a fireplace in it. The ideal option is a real fireplace, heated with wood. However, only residents of their own houses can afford this, so replacement with electric or bio fireplaces, as well as with false fireplaces, is allowed. On the fireplace portal place candelabra, photographs in elegant frames, mantel clocks.
Lighting
Ultramodern LED backlights in this case are excluded, directional light, which creates bright light spots, is also not suitable. Best of all, if the lighting will resemble a candlelight - not too bright, and diffused. The three-tier arrangement of lamps is implemented as follows:
- a central chandelier (or several chandeliers) on the ceiling,
- above the head of the bed, near the mirrors there is a sconce imitating old candelabra,
- table lamps on bedside tables.
Accessories
The number of accessories can be unlimited, it all depends on the desire and capabilities of the owners. Paintings in heavy carved frames, vases with flowers, porcelain figurines, especially depicting animals or hunting scenes, books, magazines, grandmother knitted napkins - all this will find its place and give the bedroom coziness.
Who should use the English bedroom?
It is believed that the English bedroom is the choice of mature people who have stepped over the third ten, and have certain character traits. Designers are sure that such an interior will suit a wide range of people, namely:
- lovers of classical styles, they will appreciate the aristocratic restraint of design and traditional comfort,
- for those who have small apartments, the English version of the bedroom decoration is the best fit, because it welcomes the feeling of light “cluttered”, “stuffy” furniture, as is usually the case in small-sized housing,
- ideal for collectors, since it involves the placement of various decorative objects without limiting the quantity,
- library owners will appreciate the ability to place bookcases even in the bedroom.
Distinctive features of the English bedroom
The first thing that catches your eye when visiting the bedroom in the English style is the rich decoration. Such a bedroom should have high-quality furniture, expensive finishes, and chic textiles.
You can guess the English design by such features characteristic only of him:
- solid wood furniture
- wallpaper in flower or strip,
- a snow-white ceiling with a luxurious chandelier,
- huge bed with high legs,
- lush folds of curtains,
- real or artificial fireplace.
The interior should consist only of natural materials, each thing should be selected consciously and tastefully - the design is carefully thought out, each detail is in its place. An example of an excellent solution for a bedroom in the English style is shown in the photo.
Finishing materials for the bedroom
Solid walls in the bedroom - rather the exception to the traditional English style. Most often, wallpapers with a floral print, a strip or a plaid are used for their decoration. Only expensive wall coverings should be used as material: fabric wallpaper, silk-screen printing, embossing. In any case, the finish should be dense, solid.
Of course, the walls of the bedroom can also be painted by choosing muted pastel colors. Often painted walls are decorated with hand-made or stencil ornaments.
The tone of the coating is chosen lighter, matte, and the pattern should be glossy, gold or bronze (as in the photo).
There were no spacious rooms in the castles and mansions of Old England - most harmoniously this design looks in small, cozy bedrooms.
The floors in the English bedroom are made only of wood. It should be a typeset parquet or a good plank coating from expensive wood. In the modern interpretation, the use of a laminate is allowed, but you need to choose an expensive and high-quality coating with a textured pattern of natural wood for the bedroom.
Often floors are performed in dark colors, carpets of gentle pastel shades, with simple floral or geometric ornaments, will help to dilute some gloom. The colors of the carpet should be muted, as if faded.
The ceiling in the classic English bedroom is painted white. Ceiling sockets, borders and moldings can be used as decorations. A good option for an English bedroom is the use of wooden beams, they are painted white or wood is selected to match the furniture, window frames or floor.
As a material for them, you need to use only natural wood or high-quality imitation (shown in the photo).
Bedroom set
The central subject in the English bedroom is the bed. The bed should be not only wide, but also high enough. The following requirements are put forward to the bed:
- big sizes,
- high legs
- beautiful headboard with smooth lines (carving, forged decorative elements, soft headboards made of expensive fabrics are welcome),
- fabric canopy or decorative canopy (as in the photo below),
- solid performance of expensive wood.
Bedside tables are often placed on the sides of the bed, floor lamps or lamps are installed on them, decorated with statuettes and photographs in the frame.
True Englishmen decorated the interior with furniture from different masters, often in one room you can find an English master's bed and an Indian banquet, for example.
The interior of any bedroom in the English style must complement the armchairs. In general, all items in this style should be paired, but this rule is especially relevant for chairs or armchairs.
Armchairs or semi-chairs are located near the window, fireplace, not far from the bookcase. Near them you can install floor lamps, put a tea table or a work desk (a good location is shown in the photo below). Upholstery in the bedroom should be expensive and natural. It can be leather, velvet, tapestry.
For example, if the walls are pasted over with expensive embossed and gilded fabric wallpapers, you can choose furniture more simply, without additional decor and carving. Simple floral or striped wallpaper is combined with a luxurious carved set and expensive curtains.
An important attribute of the English bedroom is a bookcase or shelves. Bookshelves are placed above or near the head of the bed, paying tribute to the English tradition of reading in bed.
For the same purpose, you need to take care of high-quality lighting for a berth - hang a sconce, install floor lamps on the floor or curbstones.
No matter how small the bedroom is, it is necessary to fit the necessary pieces of furniture into it, creating an English interior:
- large bed
- a couple of chairs (or at least chairs with high backs and curved legs),
- bookshelves or cupboard,
- tea table or dressing table,
- a small sofa or a bench.
English style textiles
The design of the English bedroom is not complete without carefully selected textiles. The room should have a lot of fabric - expensive, high-quality, luxurious.
Curtains in the English bedroom are multi-layered, with curtains and lambrequins. They fall from the ceiling line, lie in beautiful waves and lush folds. The colors of the curtains should be supported by some elements of the bedroom’s interior - the same small flower as on the wallpaper, the same embossing as on the upholstery of the chairs, a curtain from the same organza from which the canopy or canopy is made.
Bright, flashy colors do not fit the restrained style of Misty Albion. It is inherent in muffled tones, close to natural: brown, sand, pale blue, deep green, terracotta, burgundy.
As a bright accent in the modernized English design can be used small decorative items: figurines, vases with fresh flowers, fabric floor lamps.
Bedspreads, pillowcases - everything should be in harmony with the decoration of the bedroom and furniture, match the texture or color.
The carpets for the bedroom in the English style are used only natural, with a short pile and calm motifs. You can carpet the center of the room or lay a couple of coatings on each side of the bed. In any case, the plank floor of the bedroom should be visible.
Decor
In the country of foggy Albion, it is not accepted that the walls are empty. Naturally, this was reflected in the English interior, which is why classic paintings, bookshelves and book shelves in the bedroom became an integral part of the English style.
Moreover, bedtime reading is another traditional feature of the British.
Main characteristics
The interior in the English style represents elegance, comfort and reliability. It harmoniously combines grace and severity, simplicity and luxury. When arranging a bedroom, it is necessary to take into account the main design characteristics:
- the presence of wooden elements - it can be either accessories, or furniture or decoration materials,
- a fireplace, not necessarily a wood fireplace, an electric or decorative one,
- a large number of high-quality and expensive textiles,
- antique decor items with a long history
- expensive, massive furniture with carved elements and fabric upholstery.
The color scheme of the English interior largely depends on the size and location of the room, but the personal preferences of homeowners should also be taken into account. Most often they use warm colors:
- rich shades of red, such as ruby or cherry,
- pastel orange tones - peach, caramel,
- yellow, but in small amounts, as it increases the tone, which can interfere with relaxation,
- various shades of brown.
You can refresh the interior and visually enlarge the bedroom with the help of cold colors. For the English style, shades of blue and some green tones are good, including turquoise and sea wave.
