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One of the latest trends in interior design is the use of different colors on the walls. This technique allows you to diversify the design, focus on some part of the room. To correct the shortcomings of the layout, different drawings in the same color scheme are used. All these techniques work perfectly with wallpapers: they have different textures, colors, patterns. Moreover, the result can be evaluated in advance – by rolling out two rolls side by side on the wall. That is why two types of wallpaper are becoming more and more popular: they are modern and offer an opportunity to make rooms interesting.
Rules for combining wallpapers and textures
In such a matter as design, you cannot do without rules, and even more so when combining colors, patterns and textures. In order for wallpapering of two types to look harmonious, it is necessary to take into account a number of parameters.
Ceiling height
It is this characteristic of the room that dictates the choice of the type of pattern, and also largely determines the texture and color. If the ceiling height is less than 2,5 m, light-colored wallpapers are used, without a rough texture, with a medium-sized pattern. If the ceilings are very low, a combination of a light main background with a subtle texture or pattern, vertical stripes (a pattern, or just canvases of a different color) that can be located on one wall can correct the situation, but it is better to distribute them into two, or even three.
High ceilings – from 3 m and above – require a radically different approach. Here, on the contrary, a large drawing, stretched in width, is needed. You can use horizontal wall divisions using different colors in the top and bottom half (see more below). To make this design look modern – this is still a classic technique – you need to try very hard with the choice of colors and / or patterns.
Room dimensions
In addition to height and width, pay attention to the geometry. First, to the square. If the room is large, you can use more saturated or dark shades. This will visually reduce the size. If monochromatic dark walls do not please you, find a dark-colored wallpaper with a light large pattern. As a rule, these are plant motifs, abstraction or geometry is found.
In small rooms, everything is definitely the opposite: use light colors. If with a texture, then medium-sized, the pattern is small, not very pronounced.
Secondly, we pay attention not to geometry. If the room is long and narrow. In this case, it is the wallpapering of two types that will save the situation: lighter ones are glued on short walls, and some of them “come” around the corner. Thus visually the geometry is aligned.
There is another trick that is used if the entrance to a narrow room is on one of the long sides. Then it is worth highlighting the middle of the opposite wall with a different color, pasting the corners with the same wallpaper that is intended for short ones. The perception of the room will change significantly: it will no longer seem so long.
Texture selection
In general, wallpapering two types requires careful selection of the texture and thickness of the canvases. When combining, it is desirable to use the same type of panels. If docking occurs only in the corners, then you can not pay special attention to the thickness and texture: you still won’t particularly consider it in such a place. But if the connection of the canvases on a flat wall, then the difference in thickness will only emphasize the transition. It looks, as a rule, too exaggerated.
Another moment. If you still decide to glue canvases of different types, you need to use the appropriate glue for them. For example, for wallpaper on a non-woven base, your own – on paper – your own. The same applies to the coating – for vinyl and structured canvases – its own type, for acrylic – another. Don’t want to fool around? Buy a universal one. There are also such compositions.
Light or dark
If the room is too bright, or the interior is too monotonous, it is not necessary to use dark wallpaper on all walls. You can paste over the wall opposite the window dark, let the rest be light. As a result, the room will not be very bright, and you will get rid of the oppressive atmosphere that dark walls create.
This technique works and vice versa: to brighten the room, it is enough to stick light-colored canvases on the wall opposite the window. It will become much lighter.
How to compose
There are several techniques for sticking wallpaper of two types, which can be used “in pure” form or combined two or three at a time. It is important to have a good idea of what you specifically want to achieve.
Vertical combination
Probably everyone knows that vertical stripes give a visual increase in the height of the ceiling. Moreover, the stripes do not have to be regular. In a modern interpretation, striped wallpaper can be on one wall, while the rest can be plain-colored or with a soft, slightly noticeable pattern.
But this is not always the case. You can distribute vertical stripes on different walls. Moreover, they can be regular – repeated at a constant interval. As you can see in the photo, the interval on different walls may be different.
Stripes can be different – in color or pattern. The texture with this combination of wallpaper should be the same, otherwise you get an incomprehensible mishmash. For such a combination, it is easiest to work with a single collection. The fact is that most campaigns produce several drawings that are combined with each other. As a rule, they are in several scales. In one collection there are two or three plain backgrounds and several options with drawings.
You can see an example of using three wallpapers from one collection in the photo below and above. The combination is almost perfect – they were repeatedly tested for compatibility before starting production. By the way, in most of the other photos, wallpapers are also combined from the same collection. It’s just very difficult to arrange different textures normally.
When combined vertically, there is another interesting technique that allows you to make the ceiling higher. One of the strips “comes” to the ceiling. In this case, the transition boundary is blurred, which gives a feeling of greater volume.
To make the principle of the arrangement of the stripes a little clearer, we present several options in the graphic image. The drawings are made as if viewed from above.
These are win-win options that will always “play” when choosing paintings from one collection. If you need a guarantee that two types of wallpaper will be effective, use one of these schemes. This wall design has been tried thousands of times, and every time the result is excellent.
Horizontal division
A technique that can be attributed to the classics of design. It has been used for a long time, but with the current abundance of colors and textures, it has received a completely new sound. This technique is more often used in rooms with a small area, but high ceilings. Remove the effect of the “well” and helps the horizontal division of the room. It can be just a horizontal strip that encircles the room. Often it is tied to the height of the window sills, but in general it is carried out when dividing the plane into three parts and can be located in the lower or upper third.
This rule is often violated: sometimes the strip is made at eye level and some decorative elements are hung at this level. It often looks very good. This technique is often found in the design of corridors and hallways.
The division zone can also pass at the top. Traditionally, the lower part is made in darker colors, the upper one is lighter. But this rule is also violated. An example is in the photo below.
Traditional options for combining wallpaper companions of two types with horizontal division:
- bottom (1/3) – striped wallpaper. top – plain-colored or in a small pattern;
- bottom – 1/3 – in a small pattern, top – large monograms or monophonic;
- 2/3 at the bottom is a large drawing – monochromatic upwards.
Zoning
Wallpaper of different colors in the same room is also used if it is necessary to emphasize zoning. For example, in studio apartments, various functional areas are divided in this way: dining and recreation.
The same principle can be applied in the nursery. In this case, sticking wallpaper of two types serves to separate the game part, bed, table. They also act if two children live in the nursery. Only this is possible if there is no competition between them, otherwise the number of conflict situations may increase.
With this combination, the use of different textures is allowed. But separating them with moldings is used very rarely. They try to either join in the corners, or pick up wallpaper so that the junction does not look defiant.
Panel or decorative inserts
Different wallpapers in the same room were glued for a long time, only once they were made of fabric, and they were framed as they were very expensive and were available only to the upper class. Since then, it has become a custom: sticking wallpaper of two types in the form of a panel. And today, classic interiors are decorated this way, using silk-screen printing, embossed or textured options for insertion.
If style allows, elements of a different color are framed from a molding. This version of the design fits perfectly into classic interiors or in the style of Provence, country.
A similar panel is also possible in more modern styles – modern, for example. But then the frame can be made from a border of the same color – from the same collection, or cut out from the “body” of the wallpaper.
Another option is to paste over in a niche. In this case, the pattern and texture is selected according to the style, as well as for a different design.
And in this case, it is best to use wallpapers from the same collection. A professional decorator will pick them up by experience or using flair, but for amateurs, this may not work. If you don’t want to take risks, use one collection.
Color Accents
There are two principles for applying this technique. First, you need to divert attention from some element that you consider unsightly. For example, uneven walls. In some apartments, they may be bevelled. So that the eye does not cling to this fact, the opposite wall is distinguished with wallpaper of a different color, with or without a pattern. It is important that they attract attention.
The second technique is gluing wallpaper of two types to draw attention to some object in the interior. In bedrooms, this is often either a bed or a wall opposite. Here, who wants to emphasize what (read about choosing wallpaper for the bedroom here). In kitchens, a table is often allocated – thus forming a dining area. This is part zoning, part accent. Still, attention is still being diverted from the kitchen area.
Actually, the accent can be not only a vertically directed strip, although this option is more common: our rooms do not sin with high ceilings, therefore any means are good. In a high room, the accent can be a wide horizontal strip – or some part of the wall, as in the photo below.
In some rooms there are ledges of load-bearing walls or niches. Often they try to disguise. It is absolutely not necessary to do this. By highlighting this area with wallpaper of a different color, it can be turned into an architectural highlight that will give individuality to the room.
In general, the options for how to hang wallpapers of different colors in one room are endless. Choose what you like best, and to have more ideas, below there is a whole section with different photos.