6 major design highlights of Morandi color decoration to create a Nordic texture space
Morandi color started a craze due to "Story of Yanxi Palace". However, before that, few people noticed that Morandi color has been widely used in Nordic interior decoration, and Morandi color decoration is the best way to create Nordic quality homes. Required elements.
The main reason why Morandi color decoration is a typical style of Nordic interior design is that the sunshine time in Nordic winter is short, and the outdoor scenery is either pitch black or snowy. Due to the long time spent indoors, the spatial color configuration reduces the visual impact. Stimulating low-chroma decorative colors have become the mainstream of interior design.
▲ Muuto Linear wooden table / Oslo single chair / Ambit chandelier
Morandi color originated from Giorgio Morandi, who is regarded as the greatest Italian painter of the 20th century. The so-called Morandi color refers to a soft, low-saturation color system, just like in the color A layer of grayscale filter effect is added to create a quiet and elegant visual sense.
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For those who love Morandi color decorators , Nordic design furniture Muuto is a benchmark brand not to be missed. It has a complete product line and uses Morandi colors flexibly in color matching. The harmony and contrast of colors are the key to color matching in interior design. How to find the best balance point between the cold and warm tones, light and dark and purity contrast of Morandi color furniture pieces? The following provides 6 types and 20 configuration inspirations. As long as you master the color matching skills, you can easily create a Morandi color decoration. style :
1. Grayscale tones create an elegant texture
Morandi color decoration often uses gray blue and black, which is a versatile combination. Taking the living room as an example, home furnishing accessories of the same color are used to blend into the low-color background wall. The black leather sofa creates the main visual aura of the space. The earth-colored carpet and light side table coffee table cleverly set off the main theme without taking away the main focus. The visual style and the graceful black standing lamp of the same color next to the sofa successfully create an overall tranquil and elegant high-end texture for the space.
▲ Muuto Outline sofa / Post standing lamp / Airy Table side table coffee table / Pebble carpet
2. Morandi-colored items add the finishing touch to the space
Lighting not only provides lighting effects, but also plays an important role in space decoration. A low-saturation color window sill paired with a long wooden table injects a warm atmosphere into the space. Paired with a Morandi-colored chandelier or lighting, the soft light instantly enhances the elegant atmosphere of the space.
▲ Muuto Ambit chandelier
The light pink Morandi color sofa is the soul of the Morandi color decoration - it blends in and stands out from the large light gray wall, and paired with wooden side tables, you can easily create a perfect look with just a few simple items Nordic style living room.
▲ Muuto Oslo sofa / Beam table lamp / Around side table
Even a single item such as a side table and coffee table can flexibly use Morandi color elements to add Nordic style to the space design!
▲ Muuto Halves side table coffee table
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▲ Muuto Restore storage basket
3. White walls vs. colorful items
White walls or large blank spaces are common presentation methods in Nordic interior design. In a white-based space, single chairs with contrasting colors but soft gray green or light pink are interspersed to give the space a vivid and rich expression that is not monotonous.
▲ Fiber single chair / Strand chandelier
4. Tips for matching Morandi-colored walls
Mastering the matching characteristics of different colors can make the main furniture become the visual focus in the space. The background color of the quiet blue wall is matched with side tables and flower pots of similar colors. The leather leisure chair/master chair in it is eye-catching but fits in well with the space furnishings.
▲ Doze leisure chair /Knik Vase twisted flower pot/Halves round side table
The pink and purple Morandi-colored walls are paired with white chandeliers, gray sofas, black side tables and wooden side cabinets, reflecting the soft and warm Nordic space atmosphere.
▲ Muuto Strand pendant lamp / In Situ modular sofa / Workshop side table coffee table / Reflect side cabinet / Ridge flower pot
The gray-scale Morandi green walls and large white spaces are only decorated with simple items. The soft-lined furniture is paired with a simple and classical white standing lamp, which instantly enhances the texture and atmosphere of the space.
▲ Louis Poulsen VL38 standing lamp
The grayscale elements of Morandi color, after the color is washed down, can be used in furniture of different colors without any violation. The light pink walls, pink-green bar and light gray bar chairs in the space are in perfect harmony. The white mouth-blown glass chandelier above is the ultimate expression of simple style.
▲ Muuto RIME chandelier / Fiber bar chair
Another tip for matching Morandi-colored walls is to choose furniture in the same color as the walls to make the color of the space more integrated.
▲ Muuto Visu bar chair / Ambit chandelier
On the walls of Morandi-colored rooms, several chandeliers of different sizes and lively colors can be hung at the bedside where reading lights are needed, allowing the lighting to stand out from the entire space of elegant colors and become the visual protagonist.
▲ Louis Poulsen Cirque chandelier
5. Woody vs. natural and bright
Wooden tones are another important element of Nordic Morandi color decoration . Have you noticed? In fact, wooden furniture appears very frequently in the front of the article, because wood tone is the characteristic of Morandi color decoration . Spaces decorated in the Nordic style are usually a combination of gray-scale pastel colors, wood tones and large areas of bright lighting.
In Morandi's decoration, the typical pink walls are paired with wooden side cabinets, the metal framed wall mirrors with industrial style are softened, and supplemented by color-changing black wall lamps, the strong Nordic style conveys a fresh and comfortable sense of space.
▲ Muuto Framed Mirror Magic Wall Mirror / Reflect Side Cabinet / Post Wall Lamp
In the brightly lit space, the long wooden tables, chairs and stools stand out against the background color of the light gray wall. The surroundings are matched with Morandi earth-colored single chairs and storage cabinets, and are embellished with color-hopping chandeliers to achieve an alternative simple taste.
▲ Linear long table /Fiber single chair/Unfold chandelier/ Enfold storage cabinet
6. Make good use of home decoration items to decorate the space
In addition to walls and furniture, home decoration items are actually also a key role in Morandi color decoration . The most popular ones are Muuto's best-selling product, The Dots hook, is unique in that it not only has the function of a hook, but its colorful colors also have an excellent effect of embellishment on the wall. Imagine that you are a creator, choose the hook material you like, whether it is wood, metal or ceramic, and choose your favorite color at will. A monotonous wall can instantly be transformed into a personal creative canvas!
▲ Use colorful hooks to decorate the wall to create an excellent effect: Muuto The Dots hooks
The decorative technique of colorful hooks is not only suitable for rooms, but also for any large blank wall. Whether it is the same color or different colors, Morandi color is versatile in the space!
▲ Muuto Enfold locker
Another indispensable item in the Nordic space is the flower vessel. Integrating natural elements such as flowers and plants into indoor space furnishings, and then decorating them with Morandi-colored flower vessels can instantly create a wonderful space texture.
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