Nautical Carpets

We all love the sea and we try to spend our holidays at the seaside resort. This is not surprising, because the sound of the waves, the endless blue space, the cry of the seagulls and the joy of bathing charge energy for a whole year ahead. Maritime theme in interiors - one of the favorite concepts of designers at all times. Choosing this style, the main thing is to choose the right parts. Let's talk about such an attribute as a carpet.

Selection features

Carpet in marine style is a thematic element of the interior. A product in which the idea is clearly visible should be selected with care, because the room in this case should be decorated exclusively within the framework of such an idea.

Thus, if the carpet is made in blue and white colors, it depicts underwater inhabitants orsay, the wheel or compass, the rest of the "filling" of the room must match and overlap with the floor covering. For example, duplicate the pattern on the decorative pillowcases, turn on the nautical elements in the wall decorations - the rudder of the ship, a map of the voyage, photos of the sea, and so on.

Such clear signs of maritime style are very suitable for children's rooms. The surroundings can also be supported by a bed in the shape of a ship, a full-length decorative beacon, sea-print curtains, elements of pirate paraphernalia: flags, hats, binoculars, furniture decoration with thick twine.

For living rooms, lounges, and dining rooms, nautical style is more of a hint than its clear execution. This does not mean that you need to completely abandon the attributes, but its number is clearly kept to a minimum.

To pick up a carpet in one of these rooms, you need to dream about the sea and remember what it is: azure-turquoise, dark blue, transparent blue, storm gray, with white lambs on the waves. These colors are the best suited for creating a classic sea interior. But, oddly enough, the sea does not end with the sea.After all, the golden beach, pearl shells, light and dark brown ship feed - this is also a marine theme.

Selecting the color of the coating on the floor, expand the set of familiar representations, then the interior will be refined, not cluttered and sea.

Patterns and drawings

If the choice fell on a monochromatic flooring, remember that it is more difficult to combine bright colors. A screaming turquoise carpet should not be a “symbol” of a room, but should harmoniously overlap with the rest of the room’s elements. Be sure to provide this element with a neighborhood with colorful pillowcases, shades and curtains of a suitable shade. Also to counterbalance the riot of colors will help dark wood furniture.

If you doubt the correctness of the choice, pay attention to the solid colors in muted colors. Beige, brown, blurry azure, whitened blue. Have a certain chic deliberately aged models.

Now manufacturers have found an interesting compromise between plain and colored carpets. Patterns and drawings are made on the basis of the same color, but due to the change in the length of the pile. The product looks embossed and stylish.

Striped carpets are very often used to create a classic sea interior. Colors are combined different, both in one color scale, and in completely opposite. The most famous example is turquoise with orange. Black and white striped carpet will be a good option in the case when the environment is so “too blue”.

Different geometric shapes, made in the necessary colors, will support the interior in a marine style. The product, created from squares and triangles of different shades, is a stylish solution in the interior.

Carpets with various prints and ornaments are considered very fashionable. The favorites are Moroccan motifs, quatrefoil, lattice, Indian and Turkish cucumbers, “Aztec” pattern, Chinese “chain” pattern. A good alternative to the monotonous version will be a carpet, along the perimeter of which the ornament is placed: Mexican, Meander, “a la Greek”.

Of course, more dramatic ideas should differ in detail and reality. There are models that in shape, color and even relief imitate the most real waves. This carpet exactly meets the marine theme.

A popular performance that matches the subject will be a floor with a “compass” print. The four sides of the world are marked on the canvas, and the arrow always points to the north. Phytomorphic images of underwater vegetation - an unusual way to display the style in the interior.

Material

Like any carpet, the product in the marine style is made of wool, cotton, viscose, silk and synthetic materials. Often, the threads are combined to create stronger, reliable products or to give them greater elasticity, lightness, beauty. In general, they are endowed with mixed properties.

Sea style is notable for lightness, weightlessness, a feeling of relaxation and complete relaxation. Carpets with a very short nap or completely lint-free correspond to this image. Fully woolen carpets are very heavy, so choose a combined wool and silk carpet. So that the product does not go beyond the budget, the best combination is wool and synthetics.

Silk carpets are elastic and have a natural shine, such products are expensive. But viscose carpets (artificially created fiber based on cellulose) imitate silk properties, and they are several times cheaper.

An interesting solution, besides inexpensive, will be the usual mats.The main materials for their manufacture are jute and sisal. But just imagine that carpet rugs are made from seaweed!

With such a coating, the interior will become marine, not only externally, but also internally. The main advantage of the mats is that they are made of natural materials, they have an excellent property not to heat up in hot weather, to keep warm in cold, pleasant to the touch and have antistatic properties. Algae mounds even smell of salt and sea.

You can even try to create a small rug or track with your own hands. It is very simple to make it, and the result will not be too financially expensive.

Such a thing can be woven or knit or crochet from old things of a suitable color.

Sizes and shapes

The classic rectangular carpet has gained wide popularity in Russia due to the fact that the layout of the apartments provides for narrow rooms in which the length prevails over the width. So it is still customary to arrange furniture along one and opposite walls, and in the middle, of course, there is a large rectangular carpet.

A large carpet in the whole room has its positive qualities.Firstly, it creates a good sound insulation, secondly, it is much more pleasant to walk on a warm carpet during the cold season than on linoleum or laminate, and thirdly, large carpets are very comfortable.

But sometimes you do not want to overload a room with such a large-scale object. In such cases, the carpet occupies only that part of the room where frequent comfortable stay is required: a bedside area in the bedroom, in the living room by the sofa, under the dining group in the living room.

Square carpets look nice in the recreation area, where there are soft sofas, chairs or couches, and in the center is a glass coffee table. Such rooms are most often found in country houses.

Oval and round carpets fit perfectly into the dining rooms in harmony with dining groups of similar shapes. But in any other room it is a great alternative to rigid geometric shapes.

Long narrow lanes, made in a marine style, decorate the interior and are able to be in the same room with the main large carpet, in case the room is large and visually divided into different zones. Such a product has a fireplace or remote rocking chair.An alternative to the walkway is a small round carpet.

The form can completely go out of standard views. Basically, such products have a certain pattern, which cut the edge of the canvas.

Such coatings are generally not very large.

Examples in the interior

A nautical dining room with a striped carpet gives the impression that lunch or dinner is taking place at a restaurant in the resort.

Carpet in the bedroom with a pattern of "zigzag" and ornament - a stylish solution to the creation of the interior.

The nautical-style chill-out seating area offers a chat about traveling and brings back memories.

Living room with a carpet, stylistically indifferent, does not cease to be made in a nautical style.

You will learn more about how to create a marine-themed interior in the following video.

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