Many manage to combine modern details with ancient ones, creating a unique environment similar to that of the ancient Greeks.
A Greek bedroom can be arranged in an ordinary apartment; The key task is to create a comfortable and practical interior.
The room will be a wonderful place to relax, and the atmosphere in it will contribute to a calm and complete rest.
Features
Experts in the field of interior design claim that this trend appeared before our era - in the 8th-6th centuries. Our contemporaries also have the opportunity to see the works of the architects of Ancient Greece: several architectural monuments created by the inhabitants of Hellas have survived to this day.
In addition, many details of ancient design are present in modern Greek buildings, mainly in rural areas.
The difference between Greek interiors and ancient Roman ones is their simplicity and minimalism. They do not accept ostentatious luxury. If you want bright and expensive things in your bedroom, this direction will not suit you.
For connoisseurs of antiquity and practical natures, the Greek style will be the ideal solution. “Greek style” can be used to decorate any room - in a city apartment, a rural house and country apartments.
This direction in interior design can be distinguished by the following features:
- high ceilings;
- materials of natural origin;
- imitation columns decorated with stucco;
- meander patterns;
- multi-colored frescoes on the surfaces of the walls;
- the absence of gilded decor with the simultaneous use of a natural color palette;
- abandoning wallpaper and replacing it with decorative plaster.
The bedroom interior in Greek style is decorated using natural materials. In such interiors, marble and granite surfaces and tiled finishing predominate.
It is unacceptable to use materials of natural origin. Furniture must be made from wood by hand.
It is important that all details of the room have straight lines and a vertical orientation.
Varieties
Most often, those who decide to use the Greek style in the interior take the design of the Classical era as a model. For centuries it has been a source of inspiration not only for architects, but also for artists. Suffice it to recall the painting “Greek Interior” (Jerome Jean-Leon).
Characteristic features of classical design are the use of frescoes, sculptures, arches, columns and stucco.
Classic Greek style in the interior is suitable for spacious rooms with high ceilings. It is unlikely that it will be possible to create such a design in a small standard apartment.
In addition, the name “Greek style in the interior” may hide the design of a home, characteristic of Mediterranean countries, which was given the appropriate ethnic flavor with the help of decorative elements.
Elements of Greek interior
If we talk about decorative components, it is recommended to use antique things - figurines, sculptural compositions, vases. Place them in plain sight - on shelves or special stands.
Window openings should be left open - do not drape them with thick fabrics.
Before you start decorating a room, you need to make sure that it is suitable for this direction.
If it is impossible to design columns and vertically directed architectural elements in the bedroom, such an interior will not meet the requirements of the Greek style.
To prevent this from happening, you need to evaluate the available possibilities in advance and talk to a design specialist so that he can tell you whether it is possible to arrange the room in the spirit of modern Greece.
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Greek style kitchen
For the kitchen, it is better to choose the Mediterranean version of the Greek interior design. It involves the use of a blue and white color palette. The contrast against its background is the natural color of natural wood. The latter is used for decorative decoration of the ceiling, on which massive beams are mounted.
This solution is ideal for a private house or cottage, giving them a similarity to a traditional Greek-style house.
To decorate rooms in the Greek style, you can also use natural stone or tiles. It is not recommended to use glossy versions of such coatings.
Along with the blue and white options, the “olive” kitchen in the Greek style looks beautiful. The olive shade is perfect for finishing walls, ceilings and or painting furniture facades.
An important rule that cannot be broken is the use of only natural materials.
Greek style in the interior: Decor
In recent years, a technique has been widely used when a completely modern, minimalist interior is given an ethno-color with the help of decor. In particular, the Greek style in the kitchen interior can be emphasized using a mosaic apron. In addition, it is recommended to actively use the so-called “Cretan wave” or the “Meander” ornament. It can be used in the form of an “edge” on the facades of quite modern kitchen furniture or a frieze on the walls.
Pottery in the traditions of the potters of Ancient Hellas will help complement the interior. For example, it is recommended to place amphorae or dishes painted with black paint on shelves or in open sections of storage systems. Drawings depicting scenes from mythology or ornaments characteristic of Greece would look appropriate.
A Greek-style kitchen should be well lit. For this purpose, you should use the simplest possible lamps, including those with a vintage design. They should be made of forged metal and have a fairly simple shape.
If you choose a white and blue design with a rustic flavor, you can paint the window frames deep blue and decorate the windows with curtains.
Palette of shades
If you like a bedroom with Greek decor, select a photo in advance to make the task of recreating such a design as easy as possible.
The principles of this direction involve decorating surfaces in a color palette characteristic of Greek nature.
The main shade used here is snow-white with a variety of tones. White is complemented with blue, emerald, yellow and chocolate.
The key color combination is white and blue.
Greek design does not accept gilding and variegation - this is how it differs from Italian. All colors should look slightly muted.
Variegated colors are used to create accents.
Important! When decorating a Greek bedroom, use colors that are as close to natural as possible.
Entrance hall in Greek style
The Greek style in the interior of the hallway is suitable for spacious private houses. It is distinguished by status and helps to impress guests as soon as they step through the threshold of the home.
A mosaic will look great on the floor of the room. It can also be finished with natural stone with a special impregnation that prevents moisture absorption.
An entrance hall in the Greek style should be finished in light colors and shades. The absolute favorite is white. Light beige, cream or sand are also suitable. You can also use finishes in different shades of blue and blue. In this case, the furniture for the hallway should be wooden and painted with white paint.
In the spacious hallway you can install a statue or a large floor vase with a characteristic shape.
Hallway in a city apartment
A more modest entrance hall in the Greek style can have a fairly simple and inexpensive finish. As an option, it is proposed to paint the walls with blue paint and use light tiles for finishing the floor.
The choice of furniture should be approached extremely responsibly. It should not clutter up the space. It is best to install a small-sized storage system with a mirror, painted white. Ideally, its decor will include pilasters.
To give the hallway an antique look, it is enough to use moldings. Engravings with scenes from ancient Greek mythology or photographs depicting famous works of art from the ancient period are also suitable.
Remember! Greek design is minimalist in nature. It originated in an era when any objects were created with the help of hard manual labor, using primitive tools.
This means that you should use little furniture and select decorative items responsibly.
Finishing
Let's talk about materials suitable for decorating rooms in the Greek style. In addition to natural stone, wood and mosaics, glass can also be used when decorating premises in this direction.
A bedroom decorated in the Greek style must certainly have columns - this is the hallmark of the antique style: they give the premises an authentic look.
Colonnades symbolize eternity. They will fill the bedroom with a monumental atmosphere, but their installation requires high ceilings.
If the room is small, design two, and in a spacious bedroom install a whole row of columns.
On a note! If it is not possible to decorate the room with column elements, replace them with pilasters of simple or complex shapes. Paint them white, creating the illusion of sunken columns made of plaster.
Another feature of Greek interiors is the presence of niches with an arched configuration. As a rule, they are designed from plasterboard, but such a design technique hides the usable space of the room.
It is important that the niches with columns are combined in design with the surface cladding.
The walls are usually finished with decorative plaster; wallpaper should be discarded.
Textured plaster will give the room a beautiful look and create the impression of hand-made decor. The plaster coating imitating marble masonry looks especially impressive.
It is desirable that the walls look as if they have been exposed to time and wind.
Various designs are applied on top of the plaster. These can be wavy patterns, meander prints or double lines.
The most beloved design by the Greeks was a circle integrated into a square. The specific focus of Greek design can be highlighted by decorating the walls with wood paneling: they are given a sun-bleached look.
With a monochrome color palette for the walls, bright accents are placed using painted stucco elements.
The most expensive type of cladding is frescoes: they can act as the center of a design composition.
If your financial capabilities do not allow you to make such a design, give preference to photo wallpapers stylized as plaster-covered walls lined with frescoes.
Decorative panels are most often created on a mythological theme.
The floors are decorated in an equally unusual way - using pebbles and other natural materials. The flooring can be marble, granite and stone.
Another good solution is unglazed terracotta-colored tiles, but this coating is quite cold, so it is necessary to design a “warm floor” system in the bedroom. Heating is also required for the stone floor.
From small tiles you can create a mosaic, and from large tiles you can create an imitation of stone texture.
Carpets are not used in such interiors; Only the floors themselves can please the eye with prints. Consider this at the initial stage of planning the decor of the Greek bedroom.
If the floor is cold, instead of carpeting, you can lay sheepskin or textiles with Greek patterns.
Make sure that the flooring matches the main color palette.
The ceiling decor will be the finishing touch to the design of the rest room.
The design of the ceiling can be different - for example, suspended or designed from plasterboard. The surface can be decorated with painted patterns or imitated with photo wallpaper.
Experienced design specialists do not recommend combining ceiling paintings with similar wall decorations - this can lead to disharmony. If desired, you can make ceiling lighting from LEDs.
Majestic columns decorated with stucco can rest against the ceiling. If there is such a possibility, a window is made in the ceiling surface for better illumination of the room.
The ceiling finish should be matte - this way you will emphasize the elegant antiquity of Greek decor. If you choose textured plaster as a finishing material, make sure that its tone is in harmony with the shade of the walls.
Recommendation: you can visually raise the ceilings thanks to the vertical orientation of the walls and interior components. Due to this, you will create the illusion of upward movement.
Hang a large chandelier on chains in the center of the ceiling, complementing it with room lamps that highlight the ceiling plinth to advantage.
Living room in Greek style
As already mentioned, when creating a Greek design, you should proceed from the size of the room and the goals that you set for yourself.
Do you want to decorate a formal room for receiving guests in a large private house? Then, without any doubt, Classic is ideal for you. If we are talking about a cozy room for a family holiday, then pay attention to the Mediterranean Greek style.
Classic living room in Greek style
The classic interior is characterized by the following features:
- using only natural materials;
- rough surfaces that create an atmosphere of antiquity and lack of technology in the interior;
- a light color palette in which white, light beige, cream and blue play the “first fiddle”;
- the use of gypsum moldings and pilasters to give the room a similarity to examples of ancient architecture.
An important feature of the interior of the “Greek” living room is the symmetrical layout. The use of paired pieces of furniture is encouraged. In particular, it is recommended to install identical cabinets, cabinets, floor vases, etc., clearly on both sides of the semantic center of the interior. This could be, for example, a dining table, a large sofa or a chest of drawers.
As noted above, pilasters can be used to decorate walls. With their help, columns, arches and niches are imitated.
The use of finishing materials with a rough surface will help to emphasize the antique Greek style in the interior. First of all, we are talking about natural stone, which should not be polished. It is suitable for finishing not only walls, but also floors. In the latter case, the creation of a mosaic panel from pieces of natural stone of different types is welcomed.
Mediterranean Greek style in the living room interior
Mediterranean style has become especially popular in recent years. This is largely due to such qualities as:
- minimalism;
- environmental friendliness;
- use of ethnic accents;
- practicality;
- focus on creating maximum comfort.
A “Greek” living room in a traditional ethno-style should be filled with light and air as much as possible. It is desirable that there are large windows facing south.
Plaster and white (light) paint should be used to decorate the walls and ceiling of such a room. Wood is more suitable for the floor. The latter may be painted or only slightly processed.
If you are creating a “rustic” Mediterranean living room in the Greek style, then rough-hewn wooden beams can be fixed to the ceiling.
The furniture should be quite simple. Chairs, armchairs and sofas covered with covers made of natural durable materials will look interesting.
It is also acceptable to use several vintage pieces of furniture. They will make the design even more rustic and cozy.
Selecting furniture
A Greek bedroom should be spacious, so don't clutter it with furniture. The modern variation of the Greek style is dominated by furniture with simple shapes, while the classical variety is more elegant.
Choose a bed with a muted design and curved legs. Professionals recommend avoiding models with velvet, leather and corduroy upholstery. All items in the Greek style are in perfect harmony with wicker furniture - it can also be used to furnish a room.
A good option would be to buy furniture made from combined materials: for example, a table on stone legs with a wooden tabletop.
It is better to store clothes in a wooden cabinet with aged surfaces. A chest of drawers with a rough texture will also work. Choose furniture without unnecessary decorative details, with overlays made of wood or forged metal.
Furniture in a Greek bedroom should have a laconic design and be practical, combined with the main color scheme of the room.
Forged products and metal fittings will help make the interior more elegant.
Floor
The color of the floor covering must necessarily match (harmonize) with the main color scheme. As flooring, tiles are most often used in the Greek style, most often unglazed tiles in terracotta, warm tones. These can be small tiles from which you can lay out a mosaic - something very simple and unpretentious. As an option, you can use large tiles, the surface of which imitates natural stone. If you want to have a floor with a pattern, then you can choose tiles with the image of pebbles or shells - this choice is especially relevant for bathrooms. Taking into account the temperature characteristics of our latitudes, it is advisable to install a “warm floor” system for stone (tile) floors.
A bathroom with blue walls and floors is a traditional Greek style.
In a room with white walls, yellow-turquoise details will add accents and add variety to the interior.
In the classic version of the Greek interior, carpets are used in very, very rare cases; sometimes natural sheep skin can be used in their role. But in our conditions it is necessary to somehow soften the cold of the stone floor, so the pattern and colors of the carpet should convey the style of Greece. This can be a natural pattern (grapevine, roses) or a geometric pattern (a complex interweaving of broken lines). Colors are natural: blue, olive, white, brown, emerald.
The simplicity of the furniture is perfectly compensated by decorative accessories.
Textile
When decorating interiors in the Greek style, textiles are almost never used for decorative purposes. Almost all window textiles are used exclusively for their intended purpose - to prevent the penetration of sunlight into the room.
The bed can be decorated with pillows in lace pillowcases and a snow-white bedspread, and the chest of drawers can be decorated with hand-knitted “paths”.
Attention! Choose curtains for windows in natural colors, made from natural materials: cotton, linen, jute.
If the bedroom is located on the sunny side and there are no shutters, they can be replaced with blinds and curtains.
Functional rooms
The Greek version of the room design is impossible without columns, which, with modest spaces in the interior, replace pilasters and ceiling moldings. By installing vertical polyurethane elements, the style is maintained and the ceiling in the living room, where the central chandelier is suspended, is visually raised.
When arranging the interior of a toilet and bathroom in a Greek style, lay the floor with tiles with a pattern of pebbles, shells or sand. And if the renovation is major, then install a “warm floor” system under the floor covering, which will create a southern atmosphere in the bathroom.
For the bedroom, a bed with a carved headboard and a canopy made of natural fabrics is selected, without which the true Greek style is impossible, and the interior also contains simple bedside tables. Furniture is chosen from snow-white or dark wood.
If you can’t create the desired atmosphere in your home yourself, contact professional designers or examples on the Internet.
Decor elements
When choosing accessories for a Greek bedroom, give preference to antique items. The room can be decorated with amphorae of various sizes, plaster and marble figurines, busts, antique mirrors with a cloudy surface.
Accessories depicting mythical characters, glazed and painted vases will make the interior more colorful.
In addition, for decorative purposes you can use lighting fixtures stylized as torches and a ceiling chandelier with lamps in the form of candles.
Climbing plants will also fit into this environment.
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Important nuances
If you have managed to understand the main features of creating a Greek interior, take note of a number of nuances in the design. For example, in any rest room the center of the design composition is the bed.
We advise you to choose a model with a canopy: in Greece this is how they protect rooms from the sweltering heat. In the comfortable microclimate that reigns in the bedroom, your sleep will be sweet and the atmosphere will be cozy.
When arranging your bedroom interior in the Greek style, do not under any circumstances overuse mirrors. This applies, first of all, to the ceiling. It is preferable to decorate it with painted patterns or leave it snow-white.
If you can’t imagine a bedroom without a mirror, choose an aged product or one with a cloudy surface.
A relaxation room decorated in the spirit of Ancient Greece should not contain modern technical elements. Such equipment needs to be disguised: to do this, it is placed in a closet. A pronounced spirit of antiquity will make the bedroom more mysterious and presentable.
If you don't want to give up innovative interior components, place a stereo or other equipment in a niche and drape it with a linen curtain.
The bedroom interior should give the impression of an antique - remember this when arranging the room in the Greek style. At the same time, it is recommended to decorate other rooms accordingly.
If the living room is decorated like a classic, you need to remove luxurious details. This way you will bring its decor closer to the Greek style, and the contrast between the rooms will be leveled.
Greek design attracts with its simplicity, harmony, presentability and rationality. More and more homeowners are giving preference to this direction when decorating a recreation room.
Such interiors are distinguished by majesty, they lack pomp, but at the same time all components look laconic and elegant.
