Not everyone likes expensive and intricate styles with high-tech elements. Many people want to move from the bustle of the city to a quiet, quiet village, to a cozy hut that will hide from the weather. The chalet style will help to fulfill this desire.
At first glance, the surprising simplicity of design, natural details, but this does not deprive the kitchen of functionality and comfort. It is important not to overdo it with a massive rough texture, so that the interior does not become repulsive. How to do this, we find out later.
Features and characteristics
The chalet style is not very popular due to the peculiarities of its design. In the modern world, it is used mainly only for country houses.
However, there are people for whom it will become ideal in a city apartment, the main thing is the availability of space, as this style does not like restraint and tightness.
So, for whom it will fit? If you like nature, rustic motifs, green grass, alpine hills, small houses, if for you the city bustle is a burden, then the chalet style is for you.
With its help, the kitchen will be filled with a peculiar rural cosiness and harmony.
The distinctive features here are as follows:
- Exceptionally natural materials, such as stone, wood, ceramics. They are in construction, and in decoration, and in furniture, everywhere. And the furniture should be good, a bit rude.
- The effect of antiquity, created with the use of certain materials or antiquarian objects.
- A single working and dining area, which does not tolerate the separation of the coating on the floor.
- The presence of photographs, landscapes in massive wooden frames, decorations in the form of stuffed animals, weapons are welcomed.
- Textiles are selected by a natural, rough texture.
- Although the style of the chalet seems to be very simple, but even the most pretentious objects have their purpose and are characterized by functionality.
Advantages and disadvantages
Kitchen in the style of the chalet really gives an opportunity to plunge into the rural atmosphere, simplicity, natural motives.
The interior is made only in natural materials, while making the interior luxurious and coarse. This kitchen is filled with comfort.
With all this, creating such a style is not so simple. It requires careful attention to details, each of which can break the idea.
In addition, the room must necessarily have a high ceiling, otherwise it will not work fully.
It is also worth noting that the style of the chalet implies mostly neutral dark colors, so the task of filling the kitchen with light is complicated.
Color spectrum
It is already clear that natural materials are a business card of the chalet style. Moreover, naturalness and naturalness are also expressed in the choice of color.
The most relevant here are such tones as stone, wood, all kinds of shades of brown and gray.
In addition, you can often see black, beige, sand color. All natural shades of nature are gathered in this style. This is heaven, earth, water, foliage, tree, greens, etc. Bright colors in such an interior do not occur.
Ceiling beams, furniture is made of wood, so brown motifs predominate.
The walls are usually lighter tones, such as beige, light brown, faded yellow. Finishing can be either light or dark brick.
Bright accents are allowed only in the decor. It can be pots with plants, dishes, textiles, photos.
Furniture feature
All kitchen furniture, including a kitchen set, should look simple, and at the same time soundly, reliably.
Materials must be made of solid wood. First of all, it is worth choosing hard rocks, because they are stronger, and therefore more durable. This is oak, beech, ash.
Advice! Furniture made of natural wood is very expensive, so it can be found a worthy replacement. An analogue can come out MDF, covered with veneer, corresponding to the outwardly natural texture.
In this style, the original solution will be the use of antique, vintage furniture. Facades most often do not cover with colored paint, but use only lacquer or stain.
As a decor make out a set with a thread or patinated elements. All these rules apply not only to the headset in the kitchen, but also to the dining table. Also used forged parts, chairs can have leather upholstery.
Finishing in the kitchen in the chalet style
The walls can be made of different materials, but in any case, naturalness and naturalness should be preserved.
Use wooden wall panels, brick, stone surface. It can be simply a plastered wall, which is painted brown, gray or beige.
Here you can dilute the boring design with paintings in the form of alpine flowers, animals. To date, wallpaper has been widely used that mimic a tree or a stone, have an invoice and contain hunting scenes.
For the ceiling, the simplest option is white staining. The best option is to install wooden beams. They are very useful in this style, complement it, in harmony with the overall picture.
For flooring, too, it is customary to use a tree. Also it can be stone or it will be cheaper to lay out a tile in the form of a stone. In addition, the skins look good on the floor.
The relevance of household appliances
Technology is important in any kitchen. In the modern world, it is very difficult to imagine this room without a stove or refrigerator. It is important to choose it in such a way that it harmoniously blends into the interior. Such a task is not easy. Despite a wide choice of models, it is not so easy to choose the right variant.
To solve this problem, you can choose the usual technique, but in accordance with the color, which is combined with the general style. It can be beige, brown, sandy tint. Snow-white technology in this situation just does not fit. It will be too stand out against the general background, and such a contrast will deprive the picture of integrity.
Advice! In addition, the technique can be hidden by purchasing embedded models. It can be left in a prominent place, but make it suitable for the design itself. To do this, use an aging patina or stencils.
The only element of technology that is easy to emphasize in a chalet-style kitchen is the hood.
On the market there are lots of stylized models, and many are made in the form of natural stone. It will be a harmonious attribute, perfectly suited to the interior design.
Kitchen lighting
Such a kitchen due to the use of woody tones and stone is most often quite dark. In this regard, lighting is very important.
The options can be:
- Lamps with frosted glass.
- Separate standing lamps on the working area.
- Plafonds of round shape.
- Chandelier above the table in the center of the room.
- A portable lamp on the windowsill.
Chandelier in this style plays a key role in the issue of lighting. It is one of the important accents, while complementing the interior to suit the style of the chalet.
Ideal option will be a chandelier, which contains many lamps in the form of candles. This can also be ordinary plafonds of non-standard shape with a matte finish.
Decor kitchens
Decorated items and accessories in the style of the chalet should not be much. They too should be simple and without pretentious forms. It is important, including functionality.
Excellent use of textiles. Materials are taken such as wool, cotton, cashmere.
To the interior was not very boring, then dilute it is more saturated tones of textiles. Curtains are to choose the colors of eggplant, dark red or the color of fermented wine.
Tablecloths and blankets can be light colors. Very nice looks embroidery. Furniture is also decorated with patchwork.
On the shelves, too, you can lay the fabric. It can be monophonic in light colors or in a cage, peas, small flowers. On the shelves often have wooden toys, decorated for antiquity.
The dishes should be muted colors, material such as faience or clay is used. Frying pans and pans are usually metal.
The walls are also decorated with paintings on which are drawn hunting scenes, dried flowers and herbs, elk or deer antlers, hunting attributes. Place large jugs, copper basins, clay kegs.
But the technique must be reliably hidden. It is not necessary to expose it in this style, because it does not correspond to it.
Fireplace as an important accent in design
According to many designers, the style of a chalet simply can not exist without a fireplace. The origins of such reasoning are hidden in the presence of such an attribute in hunting lodges located in the Alpine mountains. It is from here that this style originates. It was used for heating, and was often equipped for cooking. The fireplace here is simply irreplaceable.
Of course, modern design does not exclude the absence of such an accessory. Especially this applies to a real wood-burning fireplace, which is basically impossible to install in an apartment.
For a holiday house it will be an excellent option. But an electrical analog is not recommended, as it only destroys the perception of style.
Style chalets in a small kitchen
For a small room in this style to create a full interior is not possible.
It requires space and a high ceiling. However, you can always use certain tricks to bring the interior closer to what you want.
Visually remove the ceiling will help her bleaching or the use of light gray, white.
One of the walls should be made in the form of a stone or use natural material.
Other walls must be equipped with wooden panels. A budget option will be the wallpapering of wallpaper with a picture under the tree.
Together with panels it is good to use furniture of the same texture. However, it should not be too massive, otherwise it will press in a small room.
If possible, the planning should be chosen angular to free the corner opposite. Here you need to put a small sofa.
If there is not much room, then it's better to give up the sofa, but to put a wooden table and chairs.
Decor should be minimal. There are enough pictures with a landscape, a pair of forged candlesticks and bunches of grass hung on the wall.
Thus, in the style of the chalet the main thing is to use everything natural. The main allies are wood and stone.
Everything should be as simple as possible, in a rustic way.
The technique is best concealed, and decorate the interior with simple figures, paintings, clay vases, etc.
