How to use white color in interior design

The white color is not as simple as it looks at first glance. For its deceptive ‘colorlessness’, there are endless possibilities of both colorful and stylish solutions. It always looks elegant, refreshing and stylish in the interior, it is quite complicated and multifaceted.

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Warm – cold

The white color is interesting because of its properties: first of all, it is the ideal foundation for creating shades – it helps to change the saturation of any color. Secondly, it is a great background for other shades, and it works with almost everyone. Thirdly, depending on the color of the shade, white-colored properties change: from cold to warm, from sharp to soft. Although it is an achromatic color, it is not colorless and has the same shades and nuances as other colors.  Just add a little pigment and white will otherwise be called, and create a different mood. It’s both shades of ivory and boiled milk, natural linen, pearl, and snow and cream. They can be both warm and cold.

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• It is advisable to use some white shades (light gray, milk, cream), as well as to add a small amount of darker colors to space to make the interior bright and interesting together. The game in a variety of white shades helps create a delicate gamut that will not really be boring. True, here there is a danger: if the background is beautifully white, it should be noted that other white shades do not look a bit dirty in it.

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• White, grayish or bluish shades may turn out to be too cold for somebody, but it provides the refinement to the interior. True, they are always a bit shiny, so the home may seem too sterile.

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• With white it is possible to create complex color combinations – there are practically no restrictions.. This is a great background for various coffee, terracotta and wood shades. These combinations radiate coziness and warmth. The white color allows you to decorate the interior with rich, warm colors, because they are softened.

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• By combining white with a cold, light green or blue, its saturation increases, making the space look so light and radiant. Extremely modern is white and gray combination.

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• The most contrasting combination of colors is white and black, and its strictness can be stressing. But in fact, these colors create a dynamic impression and always look stylish. Because white and black contrast is cold, extremely graphic and rigorous, there should be more textile elements, soft texture and indoor flowers.

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Between coziness and sterility

White as the main interior always impresses, because it is simple, light and elegant. Using it without any special effort and tricks can create a light and fresh mood. It is an ideal background that can successfully unite things, emphasize their shape and give them more scope.

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• Lots of space and light.

The white color reflects the rays of the sun, thus helping to visually expand the area of the room – the room looks bright, spacious and open. It is perfect for small rooms – walls seem to lose clear contours. For large spaces, white gives an unobtrusive and more subtle picture. This is irreplaceable color for dark rooms.

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• Highlight the accents.

In a room decorated in a white color, every other color’s thing – floors, furniture, even books on the shelves – looks like a contrast, and the smallest detail is perceived as an important accent in such a background. So you should carefully choose the colors and texture of finishing materials, door and window frames, textiles, and other interior accessories. The white ivory shade combines with linen, leather, bleached and waxed wood, a stone. In low light, it creates a mood of relaxation. The white with light yellowish shade as if labeled with an ancient spirit. It can be combined with a dark wood. It should not be forgotten that in each room there should be at least some accents more accentuated than the main space – decorative cushions, vases, paintings, mats. Liveliness also provides by the indoor plants.

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• Game of the textures

Although the clean white interior looks a bit boring, it can even create a kind of contrast with the elements of different textures. Lightweight organza curtains in the background of texture wallpaper, atlas or silk adjacent to bricks, chrome metal on tufted carpet – contrasting combinations of variants using only a white color are many, in the same way that it unifies objects and surfaces, and the eyes do not see their incompatibility.

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• What the lighting determines

Bright shades of light reflect more strongly than the dark, so the interior of the white color impresses even when the lighting is poor. And this is very important, because here the game of light and shadows is very noticeable, the sun’s light through the windows gets stronger, even the darker corners of the room look brighter. True, with extremely bright artificial light, white shades can even tease, bother. But in the colored light white-decorated room you can achieve a variety of effects – even do not need to paint it.

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• To avoid boredom.

However, the white color also has drawbacks. Its surplus is boredom, it makes the impression of a monotony of despair. The white surfaces look perfect and complete, so they are very sterile. It should not be forgotten that white is the most troublesome for the eyes because it reflects light (remember the glowing white snow). Therefore, the texture of finishing materials should be carefully selected. The large surfaces should not be shiny, the clean white color should be softened by any shade so that it does not dazzle.

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• It is easy to make it dirty

Another feature of white, repulsive for many people – it’s easy to make it dirty. But it’s conditional: on the white surfaces almost no dust or fingerprints are visible, unlike the dark. So, fears should not be too much, but you should think in advance that everything is easy to clean and wash.

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