Industrial romance, which brought concrete, metal and plastic into our homes, has proven its practicality. At the same time, many people are alien to the coldness of a technological environment, which is why they began to turn to nature in search of ideas for improving their living space. This is how the eco style appeared. We suggest you understand its features using the example of eco-style living room design.

The mission of natural style in the interior

The main mission of eco-style is to create a natural oasis in a typical residential environment. In addition, it contributes to:

Maintaining a healthy indoor microclimate through the use of exclusively natural materials for finishing, upholstery and decor;

Opportunities for self-expression in the most creative way, since the concept does not imply strict design canons;

Creating a relaxing, cozy atmosphere.

5 Basics of Designing an Eco-Living Room

In order to recreate a corner of wildlife in your own living room, you need to take into account a number of requirements for the project.

Color spectrum. Eco-style welcomes the use of a color palette as close as possible to nature. These can be pure and unambiguous tones - for example, sand, grass, wood, white, blue, beige, pale yellow, blue, marsh and other colors that match the natural landscape. Combining several colors is not recommended; however, as well as using acidic, unnatural colors for decoration.

The sun's rays that will break through the large window will help complement the natural palette of the eco-style living room design. In addition to daylight, the room should be equipped with local lamps with a soft diffuse glow and a warm spectrum of radiation (incandescent lamps, LED lamps).

Finishing materials. Pristineness is one of the fundamental principles of eco-style. Therefore, this canon should be traced in all materials used for finishing large surfaces, upholstery and textile decoration of the room. It is advisable to replace the plastic windows that are popular today with wooden counterparts. This way you will be able to convey the aesthetics of a natural style.

The main materials for surface treatment are wood, stone, glass, plaster, ceramic tiles. Wood can be used everywhere, from ceilings and floors to decorative panels on walls. This material is durable, warm and pleasant to the touch.

The walls can also be covered with simple wallpaper with floral patterns, or they can be decorated with bamboo panels, stone, or cork. Photo wallpapers depicting beautiful corners of nature would not be out of place in an eco-living room.

Regardless of the finish (wood, paint or plaster), the ceiling should be one level. Complex two- and multi-level structures look high-tech and are hardly akin to natural contours.

Space. Eco style does not tolerate cramped spaces and clutter, but is more inclined towards minimalism. An eco-interior should be permeated with air, lightness and freedom. For this reason, it is not recommended to clutter the space with a large amount of furniture and objects. The walls in an eco-style living room design should not be “loaded” with paintings and bright decor - one or two accents will be enough.

Furniture. When selecting pieces of furniture for the living room, designers recommend paying attention to their functionality and practicality. Eco-style does not accept tall and bulky cabinets, shelving and massive cabinets. Compact and comfortable furniture is an ideal solution for the living room.

Naturally, furniture should be made from natural materials - mainly wood. Rattan items look very harmonious in an eco-living room: wicker chairs, poufs, coffee tables (with glass/stone tops). It is rational to choose linen, chintz or wool as upholstery for a soft corner.

Accessories. The natural principle should also be traced in the selection of accessories for the living room in eco style. A carpet that imitates grass in a forest clearing, sand on the seashore or an unseeded field will look good on the floor. Windows, shelves and tabletops can display items made of clay, ceramics, glass or crystal.

However, the central decoration of the eco-interior is living plants. Small flower pots can be placed both on the windowsill and on the shelves. It is recommended to “seat” larger plants and ornamental trees in large vases and place them on the floor.

The design of a phytowall is a modern and environmentally friendly solution for the design of a living room in an eco-style. A phytowall (or vertical garden) is a hanging structure made of wood or metal with many pockets/niches in which pots with soil and living plants are placed.

The maximalist trends in interior and decor have been replaced by a completely new style, which is rapidly gaining momentum in the design of all areas of houses and apartments, as well as office premises. Since the protection of wildlife is a priority in the social life of many countries, the demand for eco-style has become colossal.

It was in large industrial centers that they initially began to introduce this style en masse, since the desire to get out of the concrete jungle does not leave the majority of residents of megacities. Today we will tell you how to properly decorate the rooms of your home in this newfangled style.

We decorate the living room interior in ECO style

The living room is a part of the living space where you can spend your time sleeping, resting and working with benefit and comfort. The whole family should sit here, and the rule of dividing the living room into comfort zones must be observed. Previously, the minimalist style in the interior and decoration of living rooms was very fashionable.

Now it is being replaced by eco-style. A return to origins, to untouched nature - this is what appeals to modern people in this interior style.

Eco-style is characterized by:

• Use of natural materials;
• The use of natural-based paints;
• Warm colors in the decor and main interior.

Living room made with decorative elements in eco-style

The eco-style used for the living room is characterized by many pleasant little details. This is a wall clock, always made of natural materials, possibly in the form of animals or birds. The ceiling of a living room of this style should either be painted in light natural colors or covered with wood, no plastic or metal, only natural materials.

What should be in the room to comply with all the canons?

Ecological style emphasizes the individuality and luxury of the living room at the same time. So, a large and cozy sofa, with wooden panels and light, pastel upholstery, will be in perfect harmony with a small wooden table with a mirror surface. Very often, plastic bags sewn into real wood are mounted in window frames. This creates the effect of being in your own personal, private home, but not in an apartment.

The walls of an eco-style interior can be lined with tiles and stone, or they can be made of wallpaper. It is advisable to make the color of the living room walls several tones darker than the ceiling, but in the same color scheme. So that there is no big contrast and the effect of coziness and comfort is created. Floors should be wood or tiles with a stone pattern. You can place carpets in the shape of animal skins on them.

The eco-style of the living room is favorably emphasized by a small electric waterfall, which can be placed in any part of it. A large aquarium decorated with wood or stone also favorably emphasizes the individuality of this style. You can mount several wooden shelves for books and flowers on the walls.

House plants play a special role. Thus, flowers and shrubs can be placed both in clay pots and in special indoor flower beds. They can be installed in any area of ​​the living room.

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Lighting in an eco-style living room can be done using wooden chandeliers and floor lamps. Curtains and curtains should emphasize the patterns of the walls and floor, and should not be flashy, but be in keeping with the color scheme of the entire living room.

Eco-style in interior design can be interpreted in completely different ways. So, you can even make it in the form of a kind of cave, instead of a sofa and armchairs, spreading large blankets and bedspreads with animal skin patterns on the floor.

Photo selection of the best ideas for decorating a house in an eco-friendly style

Fireplaces and wooden stairs that lead to other living spaces look very advantageous in this living room interior. Of course, in order to accommodate all these decorative elements, the living room must be of sufficient size; do not forget that by dividing it into zones, you can easily combine even several interior styles.

Eco-style kitchen: smart design that will please the eye every day

Recently, kitchens have become increasingly purposeful; dining rooms and even areas for relaxation and sleeping are located on their territory. Everything, of course, depends on the size of the kitchen. In recent years, eco-style has become a very convenient and profitable kitchen interior style.

Especially for this type of kitchen design, manufacturers of household appliances have created built-in dishwashers, ovens, hobs, decorated with wood or materials with a wood-like color scheme.

This creates an additional feeling of comfort when staying in such a kitchen. I would like to note the fact that wooden furniture has always been valued in the interior of kitchens. Wooden tables of various shapes and purposes play their own special role in kitchen decor. You can see examples in the photo below.

Photos of successful implementations of such a kitchen design

So, these can be side tables, oval, semicircular, sliding tables, both with straight legs and with legs with wood carvings. The walls and ceiling of such a kitchen should be light colors, preferably warm shades.

The windows must definitely resemble those of a hut or house. This effect can be achieved by inserting wooden frames into the windows and opening them with varnish. You can also place large lush curtains in natural shades and colors.

It is better to choose wooden chairs for such a kitchen to match the color of the table. If the kitchen space allows, then you can place a wooden countertop for cooking and a large dining table for meals.

When using a green style for the kitchen, many designers even cover the surface of the refrigerator in wood. Of course, this is painstaking work, but the effect is amazing. Of course, such a kitchen must have flowers. And you don’t have to put them on the windowsill; it will be enough to mount a wooden shelf for flowers close to a shelf for dishes and souvenirs.

Very often, kitchen floors are covered with natural carpets, this creates the effect of home comfort. Lighting in the kitchen should be varied. Each zone should have its own individual lighting.

If the kitchen is not connected to the living space by an arch, but is separated by doors, then these doors should also be wooden, of course, like the baseboards. The use of plastic is highly undesirable from an environmentally friendly style point of view. Wood, stone, bone are the main materials for decorating such a kitchen; glass can also be used for various purposes.

What materials are allowed for use?

Cutting surfaces and table tops can also be glass, but the main furniture structures must be made of either wood or stone. Logged trees and wicker chairs also look quite interesting in the interior of such a kitchen.

Wicker chairs can easily be complemented by wicker tables with a glass surface. Then the kitchen will become not only a favorite place for cooking, but also a refectory room, where it is comfortable to spend time with the whole family and receive guests. An individual approach is welcome, since the ECO style is designed to satisfy the needs for coziness, comfort and maximum functionality.

The eco-oriented nature of modern interiors is nothing more than the human need to live in harmony with the world around us, without violating the laws of nature.

• This means that in arranging a kitchen in an eco-style, not only natural materials should be used, but also materials that are renewable in nature, recycled and easily disposed of. In addition, it is necessary to create conditions for the reasonable disposal of household waste, economical consumption of water and electricity.

How can we not lose our usual coziness and comfort? In this material, we presented a guide to eco-style and a selection of 50 photo examples that will help you plan your interior from scratch or introduce eco-ideas into an existing environment.

Color spectrum

An eco-style kitchen should be decorated in soft, natural shades. This will make the interior light and airy, and the beauty of natural textures will be more noticeable.

• Basic colors are usually light: white, light gray, beige.

White color visually expands the space, hides the dimensions of furniture, and serves as an excellent background for color accents and natural textures (wood, stone, etc.)

• Pastel shades are used as accents and additional colors, as well as rich, but not flashy colors - light and dark brown, green, yellow, blue, terracotta, olive. All shades of gray will look especially stylish in an eco-style kitchen.

To decorate an eco-kitchen, it is not advisable to use: rich red, fuchsia, black, purple, bright blue, as they are rarely found in the natural environment.

For more details, see the section: Kitchen color.

Finishing

Decorating a kitchen in eco-style involves the use of natural finishing materials.

• The floor can be finished with wood (wooden floorboards, block parquet, parquet boards), stone, natural linoleum (marmoleum), cork or ceramic tiles. The last option is the most affordable and practical.

An example of a kitchen-living room design in eco style

• When decorating kitchen walls, you should use not just environmentally friendly, but also practical and wear-resistant materials. For example, paper wallpaper in the workspace will not last even a month. But the walls can be painted with water-dispersion paint (the most environmentally friendly type of paint possible), plastered, finished with wooden paneling or cork. The most stylish wall finishing option is real brickwork or bare concrete walls.

Partial walls can be decorated with stone or stabilized moss.

Stabilized moss is the same natural moss, only treated with glycerin, due to which it remains soft and beautiful, and does not require watering or light. This phyto-wall can last up to 8 years

• An eco-style kitchen apron will look great in natural stone cladding , ceramic tiles , tempered glass .
• When it comes to finishing the ceiling, there is no better option than traditional whitewashing and painting. An alternative option is wood cladding. You can decorate the ceiling with wooden ceiling beams.
• It is desirable that window frames, interior doors, skirting boards, the platbands were made of wood.

Furniture

Ideally, an eco-kitchen should be furnished with furniture from:

• Wood (including recycled and old);
• Plywood;
• Rattan or wicker;
• Recycled plastic;
• Glass (more precisely with glass inserts);
• stone (for example, The countertop can be made from stone kitchen set or dining table).

Another eco-kitchen interior with plywood furniture

However, it is not always possible to achieve absolute environmental friendliness in kitchen furnishings. For example, if it is quite possible to find a kitchen set with entirely wooden, rather than veneered, facades, then a set with a wooden frame is much more difficult to purchase. Most often, kitchen frames are made of MDF - a lighter, more affordable and reliable substitute for wood.

• When buying furniture made from chipboard, MDF and fiberboard, take an interest in the formaldehyde emission class of the materials. Material with emission class E1 is the lesser of evils.

How should kitchen furniture in eco-style look externally? As a rule, it is laconic, made without frills, has smooth, natural or, conversely, strict straight lines.

• The main decoration of eco-furniture is the natural texture and color of the materials.
• It can be light, and, conversely, very massive.

A large wooden table can become the main pride of the owner

Open wooden shelves lighten the interior, making it more casual and original. But you shouldn’t get carried away with them, because they complicate cleaning - dust settles both on the shelves themselves and on the items stored on them

• Old furniture or furniture made from waste and not even necessarily eco-friendly materials will also help bring your kitchen closer to eco style. The main thing here is to see beauty in junk and breathe new life into it by painting it in a different color, decor and/or skillful restoration. The photo below shows an example of an eco-kitchen, in which the facades of the furniture are made from old wooden boards.

Lighting

Light in an eco-style room plays a key role - it revives all the details, emphasizes the beauty of natural textures, and fills the space with warmth. Ideally, an eco-kitchen design involves an abundance of natural light, which can be achieved by installing large or panoramic windows and even glass partitions. In such a room, electricity is consumed much more economically.

• However, in most cases, to provide the kitchen with daylight, it is enough to clear the windows of curtains and any other barriers. Furniture is also arranged according to the principle of “not preventing light from freely entering the room.”
• Artificial lighting in an eco-style kitchen should be uniform so that the light is soft and pleasant. For example, in addition to the main ceiling light, you can use it around the entire perimeter of the ceiling install spotlights. Also the main lamp complements well wall sconces, floor lamps and table lamps.

The design of eco-style lamps is minimalist and simple. These can be pendants with lamps without shades, pendants, sconces or chandeliers with glass, cork, paper, bamboo or rattan lampshades.

• An important nuance - when lighting an eco-style kitchen, give preference to LED lamps. They not only use energy sparingly, but are also disposed of most safely.

Appliances, plumbing, household items

Here are some tips to help you follow eco-design principles:

• The best eco-wash is an ordinary ceramic one. A stainless steel sink is also suitable, because it can be used for a long time and then recycled.
• Will help you save the water resources of our planet Dishwasher. After all, during one dishwashing cycle, it spends 7-10 times less water compared to conventional washing of dishes under running water. By the way, tablets for PMM with a natural composition can now be bought in any hypermarket.
• In Russia, a centralized system for separate waste collection and recycling has not yet been implemented, but this does not mean that sorting waste in your home is pointless. This question has been covered in more detail, but we suggest taking a look at a selection of photo examples of how you can organize a recycling area in an eco-kitchen.

Containers for sorting waste from Ikea

• To minimize the use of plastic bags for storing food, use plastic containers or silicone stretchable “lids” as in the photo below (sold on Ebay, Aliexpress, Amazon and in some Russian online stores).

Decor, dishes and accessories

• Eco-style curtains should be made from natural fabrics - linen or cotton. Bamboo curtains are also a good option. In terms of style, the most suitable curtains are blinds, Roman, roller and panel types. See our material for more details: Curtains for the kitchen: color, material, look and style .

Bamboo blinds

• The rest of the kitchen textiles (napkins, tablecloths, etc.) should also be natural - cotton or linen. But it is best to buy coasters for plates made of cork, bamboo or rattan.
• In order not to get carried away by asceticism and to guarantee a cozy interior, in the kitchen, dining room or kitchen-living room in eco-style you definitely need lay down the carpet. It can be wool or sisal.

• In an eco-interior, plant and floral motifs and ornaments look especially impressive.

• Plants are not only beautiful, but also very useful decorations, without which it is impossible to imagine an eco-style interior. Of course, you shouldn’t turn your kitchen into a winter garden, but it’s definitely worth making a couple of green friends. See our material for more details: Indoor flowers and plants for the kitchen - choose unpretentious, useful and beautiful .

Plants can decorate niches, shelves, window sills, be placed on tables, or hang above the work area

• In addition to living plants, dried herbs and branches can be used as interior items. By the way, you can even make roof rails and hangers from branches, as in the photo below.
• The tabletop, shelves or dining table can be decorated with cute vases with natural filling, for example, river pebbles, shells, wicker balls, colored beans.
• Also, dishes with fresh vegetables and fruits will look great on the table.
• To decorate the interior of an eco-kitchen, you can use things ... “recycled” with your own hands. For example, these could be old wooden cutting boards hung on the wall, lamps made from plastic spoons, baskets woven from paper (see photo below).

Eco-style in the modern interior of a house or apartment will help create a cozy and comfortable environment. An important advantage of eco-style design is the ability to find a solution for every taste, in a wide range of price categories.

Features of interior design in eco-style

Color solution

The environmental orientation of the style is determined, first of all, by the colors used in finishing. As a rule, these are the shades that we find in nature: sand, earth, grass, coniferous, terracotta, blue, white.

Only “acid” shades and harsh color combinations are excluded. They are inappropriate in such a design - after all, an eco-style interior is conducive to rest and relaxation, everything should contribute to this.

Materials

An eco-style room is finished with natural materials whenever possible, and as an exception – with their imitation. First of all, these are wood, stone, cork, terracotta, ceramics, glass, paper, wicker or rattan panels, mats.

• The walls can be decorated with paper wallpaper with images of plant motifs, or lined with cork panels - both support the eco-style of the room, but the first option is much more budget-friendly. Plaster, painted or whitewashed, is also a completely environmentally friendly wall covering.
• The ceilings are either covered with whitewash, or wallpapered for painting, or trimmed with wood.
• Floors are most often made of wood or finished with stone tiles or ceramic tiles.

Furniture

For an eco-style apartment, furniture made of wood is suitable, simple in shape, quite massive, and the shape should be as natural as possible - either straight and even rough, or, on the contrary, smooth, imitating the natural curves found in nature. In the first case, the texture of the wood should be as simple as possible, its processing should be minimal. In the second, careful processing and polishing of wood is acceptable. Another suitable type of furniture is wicker items made from wicker, rattan, and bamboo.

Lighting

As much natural light as possible is a mandatory requirement for an ecological interior. If it is not enough, you need to add artificial lighting. Lamps in the design can be “inconspicuous” - built-in, creating a luminous flux that complements the light from the windows, as well as decorative - with lampshades made of textiles, rice paper or wicker, with elements in the form of tree branches or animal horns.

Eco-style: decor and interior design

Eco-style does not like clutter of objects; in this sense, it is close to minimalism - after all, in nature there is nothing superfluous. Therefore, decorative items “part-time” usually perform utilitarian functions. For example, wicker baskets and chests in the interior become convenient storage places. Simple homespun rugs add exclusivity and insulate stone floors, while a bright pumpkin becomes a colorful design accent and also serves as a lampshade for a lamp.

Unusual “pictures” made of stone and wood, beautiful pebbles placed in a glass vase, mirror frames with shell designs, river pebbles laid out in the bathroom as a rug - it’s difficult to even list all the possible decorative elements available in eco-style.

An excellent addition to the interior would be a fireplace - both “live” and “bio”, or even its imitation - logs stacked in a suitable niche.

Living greenery is another designer “tool” with which you can enliven the simplest interior or turn an ordinary room into a corner of a tropical forest.

Textile design in eco-style is also distinguished by natural materials and colors. The material for furniture upholstery and sofa cushions, as a rule, is chosen to be rough and textured - linen, jute. Curtains on windows are often replaced with roller blinds or bamboo shutters.

The main rule is maintaining a sense of proportion. You cannot oversaturate the interior with decor, no matter how “correct” and appropriate it may seem to the occasion. Otherwise, you may get the opposite result to what you expected.

When decorating a living room in eco-style, it is advisable to use only natural materials; if this is not possible, it is worth replacing them with imitation. Ordinary “plastic” windows do not fit into the style at all, so it is better to make the frames wooden. Budget replacement - wood-like plastic.

You may not be able to maintain the entire design in one style, from furniture to small details. To create a style, sometimes a few expressive details are enough - the main thing is that everything else does not contradict the main idea.

The most intimate room in the house belongs only to you, and its design should be such that you can calmly relax and unwind. Nothing distracting, stressful or irritating to the nervous system.

To design a bedroom in eco-style, a few style-forming elements are enough, as well as natural finishing materials or natural motifs in the decoration of walls and textiles. A wooden bed, a woolen rug under your feet, warm beige tones of the walls, light cotton curtains - the image of an eco-style bedroom is ready.

And again - natural materials in the decoration, simple shapes, textile elements... But all the same - characteristic features of the country style. What is the main difference? Country style allows for the saturation of small elements in the design - a variety of “folk” objects: painted dishes, clay figurines, curtains with frills, decorative pillows, chair covers. In eco-style, such excesses are unacceptable.

In the kitchen, more than in any other room in the house, it is important to follow the principles of minimalism - nothing superfluous! Do you want to emphasize your closeness to nature and make your interior truly unusual? Choose an accent lamp, and at the same time use it as an element dividing the functional areas of the kitchen. The easiest way is to add eco-elements to the decoration, for example, by decorating plain walls with large floral patterns or wooden cuts.

Kitchen furniture is preferable to simple forms; the material can be used not only wood, but also, for example, transparent plastic - it will not “interfere” with the perception of the stylistic “picture”, “dissolving” in space. Such “disappearing” furniture can be supplemented with several “heavy” objects - this will balance the interior.

Minimalism, natural colors, space and lots of light - this is how an eco-style bathroom design should look. Sometimes all you need to do is choose the right facing material and add a color accent with bright towels - and an unforgettable image is ready.

The wooden finish of the bathroom and simple forms of sanitary ware add up to a natural eco-style. Eco-style in bathroom design allows the use of imitating materials. For example, wood-look porcelain tiles will look good in “wet” areas, and they are much more practical than wood, even treated with special compounds. The use of ceramic tiles is also encouraged, and outside wet areas - plaster followed by painting with moisture-resistant paints.

The bathroom is the place where one single detail can make a difference. For example, this could be a unique stone sink or a bathtub in the form of a basin. There are also more budget-friendly design options - for example, a piece of floor lined with sea pebbles, which at the same time serves as a massage mat. It’s good if the bathroom has a “warm” floor.

The “eco” style has long crossed the thresholds of apartments and made its way outside. The exterior of the house, reflecting the owner’s desire to get as close to nature as possible, is the spirit of the times. And if earlier designers were content with making walls from timber or logs, or laying out their lower parts with “wild” stone, now the task is broader: they try to “fit” the house into the surrounding landscape as much as possible, which sometimes leads to very eccentric design solutions. For example, some houses are literally buried in the ground, or “hanging on branches” in an attempt to merge with nature.

Modern eco-style is not only about environmentally friendly materials, it is also about the possibility of recycling them, causing minimal harm to nature during construction and operation, and creating the most comfortable living environment for humans.

Eco-style interior photo

The photos below show eco-style in various variations for homes and premises for various purposes.

Photo 1. The combination of wood, soft natural shades of gray and white, and the inclusion of window space in the interior are the characteristic features of the eco-style of this bedroom.

Photo 2. Warm “creamy” shade of walls and floors, wooden furniture, simple shapes of lamps, a minimalist approach to furnishing space - these eco-style features make the atmosphere memorable and at the same time calm.

Photo 3. Eco-style in the interior of a children's room is emphasized by wicker chairs and wallpaper with natural patterns.

Photo 4. Complex “natural” forms of wood in the interior emphasize the environmental orientation of the project.

Photo 5. The design of the living room of a country house uses several decorative elements of eco-style. This is an accent stone wall near the fireplace, firewood stacked in special niches, and a window view included in the interior with the help of huge window openings.

Photo 6. Wooden wall paneling near the headboard, wooden bedside tables, simple natural fabrics are the basis of eco-style in the design of a small bedroom.

Photo 7. A small wooden cabinet and living greenery on the wall add an ecological focus to the bathroom interior.

Photo 8. In this interior, only one element “makes” the style. Wooden beams forming a “coffee table” with a bouquet of flowers create an expressive ecological composition.

Photo 9. A chandelier made of birch branches can become the only bright decorative element in an eco-style interior design.

Photo 10: A simple rectangular sofa with neutral upholstery against green walls and wood floors could fit in any style room. The interior is given an environmental touch by sawn wood cuts near the dining area and an original flower rack.