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Brown curtains are one of those versatile pieces that will suit most interiors. Firstly, brown is neutral, as it is the color of the earth, wood, stone, skin. In essence, it is a background: it does not draw attention to itself and goes well with other colors. Secondly, brown in the interior is as harmonious as possible, because it is the color of wood - the most familiar material for living quarters. Curtains in this color are perceived as natural as wooden floors or pieces of furniture.
Brown curtains in the interior: the pros and cons
pros
- Universal
- Create a sense of security, protection from the outside world
- Thick brown curtains can darken the room well
- Curtains in warm brown shades warm the interior
- They look expensive and noble, conveying these qualities to the interior as a whole. This is especially true for brown fabrics with satin, silk, metallic sheen. By the way, brown has long been considered the color of the rich, and for good reason.
Minuses
- Brown curtains make the room a little darker and gloomy
- The more dark surfaces - the more compact the room is perceived
- Curtains in cool colors (for example, brown-gray draperies with a metallic sheen) can create an atmosphere of evening chill in the interior, which is not always desirable. By the way, this is why brown curtains are often used in bedrooms: the darker and colder the color of the fabric on the windows, the stronger the desire to crawl under the covers and fall asleep sweetly.
What interiors are brown curtains suitable for?
Dark "window clothes" can visually compress the room, so in kitchens that are usually small in size, brown curtains are rare. If the kitchen is very spacious and bright, you can decorate the windows with brown fabric without fear.
Hanging brown curtains in the nursery is not recommended: dark draperies create a rather gloomy atmosphere, which may not have the most favorable effect on the child's psyche. Brown in the nursery can be floors and part of the furniture, and for walls and curtains it is better to choose a different color.
Brown curtains are most often bought for bedrooms and living rooms. Even if the bedroom is small and rather dark, window decoration will be quite appropriate. As already mentioned, curtains in brown tones create an atmosphere of evening or night coolness, which is very important for the bedroom. In addition, dark draperies will effectively block out natural light that interferes with sleep.
Brown curtains in the bedroom
With the living room, not everything is so simple. If the room is cramped and dark, it is better to use not brown, but beige tones for window decoration.
By color, brown curtains will harmoniously fit into any interior with wooden and pseudo-wooden floors and furniture. This is what allows us to call this window design one of the most versatile, because the wood pattern is used everywhere. Even if the interior includes the color of light wood, brown curtains will harmonize perfectly with it. To the parquet and furniture in the gray color of the tree, the gray-brown tones of the curtains, called coffee, will suit.
Curtains in brown can also be used in an interior where there are no similar shades or a wood pattern. However, in this case, you need to be much more careful, carefully choosing the tone so that the window decoration does not seem superfluous and inappropriate. For example, properly selected brown curtains will look quite decent, diluting the achromatic monotony and adding a little warmth.
Brown curtains and interior palette
Brown curtains show themselves most effectively when adjacent to "caramel" walls(beige, cream, cream, light cappuccino, etc.).
Brown curtains in the living room
Brown and caramel curtains in the bedroom
Brown draperies in the living room
As an accent or additional, red, green or turquoise is suitable here. For example: the walls are light beige, the curtains are brown, upholstered furniture and a few decor items are turquoise.
Caramel on the walls is not the only partner for brown curtains. They are able to make friends with white, blue, light purple and light green walls. The combination of light blue walls and brown curtains in the bedroom is very popular. Combining with purple and green is more difficult - here you need to be more careful. Glossy curtains look great. In green, both glossy and matte are good, but preferably light.
Designers love to use brown curtains in the interior. This is due to their versatility and the feeling of warmth, comfort and coziness that they give.
Features of choice
How to choose the right brown curtains to emphasize the dignity of the layout and bring the right atmosphere to the room? The following should be taken into account.
- Dark curtains visually reduce the space; have a depressing effect on a person. It is better to refrain from such a shade for a bedroom or a narrow corridor.
- Light colors visually add space, give airiness and softness, especially if they are made of lightweight fabrics.
- Calm brown curtains become the backdrop for the rest of the interior, bright brown - an accent.
- For windows facing the south sunny side, preference should be given to curtains made of dense matter in a dark or cold shade of brown; to the north, dark side - from airy fabric in light warm colors.
Types of curtains
A combination of different types of curtains, fabrics and decor will help to give the room a complete look.
Thread
Thread curtains with beads, rhinestones, ribbons, sequins will become a designer window decoration. The original way of using them is the design of the doorway, the functional or decorative delimitation of the space of the room (separation of the working area of the living room or the bed in the bedroom).
Roman
Roman blinds - convenience and beauty in one thing. Advantages in a compact folding mechanism, a large selection of fabrics and pattern design, no restrictions on placement. They are appropriate in the kitchen, and in the bedroom, and in the living room. Perfectly complemented by other curtains.
Rolled
Practical, stylish, modern - it's all about roller blinds. A piece of material with a special dust-repellent impregnation is wound onto a roller using a rotating mechanism, as a result, the curtains take up little space and do not require special care.
Tulle
Due to its lightness and transparency, tulle transmits and scatters sunlight, creating an airy atmosphere. It goes well with other types of curtains.
In the photo, light caramel curtains merge with the color of the walls, floor and sofa, in harmony with the wallpaper pattern on the wall.
Blinds
Blinds at home are common because of their practicality. Attached directly to the window frame, they take up little space, freeing up the window sill. Swivel lamellas regulate the density of the light flux. A variety of colors and materials (aluminum, wood, fabric) allow you to choose an option for rooms with any style direction.
Horizontal blinds visually expand narrow rooms and window openings; harmoniously fit into classic strict interiors. Vertical ones add height to low ceilings; look better in high-tech interiors, minimalism.
Curtains with a photograph or a graphic image on the fabric will become an accent component of the interior, making it original and attractive.
The design, consisting of two canvases, located one on top of the other, increases the functionality and practicality of curtains.
Japanese
Turquoise
The effect of the combination of brown and turquoise will depend on the degree of saturation. Bright turquoise and chocolate - for original bold interiors. Delicate shades of these flowers will decorate the rooms for sleeping and relaxing.
White
Duet with dark brown - contrasting, sharp, respectable. With light - calm, warm, cozy.
Blue-brown curtains
The dark shades of these colors are for serious, strict masculine interiors. They bring a sense of restraint, independence and respectability.
Blue
Pairs well with hints of mocha and cocoa. "Sweet" tandem for children's rooms, bedrooms and kitchens.
Gray
A casual, calm option for workspaces and interiors in a minimalist style.
burgundy
The noble shade of French wine and brown coexist in chic rich interiors, bringing chic and attractiveness to them.
Orange
Orange and brown are a playful and festive combination for "boring" interiors.
Pink
A winning combination of pink and soft shades of brown bring an atmosphere of tenderness, romance and unique charm.
Purple
An unusual bright duet of brown and purple will be appreciated by extravagant persons. Calm brown shades go well with delicate lilac, especially in a Provence-style interior.
Yellow
Stylish, bright, cheerful combination for modern interiors and high-tech style.
Green
The elegant combination of brown and green makes it appropriate in almost any room. Olive and brown are a natural duet, which will complement their floral pattern or ornament especially well. Light green shades of green will bring freshness, cheerfulness and positive into the interior.
Combination options
A common option in classic and modern interiors. Tulle and curtains can contrast or complement each other. An active print on tulle is best combined with plain brown curtains and vice versa. If both objects are with the picture, then it must match. It is better not to use natural and synthetic fabrics, such as matting and organza, on the same window.
In the photo, white tulle and golden brown curtains are combined with beige furniture and brown floor, echoing the color of the pattern on the ceiling.
Bicolor
Suitable for decorating a nursery, bedroom or hall. It is necessary to take into account not only the compatibility of fabrics in color, but also in density and texture.
Lambrequins are a decorative piece of furniture in the form of a fabric drapery located along the upper edge of a window or door. It can have a different configuration and additional elements in the form of ruffles, braid, brushes and scallops. Rich fabrics are used: jacquard, velvet, brocade.
In appearance, they are soft from easily draped fabrics, decorated with folds of various depths; hard bandeau made of dense fabrics on non-woven base; and combined, combining bandeau and folds of flowing fabric. Reminiscent of palace chic, brown curtains with lambrequins harmoniously fit into classic and modern interiors.
The photo shows a soft lambrequin made of two shades of warm brown in the form of a swag of semicircular folds, decorated with glass beads for curtains.
Combination of various lengths
There are many options for combining curtains of different lengths: a soft cascade of Roman blinds or short horizontal blinds combined with long curtains, practical roller blinds and draped tulle, cafe curtains and hard pelmets, French tulle and baroque or renaissance jacquard curtains and others.
The photo shows a bright living room in an eclectic style, the window of which is decorated with a Roman blind and curtains in the color of coffee with milk.
With wallpaper
When choosing brown curtains for wallpaper, you should remember about comfortable color combinations (with beige, blue, white, gray).
A wall with a bright print looks better with plain curtains in a calm shade. If curtains are an active decorative element in the interior, then it is better to combine them with textured wallpaper in neutral colors.
In the photo, the window of the avant-garde bedroom is decorated with blinds with horizontal slats, a white veil and golden-chocolate curtains lying on the floor.
With furniture
Against the background of plain brown curtains, a sofa looks good, the upholstery of which is with a bright pattern or textured iridescent fabric, such as velvet. If the curtains and furniture are of the same calm color, then colorful decorative elements should be added to them (for example, orange, turquoise or burgundy pillows, a tablecloth or vases).
Textile
When choosing a fabric for curtains, you need to focus on the upholstery of upholstered furniture, covers, bedspreads on them. The colors and pattern of textiles and curtains must match or overlap. Sofa cushions can be made from the same brown fabric as the curtains, or you can choose a material in a contrasting color.
with carpet
Carpet and curtains cover a large area of the room, so they must be in perfect harmony in style and color. Neutral colors are the simplest and safest. Beige, gray, brown, dark brown, white are combined easily, gracefully. You can achieve individuality by adding color accents.
Curtain decoration options
You can get a logical and complete curtain composition with the help of accessories. For brown curtains, it is better to choose gold or contrasting shades of clips and holders.
Holders
These are special devices for curtains, fixed in the wall and allowing you to keep the canvas open. Often used for decorative purposes. With their help, curtains beautifully frame the window.
clamps
Metal and plastic clothespins, magnets fix the curtains so that they fall in beautiful, neat and elegant folds, as well as regulate the amount of sunlight entering the room.
A piece of cord, lace or fabric to match the base color keeps the curtains open. Often decorated with fringe, glass beads, ribbons, sequins.
Tassels and fringe
A brush in the form of a bunch of threads with free ends, tied in the middle or upper part, is attached to the curtain ties. It is decorated with threads of beads, crystals, carved wooden details, "precious" stones and metal. A fringe of tassels, threads, beads and glass beads along the edge of a curtain or lambrequin is found in a classic interior.
Photo gallery
Brown curtains can be the final chord that completes the whole gamut of the stylistic design of the room.
Brown is an absolute classic in interior design of any format, whether it is a study with a conservative setting or a living room in a trendy Scandinavian style. All of its shades belong to the warm palette, with the exception of single ashy tones.
Thanks to this conditional limitation on warmth, it will be easy to choose curtains for a room with brown walls.
Photo: warm range of brown shades
Photo: ashy range of brown shades
Brown wallpaper: psychology of color
Modern colors are loyal to brown. Traditionally, it is associated with the earth, wood, rural houses and, in general, with comfort. One of the main colors of the Victorian era is now used for classic, modern and high-tech designs. It calms, gives a sense of stability, relaxes and at the same time helps to concentrate - an ideal solution for both the workspace and the relaxation area.
Brown walls in the hall: choosing curtains
In the interior of the living room, brown wallpaper rarely covers the entire surface of the walls. As a rule, the main background is beige, cream, ivory. Intense shades, such as walnut, chocolate, coffee with milk, are used to place accents. This can be the selection of a niche or a small architectural form, the decoration of one wall or the zoning of a room.
To choose the right curtains for the hall with brown wallpaper, you can take a few tips into service:
- if the brown wall is dominant, has a texture or print, it is better to choose light and plain curtains with the simplest possible design;
- plain wallpaper in light shades of brown, like “cappuccino” or camel color, can be safely supplemented with textured curtains of intense chocolate color with contrasting light tulle on the “first layer”;
- brown wallpapers in cold shades, which include zinvaldite, somon, gray-beige warm taupe, will be an excellent backdrop for curtains in blue and delicate pastel tones - with stripes and oriental patterns, color blocking elements or thread curtains.
Curtains for a bedroom with brown walls
To decorate the bedroom, brown wallpaper is one of the most traditional and successful options. Light shades and deep noble dark tones for accents give enough “space” to search for colors for furniture and accessories. Since window textiles always attract attention, it is necessary, when choosing curtains for a bedroom with brown walls, to take into account its area, configuration and other features.
Visually expanding the room is easiest with the help of plain tulle: marshmallow tones, ivory, milky and linen white are perfectly combined with a brown palette.
To make the room invisible from the street, it is worth supplementing the window with light roller blinds.
Curtains even with monochrome prints reduce space. To make the bedroom seem higher, it is recommended to attach curtains with vertical stripes on the ceiling cornice - colored, textured, with metallic threads. In the same way, curtains in the form of threads, harmonizing in tone with brown wallpaper, and tulle with gradient coloring with darkening downwards “work”.
If the bedroom interior with brown wallpaper is made in a classic or eclectic style, you can decorate the window with tulle with draped curtains, curtains with cascading pleats, fringe, tassels and other complex decor. The winning colors of fabrics with such a “heavy” texture will be pearl, ivory with mother-of-pearl, cold coffee and in some cases silver.
Curtains for the kitchen with brown wallpaper
Brown wallpapers are most often chosen for the kitchen with three design options - country, conservative classics and high-tech. All of them have specific aesthetic features that determine the choice of textile accessories in terms of color and decor.
Rustic interiors can be recognized by deliberately simple textures of finishes, "old" furniture, mixing accessories and a lot of handcraft accessories. Brown walls in such kitchens can be light plastered or, conversely, dark - with decor that imitates masonry or wood. They go well with light-colored curtains with a millefler print or plain tulle with frills.
The classic interior includes expensive solid wood sets, ornate decor, baroque lamps. Textile accessories should be elegantly matched to the surroundings. For a kitchen with brown walls, you can choose curtains with artistically designed curtains: dark for accents or light for more visual space.
High-tech and less "rigorous" modern are distinguished by the purity of forms and lines, simple color combinations, a minimum of decorations and the utmost functionality of all elements. Under dark brown wallpaper in such a kitchen or dining room, it is best to choose light tulle (blinds will help hide the living space from views from the street) or moderately dark curtains in gray, chocolate or cold pastel shades. Prints, pleated, embroidery on the fabric in this case are inappropriate.
An excellent selection of curtains for rooms with brown walls can be found in the collection of the Tomdom online store.
In any interior, in whatever style it is decorated, the chosen curtains are the decisive moment. And how competently you can choose window decor depends on the overall perception of the room and its level of illumination. Brown curtains in the interior are, at first glance, simplicity and classics, and at the second - elegance and superiority. In this article, we will tell you how to choose the right shade for brown curtains and what are the main advantages of this color, and we provide an excellent selection of photos as illustrative examples.
Brown is close in origin to nature. The color of the earth and wood creates a special relaxing atmosphere, gives coziness and reminds you of relaxing in a country house with a warm fireplace and rocking chair.
Pros and cons of brown curtains
To decide on the purchase of brown curtains, you need to know everything about their positive and negative sides.
Advantages
- Brown curtains are great for design in any stylistic design.
- The universal color is combined with many other shades: beige, green, blue, yellow and many others.
- Curtains made of dense fabrics will serve as a good protection from the light, and transparent models will beautifully scatter the sun's rays, transforming them.
- Brown curtains look noble and elegant if they are sewn from satin fabric, gold embroideries on a brown background also look presentable.
- From the point of view of psychology, dark shades of curtains give a feeling of security and peace.
disadvantages
- Brown can harm the visual perception of a small room and turn it into a dark closet.
- With the abundant use of brown in the interior, there is a risk of creating a cold and indifferent atmosphere.
Brown is a wide palette of tones from beige to dark chocolate.
shades of brown
Thanks to a wide range of brown shades, each housewife will be able to choose the color she likes for her favorite curtains. We conditionally divided all shades into cold (dark) and warm (light).
Light they are also warm shades: these include the color of coffee with milk, milk chocolate, the color of caramel and walnut. Such shades warm a cold room, give more comfort and do not darken the room too much. Coffee with milk, for example, the color obtained by mixing two - coffee and white, it is very pleasing to the eye and is great for curtains in the kitchen, where in the morning it smells of freshly brewed coffee. Caramel - similar to golden. Curtains of this color will exceed all expectations if you hang them in an elegant living room in a classic or baroque style.
Dark shades of brown are: the color of dark chocolate, chestnut tree fruits, dark wood, black coffee and even cognac. The color of dark chocolate is a classic, like black, it has the following properties: it stretches the room in height, emphasizes individuality, is suitable for any style and color palette in the interior, and most importantly, such curtains will not quickly get dirty. The colors of cognac and wood have a reddish tint, it will give the living room a solemn festive look.
Combinations of brown curtains with other shades in the interior
The brown color itself is very noble and unusual, but in order to further emphasize its individuality, it is necessary to correctly compose the color palette of the entire interior.
Against the background of white and beige walls, dark chocolate-colored curtains look spectacular, attention is focused on the window opening, and thus the rest of the design no longer matters. Nevertheless, for a harmonious interior, it is better that the curtain color is repeated in small details of the decor: figurines, blankets, pillows. For children's rooms, it is better not to use such heavy colors, they can have a negative impact on the child's psyche, which has not yet been formed.
Caramel and walnut curtains will warm up a bedroom with blue or green walls, and will be a sharp transition from a cold to warm palette. Bright accents in the form of red, yellow, salad decorations are simply necessary for a brown interior to dilute a boring palette and give positive notes in cloudy weather.
Long milk chocolate colored curtains look great against the background of turquoise walls and gold trim. This combination is suitable for a room with a large area. Shiny fabrics with a metallic sheen will win against purple walls.
Brown curtains in different rooms
Living room
The most important place in every home: here you receive guests and gather as a family for joint evenings. Brown curtains with a classic cut to the floor will perfectly create the necessary atmosphere that sets you up for communication and a warm welcome. It is better to paint the walls in a light color, for example, beige. So you visually enlarge the living room, and the interior in brown and beige tones is an eternal classic for all time.
If you have a modest living room, then it is better to hang curtains in light brown tones here, such colors do not eat up the space, but rather increase it.
Kitchen
For a small kitchen, dark curtains are contraindicated, only if they are not shortened models such as blinds or Roman blinds on a light background. For a cozy space, choose warm shades of caramel, coffee with milk. Such delicious colors will not only be pleasing to the eye, but will also awaken your appetite.
In spacious dining rooms, as a rule, there is a place for experiments, which means that dark curtains are suitable for this kind of room. Entering the wide dining room, people's gaze is scattered at foreign objects and brown-colored curtains are often left aside.
