The ethnic style is of great impact, energetic and conquers everyone. It is an ideal look for the home of those who love to travel, be inspired by many cultures and distant worlds. But how to furnish an ethnic-style two-room apartment? Let’s see some useful ideas within everyone’s reach.
A unique, lively and explosive style, the ethnic one is perfectly combined with both a larger living environment and a two-room apartment. If you love to furnish your home surrounding yourself with influences from all over the world, with unusual materials and original combinations, the ethnic style is exactly what you need. A look of which we can only trace the overall aspect, because in detail each house is unique, each corner has its creative contamination. Let’s see how to make our two-room apartment in an ethnic style unique.
The ethnic style: origins and history
This way of furnishing comes from an approach linked to handcrafted products coming from techniques and traditions even distant from each other. It is thanks to the chromatic harmony, the combination of new materials and the use of accessories that a global furniture is created that makes our home unique. An eclectic style that highlights unique, original and representative artifacts from places around the world: therefore, let’s not simply furnish a two-room apartment, but to make elements apparently distant from each other communicate. Only our personality and our taste will be able to direct these elements in a unique and pleasant flow to live.
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The colors of the ethnic style
We have seen how so far this style, unlike many others, it does not have a unique design, a distinctive formal line: it is precisely the variety of colors and materials that make up the total vision of these ethnic environments. To build, therefore, the narration of these ethnic products, typical of these various ethnic groups from all over the planet, we must identify lively, energetic nuances that certainly do not go unnoticed.
The main colors that we find in the ethnic style furniture are:
- yellow
- Orange
- fuchsia
- light blue.
Starting with the colors to furnish the two-room apartment
Having a limited space to furnish, the Advice and of select the main colors on which to base the search for furnishings and accessories. Nobody forbids us to include many, but we must avoid an overall confusing and disharmonious effect. The goal is always to create a harmonious environment to live every day.
In addition to the main colors, which we saw shortly before, we can find many others, such as blue, red or green. All their shades then create a mix that facilitates us in the combination of the various furnishings. The advice is to choose some that create a gradient effect within the same room.
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The lighting in the ethnic style
To design the furniture of our two-room apartment, we absolutely have to consider the lighting. Being a space with a small surface, it is important to keep in mind of do not stuff the space with accessories and gadgets: the risk is to make the space oppressive and, in addition to becoming a problem for ordinary cleaning, the overall effect could be heavy.
Light helps us a lot in the management of spaces, because it helps us to dose the shadows and to emphasize some points rather than others. The secret is evaluate which corners or niches we want to enhance. We look at the arrangement of the openings towards the outside for natural lighting, after which we integrate with a series of light points in the various corners of the room, so as to dose it.
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The Advice for this style of interior it is choose warm light, which softens the atmosphere already exciting enough, given by the mix of colors and heterogeneous shapes that surround us.
The furnishing accessories in ethnic style
One of the strong points of this style is essentially constituted by furnishing: carpets, curtains, paintings, furniture of any size, wallpaper, walls painted with drawings, plants. Not to mention the furnishings on the shelves and on the furniture: unique elements that recall our travels and give the sense of inhabitant of the world.
Plants
Travelers tend to have a sustainable approach: those who discover the world and do it by any means, learn the value of what they own, of the comfort that their home can give them. Precisely for this the ethnic style provides plants are among the main furnishing accessories. The advice is to take advantage of the height and create a system of suspended pots that contain the smallest plants and create a sort of room divider in the main room. Here are a few plants recommended to embellish the two-room apartment in an ethnic style:
- sansevieria
- monstera deliciosa
- kenzia
- senecio
- cactus.
Optimizing space: niches
In a two-room apartment, you know, space is limited and every corner must be exploited to the fullest to contain or to transform into something else. Whether it’s in the bathroom or living room, we can design a niche with internal dividers to contain objects giving them even greater prominence.
Metallic elements placed in the center of the niche become important, as if they were in the spotlight. For more prominence we can opt for one different painting on the bottom of the niche, in contrast with the main color of the wall; alternatively We can point a small light into it, to further highlight the niche.
Furnishing an ethnic style two-room apartment: photos and images
A truly unique style with which to furnish a two-room apartment: the ethnic style enriches our home with color, light and energy. Let us be inspired by some of the rooms furnished in this way in the gallery.
