Eco-style is one of the main trends in design in recent years. We talk about the philosophy of this direction and share the secrets of creating a truly natural home.
1. Eco as a lifestyle
In the original, eco-design implies not only the use of environmentally friendly materials but their disposal and recycling. Now eco-style is a much broader concept, which includes not only decoration and furniture made from natural materials but also the rest of the interior, including lighting, small decor items, and other details, as well as the use of environmentally friendly products in everyday life.
2. More space
For eco-style, spacious, open spaces, mostly with natural light, are most suitable, not cluttered with furniture and accessories. Eco-interiors create harmony in the house, they are designed to free their owner from the hustle and bustle of city life.
3. Orientation to the natural environment
Choose furniture with smooth lines, borrowed from nature, and made only from natural materials. It is also very important to think about the lighting: it is better to make several scenarios that make it possible to change the atmosphere depending on the time of day, activities, and mood.
4. Calm palette
Eco-interiors are primarily calm natural shades, also borrowed from nature. Black, brown, green, beige, gray, blue, white – surrounded by these colors and their combinations, the eyes rest.
5. Plants as an important object
The best way to dilute calm shades is to add natural plants, and the more the better. Recently, phytowalls have become popular, allowing not only to add natural brightness but also to enliven the interior. Vertical gardening will require careful maintenance, but it will definitely attract the eye and leave no one indifferent. An additional plus is that plants perfectly purify the air in the room.
6. Environmentally friendly materials
First of all, it is, of course, wood, and it should be used not only as massive furniture but also in decoration. For walls in the main rooms of eco-interiors, you can use wallpaper made from natural materials, and in the bathroom, turn to natural stone.
7. Natural decor
A sense of connection with nature will be created by accessories made from natural materials. Decor items in the form of branches, tree trunks, clay, or glass vases. To revive such vases, you can create a small garden of succulents in it – you get a real art object.
8. Discreet lighting
Eco-style does not mean traditional volumetric chandeliers that attract undue attention. The best option, in this case, is built-in lighting, as the light in the eco-interior is designed to favorably emphasize the elements of decoration and furniture.
9. Organic gardening
If you are ready to use plants not only as an element of decor, switch to organic products, that is, grow them in your own garden or vegetable garden. You can set up a garden not only on traditional beds but also on the wall of a city apartment or on the roof of a garage. And, of course, you can use a balcony, a loggia, and just a wide window sill for these purposes.
10. Rational use of resources
Everything is a little more complicated here. Solar panels as an alternative source of electricity are excellent in theory and in foreign interior projects, in countries where there is a lot of sun. Alas, in our climate they will work effectively only a few months a year. The rest of the time, one way or another, you will have to connect a gas or electric generator. It remains at least rational use of available resources.
11. Waste sorting
Even in the most ordinary city courtyards, garbage containers began to appear, divided into categories for different types of garbage. It is not particularly difficult to purchase several buckets for your own kitchen: separately for recycling and ordinary household waste.
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