Scandinavian style is calm and noble. See how to decorate a summer cottage, what plants to plant, how to make accessories and decorate the interior in this style.
If the culture of these northern peoples is close to you, then create a Scandinavian style in the country. It includes a combination of simple shapes with vibrant colors. Natural materials, ornaments, interesting lighting, accessories can be used here. Create a few small seating areas that can be misused if necessary.
Plants for summer cottages in the Scandinavian style
You will certainly come across this question when you decide to use the Scandinavian style. See what trees can be planted here. These are any conifers, forest and fruit trees. Let some large plants stand out with an unusual crown shape, leaf color.
Here are some shrubs you can plant in the country in this style. This is a snowberry, rhododendrons, shrub lilac, cinquefoil, elderberry, spirea, felt cherry, heather.
If you are thinking about what flowers to plant in your country house so that you get a Scandinavian style, then there are many options. You can make sure that there is continuous flowering on the site, as these plants bloom at a certain time.
Plant:
- asters;
- geranium;
- chamomile;
- lobelia;
- zinnia;
- dahlias;
- delphinium;
- marigold;
- calendula;
- rudbeckia;
- carnations;
- bulbous;
- phlox;
- lupins.
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DIY Scandinavian-style house - photo projects
See what it can be. Basically, preference is given here to white, which is combined with various shades of brown. Basically, the Scandinavian style implies the presence of a spacious one-story house.
This building was erected from aerated concrete blocks and finished with ceramic blocks. The slab consists of wooden beams. The roof can be made of metal or ceramic tiles. And here is another Scandinavian-style house.
Here is such a lovely cozy building. It is made of vulture panels and the roof is metal tiles. If you have a wooden house, you can trim it with beige siding, decorate it with white elements, there will be such a charming Scandinavian-style house.
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Everything you need is here. There is a bedroom, a study, a living room combined with a dining room. There is also a place for a kitchen, a bathroom, there is even a sauna. If you have a finished home that needs restoration, then you can also do siding for a Scandinavian style home.
This type of structure is characterized by a light color. Here is another cozy house made in light colors. Only the roof is dark here. The house has a closed veranda at the entrance, it consists of two floors. Upstairs, you can also make a bedroom or give preference to another room. The foundation is finished with artificial stone.
It is not customary to place flower beds, trees or beds near the house in a Scandinavian-style dacha, but a recreation area with sun loungers, a gazebo, a hammock is placed.
The fabric for the hammock should be strong but solid textile. You can embroider it around the edges for a cute rustic interior. See what finishes are possible inside the house. It is easy to do it yourself.
Here, too, white will be dominant. It will make even a small room spacious. Will create a feeling of lightness, airiness. If you already have old wooden walls, then you will also update them this way. Also paint the ceiling white. If there is an old shop, update it. Place a few accessories on top to emphasize that the cottage is in Scandinavian style. Light-colored pieces of furniture, decorative pillows will also help this.
You can even cover the floors with white. When doing this, use a special paint. If you have old chairs, shelves and kitchen cabinets, then this vanilla paint will allow you to update them. Place ethnic ceramics on the shelf for a Scandinavian look.
In a spacious living room, allocate a place for a fireplace or leave one of the brick walls like this, you do not need to plaster it. You can also make a column out of bricks. She also fits perfectly into this style.
To make your home look antique, add relevant items here. These can be pans, grabs, shelves, kettles of that time. Some accessories can be made by hand or bought at a flea market.
There will be not only a Scandinavian-style kitchen, but also a bedroom. So also paint the board ceiling and walls with white paint. Bed linen of this color, bedside tables and whatnots will complete the picture.
If the interior of the house needs repairs, then don't rush to do it. If the plaster flew around in some places, bricks appeared, this is what you need to decorate the kitchen in the Scandinavian style.
Reinforce the edges of the remaining coating so that it does not peel further. Now check out how to make cute accessories to complement this style. And with the help of simple techniques, you transform familiar things.
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How to make DIY Scandinavian accessories?
There are many coniferous forests in the Scandinavian countries, so you can decorate windowsills this way. Take ceramic pots, you can put foam or small stones on the bottom, place moss on top. Fix one cone in each container. Tie the pots with ribbons, ropes. You can attach pieces of moss or sheet music here.
A Christmas tree will be very appropriate in such an interior. When the New Year comes, you can decorate it. At other times of the year, it will decorate your room in a Scandinavian style.
So that spring reigns on the windowsill in winter, cut off a few branches and put them in a flask with water. Soon leaves will appear on the branches. Place various bumps on the windowsill to create this Scandinavian style.
The next coniferous composition is also made in the Scandinavian style. She will give a pleasant fragrance. Make a container out of birch bark by stapling this rectangle and the round bottom with a stapler. Place a flower pot inside and put a floral sponge. Pour water into it, fix spruce or pine branches, which decorate with greenery.
Take a saw cut from a tree, a felt-tip pen and draw a circle inside so that you know where you need to glue natural materials, and you get such a voluminous panel.
The decoupage technique will help you transform your pottery into a Scandinavian style. To do this, you will need to use napkins with this pattern. You can also decorate a tree cut or a dish using decoupage technique.
Scandinavian-style bottle for dacha interior decor
Such an item will decorate the room. A bottle made in the Scandinavian style will look like a rarity.
Take:
- acrylic primer;
- degreasing liquid;
- acrylic paint;
- stencil;
- thin embossed paste;
- acrylic outlines;
- twine;
- pieces of bark;
- cuts;
- branches;
- matt acrylic varnish;
- masking tape;
- sponge;
- synthetic brushes.
First wash the bottle and dry it. Now you can degrease this container. Apply the primer using a dishwashing sponge. When it's dry, draw rectangles with a simple pencil, which you will then paint over. Cover the borders of the first rectangle with masking paper tape. Apply your chosen color here. Then glue the masking tape again on another piece and paint over it in the same way. You can use this paper tape more than once. When you get to the top, tape the cork with some masking tape to keep it from getting dirty.
Give your piece time to dry, after that you need to tint it with dark paint using a dry brush. You will apply this solution to the edges of the rectangle. Then apply a few dry strokes with white acrylic paint.
When it is dry, move on to the next step to make the Scandinavian style in the interior and in the garden just wonderful.
Take stencils of snowflakes on adhesive paper and attach to the selected area of the bottle.
Draw white paint snowflakes on a dark background. Then carefully remove the stencil. When these drawings are dry, take the red outline and use it to draw the loops in the form of checkmarks. The following knitting and embroidery pattern will help you complete this stage of the work.
These will be Norwegian patterns. Then, on another fragment, using the blue and red outline, draw the sleigh of Santa Claus. Let the deer be embroidered. Crosses will help you create the appearance of such a pattern. Make them a red outline. Deer antlers will help create coils. Based on the pattern, make a snowflake and a herringbone. You just have to decorate the bottle with small accessories. To do this, tie a flap around its neck, then tie a string here and attach a piece of saw cut with a printed pattern. If you go to decorate it with bark, then pre-soak this material in warm water to make it more pliable.
Now you can place the bottle in the chosen place in the garden or decorate the room in the Scandinavian style with it.
If you want the interior to be decorated with greenery, then look where you can put it.
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How to make a vase for a Scandinavian summer cottage?
This will be a variation on this theme, since the plant stands are made of glass containers.
After laying the table on the veranda or in the room, decorate it with such an exposition. For her you will need to take:
- 4 planks;
- three jars;
- nails;
- hammer;
- a miter saw or drill with a circular nozzle.
Place the jar on a longer board and draw a pencil around the neck of the container. Cut the resulting hole using the round drill bit. Thus, you will need to make three holes for this number of glass jars.
Then knock down a box without a bottom out of 4 boards. On top you will have a board with three holes. Put three jars in them, pour water and place branches of plants, for example, eucalyptus.
Scandinavian style cottage interior
Check out a few more ideas that will make your country house cozy by decorating it in this northern style. Nowadays, striped patterns are very fashionable. You can paint the walls yourself this way, using masking tape to create a clear border. To do this, first paint the walls with white paint, when it dries, use a pencil to make markings in order to stick masking tape. Cover with black between the sections of these ribbons. When the paint is dry, remove the masking tape.
You can take not black paint, but another, darker than the main background. Use blue in combination with cyan and white.
Such horizontal stripes are a trend, so you can decorate your interior in a Scandinavian style just like that. If you have light walls and black accessories, then you can use these shades of rug. The checkerboard black stripe looks stylish.
If you like the combination of these colors, then use them when decorating your interior. The walls and ceiling are white, while the shelf, wooden chairs, pillows and accessories are in dark colors.
Make a panel with your own hands using the same color. If you have a fern branch, dry it, then paint it black with a spray bottle. You can decorate the branches of other plants and trees in the same way. When dry, place them on a white background, frame. And if you paint the leaves white, then glue them onto a dark background.
You can leave some walls white, paint one or two black. It remains to add accessories of opposite shades here in order to achieve such a harmonious picture.
Don't be afraid to play with dark and light colors. You can make the bottom of the walls and the ceiling white, black. Bright bookshelves, built-in cupboards, a white chest of drawers and a lampshade of the same color will be very appropriate here.
Lattice partitions also look stylish. They are easy to make with your own hands. To do this, you need to attach the slats parallel to each other on two thick boards. Paint the baffle and install it in place. It will help separate the dining area or living room.
A Scandinavian-style nursery can also be done. To do this, use wallpaper in light colors. Put white furniture here. You can make a wigwam for the child, put a carpet with Norwegian patterns. The kid will happily lose in such an environment, and light colors will have a good effect on his mood. To add some variety, install some colorful accessories here. You can put just such a horse on which the child will swing. Flags on the ceiling will also brighten up the environment. To do this, simply cut out triangles from the fabric and glue each onto a strip of rope. You can stitch these flags onto such a tape.
In the same way, you will decorate the child's bed, which will become a house for him.
It is also done in light colors, as it is a Scandinavian style. Such a frame is easy to make from wooden planks. Tack them onto the wall first, and then attach the sidewalls and sloped roof. Connect 4 doors in pairs. Here they are folding.
But for small children, it is better not to use such a design so that they do not inadvertently stick their fingers between the door mounts.
Scandinavian style kitchen
It is also white. This shade is not only furniture, household appliances, but also the ceiling and walls. Add some colorful accessories like kitchen jars, flowers.
Even if you have a very small kitchen space at your dacha, arrange household items and furniture along the walls so that everything fits here. You can give preference to an inexpensive kitchen made in light colors. Place a Scandinavian-style rug on the floor. You can knit it yourself from the rest of the thread. As you can see, white is not only very elegant, but also creates the atmosphere of snowy Scandinavia. See what other ideas you can use to create a Nordic style interior.
The designer will tell you 8 rules for creating such an environment.
Pay attention to the structure of the house inside and outside, which will also help create the desired style in the country.
The third video will tell about the Scandinavian-style garden. There are some very interesting ideas here that will help create a Scandinavian forest. Large flat stones go well with greenery.
