When a drawing room or other room is made out, shades of furniture, floor coverings and accessories are chosen. Many people find the color of wenge interesting: it gives the atmosphere a nobility and chic. Not related to the standard colorful palette, it originates from the name of a rare valuable tree whose tone is brown, dark enough with streaks of black. However, such wood is very expensive. This forced manufacturers to refine their minds and come up with artificial ways to create a noble shade on other types of wood - it can be either a solid oak or a soft pine.
Why is the color of dark chocolate so popular today?
There are several reasons for this:
- aristocracy and sophistication of products made in this color scheme;
- combination with most colors of the color palette, distinguishing the color of wenge in the interior;
- pure tones do not irritate the eye, beckoning and attracting to itself;
- in this color there is a harmonious fusion of individuality, conciseness and naturalness.
Secrets of Use
The use of wenge color in the interior has its own characteristics. You should not make one common mistake, considering that the general style of design requires the use of one tone. So it turns out gloomy, especially if not only furniture, but also doors, floors, wallpaper on the walls and curtains are made in a single dark brown palette. She wants to be diluted with something fun, using bleached oak, for example, or pearl, golden and positive green shades.
The color of wenge in the interior loves contrasting companions. It goes well with them, and if you use it with taste and skill, then your living room, bedroom, nursery, kitchen will look just charming. For this, all that is needed is to use color accents correctly and remember some nuances and small secrets.
Wenge is a color that is maximally revealed in bright light. Therefore, it is worth providing for a sufficient number of light sources.
If you really like this rich dark brown tone with black veins, encouraging you to use it for floors, furniture and doors, put them on, then try to buy a furniture set or individual items in darker shades than the flooring, 2-3 tones of difference will be enough .
Who is not an ardent fan of wenge, you can enter 2-3 accents that will make the design of the room clear and complete. This is best suited to small sized rooms. It’s enough, for example, to design a mirror frame or furniture upholstery - leather or soft, and pick up curtains to match it. It’s great if the main background (walls, floor) remains light. A good option is bleached oak, used for decoration.
Room decoration
We design various rooms in the house using the color of wenge. The most important room in the house is the living room. To make it at the same time refined, aristocratic and comfortable, it is necessary to prevent saturation with dark tones. If wenge furniture is purchased, think about the light or bright colors that will surround it.
It is worth remembering that when working with contrasting colors, you must keep in mind the following: most of all, contrasts win if they are located on surfaces perpendicular to each other. For example, any living room will become much more interesting if it is decorated with a table with a glass lid and legs in deep brown. It can be a sofa with bright upholstery and dark chocolate sidewalls.
Styles such as minimalism or hi-tech are best suited to our deep brown color. Natural materials, severity of lines, a minimum of objects perfectly distinguish beautiful furniture and noble tone doors.
The classic style also favors a shade of dark chocolate. It involves a pearl, creamy, milky or white frame.
The floor of the wenge and comfortable and beautiful furniture made in this color scheme will be quite appropriate in the hallway. Someone may decide that because of this, the room will seem gloomy. However, this is not so: it’s worthwhile to competently work on the selection of lighting, and the corridor will become cozy and stylish.
In the bedroom, designed to become especially calm and soft, you can also purchase wenge-colored furniture.. Everything else, including bedspreads, decorative pillows, curtains, walls and floors, let it be in gentle tones. You can do the opposite: buy a furniture set for bleached oak. And make fabric accessories dark brown. The result is a luxurious wenge bedroom.
There are nuances in the design of the kitchen. The decision to purchase a gourmet chocolate kitchen set will be a good choice. Curtains and other items of lemon yellow, cream, beige, white or milky tones will help to complement the interior. However, you can experiment with juicy colors - everything is in your hands. Your imagination and the chosen design style will tell you the right option.
About the appropriate combinations and color palette
The noblest color of wenge is not whimsical in its preferences. In addition to the already mentioned white, beige and similar tones, it adjoins well with most shades of the color palette, except, perhaps, black, dark purple and other dark colors that will simply merge with the brown background, without becoming a beautiful finish .
But such colors as gray, yellow, orange, red, green are wonderful neighbors for wenge in the interior, emphasizing its beauty and sophistication. Golden color is also good.