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Gray laminate in the interior

17-04-2018
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Gray laminate in the interior is becoming increasingly popular. Designers use it in various projects, repeatedly expanding the boundaries of their capabilities. Gray color, which is difficult to identify with a wooden coating, is an excellent background to concentrate attention on the details. The floors are the color of wenge, bleached oak, cherries are quite beautiful and elegant, but so traditional that they are unlikely to impress and surprise. Therefore, the laminate with gray shades will be an original and fresh solution in the design of any apartment. Gray color is constantly criticized and rarely used in the interiors of residential premises, as it is considered complex and ambiguous. But the right choice of color will give any apartment a cozy and aristocratic look.

Psychological effect of gray

Gray board

At first glance it seems that the gray color is dull and boring. Some people believe that it has a negative effect on the human psyche, providing an overwhelming effect. This is not true. First, the gray shades soothe, relieve tension and stress. Secondly, the acquisition of a floor of this color can be considered the beginning of an amazing and bright apartment decoration. Gray laminate flooring will serve as an excellent basis for creating any interior. It will effectively emphasize the color of furniture, walls. Each element of the decor will seem unique and bright against a discreet background.

The gray flooring acts soothingly, bringing the person into a state of balance and complete self-control. But the abuse of gray in the decoration can lead to the fact that in such a room it will be impossible to concentrate. It is this property that makes gray laminate an ideal covering for bedrooms, kitchen areas and living rooms. In the design of offices and children's rooms where the student lives, the use of this shade is not recommended.

Gray laminate properties

Laminate Vintage Gray Oak

There is completely no severity of black and the simplicity of white. Nobility, grace, aristocracy, conciseness and room for fantasy carries a gray color, being the basis for the design of the room.

Visually reduces the room laminate dark gray. Light gray tint visually increases the area of ​​the room, erasing the boundaries, gives a feeling of lightness, freshness and coolness.

The gray interior sometimes seems icy or lifeless, to add warmth, use bright hot smelt in the form of details of yellow, orange, beige. But the best solution would be beige walls in combination with a gray floor.

Using shades of gray in the interior:

  1. Light gray pearl laminate will create a feeling of coolness and freshness in the room. Fill it with light and give the interior a slightly strict and aristocratic look.
  2. The color of wet asphalt, dark gray or graphite tint is used to give the room the desired dynamics or contrast.
  3. To make the room warmer and softer, you should lay a laminate of gray-brown or gray-beige color.

How to use in the interior

The use of gray laminate

Designers often use a variety of shades of gray laminate to create optical illusions that give the room a certain style.

Imitation of gray wooden floors is perfect for interiors in the style of hi tech, urban minimalism, loft. In such rooms, gray is used everywhere: decoration, furniture, appliances, accessories.

A few examples of using gray laminate:

  1. The basis for the loft style is the urban decoration against the backdrop of a bright, spacious, air-filled room. Therefore, without the gray floor associated with metal, asphalt or concrete is not enough.
  2. Glass, metal, chrome-plated surfaces and the glossy whiteness of a hi-tech room will be superbly shaded by a gray laminate.
  3. Gray floor, reminiscent of a darkened tree from time to time, will harmoniously look in vintage or rustic interiors. Provence, chebbi, country, retro, classic styles, which are created using stone and brickwork, stucco, antiques or aged furniture look especially bright against a gray background.
  4. The gray base holds back a bit of chaotic scenery and kitsch style confusion. Therefore, gray laminate is just perfect in such an interior.
  5. Using the gray flooring to create a Scandinavian style, it is necessary to make bright color accents to make the room dynamic and unique.
  6. Even in classic interiors that cannot do without luxury and gilding (baroque, art deco, rococo) you can use gray laminate. Expensive wood, velvet and silk fabrics, exquisite silver or its imitation will look gorgeous on a smoky gray background.

Combination with the rest of the interior

Laminate in the dining room

When choosing wallpaper under the laminate, it should be remembered that the warm shades of gray coating require the same wall decoration. Conversely, the flooring, which has a coolish color, involves the design of walls in a cool range. Having design skills, you can play on the contrast of warm and cold tones.

Being an intermediate color, gray perfectly combines with black and white interior details, while the antagonism of opposite shades decreases. Perfectly combined with gray floor will look furniture in the color of wenge, vanilla, zebrano. Textiles can be blue, yellow, purple, cream, white, black.

White doors are the perfect solution for gray floors. You can also pay attention to the gray door, on the tone different from the floor.

What combinations are not allowed

Gray laminate does not accept uniformity of shades and textures in the interior. This color needs bright elements, original patterns and metallic luster. If the designer performs an apartment in gray, then he will surely mix a lot of textures in the decoration (velvet, fur, silk, metal, gloss), and also shades. Otherwise, the room will look cold and lifeless.

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Dark gray finish

Light gray laminate

Gray coated and terracotta walls

Gray floor on the background of purple walls

Gray laminate and white furniture

Covering dark gray oak

Gray laminate in white interior 

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Here are some more examples of using gray laminate in the interior.