What curtains will suit gray wallpaper: selection rules

Gray is the color of great opportunities, including in the interior. He is not boring, not gloomy, not mouse, as they are often offended by him, without thinking about his capabilities. It can be quiet, calm, neutral, which is the best way out for creating a certain setting. But he can play the role of excellent shadowing color to bright, contrasting shades. These colorful knowledge will be useful and in the case of a transformation of the house to learn how to properly combine colors in the interior.

Combination of colors in the interior: Highlights

Immediately it is worth saying, such a thing as the correct combination of colors simply does not exist - it is better to say "successful". If you want to learn how to combine colors professionally, you need to know not only, for example, a table of combinance, but also the trends of the season. And they change annually, here only have time, watch.


A useful tip in the form of a table developed designers in which all colors are broken into groups. In each group of color of one gamut, for example, blue cobalt, azure, cornflower, turquoise. To these colors (for each two combined colors and one accentuating) are attached.

For example, some lines in this table with the inclusion of gray will look like this:

  1. Trend color - cobalt blue, two combined - salad, blue-green, focusing - gray;
  2. Trend color - pale pink, two combined - pale sand, mint-green, focusing - dark gray;
  3. Trend color - gray-green, two combined - light amethyst and sky blue, emphasising - purple;
  4. Trend - orange, two combined - gray and cherry, focusing - dark chocolate.

As you can see, there are some unexpected combinations, which, maybe, previously did not consider it at all.

How to choose the right curtains (video)

How to choose the curtains to the wallpaper: your tricks

There is a steady opinion that the curtains are easier to pick up the curtains easier - they will be fit almost loved ones. But this is not the case, because even professional designers think for a long time, how to successfully beat the topic of walls in a duet with curtains, which is expressed by wallpaper.


Options may be as follows:

  • Curtains with vertical stripes will increase the visually window in height and, if the interior is classic, it will emphasize its rigor;
  • Horizontal strips visually change the window size;
  • Bright, expressive, large print on the curtains will be convincing only if the main color background of the curtains is consistent with the background of the whole room and, mainly, wallpaper.

If you have very nice geometric patterns, they also need to be combined with the geometrics of furniture forms, and most appropriate in the style of minimalism.


What is combined with gray:

  1. White. It looks good against the background of gray walls with a light cool color, if you have a warm gray, replace the white on the warm cream.
  2. Sand, beige. Curtains with a shade of wet sand will be harmonized with cold gray, and if the shade is rather golden, then the gray should be warm.
  3. Yellow. With yellow gray can have the brightest combination of colors, but yellow cannot be dominant, they are better to express accents. If you take the curtains, then with yellow flowers, figures, patterns, but not in general yellow. Rolled curtains can be faded, muffled color.
  4. Green. With cold gray, it is well combined with emerald, aquamarine, neutral green. With warm gray, an excellent combination will be with olive, pistashkovy, mustard.
  5. Blue. With blue combines cool and gray, with the same color is greatly looking at the curtains with a combination of several shades of blue.
  6. Lilac. Gray wallpaper looks perfectly with Lilane, and purple color gives a better combination of colors.

Finally, gray is combined with gray. Only for the harmony of such a duet you need to take textiles on a couple of tones lighter or darker of color walls so that the shades game happen in the interior. Good use textiles with contrasting prints, they will help to emphasize on the window and also extend the interior

How to choose tulle to wallpaper: is there any differences

There are practically no differences in combination of colors. Again, do not try to combine cold with warm, sometimes it is also a good option, but successfully merging two elements is still rare.


If you have a cold gray on the walls, tulle can be white frosty. But cream, beige tulle to strict and cold gray is dissonance.

If you want to bring more fresh air, the room in the room, even if we visually, take the most transparent tulle, which will create a feeling of freshness, release of light streams in the interior.

Curtains from wallpaper do it yourself: what it is

Incredibly dear, beautiful Curtains Hand-Maid is what is just fashionable today. And the curtains can be made to the gray wallpaper, which will be the wint of the interior.

For example, you have vinyl wallpaper wallpaper on the mezzans, which are theoretically suitable for gray color walls.


Tools need the following:

  • Scissors;
  • Line;
  • Threads and awl;
  • Glue.

Well, directly, wallpapers themselves.

All work takes place in five stages:

  1. Clotts carefully watch the harmonica, folds are well made by a ruler. If necessary, apply labels in advance.
  2. Several first folds need to be fixed with each other so that the curtains can be hung.
  3. If the width of one wallpaper canvase is not enough, glue several wallpaper sheets.
  4. If you want to simply add and lay the curtains, make a hole in the folds and thread through it cord.
  5. The resulting curtains on the cornily fasten crocodiles.

You can make arcuate curtains, as if an inverted fan can be long, like rolled, which are also crowned arcuate.

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