Frescoes in the interior (18 photos): decorative design and design of rooms

Interior design of apartments and houses with frescoes is perhaps one of the most interesting trends in the design of residential premises. The centuries-old art of painting on raw stucco is usually used for decorating the walls of bedrooms and living rooms, however, with the right approach and the appropriate level of skill of the performer, murals can decorate the ceilings and walls of any other room in your house, including kitchens and bathrooms. The versatility of the frescoes is also evidenced by their property to harmoniously integrate into any modern design: frescoes in the interior can both emphasize the successful elements of its design, and brighten up its flaws.

The decorative fresco in its classical form is a complex and delicate work performed by a master artist, it is a form of art with which the names of Da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo are associated. Therefore, initially the frescoes in the interior of the buildings were accessible exclusively to wealthy people, who decorated them with their luxurious houses and villas. However, since then, much has become much simpler, and now, thanks to well-established industrial production, various types of murals are available to residents of ordinary city apartments, differing primarily in the level of complexity of manufacture, type of material and method of application.

What are the murals?

So, the simplest option, which is used, as a rule, when decorating small apartments, is fresco wallpapers, or, more specifically, murals, the design of which is made in the spirit of ancient painting, peculiar paintings on the wall. Such wallpapers can be used not only on the wall or ceiling, but also decorate them, for example, a wardrobe in the hallway, built-in furniture for the kitchen. Modern technology for the manufacture of such frescoes involves the use of digital printing, and allows you to create wallpapers of the most original form, opens up the possibility of creating even the craziest design: you can transfer any landscape options you like to your wallpaper - nature views, cities, portraits, flowers, paintings by famous artists ... It is worth noting that, in addition to the usual fresco-wallpaper, there are special moisture-proof photo murals that can be decorated, for example, sections of the kitchen, nursery, hallway, or other parts of the apartments that may be exposed to moisture, including the wall of the bathroom, shower room.

By type of material, the following types of frescoes are distinguished:

• on plaster;
• on non-woven fabric;
• on canvas;
• on a tight basis;
• on a self-adhesive basis;

Stucco murals

The most popular type of frescoes based on plaster are the so-called Ortho frescoes, made on the basis of Italian technology of plastic plasters. The design of these frescoes is created using bright and juicy, like wildflowers, paints from natural pigments, which are used to draw certain images on their surface. Due to its considerable thickness, Ortho's frescoes are distinguished by a unique texture, like an uneven stone, that provides maximum resemblance to the ancient painting.

It is not easy to produce them, and such work usually takes several days. But they are relatively easy to install - a good enough mounting glue, as well as a certain amount of plaster for decorating the edges.

Fresco Murals

The technology for creating this type of frescoes consists in applying a thin layer of plaster on non-woven, a useful feature of which is the ability to use the most complete functionality of aging techniques. This achieves a more spectacular look of the finished mural. It can be mounted with any adhesive that glues non-woven wallpaper.

Murals on a non-woven fabric require a delicate relationship: even a small mechanical effect will have a detrimental effect on their surface. In addition, such murals do not tolerate high humidity, you need to make sure that the room that you plan to decorate with a non-woven mural will always be warm and dry.

Murals on canvas

Murals based on canvas, as a rule, require a high level of skill and are very laborious to create. It can take up to three to four months or more to make such a mural. This is not trivial photo wallpaper, but serious manual work, due to which, its cost is quite high, but it will decorate even the most luxurious homes.

The homeland of such frescoes is most often Italy, less often Spain. In Russia, they are rarely made, perhaps due to the lack of a serious school, the tradition of making frescoes on canvas. The work uses exclusively natural materials: cotton-based canvas, river sand, lime, glue based on natural components.

Hard Murals

Due to its lightweight, but stiff as stone basis, this mural is very durable, and the features of the technology of applying the image provide it with a unique appearance: it looks expensive and presentable. As in the case of other frescoes, its manufacture begins with the application of a layer of plaster on the prepared base, after which various aging techniques are applied to the resulting image.

Rigid murals are mounted directly in wet plaster, on the wall, or simply fixed on the wall. The disadvantage of such frescoes is their limited maximum size - due to the nature of the technology, they are not made more than 3 × 1.4 m.

Self-adhesive murals

Creating a fresco in the interior of ordinary city apartments can be quite non-trivial, even if it’s a simple photo wallpaper, especially when you need a colorful design of hard-to-reach surfaces, a rounded corridor, or complex structures such as a staircase, for example. Self-adhesive murals do an excellent job of such an original task, although they require specific preparation of the processed surface - it should be as even as possible, like a polished stone. In addition, the fine structure of these frescoes does not allow to convey the aging effect, so they will be more like wallpapers, but high-quality and expensive, like textured wall murals.

To make them, paste made from very thin sand is used. It is applied to synthetic material, and then, using digital image technology, the desired design is formed.

Frescoes in the interior of apartments and houses: flowers - for the bedroom, and for the kitchen ...

To ensure the most successful frescoing of a country house or city apartments, it is necessary to take into account the features that determine the design of certain residential premises, kitchens, hallways.

So, the frescoes in the interior of the living room are most often performed in the style of urban or rural, pastoral subjects, where there are wood, stone, grass. The murals in the interior of the bedroom are done in such a way that they create a relaxing or romantic atmosphere, so here images of love, flowers, cozy landscape paintings are suitable. At the same time, the frescoes in the interior of the living room and bedroom should look presentable and expensive, without giving reason to assume that this is ordinary wallpaper.

In the design of the hallway, corridor, small kitchen, or other small rooms of the house, it is best to use images that form the illusion of a wide space, as well as bright colors: deep valleys, the slopes of which are decorated with flowers, impressive mountain landscapes, paintings of the steppe expanses. In the nursery, as in the hallway, on the wall or ceiling, bright flowers or a design on the theme from the plots of fairy tales will be appropriate.