Kitchen in Provence style (20 photos): wallpaper, furniture and decor for a rustic interior

A special chic and flavor is the cuisine in the national style. And if our real Russian style in the decoration of the kitchen is not widespread due to the high requirements for the fullness of the workspace, then everyone knows about French Provence. A simple and magical Provence style kitchen is the choice of a delicately sensitive hostess who pays attention to details and details in more quantity than the main one. Secrets of design - close by, much is possible with your own hands!

French Provence: the basis of the concept as the key to design

In order for a Provence style kitchen to become a hit of your house or apartment, you do not need to invite a designer. It is worth paying a lot of attention to self-design during the next cosmetic or overhaul.

And remember that Provence is a French village, village, outskirts of a city. Here are vineyards, meadows with field herbs, fields of wheat and rye. There are a lot of sunrays, because the formerly once saturated colors faded a little and turned into blue, lilac, pink, terracotta, birch, lemon, light green, brown-matte and others, slightly worn out by nature and colors and shades. Here is the twitter of birds, the lightness of the wind, here it always smells of homemade bread, cheese, wine ...

Carry out a session of auto-training and visualization. Imagine the French village in all the details, let the pictures help you. Feel the energy that will help you recreate the true French chic and luxury of antiquity in your own kitchen.

The main rules of the miracle-implementation should be considered:

• pastel shades, colors as if faded in the sun. Those that were bright but faded, gaining a special charm and perfection. There are no ultra-fashionable, “flashy”, impudent shades, only the color palette refined by the very being in everything: furniture, decoration, little things;
• sound furniture made of natural materials. And even if the dining table is old, the pouf has seen better times, and plates from consumption have lost their luster and gloss - but in everyday life only natural materials are used. Reliable, durable, from which it blows a hundred years of good, these are ceramics and textiles, leather and metal, wood and natural stone. Furniture color - milky, birch, dull white. Traces of time can be clearly noticeable - it does not matter, but the most relish !;
• lightweight, carefree design, in which the main condition is the sufficiency of natural sunlight. Therefore - the largest possible windows, small windows in large numbers or ... artificial lighting. Without light, Provence is unthinkable;
• maximum textile. Tablecloths in several layers, bedspreads and rugs on the soft sofas of the dining group, wraps and pillows for chairs, napkins for decorating and for wiping hands, draperies in the separation of the working area from the refectory area, textiles on windows - everywhere. Although a distinctive feature of the Provence style kitchen is just the possible absence of textiles on the windows;
• trifles, accessories, handmade things.Your kitchen should become a place of concentration of hundred-year-old recipes, so everything should be said about what your great-grandmother was cooking on it! The more handmade "chips" - the better!

Furniture and surface layout: important parts of the main

Each Provence style kitchen design is special. However, equal attention is paid to the design of the walls. For provenance in the design of the kitchen, wallpaper is less relevant than for a bedroom in this style. Kitchen - a place for active visits, gatherings, relaxation. Therefore, here you can use natural stone in decoration, wood, metal, rough plaster, wall painting, as well as tiles and ceramics, glass. The latter options are fragile, so evaluate all the consequences immediately.

Having free space is what Provence-style kitchen in your home means. A good old house of a wealthy French peasant is not a dozen square meters of kitchen area. If you understand this - go for it.

So, the kitchen. There are 2 options for its arrangement, in contrast to the classic banal:
arrangement of furniture “under the window”, most often, angular or even “rectangular” option;
arrangement of furniture from the kitchen on the island, in the center of the kitchen - work surfaces, main tables, cabinets and cabinets - along one of the walls.

Depending on the type of furniture arrangement, you will let down communications and engineering systems, wiring. In such a kitchen, everything should be easy, simple, unobtrusive, but practical, reliable and functional!

Special attention is given to the dining group. A massive round table, stools, benches, chairs with high backs and even armrests will be appropriate here. The kitchen is the hearth, the hearth is the heat, therefore, the kitchen is the place in whose territory they spend the most time. Therefore, reliable furniture is simply necessary.

A bright idea is the artificial aging of furniture. In this, decoupage and craquelure techniques will come to the rescue; it will not be difficult to recreate the old coating on surfaces and facades. A bit of information from the right sources, a watched master class - and kitchen furniture no longer hides scuffs, bumps, roughnesses of solid wood, but favorably “emphasizes” them!

Using these techniques, the true beauty of the furniture set will be revealed. For example, facades can show several layers of paint that were applied to the surface even before the previous owners. Of course, first the surface should be painted in several opposite colors so that it would be more interesting to consider a craquelure-style web after the facades are old. This is a real pleasure, you can watch a florid web pattern for hours, moving from one surface to another. You can also create “prints” of minor mechanical damage on the surface, chips, scuffs in order to think about the eternal.

But decoupage will be a kind of way to divert eyes from difficult places, wipes and large damage to the table, chair, chair. Choose an interesting stencil drawing, reproduce it in one or another style of past times. Lacquer by stretching the brush is not uniform everywhere. So leave it so that somewhere there are visible drips of varnish, somewhere - its absence. Who knows, in what conditions did your great-great-great-grandfather repair the furniture set?

Utensils as a household item and decor: attention to location

Pans, pots and bowls, vases and other containers, plates are not usually hidden in cabinets in the kitchen in the style of Provence. They are focal objects of the decor and decoration of the room, so large and bulky objects are fixed on the walls with metal hooks, and small household utensils - sugar bowls, creamers, pepper shakers, mortar for spices, jars with aromatic and spicy herbs - are put on the shelves. The latter are copper, forging, and brass.For maximum reliability, you can use decorative copper containers, clay pots of all shapes and sizes, with your own hands created wooden vases of ornate flowers, shapes, ornaments.

Great idea - inscriptions on jars of spices, preserves, preserves. They can be glued, before writing by hand or using technology. The neck of the vessels is another point that needs attention. It can be decorated with a ribbon, bow, a special piece of fabric of a strictly defined shape.

Textiles and small things, or what makes Provence Provence

Incredible cuisine in the style of Provence without textiles. These are napkins and tablecloths, rugs and bedspreads for chairs, potholders, towels, specially created draperies in order to maximize the feel of a homely atmosphere. This is where you can add an exquisite “zest” if you have chosen a white kitchen in the Provence style, and the walls are decorated with textured birch-colored wallpaper with small flowers-cornflowers. In this case, as in many others, it is textiles that will play the unifying role that will bring together the finishing materials of walls and ceilings, other surfaces, furniture and lighting, freedom and spaciousness, romance and goodness.

Do-it-yourself accessories are a striking feature of the Provence style kitchen. Create several tablecloths and bedspreads using the patchwork technique, decorate a piece of the wall of the panel using the scrapbooking technique, independently make candles for your kitchen under a certain shape of a candlestick ... It's all easier than it sounds!

From bulky and basic decor items, you can choose a unique chest that served as a grandmother, a rocking chair made of twigs, which, it would seem, has no place in the kitchen, but this is not so. Wicker baskets filled with vegetables and fruits in the corner, flowers in pots decorated with textiles, other similar refinements of decoration - and you will be transported to Provence.