The meaning and features of color
A mint shade is a combination of blue and green; the intensity of the mint shade depends on the predominance of one color or another. The resulting mint is not directly related to the color of the mint leaves.
A variety of mint can be considered menthol, turquoise in a light shade, sea foam color and light pistachio.
Like the entire group of green shades, mint has a positive effect on the psyche, induces relaxation, and has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the visual organs.
The photo shows a bedroom interior with green and purple patterns and white ceiling beams that add depth.
Design features
More recently, the mint shade was used to create a Mediterranean style, but today its palette is found in other interior solutions. Mint has a relaxing and calming effect, creating a pronounced effect of calm. A bedroom decorated in this color looks unusual. Any shade used in the interior has a beneficial effect, tuning in to good emotions, helping to support ardent trepidation.
The color of mint in a room intended for sleeping has certain characteristics, which is why designers actively use such shades, turning their ideas into reality:
- Warm or cool shades of mint are not able to oversaturate the design of the room. The tone does not cause a feeling of fatigue, does not tire the eyes, even when there is quite a lot of it;
- mint shade can be used as a main shade or exclusively as an accent shade. Used when zoning a room, balances the color palette;
- Mint color in the design will be appropriate if the window openings of the room are directed to the south. Each shade of this palette has a cooling effect and can slightly reduce the temperature of a room constantly illuminated by the sun;
- mint harmonizes well with the main shades and looks great together with tones that are rarely used in interior design.
Combination with other colors
Grey-mint
Gray-mint is often found in the interior; gray is the background for the mint shade. Used as an unobtrusive combination for the kitchen, living room and bedroom.
White-mint
This combination gives a cool combination in a clean Scandinavian and modern interior.
The photo shows an interior with uneven walls, one of which is painted mint. The absence of curtains and white walls make the room brighter.
Beige-mint
The interior looks balanced, often complemented with white or black.
Brown mint
The interior combines coziness and brightness, suitable for a combination of wood and wall painting. The combination of chocolate and menthol makes a modern interior unusual.
Mint-peach
Like beige, it combines airiness and bright color. Pastel mint looks unobtrusive but bold.
Mint yellow
The interior looks harmonious and quite bold, bright yellow warms the room, and mint cools it down.
The photo shows a living room in mint yellow with mint armchairs, a sofa and textiles.
Mint pink
Suitable for a girl's room in Provence or shabby chic style. For the walls, you can choose a combination of pink flowers on a mint background.
Mint lilac
Mint-lilac and mint-lavender are suitable for bedroom interiors in pastel shades. The color of lavender and light foliage will remind you of flowering valleys.
Mint purple
Must be used carefully due to the dark undertone of the purple. It is better to complement the mint interior with a small amount of lilac.
Mint and black
If you want to show off all the beauty that this fresh and soft color brings, feel free to combine it with black. Firstly, such a duet looks elegant and exclusive, and secondly, black does not interfere with all the nuances of its color partner. On the contrary, it emphasizes the menthol freshness, weightlessness and sophistication of the original shade. In this case, the rule of attraction of two opposites works perfectly. Two completely different characters - severity and tenderness form a contrasting and stylish union.
Mint living room with dark accents in the form of black furniture and TV
An original addition of black color to a mint interior
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Photo in the interior of the apartment
Kitchen
In the interior of the kitchen, the set or walls can be mint; when choosing a mint set, it is better to make the walls beige, white or gray. The walls can be painted or use vinyl textured wallpaper that is not afraid of moisture. The apron can be selected in white, black and brown.
The photo shows the interior of a modern island kitchen with matte wooden facades. The mint gray mosaic and gray and white flooring match the steel appliances.
Living room
In the interior of the hall, only curtains and textiles can be mint if the room is small. For a marine style, mint wallpaper and beige-yellow decor are suitable. Mint color will make the interior cool while maintaining an airy feeling.
Children's
In a nursery, mint goes well with pink, blue, white and gray. The walls can be striped or patterned. Plain mint walls are combined with light and dark wood colored furniture.
Bedroom
In the bedroom, mint creates coziness and relaxation, cools the room and promotes easy awakening in an atmosphere of pastel shades. A classic bedroom is recognizable by plain or patterned wallpaper and luxurious furnishings.
The photo shows a bedroom with plain walls and a classic set with candelabra bedside lamps. Flowers are a bright accent in a room.
Bathroom
In the bathroom, mint cools and at the same time reflects light, making the room brighter. Moisture-resistant panels and tiles are suitable for finishing. In an area where water does not reach the wall, you can use plaster and vinyl wallpaper. Combines with white floors, gray and yellow decor.
What else can you combine with?
All of the above combinations are not the only possible ones.
Every day, thousands of bloggers and fashionistas take to the streets, demonstrating new, unexpected combinations.
Mint color is worn with bright lime, purple, blue, malachite green and even orange.
The main thing is not to be afraid of experiments in clothing.
Style selection
Classic
In a classic interior, mint monochromatic walls are combined with plaster molding, a high white ceiling and parquet boards. If bright upholstery is used, it should be repeated in curtains or lambrequin.
The photo shows a spacious classic two-tone bedroom with thick curtains, a soft panel and a bed. To darken the room during the day, plain Roman blinds are used.
Minimalism
In a minimalist interior, striped walls or painted walls with geometry are suitable. Wallpaper can be textured, decorated with framed paintings. Large patterns and combinations of more than three colors within one room are unacceptable.
Provence
In the Provence style, mint can be the main color; it can be painted and slightly shabby furniture, walls made of clapboard or with floral wallpaper. Gray tulle with mint frill or white and mint cafe curtains will decorate the room.
Country
Country style is combined with light and dark shades of brown and beige. The rustic style is decorated with pillows, covers and blankets, textiles and curtains in a mint shade.
Nautical
The marine interior combines a pastel cold palette: blue, light blue, turquoise, green and mint. The walls can be wide striped, single-color, the curtains repeat the pattern on the pillows. The tulle is chosen to be light and translucent.
The photo shows a nautical-style kitchen with a mint splashback, an island and an open cupboard.
Finishing walls, ceilings and floors
Walls
For the walls in the bathroom, tiles, plaster, latex paint, vinyl moisture-resistant wallpaper are suitable; non-woven and paper wallpaper, paint, and a combination with brick or stone are used in living rooms. Photo wallpaper will become the central decor for one of the walls.
Floor
Parquet, dark oak laminate, rosewood, and walnut are suitable for the floor. White, gray boards and tiles also go well with mint.
Ceiling
It can also be mint, with a fresco, covered with soft panels or wallpaper. Stretch ceilings and plasterboard construction are suitable for the living room and bedroom. In the kitchen, it is better to whitewash or paint the ceiling white.
Properties of mint color for visual expansion of space
Designers have long noticed the specific properties of some colors, with which it is easy to influence the feeling of an “expanded” space.
For example, light monochrome interiors in cold colors give a feeling of cleanliness, an abundance of light and free space. This is especially noticeable in the design of a small bedroom in mint color, complemented by mirrors and glossy surfaces.
In an extravagant solution, you can combine the black gloss of the ceiling and floor with textiles and wallpaper in menthol shades. Black lacquer and glossy surfaces have a mirror effect; they attract with their “cosmic” depth.
Such an interior pushes the boundaries of space, so it is better not to limit it with heavy curtain compositions and cabinet furniture.
Techniques for transforming the parameters of a living room are widely used in different styles of premises. If someone does not want to use a green palette in a secluded room, but doctors insist on it, it is worth looking at photos of modern interiors.
A noble duet – pearl gray plus mint color. This is an excellent compromise for a married room, when a man likes stone and metal, and a woman likes mint color in the bedroom interior.
The room with granite floors, soft green curtains and a mirrored wardrobe door looks spacious and filled with light, despite its modest dimensions.
Blurred cold tones visually expand the boundaries of the room, especially when the ceiling and walls are made in soft blue or menthol. It is important not to overload the lower part of the room.
The floors should also be plain, for example, carpet with a “lawn” effect, and on one of the walls there should be landscape photo wallpaper with a waterfall or seashore.
Furniture selection
Bright furniture in any room will become a point of interest; when choosing mint furniture, you need to take into account the shade of the walls (they should not match), or make the walls white.
The sofa can be upholstered in brocade, jacquard, linen, or decorated with a pattern or lines. Curved backs are suitable for classics, straight frames for modern style.
The photo shows sofas in mint color in different shades that match the carpet in a modern living room.
Chairs are used in the kitchen, children's room and living room. A solid wooden office chair can be painted in mint color, then it will suit the bright interior.
The chair most often matches other upholstered furniture, maybe like a cocoon, mini-sofa or leather chair.
The photo shows a green bedroom with a mint chair with soft armrests and a deep back.
A wardrobe for clothes or books, a secretary, a kitchen cabinet can be without doors, with glass inserts or a compartment type.
Mint and gray
Gray is an attribute of a business, office atmosphere. But it can also adequately complement the mint color. You just need to choose light shades of gray. In alliance with menthol, light gray shades will create an airy, almost weightless picture. Such a combination of colors will tell about many things - intelligence, moderation, ease, lightness. If you give preference to a more saturated palette - asphalt or anthracite undertones, then the experiment may be unsuccessful - it will be difficult to get rid of the impression of depression.
The grey-mint combination looks harmonious in both modern styles and traditional interiors.
The combination of gray and mint has a lot of nobility and restraint
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Decor and textiles
The paintings are suitable for the living room, office and bedroom, wide hallway. Depending on the style of the room, the image will be appropriate (abstraction, ships, painting, reproduction).
Curtains and tulle are selected according to the type of fastening (eyelets, loops) and the quality of the fabric (natural, synthetic). The length and type of curtains (thread curtains, drapes) also plays a role. Gray, white, scarlet, beige and brown colors are suitable for mint walls.
Pillows as the main decor of the bedroom should echo the curtains or carpet. They come in different shapes, with ornaments or fringes. The carpet creates warmth for the feet and acts as a bright accessory for the living room, nursery, and bedroom.
The rug can be dyed or have a design applied to it.
The photo shows a studio apartment with space zoning, where in the living room area the carpet is combined with the walls.
