Such an amazing product as chocolate has long become familiar in every home.
The benefits of it are obvious: this product brings happiness and pleasure, can calm or, on the contrary, invigorate, and can even cure some diseases.
This is why the color of chocolate has become so popular around the world. It can be found in clothing, furniture, and interior decor.
Chocolate curtains are often the most significant detail of interior design.
Why choose brown shades of curtains
Brown is associated with earth and wood and is psychologically perceived as stability, prosperity, warmth and comfort.
The second reason is that modern chocolate-colored fabrics really look luxurious.
The third reason is that brown shades go well with most shades of both cold and warm tones.
Combinations of chocolate-colored curtains with other shades
To make the interior look harmonious with chocolate curtains, you need to know the rules for combining paint with other shades.
Chocolate goes well with other shades of brown, but too much of this color can overwhelm the design and make it look boring or too strict. For chocolate curtains, you should choose a background of light shades. Excellent “partners” for chocolate are:
- Beige. This combination is a classic and is often used in a classic style. Walls painted beige will contrast softly with the dark brown that can be added by the wallpaper pattern. Furniture with fabric upholstery can also be selected in chocolate color. Beige can be replaced with sand, but in this case chocolate should be chosen in a rich version.
- White. This combination is suitable for modern styles. The interior in these colors looks catchy and stylish. Chocolate should be used in furniture and decorative details. Brown on windows as a single accent can look dull, so it should be added throughout the interior, but in moderation. Often the color is chosen in the shade of coffee with milk, which looks organic in combination with milk.
- Pink. To create a romantic atmosphere in the room, use a combination of chocolate and pink, which can be diluted with purple in accent places.
- Blue. At first glance, the combination seems strange, but in the finished design it looks harmonious. The cool shade goes well with brown in decoration, furniture and accessories. A green-blue tone or turquoise will add warmth to the overall design.
Sometimes the interior is built on a palette of three colors - chocolate + white + blue. To make the interior look cozy and beautiful, you should contact a professional curtain salon designer “Your Comfort”, who will be able to offer several options with shades of these colors.
But you shouldn’t mix chocolate with black and gray. Accent items in these colors will destroy the harmony in the design of the room.
Applicability of chocolate-colored curtains in the interior of a room
Chocolate textiles in the living room interior
Brown curtains for the living room will be an excellent option for an interior with leather furniture, wooden floors and beams. An expensive and beautiful furniture set made of wood and leather can be emphasized by plain curtains with a sliding mechanism, made of expensive materials. Curtains can be complemented with lambrequins, tiebacks and a white veil. The room immediately takes on a solid, classic look.
Chocolate curtains in the bedroom
A room in which you want privacy and tranquility is often decorated in soft and warm colors. Combined curtains with chocolate and cream visually expand the space and have a calming effect. Brown in combination with beige will add nobility to the room and make the room more comfortable.
Chocolate curtains made of thick fabric will be an excellent choice for draping a window in the bedroom, where the sun's rays should not penetrate during rest and sleep. Curtains in the bedroom are often made from chocolate-colored textiles. This color brings a lasting feeling of security, comfort and warmth to the bedroom.
Chocolate-colored curtains for the kitchen
The room intended for cooking should not be darkened by dark objects. Chocolate curtains in the kitchen would be appropriate in the form of Roman blinds or roller shutters, which are compact and practical even for small kitchens with light finishes. You should also pay attention to the material of the curtains: in a room where grease and soot often settle on surfaces, you should select curtains with dirt-repellent properties that do not absorb odors.
A common kitchen design option is the combination of coffee and milk. Coffee-colored curtains and tabletops against the background of milky finishes and light facades will look stylish and organic.
Chocolate-colored curtains will be the ideal solution for decorating a work room. In combination with furniture made of expensive wood, curtains will add solidity and respectability to the interior. Leather armchairs and a sofa in brown tones should be added to the room. Wood finishes are considered most suitable for a strict design. If the room looks too dark, you can choose curtains for the office with a light geometric pattern or stripes.
Chocolate-colored curtains fit into almost any style direction. With a correctly selected color palette, you can achieve an attractive and harmonious appearance of the interior.
Advantages
Advantages of chocolate color:
A luxurious color can decorate the most austere interior and give it solidity. It’s not for nothing that you often see photos of chocolate curtains in luxury interiors.
Chocolate color has a calming and calming effect, it makes the room cozy and warm.
This color goes well with almost all colors and highlights any bright accents in the design of the room.
Advantages of shades of chocolate in the interior
Chocolate is one of the shades of brown. For a very long period, the attitude towards this color remained completely ambiguous.
For Greece in Ancient times, a brown tone meant fertile land; it belonged to Hera.
Ancient Rome attributed this color to slaves; the rich class was forbidden to wear it in their clothes.
For Egypt, brown marked the birth of new life.
Christians perceive it as the color of the unclean Satan, signifying carnal, dirty fun.
Flaws
Dark brown is a fairly dark color. A large amount of dark color, especially matte, makes the room visually smaller.
In small rooms, dark curtains are also undesirable - after all, curtains usually occupy one entire wall and represent a fairly large spot of color.
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For the same reason, do not combine brown curtains and walls or ceilings in the same room. It is also undesirable to use a dark floor covering.
Principles of interior layout with brown curtains
Chocolate curtains do not “play” alone in the interior - they must have a companion. Typically textiles are used - rugs, pillows, carpets. Sometimes - a pattern on tiles, cabinet and upholstered furniture. Occasionally, covering part of the wall with interesting wallpaper or finishing it with dark wood that matches the color. Sometimes doors, arches, columns, beams, and door frames made of dark wood act as companions.
It is advisable to use lighter shades of brown in the interior - bedspreads, upholstery of upholstered furniture, a second layer of curtains.
Introduction of original products into the interior
When using curtains in brown tones, it is necessary to take into account not only the stylistic direction, but also the functional features of the room.
Most often, brown curtains are purchased to decorate living rooms or bedrooms.
- Even if the bedroom does not have impressive dimensions, the use of a chocolate shade is absolutely appropriate here. Cool tones will create a certain detachment from the outside world, calm you down, and have a positive effect on healthy sleep and quality rest. Warm shades will warm you up and significantly improve your mood.
- Another undeniable advantage of brown curtains is high-quality sun protection, necessary for proper rest.
- As for the living room, dark colors can be used here only if there is enough free space. Otherwise, the dimensions of the room will noticeably suffer. For a compact room, beige curtains with an attractive dark brown pattern are more suitable.
- In general, chocolate, sand or coffee sheets can be used in any interior, provided that auxiliary elements such as wood, wicker furniture, and parquet are present.
Gray-coffee curtains can dilute the black and white decor, softening its harshness, but without disturbing the main idea of the interior. Boring monotony is noticeably transformed due to delicate warmth.
Such curtains are rarely used for the kitchen, because it is quite difficult to avoid a visual reduction in the size of an already compressed space. An excellent solution for this case would be brown muslin with a golden tint, evenly distributed over regular white tulle.
Dark brown shades are absolutely not suitable for a children's room. As a last resort, you can choose a soft sand color or a “chocolate” pattern on light canvases. Contrary to the opinion of some parents who consider wenge or coffee as a “sedative” for a child with a violent temperament, such experiments have the opposite effect, negatively affecting the psyche of a child or teenager.
Chocolate and coffee are ideal for decorating an office. Such a palette will put you in a working mood, help you disconnect from external stimuli, calm you down, but not relax you.
Shades of chocolate color
There are six main shades of chocolate:
- milk chocolate – neutral cool color;
- classic chocolate – warm color;
- dark chocolate color;
- dark chocolate color – very dark, with noticeable reddish notes;
- light chocolate – juicy color with yellow notes;
- chocolate glaze (bright brown shade with pronounced reddish and reddish notes).
Color combinations
Chocolate goes with almost all colors. It is important that shades of chocolate with pronounced reddish notes are not combined with yellow, sandy mustard shades; and shades with pronounced yellow notes - with violet, lilac, lilac, pink, cherry flowers, as well as brown colors with a hint of pink - cocoa with milk, pink-brown, etc.
Brown curtains look best against a light background. It is advisable to choose complex shades for the colors of the walls and floors, then the beauty of chocolate curtains will be fully revealed.
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It is better not to choose “simple” shades: pink, yellow, lemon, peach, light green, green, blue, gray. “Complex” - mustard, golden, ocher, muted raspberry, turquoise, shades of brown.
The ideal color for walls is beige. Purple, lilac, and red are best used for upholstered furniture or accessories, but not for walls.
Interesting fact
There is an opinion that the “father” of the fashion for interiors in chocolate brown tones is one interesting case. One day, American decorator David Hicks had a serious quarrel with his wife. In anger, she threw a bottle of Coca-Cola at him, which smashed against the wall, splashing the brownish liquid around. Today, on the shelves of American hardware stores there is a paint for walls and floors called “brown cola”.
What colors don't go well with chocolate?
A completely impossible combination - with black in the decoration of walls, floors or ceilings.
An extremely undesirable combination is with very dark colors - dark blue, dark green, dark purple, blue-violet (for example, with a dark stretch ceiling “starry sky” or “galaxy”).
Brown and chocolate colors contain yellow and red. When choosing companion colors for textiles, walls, floors, it is necessary to strictly observe all the nuances of shades.
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Combine colors correctly
In order for your room to look as modern and stylish as possible, without losing the comfort and warmth of home, you should pay attention to the correct selection of colors in all details. Brown curtains go perfectly with beige, caramel or creamy wallpaper. If such options are not bright enough for you, introduce accents. This applies to both the overall design of the room and the curtains themselves: choose brown options with bright patterns or an unusual lambrequin. When choosing interesting combinations, pay attention to contrasting colors: green, blue, blue, white or orange. Curtains can be made from a variety of fabrics, ranging from matte and glossy to thick blackout fabrics. Sand, golden or just brown curtains look great in multi-layer designs. Coffee with milk curtains are no exception, which is increasingly being chosen by designers. They are often used in offices where there are a lot of wood panels, massive furniture or leather parts. They look very expensive and do not need additional decor, like lambrequins. If you still want to add some zest to your café au lait curtains, use tiebacks or gold details. This will add even more luxury to your space.
The photo shows an excellent example of the restraint and rigor in the office that brown curtains give
If you want to add a special twist to the decor, use light textures in cinnamon, ocher or copper colors in combination with similar curtains. You can also highlight the details using a cornice: choose bright colors such as yellow or orange. Add the same colors to plant pots, picture frames and other small details around the room. Blackout curtains will look quite interesting. They are often used in the living room. You should not combine them with a lambrequin, so as not to visually give them excessive weight.
Curtains made from blackout fabrics quite often have interesting patterns, you can see an example in the photo above
So, brown is not at all old-fashioned, but quite the opposite, modern, original and stylish. Various variations, from chocolate to coffee with milk, make it easier to create interesting decors and highlight your individual taste. Always remember the practical side of this palette, because on such curtains it is difficult to notice dirt or dust, folds or bruises, and most importantly, they do not fade in the sun. Thanks to their richness, you don't need to worry about additional parts or accessories. Such curtains can be easily used indoors, without duplicating colors in other decorative elements. You just need to remember that the window behind should not seem too flashy or stand out against the background of the curtains.
If, on the contrary, you want to focus on the curtains, create contrasts. Fabrics in the palette of coffee, tea, cocoa, walnut, and coconut harmonize perfectly with milk, lavender and pastel. If you want richness and warmth in the interior, add red, burgundy or terracotta details to brown.
And in order to add lightness, use nylon, organza or veil behind heavy curtains. You can combine several shades, creating layers.
The main thing is to experiment and be original in the selection of fabrics and palettes, and then any of your decisions can easily compete with designer ones.
In which rooms are brown curtains used?
Chocolate curtains are used in fairly spacious rooms for family recreation - living rooms, dining rooms - and offices and bedrooms for adults.
They are completely inappropriate in children's rooms, corridors and compact kitchens (in kitchens combined with dining rooms, dark stylish curtains are quite appropriate).
In the living room
For a spacious shared multifunctional room, chocolate curtains are the best choice.
The calm, warm color adds coziness to the room; the quality of the fabric, shade and design features of the curtains allow you to choose curtains to suit any living room style.
You can choose your ideal curtains by looking at photos of chocolate-colored curtains in various interiors.
For a luxurious classic style, sophisticated chic multi-layered draperies made of satin fabric with tassels are suitable.
For a living room in a rustic style, minimalism, eco-style, linen textured non-shiny fabrics and a simple design are more suitable.
For stylish and elegant contemporary and modern styles, shiny fabrics and designs of medium complexity are suitable.
In a large room, chocolate curtains can be accompanied by upholstery, dark wooden cabinet furniture or a carpet with a large share of brown.
A very original support for curtains - a brown pattern on light floor tiles. You can limit yourself to traditional chocolate-colored accents - pillows, blankets, furniture elements.
Ideas for combining brown curtains
For a spacious room, curtains of any shade of brown are suitable, but in a small room it is best to choose a combined option, for example, a combination of chocolate and white. This combination looks very harmonious. You can use a horizontal or vertical arrangement of matching colors; diagonal is also suitable. But it’s better not to use fabric with a pattern; geometry looks much more interesting.
Beige-brown curtains in the interior are a very interesting option. A fabric with beige as a background and a coffee pattern on it looks good. And if the pattern consists of several colors at once, then the curtain will become not just a basic element, but a real stylish decoration.
Brown tulle can be combined with blue curtains. It would seem that the combination is unacceptable. But that's not true. This color combination is quite appropriate in the interior, especially if the room has upholstered furniture with blue upholstery.
Beige curtains with coffee embroidery will look great in any room, even a small one. These can be used to decorate a window in the kitchen or bedroom.
There are many options for combining brown with others. You should experiment with the shades and textures of the fabric used to sew curtains.
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In the bedroom
Warm shades of chocolate curtains in the bedroom will create a calm, stable atmosphere conducive to complete relaxation. Dark fabrics absorb sunlight well - in the bedroom you can sleep well and relax even during the day.
Chocolate goes well with dark brown wooden furniture. In a room that is not too spacious, you should not make a brown bedspread - it is better to support the curtains with decorative pillows, a blanket on the chair and brown tones in the color of the carpet.
In a spacious and well-lit bedroom with light wallpaper there are no such restrictions - you can arrange curtains, bedspreads, and brown furniture.
But in this case, it is advisable to choose a light companion color - pillows, chair upholstery and headboard. For the bedroom it is better to choose fabrics with a delicate shine.
Features of chocolate tones for the bedroom
Today, a bedroom in chocolate tones is classic and elegance combined with comfort and relaxation. Brown color is great for decorating an adult bedroom, as it looks strict and demanding.
The most suitable design is considered to be a bedroom in brown tones.
Thanks to the variety of chocolate shades, you can choose the ideal option for both a small room and a spacious room. Today it is fashionable to combine several tones of the same range within a room. Monochrome design in brown tones fits well into classic and modern interior styles.
The variety of its shades and the ability to successfully harmonize with other colors of the palette allows you to fulfill any design idea in the bedroom.
How to choose tulle for brown curtains
There are several options for selecting tulle.
Chocolate curtains are combined with snow-white tulle, and cream, golden, beige, the color of baked milk, cocoa with milk, light color with a brown pattern.
Tulle for chocolate curtains is selected depending on the style of the room.
For more representative styles - classic, modern, choose thin, almost transparent tulle in white or a very light pastel shade.
For temporari, rustic styles, and minimalism, both smooth curtains, textured curtains, and two-color curtains are suitable.
Combination options
The design of chocolate curtains will become interesting if you combine several shades at once.
Chocolate and white. The transition between two opposite tones can take place vertically, horizontally or even diagonally. Coffee with milk is an all-time classic.
You should not add a pattern to the curtains; plain panels of these colors do not need additions.
Chocolate and beige. It is advisable if the chocolate pattern is applied to a beige background. Patterns, inclusions and applications of both basic and additional shades are allowed.
Chocolate and blue. The unusual combination suits the interior, which contains blue elements. It is better if the lighter material is located between pieces of dark fabric. Brown in this case may have a slight green tint.
