Italian style kitchen interior

Italian style in the interior is out of fashion. It is always relevant and luxurious. This is the ideal style for decorating the kitchen of a country house or a large kitchen-dining room in a city apartment.

The basis of the Italian interior is the use of natural materials

The main features are respectability combined with natural materials. Italian kitchen design is as close to the palette of natural shades. Color solutions, the choice of surface finishes, furniture, lighting and decor in the kitchen are perfectly selected in such a way as to create an extraordinary atmosphere of comfort, practicality and personality.

Characteristic features of the Italian-style kitchen

• Bet on luxury and aesthetics.
• The predominance of natural materials.
• The presence of a roomy kitchen set.
• Active use of decor, frescoes, mosaic panels, paintings.
• Warm colors.
• Organization of the interior in the Italian style of cute negligence, which gives it a special charm and comfort.

Lightweight linen or cotton fabrics are suitable for window decoration

The colors of the curtains are selected from natural shades.

Often windows are left without curtains or use blinds

Who needs Italian-style cuisine?

This style simply worships the cult of family. This is a room in the house where one wants to gather at a large table with the whole family or in a noisy group of friends. Each member of the family will find here their favorite zone, a part of themselves. Therefore, the interior in the Italian style is very versatile: it is a dining group for eating and gatherings, and a bar counter for personal negotiations, romantic conversations, and a huge work surface where any woman will feel like a full hostess at home.

Italian-style cuisine always looks elegant and luxurious, fully reflecting the traditions of Italy

Here, palace luxury merges with a cozy country

Traditional Italian-style cuisine implies a comfortable soft corner with a minibar or a “down to earth” comfortable table. This is a "male" territory in the interior. This is the place for business negotiations, gambling, cigar smoking and wine tasting.

Features of the choice of furniture

This style in the interior of the kitchen dictates its own rules. Italian cuisine does not accept the abundance of man-made modern materials. Therefore, the table, chairs, cabinets and other elements cannot be plastic, glass. Furniture is dominated by natural materials.

Italian furniture is famous for its variety of textures and the use of natural wood.

Such furniture is expensive, but its appearance and quality are worth it.

The facades look stylish with bronze handles and hinges installed in the old fashioned way way

If we are talking about a dining group, then give preference to a table and chairs made of wood. Colors and textures are very diverse, so you will not have problems with the selection of wooden furniture in the color variations you need. It is important to note that in the interior of the kitchen tinting of wood is welcome.You will select sets and cabinets in the most unexpected textures of wood: monochrome, two-tone, stained, bleached.

The Italian-style kitchen is always massive. These are heavy solid tables made of wood, with massive legs that can decorate elements of artistic carving, as well as forged inserts.

Kitchen with turquoise facades and apron majolica. A combination of laminate and ceramic tiles was used as flooring.

Attention! No minimalism when choosing chairs! In this case, cocktail, bar or modern futuristic chairs are not suitable. You will only sit on wooden wide chairs with a comfortable and high back.

Stylish dining area with comfortable soft chairs

Very often, in the organization of Italian cuisine, beautiful fabric covers for chairs or comfortable seating pillows with ties are used. This emphasizes sophistication, brings an element of warmth, comfort. As a rule, fabric covers are decorated with floral prints. Fruits and berries may also be depicted.

5 important rules of Italian-style kitchen furniture

1. A clear predominance of natural materials (wood, stone and metal elements).
2. Huge attention to detail (furniture is famous for carved, elaborate decorative elements).
3. Frequent use of art forging (in the Italian style, floral ornaments are especially popular).
4. A game of contrasts. For example, a calm dining group of light wood and a bright soft corner of orange, red flowers.
5. Bet on aesthetics. Furniture cannot only be comfortable or practical - it is a tribute to modern design. But Italian classics require luxurious pieces of furniture.

The interior should not be extra items

Lighting Features

Everything should be in harmony in the design of Italian cuisine. And if a table, cabinets, chairs actively use art forging, then this idea is repeated with accuracy when choosing lighting. Therefore, a massive and luxurious chandelier with a metal forged base must be present. This chandelier will determine the center of the room where the dining group will be located.

The light must be diffused, and the lamps are designed in retro style

Soft light accentuates the luxury of precious wood furniture

Lighting should be multi-zone. You need to use both wall sconces and retro-style spotlights, which will be located above the work area and an apron. Thanks to this technique, the ceiling and walls will be lit with soft, diffused light. If you have a soft corner, then in this part of the room a table lamp in the Tiffany style will fit well.

Italian style ceiling decoration

The ceiling, even in the interior of Italian cuisine in the apartment, should resemble a house in a village or villa. And this means that its surface is often decorated with wooden beams. If this is a country house and the height of the walls allows you to “steal” a bit of space, then the beams are made solid and massive. In the apartment, it can be an imitation of beams - narrow wooden planks. Between the beams in the recesses, spotlights are hidden. This adds lighting to the warmth, softness of Italian cuisine.

In the old days, the ceilings in Italian kitchens were vaulted of stone or with ceramic cladding

Nowadays, a plastered ceiling with wooden false beams would be a good alternative.

Tip. If you choose among the options for suspended ceilings, then remember that today they can simulate any surface. So you need to give preference to a picture in the form of wood, marble, mosaic pattern.

Italian cuisine interior with stretch ceiling

Italian style kitchen floor

Such a kitchen requires stone flooring! Or solid and practical materials that imitate this stone.Therefore, it is appropriate to lay large tiles of natural or artificial stone, mosaics.

The best flooring is matte stone or terracotta tiles.

Stained wood is also often used.

You can also zone the floor by combining different tile patterns. For example, a regular rectangle with geometric or floral patterns inside is traditionally laid out under the dining group. This is such an imitation of a "stone" carpet on the floor.

Interesting solutions

How does an Italian-style kitchen look so cozy, family-friendly, but respectable? Consider 5 popular design techniques:

1. As you already noticed, the interior in the Italian style requires maximum approximation to natural colors and textures. Therefore, the kitchen apron should also be tiled or mosaic, which repeat the pattern of granite, stone. According to the same principle, worktops are selected for the working area.
   

   Tiles with ornaments on a kitchen apron and marble marble top

2. Walls and even the ceiling are generously decorated with frescoes, mosaic drawings. This can be both an artistic painting of the surface, and its imitation. For example, murals depicting the faces of saints and mythological characters. You can also order the production of paintings on canvas, which will be duplicates of the famous works of Italian artists.
   

   To decorate the kitchen, you can use ceramic mosaic

3. Arched shapes in the interior of the kitchen. The atmosphere really resembles a vacation in a villa. And there very often use arched openings of doors and windows. All this adds chamberness and respectability to the interior.
   

   An interesting solution would be an arched niche above the stove, simulating an open hearth

4. Use decor more actively in the interior. An ideal option would be if these beautiful little things were brought from Italy itself. What could it be? Souvenir plates, painted amphoras, bottles of wine in wicker baskets, wrought iron candlesticks with the effect of aged metal.
   

   In Italian cuisine, kitchen utensils that are specially displayed

Using textures and color palettes that give a glow. For example, natural stone gives a beautiful shine. Italian-style furniture often lends itself to finishing gilding. Forging can be with a bronze coating. All this makes Italian cuisine look luxurious.

A real wood fireplace will add luxury and warmth

The interior of Italian cuisine combines simplicity with grace, gives a good mood and creates coziness

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