Initially, the word "beige" meant the color of unbleached wool or natural unpainted cloth.
This color has long become a classic, it does not go out of fashion, is always in demand to one degree or another and is widely used by designers, cosmetologists, fashion designers.
Sphere of influence
Despite the fact that there are more than a hundred shades of beige, its symbolism is quite stable.
The beige color in its effect is similar to a tamer, because it:
- eliminates aggressiveness;
- pacifies;
- relaxes;
- gives peace and a sense of security.
Psychological subtleties
Those who prefer beige color to everyone else belong to spiritual and practical natures. They usually maintain neutrality in any, even the most acute, life situations. Diplomacy and tact are distinguished by natures who tend to choose a beige range in clothes or in the interior.
Since beige is considered natural, as it is often found in the environment (it can be the color of stone, sandstone, twigs, flowers and leaves), it has the unique ability to evoke different feelings at the same time - admiration and pacification.
Beige-tone clothing lends sophistication and elegance to any fashionista.
The photo shows how the beige color in the girl’s clothes on the streets looks naturally.
The perfect combination of pastel colors in the model’s clothes in the photo creates an unusually feminine and romantic look.
Color tricks in the interior
Beige is often used in interiors as a background or basic, so it is suitable for both lovers of experiments and calm people.
Color will ideally tolerate any variation of ideas, even to the embodiment of the most daring ideas.
Cold shades will give the room sophistication and sophistication, while warmer and more saturated tones can be used in the bedroom or the nursery.
The beige color in the child’s room looks cozy: it awakens imagination and acts soothingly and touchingly.
They go hand in hand: the art of interior and natural tone, because all shades of beige emphasize more saturated tones. At the same time, contrasting colors, such as blue or scarlet, look advantageous against a neutral, balanced background.
In the house or apartment: design tricks
Interior masters have long and confidently used beige as a subtext formula to create vivid accents, expressions of style, personality and original ideas. After all, it is beige that makes the other colors “declare” themselves more thoroughly.
And it doesn’t matter that in itself it is quite static and, in someone’s opinion, boring; performing the function of the background, adopting a variety of shades, it simultaneously focuses on the main ideas of the interior. Therefore, it is always an interesting tool in design art.
How the beige color on the walls looks and what functions it performs depends on its tone and the background that it creates.
- Dark shades will provide the illusion of paper decorations or earthy ancient cave walls.
- Lighter colors will bring a sense of freshness and elegance to the interior of the room.
Beige color is often used as a background for black wrought iron details of a staircase, an old bureau and a vintage screen. He perfectly copes with his decorative function, shading and emphasizing the uniqueness of exclusive things at home: vases, rattan chairs, handmade striped carpet, a bouquet of lavender.
Pros for the owner
Particularly advantageous beige color works in rooms decorated in the style of flowing space.
Such interiors use the design and beige color of coolish shades, which even more create a visual sense of space and movement.
Glance freely glides around the turn, there is no hint of eclecticism, everything looks harmonious and natural. Various surfaces and textures of furniture come into play, which place semantic accents in the interior. But the tone and movement sets beige.
Features cold shade
The influence of the background color and its role in the interior is enormous. Cold tones will have the following effects on the perception of the interior:
- Color that will help give the room a status and luxury motifs. The addition of white and blue tones will give the speakers a slightly static interior.
- With the peculiarity of causing peace and a sense of balance, it is shown in the interior to those people who need relaxation after a busy day.
- Olive tones of beige have proven their worth in bedrooms, lounges.
Warm tones of beige visually reduce the room, cool tones slightly expand the space.
Combinations and contrasts
Modern designers are increasingly looking for harmony and combination than the contrast and contradiction between beige and other colors.
Even a new formula has been invented that combines shades of gray with beige in a single whole, it is gray-beige. It turns out a tone that gives a feeling of joy and peace at the same time, removing the excessive monotony of warm beige and the coldness of gray. Beige color combined with pearl gray is suitable for decorating the bathroom.
At the same time, contrasting combinations of beige with other colors find wide scope for application in the interior of rooms. Especially such bright finds are useful in the design of large rooms.
- The color of the grass harmoniously contrasts with the beige shade of rust in the living room or front hall of the house.
- Olive, blue, white scales blend perfectly with the base beige, adding a touch of sophistication to the interior.
- Turquoise, dark brown and all blue tones fit the beige background chord, fit into any interior style.
- If a bedroom decorated in white-blue-gray tones suddenly seems too boring, change the color to beige-gray and it will delight and soothe you for a long time.
- The excess pressure of orange, red and similar “cheerful” tones is also better to change to a neutral gray-beige shadow.
What does beige color look like? Photos of the modern interior in such colors can be seen in this article.
What will support the beauty of natural color in the interior
A feature of the decoration of the room is the obligatory use of natural materials:
- stone products;
- wooden crafts;
- ceramics.
Furniture in the room should be of high quality and soundly made. And the above natural materials should be present both in decoration and in headsets.
Attention to detail:
- A bit rude, textured furniture.
- The textiles are thick, coarse knitted, handmade or in folklore style, interspersed with bright color spots.
- Antique products in the form of chandeliers, table lamps, floor vases.
- Decorations from massive mirrors on the walls do not seem elaborate in such an interior.
- Zoning the premises is better done using furniture, rather than covering the floor, which should be neutral.
- Paintings with landscapes or photographs in wooden frames will decorate the walls.
All this will create a unique cozy and functional interior.
What the beige color looks like on the walls
When choosing wallpaper in beige tones, you need to pay attention to the following features of the effect of natural tones on the room:
- Wallpaper with ornament, convex pattern is better to choose for rooms with windows to the north;
- smooth or even glossy wallpapers are suitable for windows facing south;
- beige wallpapers should be several tones higher than furniture beige or, conversely, darker than the selected light furniture in pink-beige, golden-natural tones;
- it is better to finish the floors with wood-like materials or use natural stone to match the wallpaper.
In any case, if your furniture is in beige shades, then the walls should not suppress it with bright colors, it is better if they are made in a calm range.
Appearance and natural shades
Every fashionista in the wardrobe should have basic things, sort of magic wand for all occasions.
One of the popular color options for the basic set is beige in clothes. It goes to almost everyone, especially with successful contrasting combinations or textured finishes to match.
If there is no basic clothes of the desired color, you can easily dye a white blouse at home, a sweater or a T-shirt - make it beige with coffee.
Staining technology:
- Make strong coffee at the rate of 100 grams of ground powder in 2 liters of water.
- Cool the broth of coffee and strain in a container for staining through 3-4 layers of gauze.
- Heat the resulting solution to 80 ° C.
- Pre-wet the blouse, squeeze and place for staining in a hot coffee solution, which must be brought to a boil.
- Boil for 15 minutes, constantly turning the contents so that the fabric of the product is evenly dyed.
- Turn off, allow to cool to a warm state.
- Remove the item from the container for painting, rinse in cold or slightly warm water.
- Dry straightened on a suitable (non-rigid) coat hanger.
Put on beige regardless of the season
It would seem that this color is artless and too simple to be used by fashion designers.
However, beige in all its combinations will certainly be present on large catwalks and onions, regardless of the season.
Sometimes it is pushed out of the catwalks by the bright colors of the preferences of a whimsical fashion, but after a short period of time it returns updated and improved in order to triumph along the planet.
What is the secret of the unflagging interest of fashion designers in the use of beige in clothes:
- Warm brown-gray color, like all other neutral tones, is pleasing to the eye, accessible in use and touches to the depths of the soul.
- Its popularity is explained by the fact that it goes well with the best fashionable shades of each season, be it red, blue, turquoise, gold.
- Colors suitable for beige can be very different if they dilute the natural background mix in the right quantities.
- Well-known fashion brands, such as Chloe, use all combinations of color outside of time and fashion.
- It is plastic and modern, it can always be shown at a new level. Darker or lighter, surrounded by furs or lace, will come to the rescue of the new season, adding texture and solidity.
It can always be seen in the collections of many now famous fashion houses and brands.
How the beige color looks on the catwalks can be seen in the photo presented in the article. Magical charm and temptation are demonstrated in a number of presented models of the autumn season.
What does beige hair color look like?
You can not ignore the muted and natural shades of hair dyed in beige. How to get the right shade that suits only you? After all, sometimes you can’t pick up a beige color in a store, paint of the right tone is not available. Use the suggested color mixing options.
- If you have naturally dark hair and you want to have a light beige color, first you need to lighten the strands. The intensity of lightening should depend on the natural darkness of the hair. You can use the lightest of beige, so curls and lighten, and you get a tone a little darker than on the package, but the one you need. This method is suitable for previously unpainted hair.
- To get a cooler beige, you can add ashy shade to the brown paint. It will perfectly shade and brighten brown, give the desired coldness to the tone. In this case, add about 10-25% of the ash paint in relation to brown. It will turn out light beige. If measured in parts, then one part of the ash and three parts of the brown tone give a light golden beige color.
First mix the paints (it is advisable to use paints of the same cosmetic company), then apply to the hair. Leave on the hair according to the instructions. If the mixture has colors with a high content of peroxide, keep a little less on the hair than it should in the main gamut. On the hair, it looks like a beige color, the photo below perfectly demonstrates.
How to get a beige tone for painting or painting walls, floors, ceilings
You can use the services for mixing colors in specialized stores. If it’s not possible to visit such a store, put into practice the following tips to create a beige color by mixing colors.
The classic and most understandable method:
- mix green paint with red;
- add a little white to the resulting mixture, creating the desired tone.
The option of three colors, use yellow, blue, red:
- Mix three colors, first combine yellow and blue, then the resulting mixture with red in equal proportions.
- Dilute with white to brighten the tone. To get flesh beige, add some more red paint.
Complex combinations for finer beige shades:
- An intermediate operation is to mix blue with orange, then the resulting gray with orange in the desired proportions, lighten with a drop of green. Get a gentle olive-beige tone.
- Mix yellow and purple, instead of purple, you can take purple in the same proportions; either yellow and orange with purple - this option is difficult to control by the proportions of the resulting tone and color nuances.
- Mix green and purple, add orange paint, as a result, you will also get dark beige, which is lightened with small portions of white.
Without borders, timeless
The beige color was once at the peak of fashion and popularity. But time passes, and color surveys do not stand still.
Beige does not lose ground, all its new shades, midtones and subtle variations of use appear.
For all its unique naturalness, this color retains interest in itself. He is out of time and fashion.