Moroccan Style in Your Interior
If you want to create cosines and make an exotic touch to the interior of your home, try to use the Moroccan style, and you will not be disappointed!
Moroccan style involves wide variety of design: from naive to sophisticated. This style looks equally good both in luxurious mansion and simple housing. The main features to create interior in this style are bold improvisation and the use of the materials for example wood, fabric, thread chasing.
Typical Moroccan style colors usually are combination of warm tones of ocher, terra cotta, sand, white in contrast with cobalt blue, ultramarine and emerald green. You can add the red and purple, too. In the lower part of the wall Moroccans often use small tile “ZELLIJE” (“ZELIDZH”). This multi-colored tile has a size of not more than 3×3 cm, and is laid out in geometric mosaic with the most unusual and complex designs.
Moroccans pay great attention on ceiling. The ceiling can be designed in several ways, depending on the building destination. Moroccans lay eucalyptus, oleander twigs or sticks across the beams. Then the tree is covered with lime to create a feeling of space and to protect the wood from fungi and parasites.
Buildings with high ceilings can look good having ceiling carved out of cedar, painted by hand. Interior with the ceiling or frieze on the wall makes an unforgettable impression.
Ceiling can be sheathed with a tree and decorated with different ornaments.
In Moroccan interior shelves and cabinets are replaced by numerous recess. And the arches decorated with ornaments or thread give endless imagination to designers. For the Moroccan interior carved furniture and hand-painted furnishings are characteristic, as well as carved chests and mirror frames inlaid with wood, bone or camel cupronickel. Lanterns of coinage with colored glass, lamps made from camel skin on a metal frame. Their shades are of forged basis of the most diverse shapes: round, pyramidal, arched, made in the form of figures of birds and heads of animals.
The primary unique feature lies in the material that covers the metal. Traditionally, it is camel leather steeped in a solution of mimosas, on which ethnic designs are marked with henna extract and pomegranate. Carpets are made in a variety of techniques, weaving, ceramics, leather footstools, and more. One of the main components of Moroccan style is textiles. Cushions and carpets, embroidered with the abundance of fabrics, create an atmosphere of peace and harmony. And if the architecture allows you can add to the interior quietly murmuring decorative fountain and window shutters of dark carved wood.
