How to design the furniture of a modern, sophisticated and elegant home with totally white environments
If your dream is to furnish a completely white house, there are many advantages to this type of furniture, but there are also some things you need to know to avoid mistakes and disappointment.
White is an excellent ally to make the environment bright and elegant. At the same time, it is a color that makes the space appear larger and more orderly.
Total white furniture is able to easily adapt to several styles, even if they are completely different from each other, such as classic, country, modern, minimal, articulated and shabby chic.
Let's see together what are the advantages and disadvantages of furnishing your home with total white furniture.
Advantages and disadvantages of the total white house
Having a modern total white décor can be the classy touch to make your home sophisticated, but getting into DIY will reveal that this path is more complicated than it seems.
While on the one hand, white furniture can create refined environments to suit the most contemporary tastes, conveying a sense of cleanliness, order and harmony, on the other hand, it can be extremely flat and boring, or too cold.
These risks, which unite all shades of color, become particularly evident in all-white homes:
Being able to play with the different shades of white is not at all easy.
Total white furniture: which white is best for my home ?
Let's start by clarifying that "white" is a meaningless expression.
Sometimes it is taken for granted that the choice of white refers to a single color, but in reality, there are many shades that differentiate it.
Not all types of white are suitable for every home and especially not all types of white blend well: it takes a lot of experience and expertise to know the rules that can make total white environments elegant and harmonious.
Two examples of white shades?
Try to think about how chalk white and "dirty" white are different. Chalk white is perfect for beach houses, for a modern home or as a cool tone in combination with other warmer colors.
Chalk white is a lived-in style white with a warm tone, it is used to highlight accessories on the walls and gives a vintage effect to the environment.
As you can see, these are two completely different colors!
And the shades of white to be known don't stop there, here are more examples:
- White Ivory
- Antique White
- White Zinc
- White Ghost
- Flower white
- White smoke
- White Navajo
- Cosmic Latte
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Now you know why choosing the right white for your home is not a piece of cake!