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How to use kitsch in the interior

The birth of the kitsch style is associated with the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. Bad taste, trash and cheap – these concepts in no way reflect the entire content of kitsch. Called “pseudo-art”, kitsch exists and develops in many directions and industries, from interior design to architecture.

Painting with a large apple on the orange wall of the living room

Only brave and creative people, rebels by nature, can allow kitsch in the interior.

A bit of history

The concept came from Germany, this is how German designers defined something visually insipid. In the 1950s, he experienced a rebirth. J. Baudrillard – philosophical ideologist of kitsch, the progenitor of a whole movement of artists for the preference of the concept over the appearance.

Blue shades of lamps in the living room with a beige sofa

Kitsch was originally an example of bad taste.

Multi-colored chairs in the kitchen in kitsch style

Later, kitsch was formed as a style that denies the classical canons.

For almost 100 years, the word “kitsch” was pronounced in a half-whisper and was considered almost abusive. E. Warhol and K. Oldenburg used kitsch as a style device. The principle of lack of principles by F. Johnson is the motto of postmodernism, and at the same time kitsch as one of its parts. Only with the advent of the XXI century, kitsch began to be perceived as a full-fledged style in the interior. Symbolizes joining the culture of the upper class.

Kitsch interior design directions

The main principle is disharmony. The lack of color and style combinations is typical of kitsch. Disorder is better for him than orderly appeasement..

Open shelves with books on the living room wall in kitsch style

Kitsch is easily recognized by the mixture of objects that should not be next to the logic of other styles.

Home office design in red

Bright aggressive red walls are a very bold solution for the interior of a study

Features of the kitsch style

  1. Dissonance of shapes and colors, a visible lack of obvious harmony, loudness, pretentiousness.
  2. A mix of conflicting materials and elements, such as plastic and velvet.
  3. An excess of romantic, childish, cute, decorative attributes like ruffles, bows, flowers, including artificial.
  4. Mandatory gilding wherever possible, fakes and imitations.
  5. Flashy colors and their unexpected contrasting combinations, such as purple and lemon, raspberry and neon, etc..

Modular wall of multi-colored cubes in the living room

In the interior of kitsch, it is customary to combine pastel shades with bright, acidic tones.

Two chandeliers of different styles on the ceiling of the living room in kitsch style

One room can contain classic and avant-garde furniture

Kitsch styles

There are three types of style in modern design:

  1. Lumpen kitsch, which was born out of want and poverty, from the desire to equip life with any taste, despite the lack of material resources.

    Red sofa and portraits in the living room of kitsch lumpen style

    Lumpen kitsch in the interior of a small living room

  2. Pseudo-luxurious style – characterized by a lack of taste and the presence of cash investments. Characterized by the fragmentation of cultural layers and the counterfeiting of genuine objects in the name of surrounding oneself with everything that pleases, in a haphazard and disorderly manner. The desire to show one’s own characteristics and emphasize non-standard thinking is expressed in what can be scientifically designated as “kitsch”.

    Tiger rug on living room wall in kitsch style

    Pseudo-luxurious kitsch in the living room

  3. Designer – characterized by deliberate bad taste, which actually hides a carefully thought-out image. The master designer keeps the interior riot under control, preventing it from breaking through and filling the space.

    Pink curtains in the living room kitsch style

    Only designer kitsch, created on purpose, can be considered a true interior style.

Distinctive features of “kitsch” in different interiors

Kitsch in the interior is a triumph of tastelessness. Flashiness, loudness, mannerism, vulgarity – none of these definitions will reflect deeply and capaciously the content of the concept. This is not a demonstration of bad taste, but rather a parody, a claim to originality, a challenge to the familiar, a provocation of public opinion.

A variegated wall with a painting in a living room of a controversial style

Everything in the room should be excessive – colors, decorations and furniture

Assorted pillows on the sofa with a variegated bedspread

Excessive throw pillows, stuffed toys, or artificial flowers are common

This style has no rules, no consistency, no common features. He expresses freedom and triumphs from its splendor. Pseudohistoricism provides a worthy alternative and competes with modern reality. This is a caricature of the style, a kind of parody, shocking and confusing the usual attitude to life..

Kitsch in the living room of a modern apartment is the most common. It is the living rooms and studio spaces that are most suitable. Combining many functions, rooms turn into accumulations of a wide variety of things and objects.

Paintings on white walls with images of different animals

Many consider this style to be a parody of luxury and wealthy life.

Kitsch style bedroom design

Here we see a parody of the romantic interior of the bedroom – instead of carved elements, the bed is decorated with plastic decorations

Kitsch-style interior decoration can touch the kitchen, nursery or bedroom, but rarely. At home, any room will turn into kitsch if you try hard.

Interior of a youth bedroom in kitsch style

In a teenager’s room, a rebellious spirit can manifest itself in the form of graffiti on the walls.

Kitsch bedroom interior with yellow walls

A bedroom with “flashy” colors of the walls and ceiling in the style of kitsch for people who just need to break every imaginable rule

The main signs that you have a kitsch-style interior in front of you:

  • house fountain;
  • columns and balusters in an apartment with low ceilings, stucco and busts;
  • all kinds of imitations “under”:

    – under a tree (plastic),

    – marbled (linoleum),

    – under crystal (glass),

    – under the skin (dermantin),

    – under gold (gilding),

    – “semi-antique”, etc .;

  • reproductions of famous paintings, next to them are posters, posters, vinyl records;
  • carpets.

The symbolic archetype of the kitsch style in the interior can be considered a pink pillow, decorated with hand embroidery, lying on a green plastic armchair, which stands under a Renaissance painting hanging on a wall of rough logs.

Kitsch-style room color scheme

Lilac, pink, deep yellow – the living room has a typical kitsch color palette

Decorating a room in kitsch style

This room is overwhelmed with accessories creating the necessary chaos.

The style is not “carried away” by creative searches and finds, its destiny is ready-made samples, recognizable and popular, banal and widespread. The mechanism of aesthetic influence is in the analogy that the unconscious draws between what the rich have (according to their ideas and experience) and what they have at home.

Modern kitsch living room with posters on the ceiling

All the colors of the rainbow are mixed here, and posters with bright drawings are used for the ceiling decoration.

How to “bring” into the home interior

It is not easy and not difficult to create kitsch at home – desire and funds will help you with this. It is worth taking a close look at furniture and walls, decoration and accessories: which of them is combined and in harmony with each other, and which openly contradicts? Enhancing contrasts by moving them closer or placing them side by side, or making bright accents on a dull monochrome background, is not enough. New, original ideas are needed – gizmos found at flea markets and antique stores.

Incomprehensible drawings on the wall and ceiling of the living room

A kitsch-style interior can be “sculpted” from almost any material

Bright cushions in flashy colors on a dark brown sofa

The choice of materials and decoration is limited only by the designer’s imagination

Combining the incongruous is the surest way to achieve interior decoration in this style..

Soft armchair of non-standard colors

In the living room, you can put an armchair of unthinkable colors

Classic sofa with pink upholstery

Or a large pink sofa on plastic legs – a parody of rich leather furniture with forged elements

Design methods:

  • paint the walls with spray paint from cans, using different colors;
  • cover part of the floor with oriental-style ceramic tiles;
  • put a carpet on the floor, consisting of several pieces of different colors;
  • put large pots of palm perennials against the walls;
  • make stucco inserts or imitation of columns on the walls;
  • hang plastic curtains and put screens;
  • make partitions from lightweight decorative materials inside one room, etc..

In general, the kitsch style in the interior is more suitable for young people. The older generation will instantly create a dump of things and a heap of old things at home, and the young will make sure that everything old is thrown away and replaced with a new one in a timely manner. The negative side also has a right to exist. Everyone has their own idea of ​​the beauty of everyday life. The pleasure of refuting the usual authorities sometimes prevails even over the inconvenience of everyday life..

Yellow pillows on a light gray sofa

True kitsch is deliberate disharmony, ridicule and irony.

Purple cover on the armchair near the fireplace

Kitsch can be liked or rejected, but in any case, this style is impressive.

This style is an integral part of modern culture. It is considered a combination of classics, country and futurism. The leading trend of the crisis era has every chance of becoming a full-fledged hyper-style of art. A kind of neo-version of mannerism, kitsch operates with familiar things, taken out of their context and placed in the absolutely opposite. This is the first sign that the culture of the surrounding world is increasingly turning into a culture of consumption..

Video: Kitsch as a philosophy of home improvement without rules

Photo: 50 kitsch-style interiors

Kitsch-style interior decor using soft toys Mosaic panel with a painted image of people's faces Custom Kitsch Graffiti Curtains Ceramic floor in black and white check Dining table in a room with yellow walls Kitchen-living room in kitsch style Armchair upholstered in multicolored scraps of fabric Living room design with graffiti on the wall Paintings of cartoon characters on the shelf under the ceiling Black ceiling in the living room with large windows Living room interior in the style of designer kitsch Living room interior with two variegated sofas Photo wallpaper on the black wall of the living room Design of a living room with a staircase to the second floor of a private house Furniture items of different styles in the interior of one room Painting the ceiling of the kitchen-living room with acrylic paints Living room design with two armchairs Kitsch dining area design Striped wallpaper in the hallway with a pink door Yellow pillows on white sofa Plastic chandeliers with candle lamps Children's room in kitsch style Plastic armchair with spotted upholstery Inverted letter on fireplace portal Wooden ceiling in a dark living room Wooden floor from boards in a white living room Yellow furniture in the living room with white walls Pink sofa and yellow chair Wooden shelves with books in the home library Decorating the bathroom wall with colorful mosaic Decorative plates with people's faces Ceramic sub-floor Living room design with cartoon furniture Blue wall with a mirrored surface Corner sofa in a room with gray walls Two soft armchairs with red covers Kitsch bathroom design Kitsch style red wall decor Fire extinguisher as interior decoration Fancy armchair in a bright living room Children's room with a bed on the second tier Bright armchair on a white carpet Graffiti on the wall of a teen girl's bedroom Kitsch school student room design Blue horse in the painting in the living room Turquoise furniture in a white living room Living room design in red Large arched sofa Gilded chandelier on the ceiling with photo wallpaper Dining area with plastic furniture

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