Increasingly, standing before choosing a material for the processing of walls, people pay attention to their environmental friendliness. This requirement is 100% in accordance with natural finishing materials. Here we will look at the types of these materials, where and how to use them.

What are attractive natural materials

Regardless of fashion trends, natural materials are always relevant. Nothing amazing, because they have a number of advantages:

• in the first place - security;
• on the second - durability;
• they are distinguished by beauty. Create a special comfort;
• for some, the fundamental criterion is prestige, because Natural materials are not suiced and if a person can afford them, it means that he is successful;
• manufacturers constantly improve processing technology, which makes it possible to improve the properties of natural materials, makes it possible to use them in any, modern, interior.

Types of natural finishing materials

Natural finishing materials include:

• stone;
• wood;
• leather;
• fabrics.

Stone

It makes a tile from it, which is sprayed with baths, fireplaces in the living rooms, kitchens. It is appropriate in any interior both in the ancient and in modern Hi-tech. Most often used granite. The benefits include:

• strength, because It is frosty, not amenable to mechanical and chemical damage;
• beauty, individuality of the drawing. It looks good on the wall in the form of a panel, on columns. Almost eternal and always modern countertops made of gray or brown granite and window sills.

Popular and marble with its rich color scheme:

• the color saturation of this natural stone, as well as its wear resistance, is preserved up to 100 years;
• with mechanical damage there is a restore method.

Used in the interior and such a stone like travertine:

• by its structure, the limestone and marble resembles at the same time;
• lasting;
• comes from Germany, Italy, Kamchatka;
• since it looks like a tree, it is widely used in the interior of houses and apartments.

Use as a finishing material for natural slate walls is also a successful solution:

• he brings us to nature. Especially if the remains of algae or fish are imprinted on it, which have long been not;
• it is durable, not very expensive material.

Highly easty and just fabulously beautifully looks in the interior of the house of the sea pebbles, having all the advantages of natural stone. Apply it:

• for wall decoration;
• making up door and arched openings;
• for the device tracks and decorative jewelry in the yard;
• the main advantage is that it gets free. Not for everyone, of course, but only for living in seaside cities and villages.

Important: Using natural stone for wall decoration, do not fond. This material will fit well in the interior, if with it, you will highlight individual places, and you will not be lined with all the walls in the room. From this it will become a cold, similar to the cave, the feeling of comfort will disappear.

Wood

Country-style room decorated with this material has a respectable look. As a finishing material for walls, veneer is used:

• hardened by frost and wind oak;
• apple trees;
• soft and at the same time durable pine;
• nut;
• cherries;
• beech;
• exotic breeds.

There are many wall finishing options by wood:

• the most democratic - lining. It is characterized by durability, simply mounted, decorative, has good soundproof properties, is amenable to upgrade by painting or toning. The temperature differences, moisture, adversely affect it. Requires care, otherwise mushrooms or insects may start;
• higher quality from Euro woman. Distinguished by longitudinal recesses that improve the ventilation, removing internal stresses. The grooves for the conjunction of the Eurovantia are deep, which eliminates the appearance of the gaps. It costs it more expensive than ordinary lining;
• with the help of such a finishing material, as a block key simulates log or brusched walls. It provides heat and sound insulation, does not breed. It has good fire protection properties, it almost does not start fungus and insects will not be seized due to the fact that it is impregnated with antiseptics and antipirens;
• interesting compositions in the interior are created by applying another finishing material from a tree - Guswarbok. Even without having special experience, you can create a unique picture yourself using combinations of different profiles;

• valuable wood species are used to make veneer. Thick from 0.1 to 0.6 mm, glued to a dense paper base and rolled into a roll, it is a wooden wallpaper. The advantages of this option is that this natural material can be finished with uneven surfaces, which will not make clapboard, block key and hewschale. But choosing this view among many natural finishing materials for the walls, it should be borne in mind that under the right sunlight it can change the color, and under the influence of moisture swelling. Fungi and all sorts of microorganisms also constitute a threat to wood wallpapers. Protects from these troubles wax, oil or varnish applied to the surface;
• In the cabinets, and sometimes living rooms perform panels from a valuable tree. This type of finishing material for the walls, made of the cedar array, oak, alder, maple, belongs to the most expensive and symbolizes the corresponding level of income of the host of the house. Manufacturers have found a way to slightly reduce the cost, replacing a solid board with three-layer panels, i.e. From above veneer from expensive breed, and then pine or spruce.

Vegetable wallpaper

Among natural finishing materials, vegetable wallpapers are distinguished, allowing to create unusual interiors in the style of minimalism. To create them use:

• bamboo;
• cane;
• sisal;
• beresto;
• coconut;
• jute and others.

Designers went further and created original wallpapers from paper-based leaves.

In a room with natural wallpaper, a person feels very comfortable, but there are also cons:

• since natural material quickly absorbs odors, they are not recommended to be applied in the kitchen;
• cats and dogs will not remain indifferent to them, so if they live at your home, then the wallpaper should be unacceptable for them;
• because of the small width of the wallpaper, many joints are formed and they are very noticeable. Masking them with wooden planks, jute.

Leather

Use of skin as a finishing material for walls gives the interior feeling of wealth and luxury. Manufacturers offer a large collection of genuine leather wall panels:

• smooth skin;
• under ancient;
• silver sacred skin, gold;
• fashionable is the skin of the Varan, Crocodile, Python;
• this finish is appropriate with the prevailing colonial or ethnic style in the dwelling.

Advantages of finishing material:

• diverse texture;
• easy care;
• does not respond to change in temperature and humidity;
• good noise absorption;
• you can apply in any room.

Natural fabrics

Natural fabrics that give the interior of chic and refinement are used as finishing materials for the walls:

• cotton - soft and warm;
• silk - elastic, durable, breathable;
• len - smooth, brilliant, pleasant to the touch.

Glass and metal

In Europe, it became fashionable to use such natural finishing materials for walls, like glass and metal. The glass of high strength is used as:

• large-sized panels;
• little tiles.

They are:

• painted in different colors;
• completely transparent;
• silver;
• with the drawdra, sometimes even copyright;
• with oxidation or engraving.

Fans of minimalism in the interior and style of Hi-tech use profiled sheets of aluminum:

• natural;
• imitated under bronze, copper, silver, gold.

Manufacturers of natural finishing materials and reliable brands

Buy finishing materials on the construction market will not be difficult, but in order for them to serve a long time and looked like new, you need to choose authoritative manufacturers. High-quality decorative cork panels produce Granorte in Portugal. The Decodalle collection contains panels:

• with shades are different both natural and created artificially;
• coating - wax, which allows the use of soft-quality detergents to care;
• well absorbing sound;
• hypoallergenic;
• light in installation.

Natural finishing materials of the class premium supply trade stamps:

• Art Stone - Ukraine. Delivers flexible slate. It is a slice of a shale stone on a flexible basis;
• Gliga Stone - Belorussia. Products are natural sandstone, distinguished by frost resistance, strength, excellent combination with any other materials;
• Botament - Germany. Looks a large assortment of building finishing materials, including glue, which glue sandstone.

High-quality natural travertine from the American company GEORGIA PACIFIC can be purchased at the company Arch-Decor (Russia):

In this video, it is demonstrated how naturally combined with a stone and bamboo are beautifully combined: