Wall decoration of cafes and restaurants: choose an option

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Restaurant decoration: columns as the main decoration

Public institutions, such as cafes and restaurants, need more than just practical and solid decoration. The interior and decoration of the cafe can make it homely.
For the restaurant you need an interesting, catchy design that makes the interior elegant and festive. About what materials can be used in their design, how to harmoniously combine them, and this article will be discussed.

Wood and stone

One of the most popular finishing materialsthat never go out of style is a tree. The choice of wood species with which the decoration of restaurants is carried out is quite large.
This ash and walnut, maple and oak, red and ebony, rosewood, bamboo.
So:

• Naturally, the price of good wood greatly increases the cost of finishing work. But this material, like no other, can help implement the most daring ideas, give the dining room a unique charm, and simply, thanks to the woody aroma, create a pleasant atmosphere.

Wood in Restaurant Design

• Wall decoration in a cafe or restaurant can be performed in a classic style, which involves the use of wooden wall panels. In the interior shown in the photo above, the tree was used in another quality.
• Columns of interesting shapes are made from this material, supporting a balcony, as well as its fence. In the suspended ceiling structure, the tree also participates in the form of wooden frames with frosted glazing.
  Finishing the ceilings in the cafe with wood is a fairly common phenomenon, since such a ceiling always looks rich and respectable.

Original ceiling design

• There are a great many varieties of wooden ceiling structures. It can be both ceiling mounted beams and coffered panels; slabs made of solid wood or MDF coated with veneer.
  Pay attention to the picture above: the plates, with spotlights mounted in them, suspended from the ceiling with a large gap, focus attention on themselves and are the main decoration of the interior.
• A special place in the design of restaurant premises is occupied by cellular panels. Walls with such a lining look like lace.
  Especially often this decoration is found in rooms decorated in the Arabic style. At the same time, curly pillars, parapets decorated with carvings, and, of course, low wooden furniture with inlay are necessarily present in the interior.

Arabic restaurant

• Cellular panels can not only serve as a decorative decoration for walls, but also perform the functions of zoning space. After all, restaurants often make separate rooms, allowing a group of people relaxing in a common company to be hidden from prying eyes.
  Moreover, the cellular structure of such partitions does not impede ventilation, which is very important.
• Perforated wood panels are perhaps the best option for decorating the ceiling. Such ceiling decoration cafes and restaurants, not only incredibly decorates the hall, but also allows you to mount split systems in the ceiling space, install fire and security sensors, hide wires and cables, ducts.
  All this will be hidden, but, if necessary, quick access to engineering equipment is provided.

Wooden honeycomb panels

• Of course, not every cafe owner has an unlimited budget, allowing you to use the services of a professional designer and use expensive wood in the decoration.We will show you how you can decorate the interior with your own hands, and not, at the same time, make big financial investments.
• If you want the tree to be definitely used in the decor of the room, let us turn to the fachwerk style for an example. Such wall alignment, as in the example below, can be done using a facade or deck board, planed slats, polyurethane beams.

Half-timbered cafe decoration

• The walls are first plastered, and, after building the screed, the board is mounted. Stitching material can be pre-painted.
  If not, then the rails are painted after installation and, after allowing them to dry, they are covered with masking tape. A polyurethane board can be immediately decorated with a laminate.
  Adhesive tape will protect the embroidery from contamination during further finishing work.
• Then comes the turn of painting the walls in between the board. We see that at the bottom of the walls these gaps are lined decorative stone.
  Such decoration is typical for the facades of residential buildings, but, as you can see, this type of design is also ideal for a small cafe.
• The ceiling decoration in the cafe, the interior of which is shown in this example, is done using drywall. This is a suspended ceiling in two levels, with a recess in the center of the room and good lighting.
  This design visually increases the height of the room, making it light and very cozy.

Decorative stone in the interior of a small cafe

• One of the inexpensive finishes for a small cafe is stone. By itself, this material cannot be called cheap, but it is used mainly in fragmentary fashion: they clad a bar counter or perform a decorative panel on the wall.
• To reduce the cost of decoration, you can buy just a few natural stones, liquid silicone, and a dry mix for the manufacture of artificial stone. You can make it right on the spot.
  There are articles on our website where detailed instructions are given on how to make both the shape and decorative stone.

Terracotta tiles in the walls of the restaurant

A solid stone wall cladding may be needed only if the interior is decorated in the Gothic style. There is a good alternative: decorative brick, or terracotta tiles - their surface often imitates the texture of the stone.

Wallpaper, fabrics and panels

In small cozy cafes, quite often you can see wallpaper on the walls. This finishing material is truly universal, and fits equally well in residential premises and in the interiors of public institutions.
You just need to choose the right option.

Vinyl wallpaper on the walls of the cafe

So:

• By and large, vinyl, silk, velor, felt wallpapers are ideal for cafes. Some of them can be washed, others are perfectly cleaned with a vacuum cleaner.
  Of course, wallpaper with a picture in a cafe is not glued over the entire area of ​​the walls, as in an apartment. Most often, they trim the upper part of the wall, and, for example, wooden panels are mounted on the lower perimeter.
• Using the example below, the walls of a small restaurant are decorated with plain felt wallpaper. Matching furniture, a semicircular design of a suspended ceiling, crystal chandeliers and original lighting - and a wonderful interior was obtained.
  So do not be afraid to experiment!

Felt wallpaper in the interior of the restaurant

• But in the following example, a fragment of one wall is draped with the same fabric as on the upholstery of chairs. Another part of this wall is decorated with a mirror over the entire height of the room.
  The antique chandelier hangs low above the table, on the walls of the painting. The situation, as close to home.

Cloth wall decoration

• Restaurants have their own status, and for a large pompous establishment, such a decoration, which we talk about in this chapter, will not work. The owners of such institutions have a budget, as a rule, not limited, and they entrust the design of interiors to designers.
  And their services, at times, cost no less than the finish itself.
• We are talking about options suitable for small cafes and restaurants. And here, for example, is a good idea to use a wallpaper with a 3D effect in the interior of a bar. The wallpaper depicts lush vegetation.
  Thanks to the backlight, it seems that it is a living wall, lit by the sun.

"Living wall" with 3D effect

• You can not ignore the panels, which are often used for wall decor in restaurants and cafes. These can be a variety of options.
  Since we mentioned 3D wallpapers, we’ll also talk about 3D panels.
• There are several options for volumetric panels that can be used to decorate the walls of the restaurant. These are gypsum, polymer and eco panels.
  The latter option is the most expensive, as it is made only from natural raw materials: bamboo, straw, cane. They are mainly used in the decoration of residential premises.

Gypsum 3D panels

• Gypsum panels are also, in principle, natural material, but in a restaurant, this is not so important. This is not a residential building; polymers can also be used here.
  Most often, the panels themselves are made of a thin aluminum sheet, on top of which polymer spraying is done. This allows you to make their surface not only voluminous, but also colored.
• There are wood-polymer Wall panels, with a smooth surface and any pattern applied to them. Our next example shows just such a restaurant design option.
  Fragments with a bright pattern, in order to avoid excessive variegation, are combined with classic wooden panels. So not only the walls are lined, but also the bar.

Wood-polymer panels in the design of the restaurant

So, we examined several options for decorating walls and ceilings in restaurants and cafes. Perhaps you are going to open your own institution, read articles, watch videos and photos in search of the right option.
Pay attention to the materials that we mentioned in the course of our article. With their help, you can get a unique interior that does not require large investments, and we wish you good luck in this difficult choice.