It is not necessary to buy an aquarium with fish and other beings to update the house with an original trend. A drawing repeating the fish scales is in the interior trend. The more exotic fish pattern, the more spectacular the composition looks. Let’s find out where it is appropriate and how to properly use scales.
Catch, fish, big and small
Fish scales have become one of the extraordinary design decisions, borrowed from the fauna of the planet. This drawing looks fresh and unusual, harmoniously fits into any style, acts as an original and unobtrusive detail, and visually gives a volume to the walls. The pattern is conveyed in wallpaper, textiles, metal forged products, on the facades of furniture, and more often in ceramic tiles.
How to use and combine this drawing? – In any form and in any premises.
- In the kitchen. Designers do not advice to reinvent the wheel, but use a “scaly” tile in the area of the worktable, laying an apron on the wall.
- In the bathroom. It looks nice to tile the walls with a slab of this form paired with a traditional square tile on the floor. With the help of this type of tile, you can make a curb for the bath. It turns out a harmonious composition.
- Designers found an interesting application of fish scales in the living room. It is used as a decorative element, laying out a multicolored tiles mosaic on the wall. Moreover, you can lay out a three-dimensional drawing on the wall with a tile. For example, as stones imitation on the walls.

- A good alternative to the tile is a structural paint. A little imagination, experience, and you can create beautiful scales on the surface of the wall. If you apply the brilliant decorative material TOP Lasur by TRIORA for additional coating, you get a real imitation of a goldfish.
- If you want to use materials warmer in texture in the living quarters, select wallpaper with a scales pattern. This is simple and low-cost option for decorating one of the central walls of the room.
Designers recommend
For those ones who are striving to make the new trend in the interior even more interesting, we have prepared several tips from designers.
- Tile of different shades, flowing color. The transition of the colors of the tile from the bottom up, from the dark to the light, creates the illusion of a three-dimensional picture and a beautiful coating. You can go another way – take a tile of different colors and spread it with stripes, alternating color after color.
- Contrasting grout between tiles. Dark – for the light tile and vice versa. It looks exquisite, emphasizes the color of the tile and gives the interior an individuality.
- Metal and ceramics. Incredibly spectacularly looks a combination of matte single-color tiles and tiles, made of metal. The wall looks rich and noble.
- Tile and paint. The original option for creating a curb on the wall. For example, the lower part of the wall is covered with tiles, and the upper part is painted with a contrasting paint. The décor, where the edge of the slab is laid out unevenly, with waves looks original.
The pattern of outlandish fish is good because it looks completely unobtrusive, combining the geometry, volume, practicality of materials. Thanks to this scaly pattern the interior remain relevant and act as the highlight of your home for a long time.



