Secrets of decorating a living room in light colors

Creating a harmonious living room interior is a special topic, the knowledge of which will allow you to equip the space correctly. This room looks most advantageous in light shades of the color palette. To understand what are the secrets of decorating a living room in light colors, it is worth finding out the features of the impact of these shades on a person, their relevance in a particular style, fashionable combinations with each other.

The living room is a special room in any home. It is she who unites households, is the central area for family gatherings, receiving guests, and special occasions. This is a common area, accentuating the space with light colors is an appropriate design technique that suits everyone.

The influence of shades on a person's mood and well-being is a scientifically proven fact: depending on the temperature of the tone chosen as the basis, you can fill the space with freshness, warmth, and make the atmosphere of the hall homelike.

Light shades of the setting can visually increase the area of ​​the room. This applies to the height of the ceiling, the width of the walls. These colors are able to rid the living room space of clear boundaries, even if they are complemented by rich contrasts.

A distinctive feature of these tones is the visual ability to give the room the correct perspective. It's no secret that often the layout of the living room leaves much to be desired: protrusions, curvature of walls, partitions, narrow doorways, small windows complicate the decoration of the room, they are a barrier to creating an ideal environment.

Using the right paints in a light tone allows you to visually align the walls, align the protrusions with the main plane, make windows and doorways larger. Using the right tones, you can make the room voluminous, while free and not cluttered.

Living room decoration with light shades has a lot of advantages:

• this technique allows you to visually beat the lack of space, which is especially important in small-sized rooms;

• able to convey the desired atmosphere of style through the texture or print of walls, furniture, lighting, additional furnishing accessories;

• it has an excellent aesthetic perception, looks luxurious, premium and hints at the good taste of the owners of the house;

• allows you to fill the room with light, which is especially important if the living room windows are located on the north side;

• disposes households and guests to relaxation, adjusts to rest, confidential conversation, friendly atmosphere, neutralizing stressful situations that have developed during the working day;

• allows you to beat the disadvantages of the perspective of the room, passing them off as advantages (by accentuating them with contrasting facing materials);

• does not bother for a long time, does not irritate the eyes, while unobtrusively zoning the hall space into separate functional areas (guest, fireplace, dining areas).

Light colors used to create the interior allow you to create different mixing of the texture of finishing materials.They are not limited in the choice of bright contrasts, provide a wide range of shades that emphasize strokes, each time changing the visual perception along with the replacement of the shade of small furnishings, for example, furniture covers, capes, cushions, carpets, wall lamps decor, picture patterns.

With a lot of advantages, the hall, decorated in light colors, has several disadvantages:

• light colors of the color palette are impractical: in order to maintain cleanliness in this room, which is an area with high traffic, you need to make repairs more often, clean upholstery, carpets, change wallpaper, wipe panels;

• tones need the right choice, otherwise, instead of being positive, they will provoke boredom, develop depression;

• the operation of the furnishings of this interior should be careful and delicate: against a light background, traces of accidental mechanical damage, children's creativity, food and drinks stand out well;

• the materials planned for the creation of this interior composition must be selected thoroughly, choosing what is easier to wash and clean, not forgetting about replaceable covers or furniture capes, durable lamp shades, moderate carpet pile.

To make the interior of the living room harmonious, it was pleasant to be in the hall, it is worth taking note of a few tips from experienced designers:

• taking as a basis a monochrome combination with a predominance of white, add cheerfulness to it through living greens, without minimal color paints this interior will quickly get bored;

• do not overload the room with an abundance of prints: the variegation irritates the eyes, it will be uncomfortable to be in such a living room (having chosen a pattern on the walls, do not repeat it in the upholstery of furniture or the pattern of curtains);

• so that the room does not merge into a single spot, use bright contrasts in soft muted shades of the color palette, placing them moderately around the perimeter (in the color of the floor material, carpet pattern, decor of lamps, tone of doors of doorways, furniture decoration);

• if the color of the wallpaper matches the tone of the furniture, buy a companion for them a couple of tones darker: this way you can zone the guest space, while separating it from the wall;

• do not cover the walls to match the floor: the color of the floor covering must necessarily differ by at least two tones;

• try to avoid an abundance of cold shades: together with freshness, they change the friendly atmosphere to the coldness of communication;

• you should be more careful with the number of bright accents: lilac, blue, violet tones compete with light shades, interrupting their significance;

• to soften dark furniture on a light background, add an intermediate tone to the interior ensemble that is close in color to dark.

Light shades used in the design of the living room can be used in different styles; this is a kind of classic in many design directions. They look great in modern, classic and some ethnic interior styles. At the same time, they are inappropriate where creativity and saturation are indispensable: light colors are a kind of delight.

They are alien to African, avant-garde trends, kitsch style. Although they look perfect in grunge, even if the texture of the wall coverings is an imitation of rough surfaces made in the form of light decorative plaster, stone or brickwork.

They are most harmonious in such design directions as:

• minimalism;
• classicism;
• neoclassicism;
• vintage;
• provence;
• antique style;
• baroque;
• Venetian;
• Gregorian;
• Greek;
• Italian;
• contemporary.

Each direction has its own characteristics, which are manifested in the moderation or pretentiousness of furnishings, originality of decoration, and the appropriateness of certain materials.

For example, classical trends welcome the design of rooms in the spirit of palace ensembles with plaster stucco and gilding in the decoration of the ceiling, walls, furniture supports, the presence of forged elements in bronze and the observance of the principle of mirroring in the composition.

Ethnic stylistics is characterized by elements of national cultures, which are manifested in the decoration of decorative accessories, drawings of paintings, ornaments of textiles.

Modern trends prefer a mixture of light modern materials, they are characterized by an emphasis on the functionality of every detail of the interior, so they often buy transforming furniture in a small living room.

The rules for drawing up an interior composition consist in the use of three to four shades. This is exactly how much is needed so that the living room does not look boring: the abundance of light spots is impossible without bright contrasting strokes: they emphasize the beauty of light tones, make them expressive. The tones are selected as follows: two main contrasts and one close to each. This allows you to mix cold and warm colors in the same style, to balance the desired temperature of the style.

The design can be based on natural and sunny colors: beige, cream, golden shades, ivory, sandy and bleached green tones diluted with white. To fill the room with air, you need to add a white shade to the color type of the interior.

Harmonious combinations that are relevant today are combinations:

• cream-colored walls, white ceiling, brown flooring, gray accessories;
• light gray walls, white furniture, beige curtains, brown furnishings;
• adding to the monochrome duo of white and gray shades of beige and sand colors;
• white ceiling and floor lamp of a lamp, light gray furniture, beige tones of pillows and a coffee table, olive shade in the touches of an accent wall, textile curtains, ledge of the ceiling zone;
• in the design of beige walls, flooring, white ceilings, light furniture and metal surfaces.

Fashionable solutions for decorating the living room space are bright accents of central lighting: chandeliers with crystal and forging, room cornice, plaster stucco molding with gilding, wallpaper print, the use of moldings and moldings in the decoration of the walls and ceiling of a special room in the apartment.

You can focus on upholstery textiles, covers, cushions or poufs. The furniture, decorated with colorful capes, looks beautiful and elegant, creating an atmosphere of home comfort in the hall. The fabric can be textured, with elements of stitches, ruffles, ornaments, while it should be expensive and emphasizing the status of household members (in priority velvet, wool, genuine leather, silk, satin). The elements and color of the decor should overlap with each other, but there should not be many of them: it is important to create a sense of spaciousness.

To make the interior beautiful and memorable, it is worth choosing one bright accent for decorating the hall and two or three echoing it, but not interrupting its significance. For example, you can decorate a room with a beautiful chandelier with candles in several rows, complementing the lighting with wall sconces or a floor lamp with a floor lamp.

You can accentuate the light brown sofa by picking up two armchairs in a shade of light wenge oak in a similar style with the same finish on the legs and armrests.

An interesting decoration technique is the use of color: you can highlight the space with original textured wallpaper, repeat the shade in the decoration of the adjacent wall on the facade of the furniture and support it on the opposite accent wall in the color of the cushions against the contrasting background of the sofa.

The living room interior in light colors of the color palette provides a lot of design possibilities.

You can put a gray modular-type corner sofa with contrasting decorative pillows along one of the walls, decorate the walls with beige wallpaper with a lace pattern, emphasize the guest area with a glass table and a light carpet, decorate the ceiling and walls with massive lamps with glass or crystal.

A room with columns and a bay window can be decorated with cream and gray-blue bleached tones, adding white curtains, columns, flooring and part of the ceiling to the decor, delimiting the space into a work (bay window) and a guest area, using the same shades in each of them.

The living room, combined with the kitchen and dining areas, made in beige and cream colors, looks original: using different lighting for each functional space, you can achieve an unobtrusive organization, while using different materials for each section of the hall.

If there is very little space, it is worth adding to the furniture a mirrored front of the cabinet, visually increasing the space, illuminating the room as much as possible, playing up the lack of space with a stylish shelving and narrow functional furniture.

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