Beautiful ideas for decorating a living room

Being the heart of any home, the living room needs a special approach to creating an interior composition. This is a common place, the atmosphere of the hall should be comfortable for every member of the family. To achieve this, it is worth understanding the intricacies of creating beautiful living room ideas.

Any living room is individual. Depending on the existing layout, it can be straight-through, narrow, wide square, rectangular, in the form of a square with an attached semicircle, have a skewed or broken perspective. Often, this room is limited in usable area, having no more than 17 - 18 sq. m.Besides the lack of space, living rooms can have ledges, niches, panels, very narrow doorways and incomprehensible superstructures that do not carry a functional load. Other rooms, on the contrary, are characterized by freedom and provide unlimited access to the design style, sometimes being combined with adjacent rooms or a balcony or loggia, forming a kind of square with a bay window.

Whatever the space, in a "Khrushchev", a small apartment or a spacious country house or studio apartment, you can create an atmosphere of home comfort, be it a small apartment or a room with a lot of free space.

The main features of creating the right comfortable atmosphere for the living room are:

• saturation of the room with light through the main shade of stylistics (use of light tones of beige, pastel colors);
• visual increase in space by using glass and mirror surfaces;
• giving the design features of the room the desired channel, giving the disadvantages the appearance of advantages;

• filling the space with the required size and number of furnishings in accordance with its size and style theme;
• a reasonable choice of ideas for a design direction, corresponding to the available footage and temperament of each family member;
• correct use of lighting devices, the maximum natural temperature of the luminous flux;
• the use of no more than 4 basic shades in the design of the space (1 dominant, 1 contrasting and 2 their binders);
• harmonious combination of combined rooms in style and design color type.

The arrangement of the hall depends on the available financial capabilities, therefore, in some cases, the demolition of load-bearing walls is allowed, in others, an exclusively budgetary option using visual design techniques is acceptable.

Beauty is a concept that is individual for everyone. However, in any case, be it classic, modern or ethnic, vintage style directions, it is possible to beautifully equip the living room in interesting design techniques for everyone, even with a limited budget.

It is important to follow a simple rule: the larger the room, the more complex or creative its arrangement should be.It is unacceptable to use elements of a palace theme in Khrushchev, where there is a low ceiling and folding-type furniture should be used.

Successful and demanded living room designs, appropriate for decorating a special room in a dwelling, include the following styles:

• minimalism;
• modern;
• neoclassicism;

• classicism;
• vintage;
• baroque;

• Art Deco;
• grunge;
• loft;
• industrial.

In each case, the furnishings are emphasized by the presence of their own materials and finishes, items for decorating the space by means of wall and floor cladding, lighting fixtures.

Zoning, which is a fashionable stylistic design technique, means an unobtrusive division of space into separate functional areas (in this case, a guest, dining, fireplace area or resting place) in order to increase the area and give the room an organization.

If the living room space is minimal, it is the only living room in an apartment or house; a working corner is often equipped in it.

Zoning is done in several ways:

• by combining wall decoration, using the game of contrast of color, pattern, texture, mixing facing materials with each other;
• using all sorts of partitions, including those made by hand with a hint of dividing the room (for example, from drywall, glass, textiles);

• selection of luminaires with separate illumination of each functional area, giving this area the desired atmosphere and the degree of diffusion of the luminous flux;
• by rearranging pieces of furniture (sofas, shelves, narrow cabinets), zoning the space by placing different interior elements in each zone;
• using the existing design features of the room (ledges, bay windows, podiums, columns).

In each case, the zoning of the arrangement is individual and depends on the existing furniture, although if you wish, you can update it without significant financial investments. To do this, you can use eurocovers, through which you can put together a scattered sofa and armchairs, giving them the appearance of an original furniture ensemble.

The beautiful design of any living room is made up of several main factors:

In the design of the walls, it is worth choosing between several materials, the main ones of which are:

• wallpaper or photo printing;
• laminate;
• plastic panels;
• decorative plaster;

• brick or masonry;
• concrete finish;
• broken glass mosaic.

For example, wallpaper for white or brown-gray brickwork with a relief texture perfectly demonstrates the style of a loft, especially with the support of a material for painting or in natural colors to match the natural size of a brick. Laminate allows you to accentuate the fireplace or guest area, being a practical cladding: it is easy to wipe off dirt from the surface, while it does not lose brightness for many years.

The lighting design of the hall, the models of lamps are subject to the size of the room and the design features of the ceiling associated with dividing the space into separate functional areas. The ceiling can be multi-level, curly, making up a certain composition, in which the central chandelier is the key element of lighting, complemented by wall, floor lighting or separate chiseled lighting fixtures along the perimeter, opposite sides, with a transition from the ceiling to the walls.

The atmosphere of home comfort is maintained by the warm and neutral glow of the right lamps, which include halogen and diode lamps.

The central luminaire can be pendant (on chains, cords) or surface (located close to the wall), the lighting in the form of a sconce should be smaller in order to emphasize rather than interrupt the beauty of the main chandelier. At the same time, different design of different lamps is allowed, if zoning requires it.

The main decoration of any living room is a set of upholstered furniture and a coffee (coffee) table, thanks to which you can receive guests.

In a small room, a linear sofa with a side table that can accommodate the minimum set of necessary little things is enough. In the spacious hall, a set is allocated for the guest area, consisting of a spacious corner and straight sofas, complemented by armchairs. This set can be modular, classic or with light eclecticism, made of different materials, but in the same color scheme.

The table becomes the center of the composition, which in most cases has a spacious glass top. Today, stained reinforced glass that is resistant to mechanical damage is in vogue. Made in noble chocolate shades, it brings a sense of lightness and nobility to the interior, harmoniously fitting into a set of furniture, complemented by poufs, an audio and video system. Often the glass has a laser pattern in the form of light lace motifs, adorned with metal legs. Less often, the support is made in the form of stones or glass structures.

In addition to the main set of furniture, a dining area is often equipped in the living room. To do this, buy narrow tables and chairs with high backs or perform a bar counter with bar stools. If there is enough space in the room or it is a studio apartment, the cooking area is arranged in the room, which includes a kitchen set, a stove, a sink, a refrigerator and its own lighting.

To decorate the living room space, various shelves are needed, which can be familiar or built-in, with glass shelves and lighting.

You can create a beautiful interior of the hall using examples of fresh interior compositions from a photo catalog, adjusting the arrangement of the room to suit your preferences and financial capabilities.

A small space can be completely devoted to the living room by completing the composition in brown-beige colors of the color palette and matching dark furniture to light walls and flooring.

In a spacious room with a large window, made in a combination of white, cream and olive colors, curly lines in the form of protrusions of the walls and ceiling are allowed, composite lighting from spotlights on opposite walls (upholstered furniture and a mini-podium in white are perfectly combined with curtains draperies , glass side table, crystal chandelier and long-piled carpet).

You can turn the ledges into the merits of a small cream-white living room by highlighting the accent zone of the wall with contrasting wallpaper, dressing the planes with small paintings in laconic frames.It is better to fill the space of the room with white upholstered furniture, a two-level round coffee table with a glass top, two side tables with classic table lamps and a shelf for decorative design elements.

Imitating the style in the spirit of country, you can design in sunny gray and white tones: walls can be sheathed with light panels and decorated with paintings in strict gilded frames, furniture and textiles are better to choose in sand tones with variegated upholstery. On the sides of the sofa, you can place two miniature tables, decorate their countertops with lamps with floor lamps in shades of the main style.

Experimenting with the studio theme, you can equip the fireplace area with brickwork with a constructive ledge, add a shelf for flowers to it, place expensive upholstered furniture in the room, decorating it with a wooden table. You can divide the space into a kitchen area, a guest area and a resting place, completing the composition in uniform shades of the color palette, using different materials.

If you want a Turkish theme, you can take cream, lemon-yellow and lilac colors as a basis: it is worth decorating the walls with light cladding, accentuating the guest space by means of a round mirror and symmetrically located wall sconces with crystal and floor lamps, highlighting the sofa in a purple tone. It is worth picking up chairs or couches that are identical in style, complementing the furniture with decorative pillows of different shapes and tones and adding a cabinet with a glass front and a table with an identical table top to the decor.

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