Choosing wallpaper for a small room

Many rooms in small apartments are quite small. Designers, when choosing finishing materials for such premises, are guided by certain laws of the organization of internal space. In this article, we will get acquainted with the rules for decorating walls to give spatial volume to small rooms.

The first difficulties and limitations arise already at the stage of choosing wallpaper. In finishing a cramped space, a large decorative pattern will seem cumbersome, stucco will make the ceiling even lower, saturated dark colors will so thicken the atmosphere that it will be uncomfortable to be in the room.

What remains at our disposal? It turns out, not so little! It is better to prefer the light background of the wallpaper. Light colors add "air" to the space, what is needed for small rooms. Bright contrasting blue, green, red, graphite colors are acceptable in very small concentrations to create style accents.

It is not at all necessary to completely abandon a large bright pattern, but it needs to be applied locally, on some parts of the wall, alternating with the basic plain wallpaper.

The texture of the wallpaper should also serve the purpose of increasing the volume of the room. The more embossed the wallpaper, the more depth it gives to the surfaces of the walls. This is perceived as deepening and expanding space. Glossy surfaces, being the direct opposite of embossed surfaces, have the same effect due to multiple reflections.

The main task of repairs in a modest room is to visually enlarge the space. It should visually look taller and more spacious due to the pattern and color of the wall decoration material. Low ceilings should be visually raised due to the vertical decor on the wallpaper canvas.

Another task is to create a cozy and comfortable place for the life of family members. Designers take into account the illumination of the room and, depending on this indicator, choose one or another color of the wallpaper: for northern rooms, peach-colored wallpapers are selected, these tones create a feeling of warmth. The southern rooms "cool" a little with blue and gray wallpaper.

Another important function of wall coverings is creating a certain mood... In the bedroom, everything should be conducive to relaxation - wallpaper is needed in a calm, pacifying color, in the nursery - brighter, more energetic, for the study - laconic and strict, for the living room - ceremonial, for the hall - practical and elegant.

Let's try to choose wallpaper for rooms of different purposes and sizes.At the first stage, you need to decide on the type of wallpaper - paper or vinyl, plain or patterned, glossy or matte. The decor of a small room dictates its own terms. In a narrow room, it will be correct to combine horizontal striped wallpaper on narrow walls with solid colors or with a small pattern on opposite long walls.

A narrow long room should be divided into functional areas. Highlight one zone with an active color, the other in calm tones of the corresponding colors. For example, in the children's area, the beds are decorated with a blue monochromatic decor, and a place for games in a marine style with alternating white, red and blue stripes. This technique will make the space richer and wider.

In the bedroom, behind the head of the bed and above it on the ceiling, you can glue wallpaper of the same color so that the wall seems to go into the ceiling to create the illusion of a niche, all other walls can be pasted over with plain wallpaper in a contrasting color. Visually, the part of the wall passing into the ceiling looks like additional space.

The family often gathers in the living room, and wall decoration with combined wallpaper will serve to increase the space here. In a small room it is worth choosing horizontal split reception... The lower part is pasted over with a darker saturated color, and the upper half of the walls is finished with light monochromatic or finely patterned wallpaper. It is better to make a curb thin, since a wide one will visually reduce the height of the hall.

Volumetric elements are suitable for decorating small rooms in limited quantities. You can cut some images and paste them separately. You should not completely glue the room with canvases with a large pattern.

For a visual increase in height, the wallpaper is not glued from the ceiling, but stepping back 10-20 centimeters. This strip is painted in the color of the ceiling, and thus the ceiling is lifted, as it were. This strip on the wall is either simply plastered and painted, or trimmed with molding - a decorative convex strip.

The functionality of small rooms is different, depending on this, the colors are selected. There is a special classification for matching colors to each other. Some colors are combined, others will look dissonant. It's a good idea to stock up on such a table in advance if you intend to use several tones. The general rules are as follows: all colors are combined with white, black, gold and silver. Brown colors will be good companions to blue, blue, pink, red shades. The green ones are yellow, orange. Red should be used in interiors as an accent, especially in a small room.

In the kitchen, dining room, nursery or young man's room, it is better to choose summer colors, juicy from the upper part of the spectrum, from light green to orange. All white, beige, steel, cream tones are welcome to decorate the living room, study, bedroom. Black, brown, dark green can be present as thin lines or stripes.

The choice of wallpaper for a dark room is limited to light colors. In such rooms, one should not resort to strong contrasts. The most illuminated wall can be decorated with more rich ornamented paints, the rest can be kept in a calm range of appropriate colors.

It is worth taking a closer look at glossy light wallpaper. Their reflectivity will add a little space. However, it is not necessary to make the ceiling, walls and floor glossy. You need to choose some two positions or just one. In the case of a strong darkening of the room, they resort to the use of artificial lighting. A niche is made, the inner part of which is pasted over with wallpaper with an original design, hidden lamps are placed in the arch of the niche.

For information on how to combine wallpaper in a small room, see the next video.

There are a lot of decorative techniques for decorating walls. One of them is the use of double wallpaper. These can be companion wallpapers of the same tone. In this case, a canvas with a large pattern is taken on one wall, and on the rest - with the same small one.

A bright pattern can be applied to the entire area of ​​the room in the case of a diagonal arrangement. The diagonal pattern is already provided by the manufacturer. If the wallpaper has a vertical pattern, then the canvases are glued diagonally. It should be borne in mind that according to this pasting technology, there will be a greater consumption of finishing material.

In small spaces, it may be necessary to emphasize with a large pattern, then the "decoretto" technique is suitable. The use of decorative wall stickers is always popular. Manufacturers offer drawings of various colors and thematic focus. Bright accents on the wall that match in tone will greatly decorate the room, make it individual. Vivid images, such as roses, butterflies, or stylized flowers against a bright background, are pasted onto the view wall.

Artistic appeal, depth and exclusivity of the design will be given by the photo wallpaper, which decorates the central wall. In small rooms, you should not decorate the wall with photo wallpaper with one large image. - for example, a car or a tree. It is better to choose photowall-paper in the right colors with a perspective view.

In any room, small or large, all design elements should be harmoniously combined and connected by a single artistic line, which is determined by the style of this interior.

In a small room, palace styles will look out of place - empire or baroque. But by choosing silk-screen printing in blue tones with gold monograms, supporting this pattern with appropriate furniture and satin decor, you can give the interior a little palace luxury.

More relevant for confined spaces would be to follow modern styles with their minimalism. The fewer items in a room, the more spacious it is. It is worth leaving only the most necessary furnishings or hiding storage spaces using modern space transformation systems.

Style meets these tasks high tech. A minimum of furniture and an abundance of chrome surfaces, metal, glass will create multiple reflections that blur the boundaries of the room. Wallpaper with metallic elements will be appropriate here. Steel shades won't spoil a few bright accents of red or other very vibrant color. But these accents should be few, otherwise fragmentation of the interior will appear.It can be one or two wallpaper designs, or a couple of figurines in a niche, or a pillow on the sofa.

Functional Art Deco leaves a few very high quality and valuable things in the interior. In this style solution, each thing is exactly in its place, there are few of them, they do not block the transparent space. Shiny surfaces made of natural stone, gloss of glass countertops, smooth dim wallpaper will look very organic in this interior.

The style of technological interiors - loft. It involves the use of wallpaper in the form of brickwork or a porous structure of a concrete surface. Windows without heavy curtains will let in streams of light into a small room.

Mediterranean style with white wallpaper with the texture of simple rough plaster, light or white textiles, simple forms of room decoration will create an airy interior.

Making the space of the house to your liking, you can embody any ideas. Design developments will help to competently combine beautiful decorative elements in the apartment. It is worth familiarizing yourself with ready-made examples and choosing for yourself what suits your taste and needs.

A small room with a light gray wallpaper with vertical stripes in a Scandinavian style with a mustard sofa is filled with light and looks spacious and bright.

An accent wall papered with turquoise wallpaper, combined with white trim in the rest of the space, gives the bedroom a spring fresh feel.

Bright lilac wallpapers, combined with striped ones, zone the space of a small room and visually increase the length of the walls due to horizontal stripes.

Cheerful tones and vertical stripes make the room look taller. The yellow-green spectrum of colors, combined with lighting and a glossy ceiling, fills the space with energy.

The alternation of stripes with a small pattern and monochrome wallpaper, matched to the tone, visually expands the volume of the bedroom.