Today we will look at a real example of howyou can design a living room on 14.6 square meters. The author of this project, designer Ekaterina Kokoulina, gave advice on inexpensively remodeling small living rooms and outlined the budget for such a renovation. If the hallway is considered the "face" of the apartment, then the living room is its "heart". Active life always takes place here - noisy get-togethers, meetings with friends and family, evening viewings of new films. When decorating this room, it is necessary to properly organize the space so that nothing interferes with a good rest. Designer Ekaterina Kokoulina told us and showed us how to do this using her work as an example. Ekaterina Kokoulina, designer Graduate of NARHI, specializing in "environmental design". Member of the Union of Designers of Russia. Creative Director at R.V.K.DESIGN (rvkdesign.ru) — What is the area of this living room? — The footage of the room is 14.6 square meters. It is located in a three-room apartment (panel house), the total area of which is 70 square meters. — What is the planned amount for the implementation of the design project of this room? - About 300,000 rubles. - What influenced the formation of the interior concept and the choice of color scheme? - In standard apartments located in panel high-rise buildings, we often face two problems: low ceilings and insufficient lighting. These factors became key in the formation of the idea and selection of the color palette.
— What do you advise owners to do?such living rooms? — There are several techniques. To make the ceilings seem higher, you should add relief to them. This is easily done with a low and wide cornice (about 20 centimeters wide). To expand the space and add light, in Europe they paint all the walls white. But this technique does not work well here - due to the peculiarities of apartment lighting, white turns into gray. Therefore, we need bright colors to pair with white. You should not be afraid of them. Autumn, winter and even partially spring lighting in Moscow and most cities in Russia can muffle any saturated colors. — Which color did you settle on? — As filler shades, we chose sky blue, white and several variations of beige (light wood), as well as light gray. Sunny yellow and black acted as accent colors in this interior.
- Why black?— Black is necessary to remove the feeling of grayness. Our eyes are designed in such a way that next to black, white becomes whiter, blue is truly heavenly, and yellow is bright. If we remove black, then the contrast and expressiveness of color will disappear. — What is special about this living room? — We distributed the colors in such a way that when you enter the room, the room seems bright, cheerful, dynamic. But as soon as you sit down on the sofa, a visual transformation occurs - light, calm colors that promote relaxation open up to your gaze. In the interior of this living room, we seem to have combined the feminine and masculine views of design.
— What textiles and decor do youused? — The windows have plain blue lined curtains. Since the choice of such textiles is small, I advise you to first choose the fabric and then tint the paint to match it. It is much easier to choose a paint shade to match the curtains than to look for the necessary light blue options. We decorated the sofa with HOME pillows. Attractive models in the amount of 4 pieces cost us 2,999 rubles. The set can be purchased in the online store happystation.ru. One of the walls was decorated with paintings printed on the principle of photo wallpaper, and the paper is stretched on a wooden stretcher. If desired, you can decorate the living room with oil paintings.
— Tell us about the furniture.— We chose a sofa from a domestic manufacturer — the Moon factory. Its price starts from 48,200 rubles. We complemented the interior with an armchair from IKEA — the Melby model cost us 11,999 rubles (the cover — 1,999 rubles). Near the sofa there is a Veymon table from the same Swedish brand (3,999 rubles). It is painted black. As a budget option, a Frost stool from IKEA for 199 rubles, also painted black, is suitable. As a coating, I recommend acrylic paint or even regular gouache. The main thing is to then secure the coating with two layers of alkyd varnish. Then it will not be scary even to spill something on the table. Under the plasma, we will place, for example, a Kratki bio-fireplace of the DELTA model (12,000 rubles). It brings notes of warmth and coziness to the interior of this living room. The furniture around the TV made of EGGER chipboard wood panels (color - oak cremona champagne) and a partition with glass made of solid pine with light brushing in dense white tinting will be manufactured at a furniture factory.
— How did you select the lighting sources?— The floor lamps Ray from the Flos brand attract a lot of attention in this room. They are stylish, beautiful, although quite expensive - 51,330 rubles for a tall one. As a budget option, choose a floor lamp and a lamp with a black and white lampshade. For example, a floor lamp on a tripod from the Italian brand Arte Lamp. Such a pleasure will cost about 3,650 rubles per piece. Sconces were installed on the wall, which were ordered from the svet.modul.ru store. They are also not cheap. But if you are not ready to pay a lot of money, make a budget option with your own hands. Use gypsum and LEDs for this.
Finishing materials:
- Wallpaper.Contemporary Restyled collection, code 95/6037, Cole & Son, (England) — 5,300 rubles per roll (wallpapermatch.com). Can be replaced with a more budget-friendly option — Dimensions collection, code 8106, EcoWallpaper (Sweden) — 2,640 rubles per roll.
- Dulux paint.
- Parquet board on the floor (light oak) - 3 000 rubles per square meter. It can be replaced with laminate, imitating light oak.
— What advice would you give to our readers?— If the budget is limited, but you liked the interior, it is important not to give up, but to go step by step towards the intended goal, copying the design as accurately as possible. Yes, you will spend time searching for analogues, making something with your own hands, but you will save money and the result will please you for a long time. 3D visualizations of the living room are provided by Ekaterina Kokoulina; ikea.com; artelamp.ru; cole-and-son.com
