The living room is quite frequently visited.room by both guests and all family members. In this regard, a separate approach is needed to the arrangement of the room. Recently, it has become popular to use a combination of wallpapers in the living room to create a unique atmosphere. To create an original living room interior, you can give free rein to your imagination and, if you have certain skills, decorate the room yourself, or contact a design studio and choose the options offered by the designer.
Wallpaper gluing scheme.not a new, but quite popular way of decorating rooms. Using this technique, you can completely change the room, divide it into separate sectors, hide its shortcomings or highlight specific elements. The choice of color and decor of wallpaper for the living room will depend on furniture, curtains, features of the walls, the functional purpose of a particular part of the room. To do this, you need to consider some types of wallpaper combinations:
A diagram of a standard combination of wallpapers in a room.
Depending on the goal set for interior design, we will analyze the most popular methods of combining wallpaper in the living room.
Ways to combine wallpapers
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Tools for pasting combined wallpapers.
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Table of matching wallpaper shades.Not a new, but quite simple and effective way of using wallpaper inserts will allow you to visually expand the volume of the room. Inserts of thick wallpaper are glued to pre-prepared walls (with already pasted wallpaper). For inserts, it is desirable to use wallpaper made of relief materials. The shape of the inserts depends on the style of the interior. Simple geometric shapes (rectangular or square inserts), decorated with moldings or wooden frames, will emphasize the classic style, and more complex shapes are suitable for the high-tech, neoclassicism style. To highlight or emphasize any part of the room (for example, near the wall of the fireplace, near the window), it will help to use a large, prominent insert or brighter wallpaper. In the same way, you can highlight an entire wall, using brighter wallpaper for it than for the rest of the walls. Giving free rein to your imagination or simply creating a non-standard interior design, you can paste over the walls of the room with patches of different wallpapers that have different colors and shapes. The only thing you need to consider is to maintain harmony so that the pasted patches minimally match each other. A flight of fantasy with this method will help to create a truly unique interior. If the walls of the living room have such features as niches or projections, it is possible to use these architectural elements for artistic design and make a unique contribution to the creation of the interior. Return to the table of contents</a>
Tips and Tricks
Scheme of line joints when combining wallpapers.The following tips will help you avoid some mistakes in interior design and make the right choice of wallpaper. If the living room does not receive much sunlight, then it is better to choose light-colored wallpaper for the walls: cream, beige, gold, lemon. And if the living room is on the south side, then you can cover the walls with cold-colored wallpaper: gray, green, blue. It should be noted that if the south wall is very hot in the sun, then the wallpaper on it may fade. Light colors are more suitable for a small room, and if the living room is large and has high ceilings, then you can choose darker shades. When combining diametrically opposed colors, you should avoid a strictly black and white design. Pure white is impractical, since the walls can easily get dirty, and extremely dark tones give the room a dull atmosphere. As for the patterns on the wallpaper, voluminous and prominent patterns are suitable for a large room, and small patterns and ornaments are suitable for a small room. It is important not to combine wallpaper with a small pattern with the same saturated and colored ones. It is better to combine wallpaper with a pattern with plain wallpaper or dark tones with light ones. Combining wallpaper is a very effective way to decorate the interior of the living room in accordance with all tastes and preferences, hide the flaws and emphasize the advantages. Including fantasy, this process of combining colors, shades, patterns, designs, shapes and inserts with other elements in the interior will bring a lot of pleasure and the result in the form of an inimitable masterpiece.
