The living room is the soul of any home.Guests are received there, family celebrations are held, and people gather every day for dinner to exchange news and share impressions. The living room is the most visited room in the house. It sets the mood for the entire house, so it is understandable to want to make it beautiful, cozy and comfortable.
With the help of correctly selected wallpaper, you can enliven even the most boring room interior.
We try to combine
The room can be furnished with expensive luxuryfurniture, decorate with decorative items, but all this will be lost against the background of faded walls. Combining wallpaper will help to revive the space, make the main room of the house cozy. When thinking over the design, experts have long used such a technique as a combination of wallpaper of different colors, styles and textures. When developing a design, you need to choose the main color wisely, and then select .
Figure 1.In a spacious living room with high ceilings, dark wallpaper with a large pattern will look good. When making a choice, you should follow several basic rules. Do not go to extremes, that is, choose radically opposite colors - white and black. A room with dark walls will seem gloomy, white wallpaper is impractical. Even minor dirt will be immediately noticeable. The choice of color scheme depends on the area of the living room. The smaller it is, the lighter its walls should be. In a spacious room with high ceilings, the walls can be darker (1). As for patterns, it is better to choose small drawings for a small room. Wallpaper with a large pattern will look harmonious in a spacious room. The main condition is not to use the same wallpaper with different patterns. The best solution is to combine plain and patterned canvases, dark with lighter. When thinking about the design of the living room, you should consider which side of the world its windows face. A "northern" room, with little light, should be covered with light-colored wallpaper. They can be beige, golden, cream, lemon. If the living room is located on the sunny side of the house, its walls can have a blue, gray, green tint.
Figure 2.Wallpaper with horizontal stripes can change the mood of the living room, add warmth and comfort. Wallpaper in rich colors will help add dynamism and energy to the atmosphere: burgundy, blue, purple. However, it should be remembered that their combination is only possible with calmer tones. There is another important nuance. If you have difficulties with the selection of wallpaper and their distribution around the room, you can try to highlight zones in the living room. For example, highlight the dining area and the rest area. If the dining table is located near the window, then the walls here can be in bright saturated or light colors. Contrasting shades should be used on the opposite side of the room, where the rest area is. The lighter it is in the dining area, the darker you can make the rest area. If a bright palette is chosen for the dining area, then the relaxation area should be covered with pastel-colored wallpaper. Return to contents</a>
Striped Living Room
Figure 3.A combination of a single-color wall with a light small pattern will look interesting. When designing wallpaper for a living room, you can use the "multicolored zebra" style. Different colors are suitable for this. The main condition is that the width and texture should be the same. A combination of vertical stripes looks good in small rooms. This pattern allows you to visually "raise" the space. Alternation can be done through one or two stripes. It is easy to combine different shades of the same color. For example, combine beige stripes with coffee, light blue with blue, terracotta with brown. A room decorated in this style looks elegant and noble. Alternating more contrasting colors will help add individuality and style to the room: white and black stripes, red and green, yellow and blue. Combined solutions can be bolder. In a "calm" version, this can be a combination of a floral pattern with stripes of the same color. A more dynamic option is characterized by alternating different patterns: small flowers with large ones or geometric figures of different sizes. The horizontal arrangement of stripes can change the mood of the living room, add warmth and coziness (2). For this, wallpaper of different textures can be used: textile and bamboo, vinyl and non-woven. The main condition is to use stripes of the same width. They can be arranged through one or a couple of stripes can be glued at the bottom of the wall, and contrasting colors can be used in the rest of the space.
Figure 4.The combination of coffee color with beige looks beautiful and elegant. The classic version is characterized by: the bottom of the wall is dark, and the upper part is light. Plain material combines perfectly: canvases of gray, green, brown colors with cream, beige, light yellow and pale pink. A dark monochromatic bottom of the wall and a light top with a small pattern will look interesting (3). One color, but different shades, combine well: dark green canvas with light green, coffee with beige, green stripe with small floral patterns (4). Care should be taken when combining horizontal stripes in small living rooms. It is best to use a combination of dark and light tones. Thanks to this, the living room will not seem lower. Dark wallpaper with large patterns can be used in spacious rooms. Return to contents</a>
A competent combination - a beautiful result
Just one stroke can changethe mood of the room. Such a touch can be the design of the walls with combined wallpaper. When thinking about the design of the living room, you should pay attention to this technique: the use of plain wallpaper throughout the entire space of the room, except for one wall. It should be pasted over with wallpaper of a different texture or a contrasting shade. This way, you can isolate one of the zones, for example, a dining area or a rest area. Often, combination masters use in their practice a “patchwork technique”, which allows for a combination of different colors. On one wall there can be pieces of red, blue, green. However, you need to make sure that this does not look chaotic. It is better to glue the pieces in stripes or adhere to a checkerboard pattern. Elegance and sophistication will be added to the design by individual wallpaper inserts. They can be distributed throughout the room or left only on one wall. If the second option is chosen, then molding should be placed around the perimeter.
