The living room is the soul of your home, yourapartments, because this is where all the household members gather to chat, discuss business, and just relax. And guests are received in the living room. Therefore, special requirements are imposed on this room: it must be beautiful, comfortable, and cozy. How to choose wallpaper for the living room? How not to make a mistake and make sure that the wallpaper fits harmoniously into the interior and adds a certain charm and zest to it? Everything is not as difficult as it seems at first glance.
With the right choice of wallpaper, your living room will always be cozy and beautiful.
What should I look for?
First you need to think about what decorative elementsor furniture you want to highlight. The living room should be considered as a single complex: ceiling, walls, floor, furniture, other decorative elements. You can choose wallpaper that will become the background or will itself be a bright, attractive design element. Evaluate the lighting of the living room, zoning elements, layout features: niches in the walls, columns, arches. The choice of texture, material and color (color scheme) of the wallpaper will depend on this.
Light wallpaper will visually enlargeliving room. How to choose wallpaper if you have a large family? Since the living room is the center of family gatherings, you need to listen to the wishes of all its members. For example, older people will not appreciate bright, flashy colors, and children will not be delighted with "dull" gray tones. You can, of course, surprise your friends with original "screaming" walls, but your friends will leave, and you will live in these walls. And you want to live in comfort. One more nuance. If you have installed a new suspended ceiling and decorated the room in a certain style, then when choosing wallpaper for the living room, this style must be taken into account in order to "tie" the space into a single harmonious whole. It happens that, with limited usable space, the living room performs several functions at the same time. A work or children's corner or a guest bedroom can be arranged here. This fact is also taken into account when deciding what wallpaper to choose, as well as the individuality of the owners. Because even the most stylish and sophisticated, but impersonal apartment is a bad option. To decide what wallpaper to choose for your living room, think carefully about how you see it in your dreams, and start acting. Return to contents</a>
What are the wallpaper?
Paper wallpapers are cheaper and do not havesaturated colors, but they are environmentally friendly. Unlike other rooms, the living room is unlikely to have high humidity or require frequent cleaning. Therefore, absolutely all types of wallpaper are suitable for it. The material from which the wallpaper is made can be different, with their own advantages and disadvantages. The simplest and cheapest option is paper wallpaper for the living room. They are easy to stick and have all sorts of colors to suit every taste. But ... they tend to quickly fade and have low wear resistance. Non-woven wallpaper also has a variety of colors and textures, but is more resistant to external influences than paper. They can also be used for painting. Demanding customers can recommend textile wallpaper. Textiles on the walls give the living room a luxurious and pompous look. Disadvantage: if they accidentally get dirty, the stain will remain on them until the next wall repair. Vinyl wallpaper is resistant to moisture and sunlight. They are rarely used for pasting walls in rooms, more often - in the kitchen, in the hallway, in the bathroom. Because of the thickness, pasting such wallpaper is somewhat complicated.
Non-woven wallpaper can be very expensive,however, they are very beautiful and have many different colors and patterns. Liquid wallpaper, consisting of textile fibers, allows you to create seamless coatings on the walls. They are not quite wallpaper, because you will need water-based paint to dilute them and they are applied to the walls with a roller. Photo wallpaper is a classic option. These wallpapers for the living room are glued to one wall or part of the wall. The process of mounting on the walls is not much different from paper. The latest fashion trend is eco-wallpaper, in their manufacture natural materials are used: bamboo, seaweed, straw, rice paper, etc. They are able to emphasize the unity of man with nature. However, choosing wallpaper from natural materials means constantly monitoring their condition. Return to contents</a>
Select color and drawing
You have decided to choose wallpaper for the living room, but notcan you decide on a color? We hope that our tips will help you understand this issue. All colors can be conditionally divided into warm (yellow, red, orange, brown, pistachio), cold (blue, blue, pink, purple) and achromatic (white, black, gray). If the room does not have enough light, dark and cold colors should be excluded. The location of the room on the north side suggests the use of warm colors, and on the south - cold. A light color can visually expand the space, and a dark one - reduce it. For the living room, it is better to choose pastel colors, they pacify, stabilize the emotional sphere of a person. But if you prefer bright or dark canvases, balance the interior with other decorative elements. The pattern on the wallpaper is also of great importance in interior design. Monochrome canvases look good in rooms with original furniture or decorated with large paintings and photo frames. They serve as a great background and emphasize other decor elements. Vertical stripes visually raise the ceiling, but "eat up" the space, and horizontal ones - push the walls apart, but make the room lower. Floral wallpaper, depending on the size and frequency of the print, also models the interior space. For example, if the pattern is large and located frequently, the space will visually decrease. To hide small defects on the walls, choose wallpaper with dots or small spots. Such wallpaper is suitable for any interior. To avoid disappointment when buying wallpaper, play it safe: take a piece of wallpaper and see how it will look in your living room. Or even better - several pieces from different wallpapers. Return to contents</a>
Combining wallpapers
Usually when decorating a living room, rarely does anyonestops at one material and one color of wallpaper, preferring a combination. For example, you can highlight one wall or zone. To do this, three walls are pasted over with neutral, single-color wallpaper, emphasizing the fourth with a bright color or pattern. To do this, you can choose wallpaper with a photo print of a landscape or still life or textured wallpaper. You can choose another combination option for the living room - paste dark wallpaper on the long walls, and light - on the short ones. The room will visually expand. Or you can use a lighter shade for a poorly lit wall than for the rest. And if you decide to use horizontal combination, then follow the immutable rule: the top is light, the bottom is darker. With the help of combination, it is easy to divide the living room into zones or highlight some element. Your imagination is not limited, so the answer to the question of how to choose wallpaper is obvious: choose what you really like and design the room at your own discretion.
