The living room is a favorite place for all family members.room. In modern interpretations of home comfort, living rooms can combine their interior with the kitchen, hallway and even bedroom. This is especially true for one-room apartments and studio apartments.
The living room can be expanded by moving walls orcombining with the adjacent room along the perimeter of the apartment. The multifunctionality of the living room dictates the creation of a certain design in it. After all, common rooms can combine a fireplace room with a dining room, a home theater with a billiard room, and a reception room with an office. In this regard, the interior design of the living room should not only correspond to modern trends, but also to the taste preferences of the owners. In order to make a renovation that matches the entire functionality of the living room and furnish the room in the required style, it is worth considering several design advantages that these rooms are endowed with, regardless of the architectural design of the entire house:
Thus, based on the practicality and complementarity of living rooms, unforgettable options and ideas for their arrangement are created, some of which are important to take as a basis.
Flooring in the living room
Carpets are recommended to be added to interior designliving room in the center of the room, at the foot of the sofa and armchairs, in front of the fireplace. First of all, the floor covering must be durable. Finishing masters make it a rule to use the following modern materials:
- laminate;
- cork floors;
- thermal wood;
- board from a natural massif;
- parquet board;
- linoleum.
The last two options for flooring are:living room are already fading into the background in use, giving way to more modernized and no less environmentally friendly materials. On the other hand, linoleum has already undergone improvement and you can buy a stylized version of this coating. In its case, a pattern is applied to the surface of the linoleum, completely repeating the texture of the laminate board. A separate option is carpet and all kinds of carpet coverings. The first can be used as a solid filling of the entire floor space instead of the same laminate or cork material, but from the point of view of practicality, this will not be an ideal type of covering. In this case, it is better to use separate carpets, rugs, animal skins, etc. Carpets and all kinds of rugs are recommended to be added to the interior design in living rooms pointwise: either in the center of the room, or at the foot of the sofa and armchairs, or in front of the fireplace. Moreover, progress allows you to install thermal floors in apartments, which can completely exclude the presence of a carpet. Return to the table of contents</a>
Ceiling decoration
Suspended plasterboard ceilings deservedlyoccupy a leading position. Due to plasterboard, you can create a variety of designs. Many have already abandoned the whiteness of the usual whitewashed and painted ceiling, choosing suspended, stretch or painted options for decorating the top. Moreover, modern trends in the design of living room vaults involve a combination of halogen lamps and a central chandelier, which creates a bizarre effect of radiance on the ceiling. The ability of stretch ceilings to create multi-tiered interspersed with illuminations ennobles any living room, allowing you to play with light. These are ideal options if the living room is zoned. And the use of multi-colored plasterboard textures, drawings, patterns, frescoes on the ceilings will competently complement the entire interior. Undoubtedly, for the classic style in the interior of living rooms, you can leave only one chandelier. And this will be permissible. It can completely cover the entire room with light if it is decorated with many lamps or be expressed in the style of minimalism with one lampshade. Alternatively, a single chandelier can be complemented with side bas-reliefs along the perimeter of the ceiling. In this case, the bas-relief patterns should match the style in which the chandelier is designed. Return to contents</a>
Choosing furniture for the living room
It is better to distribute furniture in the living room along the wallsaround the entire perimeter of the living room, freeing up the center. In order for the room not to get lost in the furniture decorations, it is better to distribute the furniture along the walls along the entire perimeter of the living room, freeing up the center. In furniture design, the trends of minimalism are preserved. Bulky sections are fading into oblivion, giving an advantage to flexible slides, which can be composed of several modules (items) of the set. Low models of cabinets and coffee tables, shelves on the walls, replacing sectional cabinets, frameless furniture and poufs are in fashion. To free up maximum space, plasma TVs should be hung on the wall. In the furnishing of living rooms, a significant place is given to a sofa or a soft corner. By placing it in the center of the room opposite the wall with a home theater and a TV, you can create a kind of zoning of the living room. In the interpretation of a soft corner, the sofa can be placed along the wall or window, and the armchairs - in the center. For living rooms, it is worth choosing long sofa models, but you can also give preference to such furniture sets that consist of several small sofas. They can be scattered around the room, which will bring original proportions to the interior design. Instead of armchairs, a good option would be a sofa next to the sofa and frame poufs.
A fireplace in the living room will fill the room with warmth andcomfort. The overall functionality and decoration of the living room will be skillfully complemented by a fireplace. Fireplace installations no longer require cutting a chimney, because thanks to modern models of electric and decorative fireplaces, they can be installed even in apartments of multi-story buildings without harming neighbors. What should not be placed in living rooms is bulky chests of drawers and mirrors. After all, such furniture is the prerogative of bedrooms. Sliding wardrobes, wardrobes and multi-tiered bookcases also no longer fit into the interior design of the living room. Unless the latter is divided into an office and a recreation room. Books should be placed in portable bookcases. If the room combines the living room with the dining room, the ideal piece of furniture can be cupboards for dishes, stylized in the Norman style. Designers recommend choosing furniture from natural wood and textile materials, which will dictate the durability, environmental friendliness and strength of the products. Wood can be combined with glass in the case of decorative shelves and coffee tables. Living room furniture is purchased for a long period of use, so it is worth choosing its high quality. Return to contents</a>
Extra touches in interior design
The interior of the living room cannot do without a vase withflowers, picturesque paintings and photographs. Undoubtedly, the general furnishings of the living room are always a reflection of the owners' way of life. Everyone is free to fit their own interior items into the decor. After all, the living room cannot do without the following details:
- floor flowers and flowerpots;
- lamps, sconces, candles;
- picturesque paintings and photographs;
- figurines and vases;
- decorative pillows for upholstered furniture and other small things for decoration.
It is customary to decorate living room windows with double ones.curtains consisting of a curtain fabric and a curtain rod. If the overall style of the room allows, tapestries or drapes will look good. For living room windows, it is better to choose them long to the floor and wide, so that when hanging they create a maximum of neat folds. If the living room is decorated in a minimalist style, then roller blinds or blinds will look like a win-win option. An abundance of light, fresh flowers and cozy space will always fill the living rooms in any home with positive energy.
