Small living room furniture: optimizing space

The living room is the main room in which all family members gather, therefore its design should be allotted a separate seat. If the room is small, you need to arrange the interior so as not to create a feeling of tightness, which causes some difficulties. Repair of a small-sized living room will take less time than work on a spacious hall, and you can save on the purchase of materials. The use of simple techniques will help to turn a cramped room into a cozy and stylish.

Light shades are best suited for small spaces.And in recent years, the fashion for interiors with dominant white color has appeared. On a white background you can place different color accents. He does not tire the psyche and makes the room lighter. In order to visually enlarge the area and bring in paint, pictures, collages, panels are placed on the walls. Only one color accent is needed, otherwise the room will seem overloaded with details.

Popular combination of white with natural wood texture or a certain shade of brown. If the windows face the north side, add red or yellow. Adherents of the Scandinavian style should pay attention to the blue and blue colors. You should not choose furniture of pure black color or combine more than three different shades.

A universal style that fits any small living room is minimalism. This direction involves the use of simple geometric shapes, the minimum number of decor, basic colors. Books, dishes, decorations and other trifles must be stored in closed cabinets; there should be no open littered shelves. Then the sensation of space and light will be created, an atmosphere of comfort and hospitality will appear.

Other styles are also applicable if some nuances are taken into account when decorating:

• Provence - pastel colors, furniture milky shades with the effect of aging. Adherents of this direction is desirable to avoid excess flower prints.
• Classic - traditional furniture made of solid wood, expensive materials in the finish, often dark colors. Curtains with flowers and birds, crystal or bronze chandelier.
• Eclecticism - a mixture of different styles, for example, modern modular furniture in combination with a baroque chandelier and plastic chairs.
• African - minimalism with the addition of ethnic elements, warm colors. The walls are made white, or vice versa, dark, but it is better not to use black as the main color. A few masks on the wall, the skin of a zebra, white or ocher walls under the clay will bring the atmosphere of a distant continent.
• High tech - metallized surfaces, strict forms, style is close to minimalism. Often used shades of gray and silver. This style is quite strict for the living room, but you can add color accents. For example, today hang one picture on the wall, tomorrow another one or put an avant-garde sculpture.

In small apartments compact furniture looks good, which does not clutter the space. It is necessary to avoid massive cabinets, in comparison with which a small room seems to be tiny at all. The feeling of lightness will be created by mounted shelves, with which you can also correct the room's drawbacks. Long horizontal modifications visually expand the space, and vertical ones make the ceiling taller. Now there are many ways to fasten shelves to the walls, in addition to the usual brackets. There are designs that create the feeling that the shelves are just floating in the air.

However, if possible, it is better to move the storage section to the corridor, and in the living room the main place will be taken by the sofa. If you want to select a recreation area, you can choose upholstered furniture with bright monochromatic upholstery. To accommodate all guests, it is convenient to put a corner sofa, which in the new season at the height of fashion.

The furniture on the floor eats up the free space and darkens the room. Therefore, the most suitable option for a small living room - furniture, raised above the floor. These can be wall hangers or lockers with legs. So that the table and chairs do not divide the already cramped space into pieces, you should look at the models of transparent glass or plastic.

Most people combine in one room living room with a dining room or bedroom. But in a small room for all the tables, chairs and other things space is not enough. Therefore, it is worth buying transformable furniture, which in the folded state practically takes no place and at the same time copes with the functions assigned to it.

These include folding computer desks with chairs included and hidden shelves for books that are built into the doorframes.

When the living room also serves as a room for sleeping, it is necessary to purchase a folding sofa bed, and choose a folding table with wheels. Compact furniture can be quickly removed and the right time to expand.

To create a cozy atmosphere fit colored pillows, blankets, bedspreads. They can decorate sofas, chairs. It is better to purchase curtains that are plain, without ruffles and ruffles, which advantageously look only in spacious halls. To lift the ceiling will help long curtains, starting from the very top. That is, the distance from the eaves to the ceiling should be minimal.

Carpet - a classic means of creating warmth and comfort.

Not always on the shelves there is a place for vases and figurines, but when the walls are plain and light, they simply need decor. It is convenient to arrange photos on them in frames or pictures in an abstract style. Thus, the space seems more spacious.

To emphasize the beauty of furniture and upholstered furniture, the rest of the interior should be combined. Beams and other decorative structures eat up the space, for a small living room is hardly applicable. Normal white ceiling - the best way out. Moreover, the white ceiling is suitable for any furniture.

The style decision of the upper part of the room should be subject to the general concept. If the room is in a minimalist style, or, on the contrary, is overloaded with details, it is best to make the ceiling color neutral.

Suitable for painting with ordinary acrylic paint. It is better to choose the import version. Such paint will last for a long time, it will be possible to wash it, in case of pouring the ceiling from above, it will be possible to simply erase these marks or touch up the problem area. What kind of paint - matte or glossy - choose, based on the intention. Glossy will better reflect the light, and matte looks more relaxed and natural.

Stretch ceiling will be more expensive painting, but it gives greater sound insulation. Hides irregularities, if you can not plaster or repair the ceiling. If the mini living room is made in the classic style - you can order a canvas stretch ceiling with antique subjects.With a heavy carved furniture under an oak, the picture on the ceiling in the style of palace paintings will look great.

As for the floor - light laminate or carpet are preferred. The abundance of light, reflecting luminous flux, surfaces, will create the effect of a more spacious and air-filled room. The colors of pine, cherry, bleached oak will not only create a comfortable space, but also emphasize the purpose of the room - comfort, warmth, and disposition to communicate. Properly selected floor will emphasize the good choice of furniture.

Another important point - soundproofing. If it is planned to install karaoke or home cinema in the living room, they install sound-reflecting or sound-absorbing panels on the ceiling, walls or floor. Upholstered furniture with voluminous seats is also an excellent means of absorbing noise.

Lighting design must obey the general concept. Sharp directional light will enhance the feeling of being cramped, so it is advisable not to use one powerful lamp. Light should be scattered, and not concentrated at one point, creating dark corners. Therefore, one of the most convenient and economical options is spotlights, which can be distributed over the ceiling surface and used to illuminate the shelves.

A floor lamp on a long leg will visually increase the height of the ceilings, especially effectively these lighting devices look if you place them parallel to each other. Floor lamp should be combined with the rest of the furniture.

The method of visual increase in a room tested by years is the placement of mirrors. If possible, a large mirror is hung on the wall, near which there is no furniture.

In low light conditions, false windows look good. Glass with a landscape painted on it, behind which the lamp is located, will visually enlarge the space.

Quickly transform the living room will help the reflective stickers that are attached to the doors of the cabinets. Often involve glossy surfaces - lacquered furniture fronts and glass elements.

Zoning allows you to make the room more comfortable, but do not clutter the room with deaf partitions. The best option is to mark a certain area with contrasting wallpaper or to put the sofas back to each other.

Creating a comfortable and socially comfortable living room in the Khrushchev is not that difficult.The main thing is not to overload the space with furniture and bright colors, use the advantages of a particular room and look at suitable samples.

Large windows can be decorated with exclusive curtains, in a high room you can use the entire surface of the wall to accommodate paintings and photographs. Save space will allow folding furniture, which can be removed or transformed.

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