Beautiful wallpaper for the walls in the living room

The drawing room is a business card of any house. First of all, everyone who gets into the apartment pays attention to her. Therefore, for this room they choose the best furniture and decoration materials, trying to make the place of reception beautiful, bright, unique and memorable. Wallpaper in the interior of the living room copes with this task with a bang. Unless, of course, they are correctly selected.

Variety of wallpaper family

The modern market of finishing materials offers customers a huge number of different types of wallpaper. To make the right choice of wall coverings in the living room, you need to understand the features of each type that belongs to the wallpaper family.

• Paper wallpapers are the most budgetary of all existing. They have a rich variety of colors and decor. However, due to the rather thin structure, they emphasize all the irregularities of the walls, and after applying glue to them become sensitive to damage.

• Non-woven wallpaper - have a dense, durable texture, resistant to fading and moisture. These wallpapers can be painted, and more than once, they are able to mask minor wall flaws. Joints of wallpaper strips are almost invisible. The coating of such wallpapers is beautiful and looks like a single whole.

• Vinyl wallpaper is the best option for the living room. These wallpapers are very practical, they can be washed and cleaned. After pasting, almost no seams are visible, and a large selection of shades and patterns allows you to realize unique and vivid design ideas.

• Fabric wallpaper - the elite of the wallpaper family. With their help, you can create a unique interior design in the Renaissance or Rococo style. After pasting, they look like a single, very beautiful, indivisible canvas. They consist of a paper or non-woven backing and a decorative coating of polyester, silk, linen, velor, jute fiber or felt. On the walls they look just gorgeous, but very capricious in leaving. They do not tolerate moisture, so the maximum that can be done with them is to carefully collect the accumulated dust with a vacuum cleaner.

• Cullets are the most durable of all wallpaper counterparts. They can last for years without losing their aesthetic qualities. Very reliable and durable, these wallpapers are not afraid of moisture and have high fire resistance.

 Cullets for painting can endure up to twenty stains.

• Bamboo wallpaper. Suitable for fans of natural and natural materials in the interior. In care, such a coating is unpretentious. To maintain cleanliness, it is enough to vacuum it several times a year, and stains can be easily removed with a damp sponge.

Designer's tip: do not paste over bamboo with wallpaper from bamboo; just use them to decorate one of the walls or allocate a sitting area or TV to them.

How to choose a wallpaper and not make a mistake

It should be remembered that when choosing wallpapers from the catalog or at the exhibition stand in the store, it is easy to make a mistake if you forget about the features of your own living room. The same wallpaper in different interiors looks different. In some they harmoniously and beautifully emphasize virtues, in others they look tasteless, depressing and ridiculous.

Attention to color

We turn to one of the main components of design - to color. The color palette can be divided into groups:

• cold shades - this includes blue, blue, pink, purple, lilac and a number of other colors;
• warm shades - yellow, beige, orange, red, peach, sand and brown;
• achromatic shades - black, gray and white.

Dividing into such color groups will help you choose the right shade of wallpaper for the design of the room, taking into account the degree of its natural light.

• Cold tones are more suitable for living rooms located on the south side.
• Rooms with low light, facing north, it is better to issue paintings in bright warm colors. They will create the feeling of the presence of an additional light source.

Wallpaper in a small living room should be light shades, because dark walls visually reduce space, and light walls, on the contrary, make it wider.

In addition to spatial impressions, color is able to affect the emotional state of a person. It is known that gloomy and dark tones suppress and oppress. Therefore, preference is best given:

• wallpaper in soft, delicate, pastel colors;
• canvases with juicy and bright shades.

Interior items in the living room should balance each other. If, for example, when creating a wall design, bright saturated colors are used, then the pieces of furniture and decor should be in calmer tones, and vice versa.

With or without drawing, that’s the question

The whole variety of wallpapers, depending on the pattern applied to them, can be divided into several large groups:

• Plain wallpaper. Suitable for an interior in which there are many different details of the decor: photographs, figurines, paintings, furniture of unusual design.

• Striped wallpaper. When choosing, it is worth remembering that vertical stripes visually make the ceiling higher, but at the same time reduce the space, and horizontal, on the contrary, make the room more spacious, lowering the ceiling level.

• Wallpaper with print (with images in the form of flowers, natural elements, geometric shapes). When choosing a material of such a plan, attention should be paid to the frequency and size of the picture: the more often and larger it is, the more spacious and lighter should be the room in which they are glued.
• Wallpaper with large spots. Elements of the picture can be folded into an ornament, or can be arranged randomly, such wallpapers are better use to decorate large living rooms or combine them with other, plain materials.

• Cloths with small spots or to a point. Universal wallpaper, can be used in any interior, additionally able to visually hide minor defects on the wall surface.

Combination reception - fashionable and spectacular

Today, when creating a living room design, it is fashionable to combine wallpapers, that is, combine in one room different paintings in color, pattern and texture. But it’s worth remembering that wallpaper combination It is desirable to apply for a reason, but for some purpose:

• hide design flaws;
• highlight a zone;
• visually expand the space.

The most popular combination method in the living room is to highlight the wall behind the sofa or the TV area. At the same time, three walls are glued with identical canvases, usually of a neutral monophonic color, and one stands out with a material with a different texture, a bright pattern or color.

The use of wallpaper in one of the living room areas depicting a landscape, flowers or any other subject is also a combination method. It should be noted that the murals cannot be combined with a large and bright pattern on the wallpaper, the photo image should harmoniously fit into the interior of the living room and not contradict its style.

To visually expand the space in a long and narrow room, a combination technique is used when dark shades are glued to short walls and light shades to long ones.

How do masters and designers combine wallpaper in the living room, you can watch it on the Internet, which is replete with construction and repair sites. Almost every one of them has a photo catalog with examples of ready-made solutions, viewing which can be a good help when choosing a combination of wallpaper.