Hall interior design: how to choose wallpaper

The functions of the living room in modern realities are not limited to receiving guests. The interior of the hall should have a front view and at the same time be cozy. In this room, all family members gather in the evenings in the evening to watch TV together, do handicrafts and socialize, and sometimes the living room serves as a bedroom, a study, and a library. Therefore, it is important to choose the right wallpaper for the hall - After all, the design of the walls carries the main burden in creating the style and mood of the living room. The interior of the hall should also be respectable so that it is possible to accept not only relatives and relatives: in Russia, the tradition is indestructible to celebrate birthdays (and sometimes weddings) in the home, and the design of the room should match the solemnity moment.

Choose a color - choose a style

Before choosing a wallpaper for the hall, you should decide on the style of the decorated room. It is important that the design of the living room does not contradict the appearance of the entire apartment. If the kitchen is decorated in hi-tech style, then the interior of the hall with country notes or Provence will violate unity and harmony, and this is fraught with a loss of emotional comfort. It has long been known that chaos outside contributes to the disorder within us.

Therefore, it is worth choosing the style of the living room in accordance with the design concept of the other rooms of the apartment. Each design direction has its own recommendations regarding the color, pattern and texture of wall decoration.

When choosing wallpaper, the color of the facades and the design of the furniture should be taken into account.

Minimalism

There are several design areas based on the principles of this style (high-tech, Japanese, Scandinavian minimalism, etc.), but all of them have a restrained color scheme, including:

• White color;
• the black;
• Gray;
• shades of brown.

The interior of the hall in a minimalist style looks original and modern. Monochrome walls don't have to look gloomy and boring: right wallpaper combination in the hall allows you to achieve the effect of strict sophistication and chic. In minimalism, gluing on the walls of different wallpapers is allowed - companion colors can be contrasting (white - black) or vary by 1-2 tones (gray - white). An application technique is often used: zoning by wallpapering in a contrasting color of not the entire wall, but part of it: the TV zone, sofa, the space between the windows.

In recent years, the popularity of black wallpaper. Such extravagant fashionable wallpaper for the hall is chosen by creative people, prone to shocking. The assortment is quite wide: a picture with a predominance of black, pure black with embossed texture, black with gold. The latter is perfect for the young neo-baroque style.

For black wallpapers there is a rule: they should be glued no more than half the area of ​​the walls.

For Slavic peoples, black is traditionally associated with sadness and dark forces, so it should be used carefully. Excess black in the interior creates a mood of gloomy depression, you need a special flair and taste to stay on the verge of elegant lightness or solemn severity.

In order to choose the right companion wallpaper and place emphasis, an inexperienced designer should be familiar with a photo catalog of a specialized studio or a thematic site, "try on" samples on the features of the layout, geometry, lighting of their the hall.

Classical directions: baroque, rococo, pure classics

The classic design of the living room is characterized by discreet luxury. Wallpaper for the hall should be noble pastel colors:

• Ivory.

• Delicate peach.

• Light pistachio.

• Coffee with milk.

A small floral ornament is allowed. Splendors of gold or bronze add splendor to the classical style - imitation of brocade fabric is appropriate in the same way as textile wallpaper.

The varieties of the old classic baroque, rococo interior are characterized by stucco decorations and paintings in the same frames on the walls. This effect can be achieved in the hall if two types of wall coverings are combined: on the walls, pasted with plain wallpaper, make out squares or rectangles of a more saturated color or with patterned. To mask the joints and achieve greater similarity with the pictures, the perimeter inserts are glued with polyurethane or foam molding. Wall baguettes should have a pair: the design of the junction of the walls and ceiling should be similar, and for heavy Baroque moldings can be selected for the formation of pilasters (false columns), desyuporta (decorations over the door opening).

The colors of precious metals can be present on the wallpaper when decorating the hall in any of the old styles:

• White, dairy with gold - in the classic design of the living room.
• Blue with gold or silver - used in exquisite rococo.
• Juicy green, burgundy-red wallpapers with gold, bronze are chosen by lovers of magnificent baroque.

Classics are characterized by high ceilings, so wallpapers with vertical stripes will help the low room visually “grow”.

It should be noted that for the living room should be considered, as far as possible, finishing materials of a high price category. The more expensive the wallpaper for the room, the more respectably the room they are decorated looks. The price-quality ratio in this segment of the market of finishing materials is the most adequate: expensive wallpapers are easier to glue, they better hide wall imperfections, are more resistant to abrasion and fading. Featured types of wallpaper for the hall:

• non-woven;
• vinyl;
• textile;
• natural (cork, bamboo wallpaper).

Rustic style for the hall

It may seem to some that country style not for the living room. Indeed, one of her appointments is the front hall, in which guests with semi-official status are sometimes received. However, lovers of a distinctive culture and floral prints on wallpaper can breathe a sigh of relief: framed with a modern living room in a rustic style will leave a pleasant impression on the most demanding guest. Wallpaper options:

• Provence. Wallpaper with pastel colors with a small floral pattern give a feeling of cleanliness, freshness and comfort.

• English country. The traditional cell on the wallpaper will bring gentleman respectability into the interior of the hall.

• For Russian and Scandinavian styles, wallpapers with imitation of natural wood or unplastered walls are suitable.

Rural design makes it possible to use wallpaper companions for zoning, accenting or correction. You can combine paintings with different patterns:

• small floral print - plain wallpaper or large flowers;
• imitation of natural stone - unplastered walls;
• brick drawing - wood.

Properly selected decor items will bring a festive look into the interior of the hall, in which it is not a shame to receive guests. The aged beams on the ceiling, heavy furniture made of natural wood can create the atmosphere of an old castle or a rich estate. For the rustic style of the living room, the main thing is not to overload it with details, so that the room does not resemble a junk shop. It is worth looking at the ideas of designers in the photo catalog to make sure that the rustic-style living room is warmth, comfort and... aristocracy.

Butt or lap

For an impeccable look of the walls, you need not only to choose the right color, pattern, texture of wallpaper, but also the technique for gluing them.

In the era of paper wallpapers, only the “overlap” method was used for wall decoration, when each next strip was glued with its edge to the edge of the previous one. For this purpose, the manufacturer left the paths blank on the edges of the canvas. The marking on the edge of the wallpaper made it possible to evenly and simultaneously stick strips one after another. The edge, which was on top, had to be cut off manually, which was the most routine stage of work.

Now you cannot see such marking tracks even on paper canvases, but the overlap option is sometimes used. Most often it is used when gluing rooms with thin paper wallpaper, since they are not able to stretch and ensure the absence of gaps between the strips when gluing butt-to-butt. Overlapping can be found when renting out new buildings with budget housing - to finish such objects, the contractor often uses cheap paper wallpaper, rightly assuming that the tenants will still, after a maximum of one year, make cosmetic repairs to their taste and remove the decoration coating.

It is interesting that the rule to start wallpapering from the window went precisely because of this method: the light illuminated the difference between the sheets, and the seams were less noticeable.

The interior of the hall, including the decoration of the walls, should speak only good things about its owners, therefore wallpaper for the hall glues butt to butt. This method makes the seams invisible, giving the wallpaper on the walls the appearance of a solid canvas.

Kitsch is also an option.

There are a great many styles of design in the design of rooms, all of them suggest unity and harmony of wall decoration with other participants in the concept: floor, ceiling, furniture. What to do if among the huge variety we liked beautiful wallpapers that cannot be combined with the available details in the hall?

Of course to buy! Indeed, the main thing is not the opinion of others about the quality of taste of the owner of the apartment, but personal comfort and satisfaction. Let the wallpaper under the skin of a snake or caiman not fit into the interior of the hall against the backdrop of simple furniture, you can always reassure yourself that kitsch is already a full-fledged trend in interior design.