Decoration of the living room

It's good or bad, but we are accustomed to invest more in the apartment in the apartment, which is visible and accessible to everyone who visits us. That is why the design of the living room takes away so much strength, time and money.

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Ideas for drawing up the living room
Photo of the living room decoration

This room is obliged to perform several functions at once. There should be a place for a recreation area with comfortable chairs and a cozy sofa, which is likely to serve to someone from your family place of night rest. Most Russians in the living room are satisfied with crowded feasts. There is also a home library, often a work area. Thus, the design of the living room in the apartment must be taken with all responsibility, to call for help to common sense and cold calculation.

You can choose the options for decorating the living room by looking at the photos in our article. Here you can get acquainted with the fashion trends in the choice of the style of the drawing room, color scheme. But the most important thing you have to do yourself: decide on the furniture you need only for you and its arrangement.

The most reasonable, draw on the sheet of paper a reduced plan of the room and on the same scale with the help of pieces of paper to represent large-sized furniture. After playing in the children's designer( or in the sea battle, if you like), you can clearly imagine what and how to place when decorating the living room.

Ideas for drawing up the living room

It is worthwhile to dwell on some ideas for decorating the living room, which will not be burdensome for the family budget, but will give your house a special chic and uniqueness.

The oldest and most fashionable is the presence of a fireplace in the room. Chimney in modern high-rise buildings can not be organized, but it is quite possible to make a fireplace from plasterboard with their own hands. It is not a bad idea to place an electric fireplace in the resulting niche, but if this is not economically acceptable, then several large candles of different heights and shapes will fit that will easily create a private atmosphere in the evening.

For those who do not like to bother with the perfect wall alignment, there is good news: the fashion for decorating the living room with wallpaper has returned, which, when using several patterns in one color range, yields excellent results. The optimal option to purchase three types of wallpaper from one collection: monochrome, in bright stripes and with large floral ornament. The latter will fit in the recreation area behind the sofa, the striped ones are appropriate between the bookshelves and the cabinets. Monochrome will not distract attention from the TV.Details of this material can be found in the article: wallpaper for the living room.

Flooring in a room that is often a walk-through is best done from an easily washable material: cork, laminate, linoleum. Recently, the apartments began to use self-leveling floors, which, thanks to original drawings and 3D graphics, allow to diversify the design of the living room( see photo).

Light plays an important role in creating the mood of any room. Combination of various light sources( central chandelier, floor lamp near the armchair, sconce from the sofa, lighting in the cupboards) will create a beautiful living room decoration, and the use of LED light sources will not only make your interior modern, but will also give real savings in electricity.

Modern trends in design of premises are inconceivable without abundant use of textiles: besides the usual decoration of windows and sofa cushions, mobile zoning is appropriate with the help of curtains separating the workplace from the going TV and giving at least the illusion of seclusion. Soft rugs and crocheted shawls should not be hidden in the cupboards - they can be a nice detail of the decor.