Designing a small living room is more troublesome than decorating a large guest room. It is necessary to carefully approach the choice and location of furniture, which, moreover, must meet the tastes of all residents of the apartment. Choose the right lighting, as this will help to illusory increase the space of the room. And there are still a lot of nuances that need to be worked out. Let's consider some of them in this article.
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Let's play with the color scheme of a small living room
The design of a small living room involves the use of light shades of warm colors. This technique will make it possible to visually enlarge the space of a small room.
The best option would be choice when buying furniture and interior items. But do not dwell on the choice of only this color. Juicy colors, combined with white, will help to decorate the room and make it brighter and not so boring.
In addition to the basic white color, yellow, pink or green shades of flowers can become. You can also use the monochrome design technique for a small living room. Combination of white and black , interspersed with additional colors, illusoryly enlarge the room, making it more spacious. Many refuse this option for the living room, comparing it with the office design option.
If it is decided to paste over a small living room with wallpaper, then preference should be given to light and, preferably, plain wallpaper ... You need to refrain from buying canvas with large drawings.
An excellent solution for a small living room would be use instead of wide arch doors ... This technique will visually increase the space of the room. Large windows will help to add spaces, which can be decorated with transparent curtains in white, blue-white or light green. A sofa in light shades can be placed near the window.
Furniture made of glass, glossy stretch ceilings, the presence of mirrors, which can be used to decorate an entire wall or ceiling, will help solve the problem of lack of space.
Photo of the interiors of a small living room
Design of a small hall by Maria Mezentseva
Choosing a style for a small living room
The design of a small living room will largely depend on the choice of interior style. Style will help to visually enlarge the space thanks to the use of large mirrors. Achieving the required effect is possible due to a large window, which can even be left uncovered if the apartment is located on the upper floors of the building.
Eco style in the design of the living room of small sizes, it is presented in gray-beige tones. The accent of this style is wooden furniture and interior items that convey natural forms as deeply as possible. It is also better to choose curtains on the windows of natural origin, for example, textured linen.
A small decorated living room will always look fashionable. It is not at all necessary to clutter up the room with appropriate headsets. It is better to focus on small details such as lamps, window openings.
You can create an original design for a small living room in an apartment using pale-colored tones. The center of attention can be poufs-bags or other peculiar things that will attract attention: interestingly decorated chandeliers, figurines. The main thing is not to clutter up an already small room with them.
Very often, a small living room serves as a dining area. In this case, a large table is replaced by a conventional bar counter, which also helps to economically use space.
Monochrome style in the design of a small-sized living room, it most often involves the choice of accessories in dark colors, which can be a continuation of the color scheme of curtains.
How to furnish a tiny living room with furniture
When choosing furniture for a small living room, you need to start from the minimum. Furniture, first of all, should be practical and multifunctional. The main selection criteria should be:
- The most common style for decorating small spaces is minimalism.
- Use of furniture decorated in light colors.
- Selection of small furniture sizes. It is worth giving up large and massive furniture.
- The choice of contrasting furniture based on "small-large": small sofa - large armchair, etc.
- The use of transforming furniture options that will help save space in the room: modular sofas, folding tables, cube chairs.
- Mirror panels, glossy cabinet fronts will be an excellent solution to increase space.
- Glass furniture that conveys a sense of airiness will help not overload the space of a small living room and help make it more elegant.
