Wall design in a living room
The living room is the heart of the house. In the living room, we receive guests or gather in the evenings in the family circle in front of the TV. This is a place where each member of the family should feel comfortable. Therefore, making repairs in the living room, you need to be guided not only by fashion trends in the field of finishing materials, but also take into account the wishes of those people who will live in the house.
How to choose the color of the walls for the living room
To choose the color of the walls for the living room, it is necessary to take into account the following factors:
- side of the horizon on which there is a drawing room;
- furniture color;
- individual preferences of residents.
To make the living room look harmonious, you need to choose the color of the walls, depending on how the room is located.
If the living room windows face the north side, which is deprived of the amount of sunlight, then the ideal solution would be to fill the living room walls with this light. Pastel shades of warm colors: yellow, orange, peach, mustard or olive can do this task perfectly. Such color options can also be used if the windows do not face north, but are very shaded by trees.
If the living room windows face the south side, it will be much more appropriate to make it in colder shades.
Choosing the color of the walls for the living room, you need to take into account the color of the furniture with which it will subsequently be filled. Depending on what elements of the living room will be emphasized, deciding on the choice of color will be quite simple.
If you want to make furniture an accent of the living room interior, then try to choose a color for the walls against which the furniture will contrast. So, for example, if dark furniturethen the walls should be calm light tones. And vice versa, if the furniture is light, then for walls it is better to choose saturated bright colors.
The accent of the living room can be a design panel, picture on the wall or the original carpet on the floor. In this case, it is better to avoid the contrast of walls and furniture, to withstand them in one color, even in different colors. Such a move will allow not to clutter up the interior with an abundance of colors and will help to highlight exactly that fragment of the interior, which should become the center of attention.
In order for all family members to be comfortable in the living room, when choosing a color, you need to take into account the wishes of each of them. And even if at the stage of discussing the future color it is not possible to come to a common opinion, it will always be possible to find a compromise solution, which everyone will be satisfied with.
A good solution for a compromise color design may be the option of combining colors in the interior. When one wall or part of it is framed in one color and the other in another.
What is better to choose wallpaper or paint
Even at the planning stage, the question may arise: what is better clad walls? With the abundance of finishing materials that can be found today in construction stores, paint and wallpaper remain the most popular for interior decoration.
Making a choice between this or that material, it is also necessary to consider what will be the interior decoration of the living room after repair. Indeed, for textured wallpapers or print wallpapers, you will need to select the appropriate interior items. That is why in most cases, preference is given to monotonous wallpaper without a pronounced texture or paint.
How to make walls expressive
In order to make the walls more expressive, you can apply moldings. With their help, you can make an additional line of ceiling moldings, which will give the room a feeling of higher ceilings. You can divide the area of the walls into rectangular or square sections.
Such a decision will give the interior a certain aristocracy, because earlier stucco molding from gypsum was used to decorate palaces.
Minimalism in detail
In order to give the interior of the living room a visual weightlessness, it is enough to complete the walls in a minimalist style. Refuse the use of moldings, stucco moldings and other elements that load the walls. Such a decision will make the lines of the walls of the living room more clear.
Wall with fireplace
At all times, the fireplace was considered a symbol of warmth, comfort and hearth. It’s great if there is a fireplace in your house. What to do if you want to create a fireplace, but the layout of the house does not provide for the creation of a chimney, let alone apartments, in which there is no question of any fireplace.
But there is a way out, and today anyone can decorate the living room of their house with a fireplace. It can be done using drywall. This may be a design with a niche, providing for the installation of an artificial fireplace. Or a completely decorative design that does not carry any functional load.
A wall with a fireplace will certainly become the center of attention in your living room, because they always attracted people's views.
The use of natural materials for decorating the walls of the living room
Another bright accent of the living room can be one of the main walls, trimmed with natural material. Most often, stone or wood is used for these purposes.
An interior with such an element will create a feeling of primitiveness and unity with nature, since from time immemorial it was wood and stone that were used to build the dwelling.
Plasterboard living room wall decor
Today you can meet more and more adherents of the style of minimalism. This style will make the living room more spacious. Well, for trifles pleasant to the heart, whether it is a commemorative figurine or a photo frame, you can always build a niche from drywall and make a spotlight in it, which will add mystery to the interior. In addition to the niche, you can also build a shelf on which you can also place memorable souvenirs.
