Living room 2016 - keep pace with the times

A modern living room is light and spaciousness, functionality and comfort, convenience and visual appeal. Current trends in the design of the main room in an apartment or a private house harmoniously combine a minimalist atmosphere with bright furniture, modest decor with ultramodern materials. The abundance of natural and artificial lighting allows the use of bright and dark contrasts, giving the design of the room a special structure and geometricity.

In modern design projects, it is less and less common to see the use of traditional wallpaper for our compatriots with a pattern, which had recently been glued to the walls in every second living room in our country. Embossed wallpaper or embossed liquid wallpaper can be used to finish accent wall. But most often there is the usual painting of perfectly even and smooth surfaces, mainly in bright colors.

The use of environmentally friendly finishing materials is becoming increasingly widespread not only in Europe and America, but also in the vastness of our country. An increasing number of homeowners when choosing finishing materials pay attention to toxicity indicators, carefully study the composition and characteristics of raw materials and finished products. Modern analogues of natural materials can not only effectively imitate the natural pattern and texture, but also not cause harm to humans and the environment.

A perfectly smooth and even ceiling surface is easiest to achieve with the help of suspended and suspended structures. They become the most popular type of ceiling decoration in modern living rooms. The use of several levels of the suspended ceiling becomes more simplified, complex designs disappear, leaving options that help zoning the room with local lighting.

The use of wooden ceiling beams is relevant not only in living rooms located in country houses. In urban apartments, such a ceiling design will bring a touch of rural life to the modern design and the warmth of natural materials (or their successful artificial counterparts).

The snow-white wall decoration in the living room is out of time and fashion. This is the most popular, but, like all ingenious, is a simple way to design vertical surfaces, which will be an excellent background for any furniture and decor. Not only for small rooms, but also for spacious, bright rooms, white becomes the basis for creating a light and airy image of a family room.

Even in a room with absolutely white walls, it is possible to highlight an accent wall - using texture. For example, masonry or brickwork can be covered with the same basic color of decoration as the rest of the walls.

The influence of eco-style on the creation of a modern living room interior is inexorable. As a result, design elements that are more likely to be typical for family rooms in suburban dwellings become the highlight of urban spaces. A floor board laid in the most traditional version is a popular option for flooring.

Parquet flooring is always in trend. A durable and environmentally friendly coating with a traditional arrangement of elements with a herringbone pattern will look harmoniously in any living room design.

In combination with the snow-white walls and ceiling, the dark wenge-colored flooring looks great. This color choice allows you to visually increase the height of the ceiling of the room.In order for the dark color of the floors not to press emotionally on those present in the room, for the soft area of ​​the living room it is better to use carpet in neutral, bright colors.

Facing floors with porcelain stoneware or stone tiles will be relevant for living rooms located in private homes. Particular practicality from the presence of such flooring can be extracted in rooms with access to the back patio.

The location of the parquet board or laminate diagonally will visually expand the space of the living room. Especially this design technique is relevant for narrow and long rooms.

The most popular color combinations for decorating modern rooms is the use of shades of white, gray and black, in a reasonable dosage of dark tones on a light background. To effectively raise the degree of color temperature of such “cool” interiors, wooden surfaces are best suited.

Upholstered furniture of warm, natural shades allows you to bring a little coziness and warmth to the snow-white room, so necessary for living quarters. As a rule, furniture of beige, sand and chocolate shades is used for such purposes.

It is difficult to imagine a more neutral color than gray and its various shades. The gray tone allows not only to create a safe atmosphere from any point of view in the room, but depending on the shade, give the space elegance, lightness or severity.

Against the snow-white background of the walls, black furniture and decor look especially expressive, contrasting. The result is always a modern and dynamic image of the room. Perhaps for some homeowners this design will not seem cozy enough, close to the office decoration. To eliminate such a bright contrast and the scarcity of the used palette, you can add a bright carpet or use a colorful shade to decorate upholstered furniture with decorative pillows.

No one will argue that upholstered furniture is the face of any living room. In many respects, the whole image of the living room depends on the appearance of sofas and armchairs, their constructive and color solutions. But not only the aesthetics of upholstered furniture should be on top; to create a modern, practical and comfortable room, it is necessary to choose functional and ergonomic models. Comfortable sofas and armchairs, which will comfortably accommodate not only households, but also guests at home, should also be easy to care for.

Large corner sofas are the undisputed leaders among the options for arranging a soft sitting area in a modern living room. There are a lot of models of this configuration - consisting of modules, sliding to provide owners or their guests with extra beds, with storage boxes in the lower part of the frame, with adjustable backrest level and removable armrests.

The use of poufs with a rigid frame and soft upholstery allows you to expand the functionality of the soft sitting area of ​​the living room. For family gatherings, you can use pouffes as coasters and even coffee tables, and for receptions guests can expand the number of seats.

As a rule, in the design projects of living rooms in recent years, we see upholstered furniture in plain color schemes. But for a room with a total light finish, furniture with motley upholstery is quite applicable. The original ornament or bright pattern of textiles can radically transform the boring and even sterile atmosphere of a snow-white living room.

The modern living room is a multifunctional room, which often acts as a library. The most organic storage option in this case would be an open bookcase.Combined systems look original in which in the upper part there are open shelves for storing items that the owners want to flaunt, and in the lower tier there are closed lockers for items that need to be hidden.

For small living rooms there is a wonderful way to organize storage systems without the cost of precious square meters. You can place the built-in closed cabinets under the ceiling of the room. If the facades of the storage systems are executed in bright colors, then their abundance and solidity will not be striking. Of course, this method is suitable for spaces with ceilings above average parameters.

In most living room design projects, low chests of drawers or closed module cabinets act as storage systems. Typically, such items of furniture are located under the TV.

The coziness and comfort of the living room is always associated with the warmth and coziness of the family hearth. It is this atmosphere that brings the presence of a fireplace to any room. The current hearth can not only warm households, but also bring traditional aesthetics to the interior of the living room. But, like any design element, the appearance and functionality of fireplaces change over time. An electric fireplace becomes an integral attribute of living rooms in city apartments, where the organization of an existing hearth with a chimney is difficult.

 

The presence of the fireplace and the upholstered furniture symmetrically relative to it and its attributes bring echoes of classical style to the modern interior of the living room. A coffee table in the center, identical sofas on either side of it, symmetrically arranged floor or table floor lamps - the traditional layout of the recreation area gives the fashionable design rigor and structure.

The influence of high-tech style leaves its mark even on such a traditional element of the living room interior as a fireplace. Modern materials, coupled with the manufacturability of interior elements, create modern models of hearths for any living room design.

The lighting system plays for the living room not only its main role - ensuring a sufficient level of illumination of certain zones of space, but also serves as a decor and zoning element. Each segment of the living room needs its own level of illumination, which allows not only to perform certain actions, but also creates the necessary atmosphere. That is why the lighting system of a family room is not limited to a central chandelier or a system of fixtures built into the ceiling. This is especially true of living rooms, combined with other functional areas of the home - a kitchen, dining room, study or library.

Even the most neutral and inconspicuous interior of the living room can transform a large luxurious chandelier with many decorative elements. But, given some conservatism of modern stylistics, such a colorful and impressive object in the interior should be one.

Modern lighting fixtures are often used in design projects of living rooms as a decor, in addition to their main purpose. Not only the most beautiful chandeliers, but also the original floor lamps, table lamps or wall sconces can transform the interior of the room.

In modern living rooms you can so often find a completely neutral palette of finishes and furnishings that spaces literally need a sip of juicy and bright color. To dilute the color scheme and create a more comfortable atmosphere of the living room, you can’t come up with a better option than living indoor plants in small pots and large-sized tubs.

The living room, which is connected to the kitchen and dining room using an open plan, is a frequent design technique applicable to both city apartments and country houses.This arrangement of functional segments allows you to place a maximum of working areas on a minimum number of square meters and at the same time maintain a sense of freedom, spaciousness.

As a rule, the living room, combined with the kitchen and dining room, has one finishing option, which combines the entire space into a single whole. For color zoning, it is fashionable to use the accent wall method and design one of the living room surfaces in a contrasting, colorful version.

An original way of highlighting one of the functional areas of a combined room is to remove a segment from the glass. As a result, one of the zones appears on the open terrace and the owners of the apartment have the opportunity to eat in the fresh air and at the same time see what is happening in the living room or kitchen.

The placement of the office area in the living room can also often be found in modern design projects. Often, there is no need or opportunity to organize a separate room for a home office. Within the living room, to design a workplace, it is necessary to allocate a little useful space, it is best to give a space near the window for the organization of a mini-cabinet.

In new-generation living rooms, window decoration is often either absent altogether or presented in subtle, translucent versions. Light snow-white tulle or linen cuts of a simple cut, cotton textiles in a monophonic version are the most common window decoration options.