Curtains in the living room 2019: current models and colors

The attractive interior of the living room is one of the most important points in creating the whole image of the home. After all, it is the living room that is the common family room, it gathers the whole family in the evenings, takes guests at the weekend, serves as a place for noisy parties or quiet gatherings. If the interior of a bedroom or a nursery can go unnoticed by most guests, the design of the living room always comes to the fore. And in creating not only a practical, functional, but also a stylish, modern image of a family room, every detail is important. One of such important missions is the design of windows in the living room. The shape and dimensions, the method of execution and the color scheme of window drapery largely shape the image of the entire room, affect the choice of other interior items, their colors and textures.

Before moving on to acquaintance with the most popular models of curtains for the living room, let's determine what factors generally affect the choice of window drapery:

• the size of the room (in particular - the height of the ceiling);
• the number, shape and size of window openings;
• room style and overall color scheme;
• the choice of colors for wall decoration (plain or with print);
• the prevailing color scheme of the main furniture items (upholstery of sofas and armchairs);
• your preferences in colors that are pleasant for the eye and the desire to fit the color scheme of the curtains into the overall picture of the interior or to highlight them with the help of color, pattern, texture.

Using textile for windows, it is possible to achieve not only the basic functions of protecting the room from sunlight and prying eyes, but also changing the visual representation of both window openings and the entire room. For example, you can visually increase the height of the ceiling using long straight curtains (from the highest point to the floors), a print with vertical stripes. A similar effect can be achieved for a visual increase in the window bus and the volume of the entire room - using horizontal stripes.

The modern style of room decoration is conciseness and simplicity, a rejection of excessive luxury in favor of personal comfort. But no one has canceled the creation of a cozy, homely atmosphere. Moreover, for the living room has a pleasant atmosphere is a must. The use of textiles is an important part of creating a cozy room image. Windows without draperies, of course, have become one of the trends in modern design, but is such a design technique suitable for Russian apartments and houses?

The most popular model of window drapery for many years is considered traditional or classical cut - rectangular canvases freely falling in vertical folds from the ceiling to the floor of the room. This is a universal way to design a window of any shape and size. Traditional curtains organically fit both in the design of a small-sized living room and in the interior of a spacious room with several windows. The universality of the traditional curtain model also lies in the fact that such a drapery of windows will be appropriate in any stylistic direction of interior design - from classic stylistics to ultramodern options.

One of the most popular options for using traditional curtains is to layout them with translucent curtains. This classic tandem provides not only the functional component of window drapery - it protects the space from the sun and prying eyes, but also makes it possible to create a different atmosphere of the living room - from full natural light to absolute darkness.Not to mention the fact that the combination of a light light tulle with blackout curtains looks amazing even in the most trivial color scheme.

Traditional curtains can be wide, move along the sides of the window into many vertical folds or be narrow canvas, performing an exclusively decorative role. Classical curtains can be decorated with original grips, create cascading folds or use a combination of fabrics of various colors and textures within one window ensemble. But all these design techniques are more likely to apply to classic trends in interior design. Modern style advocates simplicity and even minimalism in the use of textiles for decorating rooms.

Traditional curtains can be varied by combining materials that are different in color or texture. At the same time, different textiles can be combined both diagonally and vertically. The wide vertical border on the canvases will help not only bring color diversity into the curtain composition, but also visually “stretch” the image of the window up, thereby increasing the visual height of the living room ceiling.

In addition to the variety in the performance of the canvases of traditional curtains themselves, you can add originality to window drapery by attaching the fabric to the cornice or other supporting devices:

• on hooks;
• on clips of various designs;
• on loops;
• to the eyeballs;
• on grommets made of plastic or metal;
• stringing fabric on a cornice;
• throwing long canvases through the cornice;
• the method of attaching the paintings can be hidden behind the lambrequin.

Traditional curtains mounted on grommets do not lose popularity. Plastic, but more often metal rings, providing not only smooth sliding of the canvases along the ledge, but also a uniform distribution of vertical folds, fell in love with the Russians. On grommets, canvases of different fabrics can be attached, plain and with a pattern, dense and thin. The practicality and conciseness of this curtain model is difficult to deny.

And you can hide the way the curtains are attached to the cornice or string - close the top of the curtain composition with a lambrequin - a horizontal rectangle of fabric in a rigid or frameless design. In modern design projects of living rooms, you can often find narrow hard lambrequins in a concise design. If earlier they were intended to hide the flaws in the manufacture of a window frame, decoration or fastening of curtains to a cornice, nowadays lambrequins play an exclusively decorative role and help to effectively complete a curtain composition. Especially spectacular curtains with a lambrequin look in the design of the windows of the bay window, emphasizing the forms of the original architectural solution.

It is enough to add interceptions with brushes or any other decorative elements to traditional curtains to bring notes of classicism into the interior of the living room. This technique can be used in the preparation of the modern design of the room, interior in the style of shabby chic, Provence or romanticism. But the most organic curtains with hooks will look in the living room, decorated in neo-classic style.

In second place in popularity in the design of the living room windows are Roman curtains - fabric canvases that are collected in horizontal folds. Their width is usually equal to the size of the window. They can also be used for windows of various shapes and sizes, combined with other models of curtains and curtains. Roman curtains can be made in textiles of any texture, color and quality.

Roman curtains are divided into frame and frameless. The names speak for themselves - frame curtains have a rigid fixation of horizontal warehouses, in frameless models the fabric is collected in smooth, not fixed rigidly folds. Depending on the fabric chosen and the way the window is decorated (solo or complete with traditional curtains), both models are used in modern living rooms.

There is a small list of color schemes for curtains in the living room that will always be relevant, regardless of the style of interior design, the number and size of windows:

• all shades of white (look especially impressive against the background of colored walls, print finishes);
• the whole palette of gray shades - from light silver to deep graphite;
• a wide range of shades of beige - warm natural tones always create a favorable atmosphere in a common, family room.

If you are not confident in your design abilities or just want to create a neutral atmosphere in the living room, then feel free to choose one of the three proposed options. For instance, light curtains relevant at all times, they give any interior a touch of a formal, festive, but at the same time light and bright atmosphere. Light curtains easily harmonize with any color design of other interior items with textiles - upholstery of upholstered furniture, carpet.

Darkdense curtains - Ideal for drapery windows in the living room of medium and large sizes. You will not only receive reliable protection of the room from sunlight and unwanted views from the street, but also a contrasting combination that brings some drama to the character of the room.

Beige shades almost always harmoniously fit into any style of interior design. It doesn’t matter what size the living room has - warm, light tones will organically look both in a small room and in a spacious living room. Beige tones can be easily combined with wooden surfaces of any color scheme - from the lightest pine species to deep, dark wenge tones.

Noble shades gray color for several seasons at the peak of popularity - the execution of window drapery for the living room was no exception. Gray color is incredibly universal - it is easy to combine it with any color scheme of decoration, execution of basic furniture and the rest of the living room textile. At the same time, gray has practically no shades that could irritate or somehow negatively affect our psyche. The neutrality of the gray palette plays into the hands of novice designers or those who simply do not want to take risks in choosing color solutions for their living room.

If you choose the cloth for curtains with drawing, then the monophonic wall decoration will become the optimal background for such a drapery. This unwritten rule applies more to traditional curtain models than to Roman draperies, which act as a component of a window ensemble, instead of curtains.