How to Choose the Style of Living Room Decoration

How to Properly Choose the Style of Living Room Decoration?

In design, there are small nuances and tricks that can be used to create a cozy atmosphere. For example, if the room faces away from the sunny side, it is better to decorate in light tones, unless you are creating a cozy ladies' boudoir for gossiping with social lions. Dark colors, heavy curtains, a small coffee table, and a soft sofa would be more suitable there.

How to Make a Small Room Visually Larger, and a Large Space More Cozy?

In interior design, as in choosing clothing, the well-known rule works: light colors make full, dark colors make lean. If you want to visually reduce the size of a room, choose dark colors, and vice versa.

Furniture that is built-in or compact and minimal in number will create a feeling of freedom and space, ornate and bulky furniture will add vintage charm and some flair, and visibly reduce the size of the room.

One of the most atmospheric elements of a cozy home can be a fireplace. A real fireplace, of course, is quite problematic to install in an ordinary apartment and dangerous. Fortunately, today electric fireplaces have gained wide popularity in the world. Some of them also bring aesthetic pleasure and heating to the home.

In winter, it is very cozy to curl up by the fireplace with a cup of aromatic coffee and an interesting book. In summer, such a fireplace will delight the soul and maybe even inspire you to sing a few campfire songs from Vysochensky's repertoire.

Photo 1 — An electric fireplace will become a warm symbol of the home hearth

For lovers of water, small room fountains in European or Eastern styles would be suitable. As they say, you can watch three things forever: fire, water, and... (and there your imagination will tell you whether it will be running clouds or rescue workers at Malibu Beach).

Along with aquarium fish, electric fireplaces and fountains will have a calming effect on the nervous system after a tough workday.

Photo 2 — Room fountains will give a feeling of calm

Photo 3 — Room fountains will give a feeling of calm

How to Properly Decorate a Living Room with a Niches?

Depending on the depth and width of the niche, we can use the space in different ways. Based on the available parameters, a small library, a home cinema, a sports corner, or a music zone (a convenient place for a piano) can be installed in the niche.

If the living room is also a child's bedroom, a separate sleeping area or a play corner can be set up in the niche.

A bookcase can be replaced with shelves, which today come in a huge variety, or open bookshelves. This way, the book space becomes more accessible and less bulky.

Photo 4 — A cozy bedroom and living room – 2 in 1

Photo 5 — Bookshelves today are a decoration element in the room

How to Choose Textile for a Living Room?

Heavy curtains or light sheer curtains will not suit a living room in a hi-tech or Eastern style, while they would look appropriate in a classic living room. In the first case, the ideal solution today are fashionable bamboo or roller curtains, which collect less dust and take up less space.

The same applies to carpets. By the way, wall-mounted carpets are already considered a fad. If there are small children or pets in the family, it is more convenient to choose carpets with short pile or made of bamboo – they are easier to clean and more hygienic. Although, we won’t argue that a bear’s skin goes very well with a fireplace...

For a room in an Eastern or Indian style with low furniture, various cushions that are easy to use for sitting would be suitable.

Photo 6 — Bamboo Curtains

Photo 7 — Roller Curtains

Molding

Certainly, the drawing of atlantes holding your ceiling will naturally interest guests, but it must definitely be combined with the overall style of the room. Overly ornate molding will completely remove the homey atmosphere from the room and add solemnity to it. Striking lines are neutral in nature and will suit almost any interior.

However, today modern materials (polyurethane instead of plaster) allow creating all kinds of forms in apartments of any size. It should be noted that large molding will suit large rooms, while small and few details look more harmonious in small spaces.

Photo 8 — Molding in Living Room Interior

Stone in Living Room Interior, or Tips from the House of the Stone Mountain

With proper use, stone will naturally and beautifully fit into the interior. Moreover, it is not necessary to use real stone. Today, nearly identical structure can be “sculpted” from modern materials.

Considering the variety of texture and color of the stone “canvas,” an appropriate sample can be found for the vast majority of styles.

Stone in the living room interior will add a certain piquancy and originality. In addition, decorative stone is easy to install, making its use even more attractive. For corner finishing, artificial stone of a uniform texture will be suitable, while stone mosaic will look interesting on the wall. Such décor will always draw attention.

If desired, a stylized stone pattern can be found on floor covering today – modern laminate is impressive with its variety of textures and colors. It should be noted, by the way, that a dark floor looks great with almost any color of furniture and wallpaper.

Photo 9 — Stone Walls

Photo 10 — Stone Walls

Chandeliers in Living Room Interior: The Sun of the Room

Certainly, no room can do without lighting, unless it's a storage room. So, how to properly choose light sources for the living room.

Let's remind you right away, those with low ceilings should stop thinking about hanging chandeliers with candelabras, and those with high ceilings – about small and flat room lamps. Everything should be appropriate for the place. In a living room, direct bright light should be avoided. Diffused light would be more appropriate here, and a separate table lamp or floor lamp for reading would be better.

For living rooms, sometimes during house design, a “second light” is used. This is a structure where the floor slab is absent. In a living room with second light, lighting is maximally close to reality. However, it should be noted that in such rooms, it will be significantly cooler, and therefore, the issue of thermal insulation and heating should be approached more carefully.

Photo 11 — Chandelier in Living Room Interior

Photo 12 — Chandelier in Living Room Interior

Photo 13 — Second Light

Interior of a Standard Living Room: Making a Hat from Nothing

Standard living room (also known as the standard apartment living room). In most cases, the living room of typical apartments is about 18 square meters. Usually, typical living rooms are decorated in a typical way, especially if the renovation was done several decades ago: sofa, large cabinet, possibly a wall with various shelves and compartments, chairs.

Frequently, typical apartments have 2 rooms, and therefore the living room serves not only as a relaxation room but also as someone's bedroom. Therefore, the room should be decorated taking into account its functions.

A ready-made variant of decoration is zoning, dividing the room into a bedroom zone and a relaxation zone. A great divider will be a closed or open bookshelf, cabinet, or partition.

Photo 14 — Zoning the Living Room

Photo 15 — Zoning the Living Room

Living Room Design with Gypsum Board – New Trends in Fashion

Gypsum board has long ceased to be something unfamiliar in apartment renovations. Today, gypsum board is used to lower and level ceilings and walls, to cover door frames. It is also used to build new walls and partitions, and to create all kinds of structures.

Living room design with gypsum board – wide possibilities for creativity and relatively low material costs. With the help of gypsum board, niches, arches, shelves, columns and other elements are created in rooms.

Photo 16 — Living Room Made of Gypsum Board

Frescoes in Living Room Interior – Room or Art Gallery?

The new trend in apartment decoration – frescoes. Actually, everything new is just well-forgotten old. And frescoes in the living room and other spaces are not so much a new trend as the revival of interest in old customs for decorating homes.

Thanks to the development of technology, today frescoes are not only painted on wet plaster. Such methods as transferring digital images onto plaster and then processing them by artists, frescoes on canvas, felt, etc., have also developed.

For a living room, designers recommend choosing urban landscapes, rural scenes, and nature images. By their nature, a fresco will fit into any interior style; the key is to choose the image and design of the fresco correctly.

Photo 17 — Fresco for Movie Lovers

Mirrors in Living Room Interior. Shine, My Mirror, Tell Me...

Mirrors, fortunately, have long ceased to be a luxury item, and the variety of forms, sizes, and mirror decorations will satisfy even the most refined taste.

Mirrors in the living room interior will become an excellent addition not only from a functional point of view but also aesthetically. When placing mirrors, one should keep in mind their capabilities. A mirror can visually enlarge a small room and make the space brighter.

Today, one of the design trends can be called mirror pseudo-skylights, although this phenomenon has not yet gained mass popularity. Large mirrors can simply be placed against the wall. Small mirrors with printed designs will make a good alternative to paintings. To add French charm to the room, it is worth ordering a fake window – a mirror in a carved frame that resembles a window.

Thus, it can be concluded that mirrors in interior design have become not only a convenience but also a decoration element.

Photo 18 — Mirror Pseudo-Skylight

Photo 19 — Fake Window