Wallpaper for Living Room

Wallpaper for Living Room Walls: Material

What material of wallpaper is best suited for the living room? The answer is clear: washable wallpaper. Since the area of the entrance hall and corridor is subject to contamination just as frequently as the kitchen. You should have the ability to wash away dirt and dust that gets on the surface of the covering in a timely manner without harming the appearance of the wallpaper.

It is also possible to use a combination of wallpapers, outlining the most "problematic" points in the entrance hall with washable wallpapers and other types of wallpapers for areas that are difficult to reach.

What Wallpaper to Use in the Living Room?

Ignoring trendy liquid wallpapers, we can say that it is recommended to use:

• vinyl wallpapers (any type on a flocked backing, but not flocked!);
• glass wallpapers;
• linkrusta will do;
• you can cover walls with any wallpapers suitable for painting;
• for decoration - natural wallpapers (bamboo, for example).

What Wallpapers to Avoid Using in the Living Room?

It is not recommended to use textile wallpapers because such an expensive covering in the living room unfortunately will not last long.

Photo 1 — Wallpaper for Living Room BorasTapeter

Wallpaper for Living Room in Apartment: Taste and Color...

The color of the wallpaper for the living room is another somewhat problematic question, which we will try to clarify.

The living room can rightly be called a buffer zone between a dusty and hurried street and a cozy living space. In our regions, it is not customary to walk around the house in outdoor shoes, just as it is not customary to wash asphalt with soap daily. Therefore, all the dirt brought into the apartment on boots and shoes should stay in the living room along with the boots and shoes. That is why white living rooms are extremely impractical, as well as most other light variants (IF, once again, you do not cover the wall with washable wallpaper).

Using overly dark wallpapers is also not recommended - for a small living room in a "Khrushchyovka" black, dark blue, saturated purple, and similar colors will be equivalent to a headshot: you will lose the view and perception of the space permanently. In addition, dark wallpapers require more lighting, which affects electricity bills.

The golden mean for a narrow small living room is warm floral tones or moderately patterned wallpapers (preferably with a light base and dark elements - contrast patterns, designs). Dark spots will help hide dirt that has settled at the root of the coating, and a light-colored background will prevent the living room from turning into a gloomy crypt.

Photo 2 — Wallpaper for Living Room Cole & Son, model Absence of Rose 86-4015

Photo wallpapers are also a good option. Favorite panoramic pictures in light or cool tones, printed on wide-format printers, can visually "open" the walls. Photo wallpapers in saturated warm tones, on the contrary, visually narrow the room. A narrow and tall living room can be enclosed in wallpapers to the half-wall, combining wall covering with a stylish wall frame made from ceiling cornices. Such an arrangement can become a kind of landscape painting. To increase the space in the living room, you can also place a large mirror on the wall height so that it reflects the photo wallpaper from the opposite wall.

What Wallpaper to Choose for a Living Room: Changing Space with Wall Covering

Options for decorating walls for any type of living room:

• if there is little light in the living room - use a combination: dark wallpapers for the lower part of the wall, and lighter ones for the upper part; the joints are covered with a contrasting border;

Practicality of this method: Dark-colored wallpaper for the lower part of the living room wall will play a protective role against all kinds of contamination, and light-colored upper part will add missing light to the interior, thereby expanding the space.

• if there is little space in the living room - use wallpapers in cool tones (blue, light blue fabrics), as these colors visually "expand" the room;
• if there is a lot of space in the living room - cover the walls with wallpapers in saturated tones or fabrics with large but not bright patterns;
• if the living room has elongated walls - cover the space near the door with one type of wallpaper, and the distant walls with another, but similar in tone.

Photo 3 — Example of Combination

Wallpaper Design for Living Room: How to Choose a Pattern

Simple tricks:

• a large bright pattern visually makes the living room smaller;
• solid color wallpapers, just like wallpapers with a small pattern, on the contrary, add space;
• striped (vertical) wallpapers or medium-sized patterns visually increase the height of the room on the principle "the narrower the stripes on the wallpapers or the elements of the pattern on the fabric, the higher the ceiling will seem";
• horizontal stripes on the wallpaper, on the contrary, "lower" the ceiling on the principle "the wider the stripes, the more noticeable the effect".

Wallpaper for Living Room: Photo Wallpapers in Interior

Here are several fresh ideas for using various wallpapers in the living room interior from global manufacturers of wall coverings.

Photo 4 — Wallpaper Escolys Bekaert Textile (France, living room wallpaper collection, seamless, polyester

Photo 5 — Wallpaper Escolys Bekaert Textile (France, living room wallpaper collection, seamless, polyester

Photo 6 — Wallpaper Escolys Bekaert Textile (France, living room wallpaper collection, seamless, polyester

Photo 7 — Wallpaper Anna French (UK), pattern Wild Flora, textile

Photo 8 — Wallpaper Calcutta (Belgium), collection Classico Pictures, textile

Photo 9 — Wallpaper Holden Decor (UK), collection Amara, vinyl on flocked backing

Photo 10 — Wallpaper KT Exclusive (Germany), collection Sollevato, flocked

Photo 11 — Wallpaper SIPRI (Italy), collection Alta Gamma (Home), vinyl on flocked backing

Wallpaper for Living Room: Photo Catalog from Jannelli & Volpi (Italy)

Photo 12 — Wallpaper Jannelli & Volpi (Italy), living room wallpaper collection 501, flocked wallpapers

Photo 13 — Wallpaper Jannelli & Volpi (Italy), living room wallpaper collection 501, flocked wallpapers

Photo 14 — Wallpaper Jannelli & Volpi (Italy), living room wallpaper collection 501, flocked wallpapers

Photo 15 — Wallpaper Jannelli & Volpi (Italy), living room wallpaper collection 501, flocked wallpapers

Photo 16 — Wallpaper Jannelli & Volpi (Italy), living room wallpaper collection 501, flocked wallpapers

Combined Living Room Wallpaper: Examples of Wall Decoration in Interior

Photo 17 — Example of Combination. Frame for Light Wallpapers

Photo 18 — Example of Combination. Horizontal Wall Division

Photo 19 — Example of Combination. Combining Two Types of Pattern

Buying Wallpaper for Living Room: Cost Considerations

If the concept of "beautiful" wallpapers is defined by each person individually, then what are "expensive" wallpapers and "affordable" wallpapers is determined by the market.

The price of wallpapers will depend directly on the material of the wallpaper, the complexity of the pattern application technology, and its presence on the fabric.

For example, good vinyl wallpapers cost on average $30 per roll, and very good vinyl wallpapers - from $62.

Decide on the model and manufacturer, and you can easily check the prices for the desired wallpapers in an online store or in a stationary construction market.

Buying wallpaper for the living room:

• in Kyiv - from 68 UAH/roll;
• in Moscow - from 970 rubles/roll.