Wallpapers for Living Room
How to choose wallpapers for the living room?
It's not easy to decide on the wall decoration for a living room, as the choice is truly enormous. The diverse wallpapers for the living room, photos of which can easily be found on the Internet, will easily confuse the buyer who has not yet fully decided what he wants. In addition, it is difficult to determine just by the wallpaper photo whether they are suitable for a living room. Wallpapers in interior design can look completely different from wallpapers for the living room – photo or wallpaper on a roll at the store display.
Photo 1 — Diversity of wallpapers for the living room
So, buying wallpapers for the living room walls is a responsible task that requires quality preparation and advice. When considering how to choose wallpapers for the living room, you need to take into account a number of factors, including:
- family members' tastes and fashion trends;
- the living room's dimensions, furniture, style;
- material of the wallpapers;
- price of the wallpapers.
Beauty is a relative and subjective concept. For each person it is their own. However, when choosing interior finishing, it would be good to reach a common opinion regarding how the living room should look. To avoid making the renovation of a space designed to bring the family together into a source of conflict, it is advisable to discuss proposals and preferences with all household members, and together review photos of possible options.
Photo 2 — One of the most fashionable wallpaper options for the living room
The fashion has a great influence on forming our tastes. The construction and renovation sector is no exception. And it is quite justified – nothing stands still. New materials, technologies, color solutions, and design are applied in wallpaper production. What seemed beautiful two years ago is now perceived less enthusiastically. However, the best samples, as practice shows, are modern but not overly trendy, having proven themselves. In addition, there are universal solutions in interior design that do not lose their relevance over time, similar to a little black dress in fashion.
Fashionable wallpapers for the living room, photo:
Photo 3 — Elegant wallpapers for the living room
Factors Influencing the Choice of Wallpapers for the Living Room
How to select, browsing the catalog, wallpaper design and color for the living room? For this, it is necessary to consider what awaits the living room in a particular color and design. The same wallpaper color for a living room can look differently in a large or small room, with an interior of a particular style.
First and foremost, you should consider the size and lighting of the living room, areas that need to be highlighted or, conversely, hidden. It is also important how the color affects the psycho-emotional state of the inhabitants – will the chosen color be depressing or lead to depression.
For large, well-lit rooms, bright wall colors are suitable. Orange, burgundy, green, blue, and purple wallpapers in such conditions will add energy, strength, and motivation for communication and personal development, creating a good mood. Green wallpapers or bright green elements of interior design have a particularly positive effect on a person.
Even in a large room, one should not overdo it with bright colors: the richness of wall color goes well with moderate color in interior design.
Not everyone can afford a large living room today, and most people are interested in how to beautify a small living room in a small house or in a Khrushchyovka. In such cases, light wallpapers in pastel tones are recommended, which can visually expand the living room and fill it with light and air. Beige, sand, light gray, and greenish shades are suitable, preferably monochromatic or with a subtle pattern.
Large patterns can create an unwanted accent in a small living room, while small repeating patterns can further reduce the already small room. One can take a risk and use more vivid, contrasting wallpapers for a small living room, but in such cases it is necessary to ensure that the furniture, curtains, and decor are in calmer tones and balance the richness of the wall color.
The smaller the room and the lower the ceiling, the lighter the wallpaper color should be.
A small living room can be decorated with rare, non-large patterns, possibly geometric, which expand the space. Vertical stripes on the walls can increase the room's height. Large and high living rooms can use bright and saturated wallpapers with large patterns that visually reduce the space or horizontal stripes that make the room appear shorter.
Regarding lighting, which was mentioned a little earlier, in a bright, generally "southern" living room, wallpapers in cool tones such as gray, blue, and green can further expand the space. For a dark living room, light lemon, cream, beige, and golden wallpapers are needed.
Vivid furniture and curtains will blend well with light wallpapers in calm tones with unobtrusive patterns, which can highlight the beauty and novelty of the furniture. If the accent should be on the wallpapers to not draw attention to old furniture, then bright wallpapers with striking patterns are needed.
Wallpaper Choice Based on Living Room Style
The choice of wallpapers for the living room defines its style. There are various options:
- modern style – light, soft pastel tones, functional and ergonomic furniture, minimalism in decor, uncluttered space;
Photo 4 — Living room decoration in modern style
- classical style – expensive wallpapers in light pastel shades with elegant patterns, gilding, floral motifs, paintings, ceiling cornices, columns, fireplace, symmetry, solid furniture, luxurious fabrics for upholstery and curtains, chandeliers with wrought iron, parquet, carpets;
Photo 5 — Living room decoration in classical style
- modern style – wallpapers in muted natural tones with natural patterns: yellow, green, golden, purple, with floral and plant motifs, naturalness and authenticity in everything: furniture, curtains, accessories, soft lines, rounded forms.
Photo 6 — Living room decoration in modern style
- English style – textured wallpapers with heraldic patterns, coats of arms, flowers, or monochrome, furniture with an aged effect matching the wallpapers, round tables, cabinets with glass doors, fireplace.
Photo 7 — Living room decoration in English style
- Provence style – wallpapers in milk, yellow, beige, cream colors and their shades, lavender and sea wave colors, possibly with unobtrusive geometric patterns or floral motifs, muted multicolor palette, slightly aged furniture, porcelain, pillows, flowers, etc.
Photo 8 — Living room decoration in Provence style
Classical design remains fashionable, but there are many options and styles, and one can create something original and unique. Whether following a particular style or experimenting on one's own, the technique of combining wallpapers in the living room is used. Photos of how two-color wallpaper combinations look are provided below.
One of the fashionable two-color combinations is black-and-white wallpapers for the living room. Equally popular is combining monochrome wallpapers with wallpapers of a different color with patterns or photo wallpapers. One can also use wallpapers in several shades of the same color or different textures: matte and glossy, rough and smooth.
Original Option: Combined Wallpapers
Combined wallpapers allow dividing the living room into zones and visually expanding the space. This is particularly relevant if you need to divide the living room into a relaxation zone and dining area: one can create a transition zone between parts in color, medium between the dining and guest room tones.
In a small but tall living room, combining is also applicable: by covering the upper part with lighter wallpapers and the lower part with darker, bright, or saturated ones, one can achieve more comfort in the room.
Practically any living room can be suitable for covering three walls with background wallpapers and creating an accent, a bright spot on the fourth wall. One wall or part of a wall can be highlighted with wallpapers featuring coats of arms, geometry, floral patterns, compositions, or photo wallpapers.
Wallpaper combination in the living room, photo:
Photo 9 — Wallpaper combination in the living room
Photo 10 — Photo wallpapers in the living room
Photo 11 — Beautiful maca photo wallpapers in the living room
Wallpaper Choice Based on Material
Besides color, the texture of wallpapers plays an important role in decorating the living room, particularly in combining and dividing space, which depends on the material they are made of. Among modern variety, there are various types of wallpapers:
- Flock wallpapers – the most familiar, simple, and inexpensive type. They do not require glue to be applied directly to the wallpapers (glue is only applied to the wall). Flock wallpapers that can be painted are a good option for designing your own living room design.
- Fabric wallpapers – expensive wallpapers that can become a luxurious base for the design of a living room in classical or English style. Natural silk, linen, velvet in various colors, textures, and patterns will add the room a special comfort and sophistication. Such wallpapers are durable, wear-resistant, and easy to maintain.
- Exotic wallpapers made by hand from bamboo, seaweed, straw, rice paper. Natural materials, natural colors. Suitable for a living room in modern or Asian style, as well as for decorating specific zones in living rooms, for example, where an aquarium is installed.
- Foil wallpapers are still as exotic for countries of the CIS as bamboo or seaweed wallpapers. They complement a modern living room's interior. Besides decorative qualities, they enhance sound insulation, protect from radiation, help retain heat in winter and coolness in summer.
- Paper, vinyl, liquid, and others.
Price of Wallpapers for the Living Room
Some popular wallpaper brands: AS Creation, Grandeco, BN International, Erismann, Komar, Rasch, Unilich, Sirpi, IdealDecor, Zambaiti Parati, P+S International, Decori&Decori, Marburg, Casadeco and others.
Purchasing wallpapers for the living room is not a problem, the question is about price. As diverse as the choice of wallpapers is the wide range of prices. The price per roll of domestic wallpapers in Moscow starts from 60 rubles, European manufacturers' wallpapers can be purchased starting from 240 rubles per roll, although the average price of fashionable Italian wallpapers is about 1500-2000 rubles per roll.
In Kiev, the price of wallpapers starts from 20 UAH for the cheapest paper ones, more modern and quality ones cost from 60 UAH per roll, bamboo wallpapers cost about 100 UAH per square meter, photo wallpapers from 350 UAH per piece, usually consisting of eight parts that can cover an entire wall of a Khrushchyovka flat.