What furniture to choose for the living room?

The living room is the "face" of your house. This is a place where it is nice to relax and watch TV with the whole family, where friendly "gatherings" take place, you receive guests there. Therefore, the most stringent requirements are imposed on this room. It should be not only stylish, because it is a kind of business card, but also functional, in order to best meet all the desires of the household, their habits. Particular attention should be paid to the choice of furniture, since even expensive items may look inappropriate if it is not right to choose them. How to choose furniture in the living room?

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Choosing the right furniture

Choosing the right furniture - this means, at least, solve the following problems:

• furniture should look organic and create a cosiness;
• it should be liked by all family members;
• to be functional.

Basic principles of organizing a living room

Before you go to the store, you need to prepare and take into account some points:

• Determine how much space you are willing to allocate for furniture. Adhere to the rule that between the individual pieces of the interior should remain at least a meter distance.
• Measure the width and height of the doorways. Otherwise - by buying an expensive piece of furniture, you may find that it is impossible to bring it into the room.
• Some rooms have built-in niches, for example, in the room there is a village fireplace. In this case, it is better to refuse furniture in the Modern style, which is more suitable for a room with windows on the quarters of a metropolis.
• Observe the general style, so that the elements do not look chaotically sketched into the pile. Each element of the interior should complement the rest.
• Do not overdo it with accessories - the excess of objects makes the space overloaded. To create an individual image, a few accents are enough.
• Use samples to determine on site how much they fit into the interior. This will take additional time, but you will eliminate errors when individual objects do not harmonize with each other.

Define the functionality of furniture

Before choosing furniture in the living room you need to determine what functions your room will perform, or rather its priority tasks:

• This can be a room only for gatherings with family, watching movies, etc.
• Maybe it's -a room where festivals, banquets and celebrations will be arranged.
• Or, often, friends, neighbors and relatives will drop in to just relax and chat.
• In some cases, the living room also fulfills the function of a dining room, and sometimes even a bedroom.

In all these cases, the approach to choosing furniture for the living room will be different, and this must be taken into account. Perhaps, it will be necessary to provide some kind of cunning for the proper zoning of the premises.

Choosing the color of furniture

Of course, the choice of color design depends solely on the taste of the owner, but still it is better to take into account the advice of professional designers:

• Light colors visually slightly expand the room and blur its boundaries. Therefore, if you have a small living room, then you should create a single space with furniture of light colors against the background of light walls.
• For a large living room you can use different colors, even dark and saturated.
• To give the room coziness in the course are warm shades, for example, pink, yellow, peach, orange. In such a living room it's nice to arrange a get-together in the circle of close people.
• If you plan to make your living room a place of rest and relaxation, then the coolest shades are best: light blue, grayish, light green, etc.
• Bright colors pleasing to the eye, but you can not relax in this situation, but ifyou plan to hold parties there, then bright colors will be quite appropriate.
• Interiors with a combination of white and black colors look very impressive. But think carefully, choosing such a color design of the room. This is not very practical, especially with regard to furniture, since any, even the smallest, dirt will be clearly visible on a white background.
• Black furniture is more practical, but for a small living room - this is not the best choice, since black color creates a depressing atmosphere, visually reduces space.

Choose the style of

Before buying furniture you need to decide on the style, here you need to build on your own preferences. If you do not use the services of a professional designer, it is best to get acquainted with the basics of the chosen style, see the photos and read the advice of specialists.

Possible options:

• If you have a small living room, you should pay attention to styles that use a minimum of objects, for example, Hi-tech or Modern. Modest, devoid of unnecessary decoration interior items, do not take up much space, do not clutter up space, but they are quite functional.
• If you imagine a cozy living room in calm colors, with high chairs and a soft carpet, then you are a classicist.
• Provence involves the use of natural materials, calm tones and furniture "antique".
• Another interesting style became popular - Rustik. He combines the beauty and rudeness of nature. Furniture in this style is made of natural wood, but not ideal, but with jags and knots, without paint and without varnishing.

Important! It is appropriate to combine several styles, especially if zoning is planned.

We choose furniture according to the size and shape of the room

To decide how to choose furniture for the living room depending on the size of the room, first of all, you need to measure the parameters of the room. Too bulky sofa, a table or wall will take up a lot of useful space. In addition to roulette, you need to equip yourself with common sense, and think carefully about: what tasks the drawing room will have priority, how many people will be there at the same time. This is necessary for the correct calculation of seats.

You need to determine the size of the sofa, the number of seats, ottomans and other seats, while proceeding from the dimensions of the room. So, in some rooms there is a task to save space, and in others - on the contrary, somehow fill it.

Important! Elegant you can make an interior, regardless of the area of ​​the room. Just for a small living room, this is harder to do, because in a limited area you need to place many necessary items to make it comfortable and functional.

Use the advice of professionals when choosing furniture for a small living room:

• In a small room it is better to choose upholstered furniture without armrests. It seems easier and more open, and the problem of convenience is easily solved with the help of rollers and pillows.
• Do not put a bulky wall in the small living room to store all things. It is better to buy a modular cabinet, in which many things can be stored, but it does not take up much space.
• In the interior you need to use more glass - it looks stylish and creates the illusion of free space.
• Shelves are better to take open, as closed visually reduce the room. In this case, do not overload them with accessories - this creates the appearance of confusion.

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Selection of upholstered furniture

Upholstered furniture is an important and indispensable attribute of any living room that is selected first. Usually the kit consists of a sofa and two armchairs:

• Sofas can be folded, forming additional berths. If you buy a sofa just for this, then pay attention to models with quality mechanisms that are designed for everyday use.
• Also worth paying attention to the filler and the upholstery material. The skin looks rich, but not everywhere. Jacquard and velor require careful care. But microfiber is an inexpensive material that is appropriate for a living room, where the load on the sofa is large.

When selecting furniture in the living room, you need to take into account that the same items can differ from each other depending on the design features. So, angular, classical and modular furniture differs in appearance. Let's consider features of each of them.

Corner furniture

Its main features are space and more efficient use of space. By placing a corner sofa, you save a few square meters of the room. But it is important to find the right place for him.

Important! If you put it near a short wall, it will hold down the room and make it smaller.

Classical furniture

It is not very compact, but very reliable, beautiful and fits perfectly into the classic interior. It is created for living rooms of medium and large sizes. In small rooms it is not recommended to put it because of its dimensions, as visually it will further reduce the room.

Modular furniture

It consists not of a monolithic body, but of a multitude of functional elements that can be placed side by side, but at the same time, each of them can be a self-sufficient piece of furniture.

Important! They can be rearranged as they want, thus refreshing the interior without bearing any material costs. Such furniture will fit into any living room.

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Choosing a wall or a rack

Previously, for the living room, the wall was the only solution - it looked cumbersome and unaesthetic. Modern analogues have become more miniature and exquisite, but racks have also become fashionable. They perform the same functions, but at the same time, thanks to a special design, do not take away space, which is important when selecting furniture in a small living room.

And if the walls fit well into the classic interior, the racks will be an excellent solution to the room, where they try to save space in every way. An excellent option is modular furniture. This is a set of all kinds of elements, made in one style, which you can combine as you like. You can create an original and most comfortable interior.

Important! The wall with hanging shelves and translucent facades will increase the size of the room and make it lighter.

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Choosing a coffee table

This is an important attribute of any living room, which serves not only for the arrangement of small things on it, but also indispensable for tea drinking. The average height of coffee tables is about 50 cm, and the size and material can be any:

• For a classic style, a wooden carved table, which can be supplemented with forged elements, is suitable.
• For living rooms decorated in a modern style, an oval or round glass table is suitable.
• The cube table made of translucent plastic will be ideal even for the smallest living room.

When the area allows you can choose any option that you like. On sale there are many interesting models that can become a real highlight of any interior.

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Other pieces of furniture

To date, there are no clear rules for the design of living rooms, so you can not say which items of furniture must be necessary and which are not. Here everything is up to you:

• If you want to combine living room and dining room, then you will need a dining table with chairs. It is best to choose a round or oval, especially if the house has small children.

Important! An excellent option - a table-transformer, which, as unnecessary, can be folded and removed to the side.

• TV in our time is the same necessary element of the interior, as well as soft furniture. Recently, it is most often hung on the wall. But you can also put on the cube, the main thing is to choose a cube by the size of your TV.The material can be any - it can be glass, wooden, chipboard or other materials. Well, if the drawer will be present boxes for storing small items. A pedestal on the wheels is convenient in that you can arrange the TV the way you prefer.
• For the arrangement of additional seats you may need chairs and armchairs. Proceed from the style in which your room is kept. When choosing chairs, it is worth considering that a rounded seat is much more comfortable than a square seat. Armchairs should be soft, but not too deep, so that you can stand up effortlessly.
• The use of a bar stand became popular. It does not take up much space and allows you to divide the room into zones. Its surface must be resistant to various types of damage. It can also serve as a dining table. In this case, you can pick up special high chairs, they are for every taste.
• The room will look cozy if it contains accessories and decorations. You can choose them for your taste, for example, it can souvenirs from trips, candles, paintings, even a mirror can become an ornament of your interior. The main thing - do not overload the room, otherwise - it will look like a warehouse of goods for different purposes.

Well that's all! You have all the rules for decorating the living room with soft, cabinet and auxiliary furniture. It remains only to apply them in practice to achieve the result that you imagined.