If the apartment has a room in which you can embody your wildest design fantasies, then this is the living room. There is no need to be limited to functional requirements that should be implemented in other rooms. In the living room you can reflect your own mood and hobbies, experiment with furniture and accessories and even use outrageous elements. If desired, the room can be decorated in one style or divided into zones where every member of the family will be comfortable.
Particular attention should be paid to the decor of the walls in the living room. Previously, it was fashionable to cover the entire room with the same wallpaper, and the ceiling to whiten or paint. Today such options are considered obsolete. Owners of apartments experiment with different textures and methods of decoration, use cutting-edge innovations. Than to finish the walls in the living room, so that the interior was complete and as cozy as possible? About this below.
How to decorate the walls in the living room?
Before you start choosing colors and textures you need to decide on the design of the living room. If you like high-tech style, then your choice is solid wallpaper of cool colors (all shades of gray, white, black). Provence and country styles involve the use of wallpaper muted sunny shades or unobtrusive floral print, and loft styles, modernism and gothic paint allow the use of bare brickwork.
Depending on the materials used, it is possible to distinguish such types of design:
- Decor of the walls in the living room with wallpaper . The simplest and most advantageous option for registration. Unobtrusive wallpaper beige, gray, apricot and pearl shades can be used on all walls, as they serve as a background. If you want to focus on the decoration of the walls, you can combine two types of wallpaper, made in a single color scheme or cover one wall or part of it with bright contrasting wallpaper with a large print.
- Decorative plaster in the living room . When plastering walls creates a special rough print with a saturated color. Here you can use Venetian plaster, imitating marble or special coatings, which have a unique texture ("orange peel", "lamb", "bark beetle"). Textured plaster can be used on all walls of the living room, or process a certain area.
- Decorative stone . With the right choice of stone and moderate use, you can create an interesting accent in the interior. The most successful stone decoration looks when decorating a wall with a fireplace or TV. A stone can also be used to lay niches in the wall and separate elements, on which it is necessary to emphasize. The stone is perfectly combined with textured plaster .
- Painting walls . This option is suitable for those who want to make a good background for furniture and emphasize the style of the interior. Using different types of paints you can achieve a pearl, matte or a little glossy shade. You can paint yourself with a paint or decorate the wall with a gentle pattern. Please note that the walls for painting should be even.
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In addition to these options, there are more exotic offers. Here you can use a variety of plastic and wood panels, mirror tiles, wallpapers and even a cloth finish.
How to decorate the walls in the living room?
In addition to basic gluing, painting or plastering of walls, additional decorations can be used. In the case of the living room, this can be:
- mirrors;
- niches;
- photos of the family;
- paintings (solitary, polyptych);
- unusual hinged shelves.
Making the walls in the living room it is desirable to be moderate in decor, so that the interior is not too pretentious and overloaded details.
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