The living room is the face of our house. How to make it cozy, functional and modern? Universal recipe, alas, does not exist. But the main tips we "sketch".
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The planning depends on the area of the room, the size of the windows, the availability of adjacent rooms, the needs and taste of the host house, as well as from the budget. Before buying furniture or break interroom overlaps, ask yourself a few questions.
What you will do in the living room: watch TV with family, take guests, arrange parties every Friday, work at a computer, read, meditate, do yoga? Will there be friends or relatives in this room?
When you understand the purpose of the room, you do not allow fatal errors. The secret of successful planning is to repel from the functional, and not chase the fashion trends.
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Living room planning tips
Determine the brightest and darkest plots in the room to correctly distribute the functional zones and understand where the lighting needs to be enhanced.
Come up with a "semantic center" based on your needs. They can be a hammock for recreation or home theater. Further placement of furniture and other interior items will "dance" from this center.
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Start the layout from the placement of large furniture: sofa, chairs, wardrobe.
Try to keep the balance between the busy and free area (at least 1: 1). The more free space, the more comfortable will be your stay in the room.
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It is also important to leave the passage between the furniture: tenants and guests should move freely and do not hurt the corners.
Think in advance where and how the technique will be located (TV, speakers, music center, computer). Do you have enough sockets or need extra? It is important to observe the safe distance from the screen and columns to the viewer.
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Doors and windows, of course, are needed in the room, but they "eat" the useful area. Note that they should freely open and close, and pride the place for this.
Think how to create a bright accent, which will attract attention. It can be a picture, panel, photos, unusual flooring or colored pillows on the sofa.
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The objects of upholstered furniture can be positioned in different ways: in parallel or opposite each other.
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But examples of the angular arrangement:
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In the form of the letter "P" or around the coffee table:
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Remember your "meaning" center: TV, painting, fireplace. Focusing on him, set the sofas and chairs.
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If you live in the "odd shop" or the apartment too small a member, most likely the living room will play a few more related roles. For example, it will be a place to sleep or eating. In this case, it is important to correctly distribute the functional zones.
Here are some ways:
- Build a partition or a neat column.
- Leave part of the overhaul after redevelopment.
- Select zones with light.
- Use different texture and color finishing materials.
- Distributing the territory of furniture.
- Zonate textile space: curtains, curtains, carpet.
The most important thing in zoning is to adhere to a single style, otherwise the sharp difference (color or stylistic) will create a visual dissonance.
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Little living room
What if the room is a room for 20, 16 or 18 "squares"? On this area, you need to fit the corner for watching TV, recreation, reception, sleeping space, and perhaps the table for festive dinners.
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Specialists have techniques for the arrangement of tiny spaces:
- Use light colors in the walls and floor finish to visually expand the room.
- Do not overload the room with superfluous things.
- Free the window to make more light.
- Mast Hav - Transformer furniture: folding sofa, chairs, table.
The compact room is not a reason to abandon the corner sofa. Even on the contrary: sometimes it is better to use one large sofa than a lot of small items.
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Kitchen-living room
Combining living room and kitchen is a controversial question that has many "for" and "against".
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On the one hand, if the kitchen is very small, and the refrigerator and the table for five people do not fit on it, then the decision to combine is reasonable. On the other hand, even the most competent zoning will not save from the smells of fried chicken and will not give rise to the TV if someone threatens in the kitchen.
Nevertheless, many Russians like the unusual and modernity, which is given by such a combination, despite its minuses.
The resulting large room can be clearly divided by functions.
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But in the tiny space of a place for maneuver, therefore boldly mix zones.
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Denote border will help different flooring. The subtle moment is the docking of the coatings, think over it in advance so that you can not stumble.
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To share the functional zones of furniture - a grateful thing. Sofa, kitchen island, dining table, bar rack, unusual countertop or any other idea will come to the rescue. The furniture is good because it breaks the space for independent parts and at the same time saves the "air".
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So, the solution to put the sofa close to the dining table is optimally for small spaces, where you need to combine the kitchen, and the dining room and living room.
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Combine function spaces can be combined with a TV, built-in wardrobe, color. And so that the kitchen appliances be less noticeable, put the wardrobes of the columns. They can remove the oven, microwave, coffee machine, washing machine or refrigerator. Such a solution will help balance the interior so that the kitchen does not drag attention.
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Living-dining room
If the living room has a fairly large area, you can highlight the dining area. This is at least elegant and unusual for a typical apartment. Beautiful dining table will add comfort and comfort on family holidays.
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The place for meals can be placed behind the sofa, and you can burn with columns or racks. It is often not hiding it, but on the contrary, it is distinguished by lighting. For the stylistic combination of two sites in the finish, the same or harmony colors are used.
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Bedroom living room
The combination of two, it would seem incompatible zones - a public and personal - forced decision in a one-room apartment. The most important task in this case is to distinguish them as much as possible.
First, decide where the bed or sofa bed will stand. The place should not be passing. Well suits the space near the window, which is often located on the opposite side of the door.
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Separate a sleeping place from a guest area with textiles. With this task, all sorts of curtains are perfectly coping with: dense, lungs of bamboo or beads. Plus such curtains in the fact that they can be folded or removed during the day.
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Living room in a private house
The living room in country houses, as a rule, is located on the first floor and is the largest, central room. Sometimes it is combined with a kitchen and dining room to combine all social spaces on the first floor.
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But you can go against the rules and lay the living room in the attic!
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In addition, in homes built on individual projects, there are often erkers, and they can be beneficial to use, because then the living room from a boring quadrano room will turn into an unusual space for recreation. The main thing is that the Erker and the living room are decorated in a single style.
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When the area of the room is not too large, and the height of the ceilings is less than 3 m, the large windows are departed, and even better - panoramic glazing.
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If the living room is spacious, and the family is large, choose a spacious sofa so that everyone can accommodate it, including pets.
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If you like to take large guest companies, you can provide a private corner with a small sofa or armchairs, where two or three people will be able to talk in the distance from everyone else.
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What to avoid when planning
Furniture, standing around the perimeter along the walls and in the corners, is the usual, who loved by many of the option since Soviet times, but a little old-fashioned.
Take the risk to retreat from the plinths and lay the sofa, chairs or rack for books! It can be done in almost any room, except for a narrow rectangular. But in this case, you do not need to be afraid to put a small table or chair in the center.
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Do not hang the TV on the opposite wall from the window, otherwise you will be brcked on the screen.
Lonely chandelier in the center of the living room is a typical lighting system in most Russian apartments and houses. But this light is uncomfortable and discarded sharp shadows. Combine with the ceiling other light sources - wall sconces, floor lamps, lamps. Together they create soft lighting, which can be adjusted, and add comfort.
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The abundance of drywall, arches or columns, even if they are made with a flawless taste, in small apartments they can look at cumbersome. As well as multi-level ceilings, which have recently lost relevance.
In addition, it is better to do without decorative accents at the joints of floor coverings: try to make them as neutral and imperceptible.
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Avoid unnecessary butaforia in the setting: cheap photo wallpapers, imitation of stone and wood, as well as redundant decoration, because it does not adversely as much as it snamped.
Think well before designing the walls or the floor is too bright. Even if the photo wallpaper with a huge peony or the accent wall of the burgundy color looks really beautiful and you like it madly, it is possible that over time they will start straining and coagulate.
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Bright accents are better to embody in objects that can be easily replaced: textiles (curtains, pillowcases for pillows, carpet) Removable paintings, photos and so on.
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