What mistakes are best to stay away from when setting up your living room? 6 common mistakes and their solutions
You have probably met the "fearful" interiors of living rooms. They are distinguished by a brown-gray color palette, textiles matched to the tone of the walls, and an almost absent decor. So this is much better than going all out when renovating your house. Using many different shades, purchasing bulky expensive furniture or installing tasteless lighting. Do you know why?
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Yes, because a restrained faceless interior can always be revived, corrected, but a flashy and vulgar environment cannot be corrected with "little blood"! Here you will need a major overhaul, which will help correct the gross mistakes made during the repair and arrangement of the living room. And this is nerves, time and money again!
So here's to help you avoid both the first (careful) and the second (clumsy) scenario for arranging the living room, I also prepared this material.
Mistake # 1. Disdain for color. "Will go" is the scariest word that sounds when choosing wallpaper or paint. For some reason, it is believed that the main thing in the living room is furniture and a good layout, but not the walls. And this is a huge delusion! The walls act as the backdrop for everything else, which means they form the primary image of the room.
Therefore, choose the color (wallpaper or paint) that you really like. Try to choose a harmonious combination of tones and shades, and do not forget that different wall coverings can be beautifully combined with each other. That is, if you have not found suitable "companion wallpaper", then a good paint will perfectly replace them.
Mistake # 2. Ill-conceived wall decor. Paint and wallpaper can be subtle and discreet when used as a backdrop for wall decor. And an empty surface can always be filled with paintings, mirrors, photographs, shelves, hanging accessories, and even handicrafts or printed pictures from the Internet. The main thing is that everything that decorates the wall matches the style, idea and your interests.
Just remember about moderation. You don't need to weigh absolutely everything. Better think over a stylish composition or even rely on only a single, but very noticeable decor element.
Mistake number 3. Arrangement of disproportionate furniture. In the interior, proportionality and harmony are important. Nobody forbids you to put a massive sofa in a small room, but will it look appropriate? Will it be convenient for you to bend around it, moving around the room? Not sure! It should be understood that the smaller the room, the more modest in size the furniture should be. But in a large room, miniature furniture will look awkward. It is better to buy something larger here.
Therefore, in order not to be trapped, remember about proportionality.
Mistake # 4. The underestimated importance of textiles. The interior is a single whole. All its details must be in harmony with each other. In this connection, it is not worth buying curtains BEFORE repairing! Or hang up old ones! For it is quite difficult to estimate in advance how textiles will look in a new environment.
In this case, not only the color of the curtains is important, but also the material from which they are sewn. So, for example, velvet is able to "warm" the living room, a translucent curtain to give lightness, and a pattern - dynamics to the interior.
Mistake # 5. Disregard for decorative elements. We pasted the wallpaper / painted the walls, put the furniture and that's it. Many people think that this is the end of the renovation. But no! Without decor, it will be an empty soulless space devoid of individuality. Therefore, it is so important to fill the living room with elements that are interesting and significant for you: carpet, vases, candles, ceramics, etc. These can be single strokes or a whole composition. The main thing is that they have value for you!
By the way, the decor can be very practical. For example, decorative pillows and blankets. They will make upholstered furniture visually interesting and, in addition, add coziness to it.
Error 6. Ill-conceived room lighting. As you know, lighting greatly affects our well-being and mood. And if we have little influence on the natural (it depends only on the size of the window and the side of the world), then the artificial can be adjusted at will. And here one chandelier in the center of the room will not be enough!
Do not neglect installing sconces, floor lamps, LED lights or table lamps in your living room. Since such additional "lamps" will allow you to both dim the light and spend the evening in a pacifying calm atmosphere, and "light it up" for a work environment.
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