The functions of the living room in modern realities are not limited to receiving guests. The interior of the hall should have a grand appearance and at the same time be cozy. All family members gather in this room in the evenings to watch TV together, do needlework and socialize, and sometimes the living room serves as a bedroom, study and library. Therefore, it is important to choose the right wallpaper for the hall - after all, the design of the walls bears the main burden in creating the style and mood of the living room. The interior of the hall should also be respectable so that you can receive not only relatives and friends: in Russia, the tradition of celebrating birthdays (and sometimes weddings) at home is indestructible, and the design of the room should correspond to the solemnity of the moment.
Choose a color - choose a style
Before choosing wallpaper for the hall, you should decide on the style of the room to be decorated. It is important that the design of the living room does not contradict the appearance of the entire apartment. If the kitchen is decorated in high-tech style, then the interior of the hall with country or Provence notes will break the unity and harmony, and this is fraught with a loss of spiritual comfort. It has long been known that chaos on the outside encourages disorder on the inside.
Therefore, it is worth choosing the style of the living room in accordance with the design concept of other rooms of the apartment. Each design direction has its own recommendations regarding the color, pattern and texture of wall decoration.
When choosing wallpaper, the color of the facades and the design of the furniture should be taken into account.
Minimalism
There are several design trends based on the principles of this style (hi-tech, Japanese, Scandinavian minimalism, etc.), but all of them have a restrained color scheme, which necessarily includes:
- White color;
- black;
- grey;
- shades of brown.
The interior of the hall in a minimalist style looks original and modern. Monochrome walls do not have to look gloomy and boring: the right wallpaper combination in the hall allows you to achieve the effect of strict sophistication and chic. In minimalism, sticking different wallpapers on the walls is allowed - companion colors can be contrasting (white - black) or differ by 1-2 tones (gray - white). The application technique is often used: zoning by wallpapering in a contrasting color not the entire wall, but part of it: the TV zone, the sofa, the space between the windows.
In recent years, the popularity of black wallpaper has been growing. Choose such extravagant fashionable wallpaper for the hall creative nature, prone to outrageous. The assortment is quite wide: a pattern with a predominance of black, pure black with a relief texture, black with gold. The latter is perfect for the young neo-baroque style.
For black wallpaper, there is a rule: no more than half of the wall area should be pasted over with them.
For Slavic peoples, black is traditionally associated with sadness and dark forces, so it should be used with caution. The excess of black in the interior creates a mood of gloomy depression, you need a special flair and taste to stay on the verge of elegant lightness or solemn severity.
In order to choose the right companion wallpaper and place accents, when designing your own living room, an inexperienced designer should familiarize himself with the photo catalog of a specialized studio or a thematic site, “try on” samples for the features of the layout, geometry, and lighting of his room.
Classical trends: baroque, rococo, pure classics
The classic design of the living room is characterized by discreet luxury. Wallpaper for the hall should be noble pastel colors:
- Ivory.
- Delicate peach.
- Light pistachio.
- Coffee with milk.
A small floral ornament is allowed.Splendor of the classic style is given by inclusions of gold or bronze - imitation of brocade fabric is appropriate in the same way as textile wallpaper.
Varieties of the old classic baroque and rococo interiors are characterized by stucco decorations and paintings in identical frames on the walls. You can achieve this effect in the hall if you combine two types of wall coverings: on walls pasted over with plain wallpaper, squares or rectangles of a more saturated color or with a pattern are drawn up. To mask the joints and achieve a greater resemblance to the paintings, the inserts around the perimeter are pasted over with polyurethane or foam molding. Wall moldings should have a pair: the design of the junction of walls and ceiling should be similar, and for heavy baroque, you can pick up moldings to form pilasters (false columns), desudeportes (decorations above the doorway).
The colors of precious metals can be present on the wallpaper when decorating the hall in any of the old styles:
- White, milky with gold - in the classic design of the living room.
- Blue with gold or silver - used in exquisite rococo.
- Juicy green, burgundy-red wallpapers with gold, bronze are chosen by lovers of lush baroque.
The classics are characterized by high ceilings, so wallpaper with vertical stripes will help the low room visually "grow".
It is worth noting that for the living room, as far as possible, finishing materials of a high price category should be considered. The more expensive the wallpaper for the hall, the more respectable the room decorated with them looks. The price-quality ratio in this segment of the finishing materials market is the most adequate: expensive wallpapers are easier to glue, they better hide wall imperfections, and are more resistant to abrasion and fading. Featured types of wallpaper for the hall:
- non-woven;
- vinyl;
- textile;
- natural (cork, bamboo wallpaper).
Rustic style for the hall
Some may think that country style not for the living room. After all, one of its appointments is the main hall, in which guests with a semi-official status are sometimes received. However, lovers of original culture and floral prints on the wallpaper can breathe a sigh of relief: a country-style living room decorated with modern finishing materials will leave a pleasant impression on the most demanding guest. Wallpaper pattern options:
- Provence. Wallpaper in pastel colors with a small floral pattern gives a feeling of cleanliness, freshness and comfort.
- English country. The traditional cage on the wallpaper will bring gentlemanly respectability to the interior of the hall.
- For Russian and Scandinavian styles, wallpapers with imitation of natural wood or unplastered walls are suitable.
Rural design makes it possible to use companion wallpapers for zoning, accenting or correction. You can combine canvases with different patterns:
- small floral print - plain wallpaper or large flowers;
- imitation of natural stone - unplastered walls;
- brick drawing - tree.
Properly selected decor items will bring a solemn look to the interior of the hall, in which it is not a shame to receive guests. Aged beams on the ceiling, heavy furniture made of natural wood can create the atmosphere of an old castle or a rich estate. For a rustic living room, the main thing is not to overload it with details so that the room does not resemble a junk shop. It is worth looking at the ideas of designers in the photo catalog to make sure that a rustic-style living room is warmth, comfort and ... aristocracy.
Butt or overlap
For an impeccable appearance of the walls, it is necessary not only to choose the right color, pattern, wallpaper texture, but also the technique of gluing them.
In the era of paper wallpaper, only the “overlap” method was used for wall decoration, when each next strip was glued with its edge to the edge of the previous one. For this purpose, the manufacturer left paths unfilled with a pattern along the edges of the canvas. The markings on the edge of the wallpaper made it possible to glue the strips one after the other evenly and in parallel. The edge that was on top had to be cut by hand, which was the most routine part of the job.
Now you can’t see such marking tracks even on paper canvases, but the “overlap” option is sometimes used. More often it is used when pasting rooms with thin paper wallpaper, since they are not able to stretch and ensure that there are no gaps between the strips when gluing end-to-end. Overlapping can be found when commissioning new buildings with budget housing - for finishing such objects, the contractor often uses cheap paper wallpapers, rightly assuming that the residents will still make cosmetic repairs to their liking in a maximum of a year and remove the finishing coating.
Interestingly, the rule to start wallpapering from the window came precisely because of this method: the light illuminated the difference between the sheets, and the seams were less noticeable.
The interior of the hall, including the decoration of the walls, should only say good things about its owners, so the wallpaper for the hall is glued joint to joint. This method makes the seams invisible, giving the wallpaper on the walls the appearance of a solid canvas.
Kitsch is also an option
There are a great many style directions in the design of premises, all of them assume the unity and harmony of wall decoration with other participants in the concept: floor, ceiling, furniture. What to do if, among the huge variety, you liked beautiful wallpapers that cannot be combined with the existing details in the hall?
Of course, buy! After all, the main thing is not the opinion of others about the quality of the taste of the owner of the apartment, but personal comfort and satisfaction. Even if the wallpaper under the skin of a snake or a caiman does not fit into the interior of the hall against the backdrop of simple furniture, you can always reassure yourself that kitsch is already a full-fledged direction in interior design.
