How to choose wallpaper for a small room?

Unfortunately, not all homeowners can boast spacious rooms. And not everyone can go for the demolition of interior walls to increase space. To help the owners of small rooms came designers who offered their solutions to this difficult task. Thanks to small tricks, they equip miniature rooms, visually expand them, turning them into beautiful, comfortable and, at the same time, functional housing. Today we will introduce you to the rules for arranging a miniature room and tell you how to choose wallpaper for a small room.

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The basics of arranging a small room

As a rule, the main emphasis in the interior belongs to wall decoration. If during the repair process the question arose, what kind of wallpaper to choose for a small room, so that it seemed larger, then you should remember the basic rules of room design. We will talk about this below.

When choosing a decoration for walls, many are guided by accepted general principles: it is better to choose wallpapers for a small room in bright colors and without a pattern. Of course, such an option would be a win-win, but boring. We suggest you arrange the room the way you want, using trellises with a pattern and even large, but taking into account some special tricks.

Basic rules

Listen to the recommendations of designers who will tell you how to choose the right wallpaper for a small room:

• Light colors visually increase the space. If you do not know what color of wallpaper to choose in a small room, then the ideal option would be a light palette: cream, white, light rose, blue, peach, light yellow, mint, ivory, sand. If you choose dark tones, they will “steal” about 40 percent of the already small free space.
• The choice of colors for the wallpaper depends on the illumination of the room. For rooms filled with sunlight, cold shades can be suitable, for dark rooms - only warm colors. For darkened rooms, all soft shades of yellow are perfect.
• When choosing between smooth and textured trellises, preference should be given to the latter, since they will show differences in volumes and the play of shadows, which will increase the space for visual perception and help create an interesting design.
• To expand a narrow room with a high ceiling, when taping the walls with tapestries, step back from the top edge of 15-20 cm. This technique will slightly lower the ceiling and expand the room.
• Avoid trellises with frequent and contrast prints. Such wallpapers will make the room uncomfortable and crowded, even if it is bright and with a minimal amount of furniture.
• To visually make a room longer, stick on a wall opposite the window a wallpaper of a lighter shade than on the other three walls.

Interesting ideas:

1. A great solution is pasting the walls with wallpaper with a reflective surface. This technique will visually increase the size of the room.
2. Do not use bright and dark colors for small rooms. They will attract attention and visually reduce space. The best option would be wallpapering neutral or light shades. They will not attract attention to themselves, respectively - to the size of the room.
3. To enlarge the apartments, use wallpapers of the same color, but of different saturation: for the lower zone - more muted tones, for the upper - lighter.
4. Do not use matte trellis, decorated with a textured pattern, for miniature rooms. Such wallpapers visually narrow the room. We recommend trellis with a shiny surface, for example, silk-screen or glossy, which visually spread the walls and increase the distance between them.
5. If you prefer wallpaper with a pattern, then choose a small ornament located vertically.
6. For high ceilings, choose a vertical pattern, and for low ceilings, horizontal stripes that visually expand the space.
7. In an overly oblong room, cover the long sides with large print wallpapers and the short sides with small prints to visually increase the space.
8. If you want to expand the apartments in all directions, then paste the walls with neutral wallpapers with a small rare pattern.
9. The alternation of wallpaper will help expand the square room in all directions: two canvases are plain, one with a pattern.
10. Furniture, curtains and decor should be in the tone of the finish. Any contrast eats up the space, respectively - reduces the room.

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Design solutions in a small room

We hope that the advice of designers outlined above helped you decide what color wallpaper to choose for a small room, but there are many more tricks to increase the space and create originality in the interior. About original design techniques will be discussed further.

Reception “Different walls”

This original technique will help not only expand the space, but also bring some zest to the interior. The essence of the unusual technique is that the emphasis is placed on one wall in the form of a bright spot, and the remaining three walls are glued with monophonic inconspicuous tapestries.

A bright wall can even be with a large pattern, but it should be only one.

Important! Which wall to choose for emphasis is up to you. Usually this wall is at the head of the bed or in a sitting corner. You can also select a wall in the working area of ​​the room.

Reception “Division of Space”

This technique will help to increase the height of the room and its area. The essence of technology is to use different wallpapers in one room. Choose one color for decoration, and saturation - different.

Important! This applies both to monophonic trellis, and with a pattern. Paste the lower part of the wall with darker wallpapers, and the upper part with lighter ones. The dividing border should be thin, as a wide border tape “steals” part of the free space of the apartment, and makes the ceiling in the room lower.

Reception “Diagonal pattern”

If you want to not only increase the space, but also make the room more interesting, then attach the tapestries with a clear geometric pattern, not in the traditional way, but diagonally. This non-standard technique of wallpapering gives its results.

Important! Pick up tapestries with a horizontal or vertical pattern and glue them diagonally.

Reception of "Striping Stripes"

If you have a room less than 10 square meters, then use the alternation of the canvas. For a room of 8-10 square meters. m. use two types of wallpaper, and for a room more than 10 square meters. m. - three types. The main thing is that the stripes are combined in colors and patterns.

They glue the canvases in the usual way (horizontally), only alternate them at a certain interval. For example, for a miniature room, you can stick 2 strips of one type of trellis, and then - 1 roll of another type, again - 2 rolls of one type and 1 - of the second.

Important! If the strips are not very wide, then alternate them through two strips, if wide enough, then through one.

Useful Tips

If you don’t know how to choose colors so that the stripes harmonize with each other and fill the room with warmth and comfort, then use the following recommendations from designers:

• Pale yellow and cream go well with grayish pink, pale green, blue, light gray, muted red.
• The lilac shade is combined with a pink tone.
• For light gray, choose cherry, raspberry, violet, light lilac wallpapers.
• Light green looks great with lilac pink and dark green.
• Pale pink color is combined with pale lilac, blue and salad.
• Gray-blue color is perfect for gray and cherry canvases.

Reception “Decoretto”

In order to revive the light wallpaper and give the interior a certain originality and “life”, they use the “decoretto” technique, that is, they decorate the light wall with several bright roses or chrysanthemums.

Important! You can stick flowers both vertically and horizontally. Bright decoretto in no way reduces the space, but on the contrary - brings cosiness and beauty to the interior.

Reception “Volumetric elements for decor”

If you like wallpaper with voluminous large drawings, and you can’t use them in a small room, then cut out the voluminous elements and paste them over a light plain wall. You can glue it somehow, in the form of decor on ceramic tiles.

Important! Decorate only one wall with volumetric elements so that there is no busting. Such elements will add some zest to the interior of a small room and “revive” it.

Photowall-paper for expansion of space

Wall murals are a great solution for enlarging any room: square, narrow or long. Properly selected finish will help to visually erase the borders of the room and create additional volume.

Important! It is best for this purpose to use perspective images that go deep into, for example, a forest path, the Cote d'Azur, a metropolis street or underwater expanses. All this will instantly expand the space of even the smallest room.

A great option for rooms with a small area - 3D murals. Today you can choose not just canvases with a three-dimensional pattern, but also LED photo murals with a lighting system that can visually adjust the space.

In order to properly use photo wallpaper to increase free space, you must adhere to the following rules:

• Choose material in light shades without a lot of small details.
• Wallpaper only one or two walls, where there are no window and doorways.
• Do not place tall and bulky furniture against the background of murals. It is better to place a low sofa or a low coffee table on their background.
• For rooms with a low ceiling, wall murals with a vertical pattern are suitable, for example, a picture of a forest grove.
• In rooms with a lot of natural light, you can use pictures of cold shades, for example, the image of high mountains or sea depths. For low-light rooms, pictures of warm, sunny shades, for example, sea sandy beaches or autumn landscapes, are suitable.

We have not revealed all the secrets of designers to increase the space of a room. But all of the options presented are quite simple in execution and original. We will introduce you to some of the recommendations of specialists.

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Tips for arranging a small room:

• The smaller the room, the lighter should be the shade of the wallpaper. This technique will give the room more space.
• Keep all the furniture and things in the room to a minimum. You can remove extra photos and other decor items. Leave only a few bright accents that will attract attention. It can be a bright, original lamp or pillows.
• Give up on large items. Use only low furniture in a small room: a small sofa, poufs, coasters, stools. Arrange all furniture in the corners so that in the center of the room there is a space due to which the room will look more and more interesting.
• Pay particular attention to the lighting of the miniature room.For her, natural sunlight, built-in light or hidden lighting is best suited. If it is not possible to use the built-in lights, then put a floor lamp. Let the light, reflected from the ceiling, revive the whole room as a whole.
• To make the small room brighter and freer, cover the floor with light, shiny tiles, and paint the ceiling white or blue. And if all the walls and ceiling are the same color, then the room will look much larger.
• Use mirrors to enlarge the apartments. Mirror tiles on one wall will visually enlarge the room several times.
• Glass or mirror furniture looks good in small rooms, creating a feeling of free, open space.
• Do not use tablecloths on tables - this is superfluous. Make curtains of thin fabric. The more light and air that enters the room, the better.

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We hope that our tips and tricks helped you determine the answer to the question of which color of wallpaper is best for a small room. Start your day with light colors and thoughts, and you will expand not only the space of the room, but also yours, filling it with a good mood!