What furniture to choose for the living room?

The living room is the “face” of your home. This is a place where it is pleasant to relax and watch TV with the whole family, where there are friendly “gatherings”, you receive guests there. Therefore, the most stringent requirements are imposed on this room. It should be not only stylish, as it is a kind of business card, but also functional in order to meet as much as possible all the desires of the household, their habits. Particular attention should be paid to the choice of furniture, since even expensive items may look out of place if you pick them up incorrectly. How to choose furniture in the living room?

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Choosing the right furniture

Choosing the right furniture means, at a minimum, solving the following tasks:

• the furniture should look organically and create coziness;
• she should be liked by all family members;
• to be functional.

Basic principles of organizing a living room

Before you go to the store, you need to prepare and take into account some points:

• Determine how much space you are willing to allocate for furniture. Follow the rule that there should be a distance of at least a meter between individual interior items.
• Measure the width and height of the doorways. Otherwise - having bought an expensive piece of furniture, you may find that it is impossible to bring it into the room.
• Some rooms have built-in niches, for example, the room has a rustic fireplace. In this case, it is better to abandon the Art Nouveau furniture, which is more suitable for a room with windows to the quarters of the metropolis.
• Follow the general style so that the elements do not look randomly thrown into a heap. Each element of the interior should complement the rest.
• Do not overdo it with accessories - an excess of objects makes space overloaded. To create an individual image, a few accents are enough.
• Use samples to determine on site how much they fit into the interior. This will require additional time, but you will eliminate errors when individual objects do not harmonize with each other.

We determine the functionality of furniture

Before selecting furniture for the living room, you need to determine what functions your room will perform, or rather its priority tasks:

• This can be a room only for family gatherings, watching movies, etc.
• Maybe this is a room where parties, banquets and celebrations will be held.
• Or friends, neighbors and relatives will often drop in here just to relax and chat.
• In some cases, the living room also serves as the dining room, and sometimes the bedroom.

In all these cases, the approach to choosing furniture for the living room will be different, and this must be taken into account. It may be necessary to provide for some trick for the correct zoning of the room.

Choose the color of furniture

Of course, the choice of color design depends solely on the taste of the owner, but still it is better to take into account the advice of professional designers:

• Light colors visually expand the room a little and blur its boundaries. Therefore, if you have a small living room, then you should create a single space with the help of light-colored furniture against the background of light walls.
• For a large living room, you can use different colors, even dark and saturated.
• To give the room a cosiness, warm shades are used, for example, pink, yellow, peach, orange.In such a living room it is pleasant to arrange gatherings in the circle of close people.
• If you plan to make your living room a place of rest and relaxation, then cold shades are best suited: light blue, grayish, light green, etc.
• Bright colors are pleasing to the eye, but you won’t be able to relax in such an atmosphere, but if you plan to have parties there, then bright colors will be quite appropriate.
• Interiors with a combination of white and black colors look very impressive. But think carefully, choosing such a color scheme of the room. This is not very practical, especially with regard to furniture, since any, even the smallest, pollution will be clearly visible on a white background.
• Black furniture is more practical, but for a small living room it is not the best choice, since black color creates an oppressive atmosphere, visually reduces space.

Choose a style

Before buying furniture, you need to decide on the style, here you need to build on your own preferences. If you do not resort to the services of a professional designer, it is best to familiarize yourself with the basics of the chosen style, see photos and read expert advice.

Possible options:

• If you have a small living room, then you should pay attention to styles that use a minimum of objects, for example, high-tech or modern. Modest, deprived of excessive decor, interior items do not take up much space, do not clutter up the space, but at the same time they are quite functional.
• If you imagine a cozy living room in soothing colors, with high armchairs and a soft carpet, then you are an adherent of the classical style.
• Provence involves the use of natural materials, soothing colors and antique furniture.
• Another interesting style began to be popular - Rustic. It combines the beauty and rudeness of nature. Furniture in this style is made of natural wood, but not perfect, but with notches and knots, without paint and without varnish.

Important! It is quite appropriate to combine several styles, especially if zoning is planned.

We choose furniture depending on the size and shape of the room

To solve the question of how to choose furniture for the living room depending on the size of the room, first of all, you need to measure the parameters of the room. Too bulky sofa, table or wall will take up a lot of useful space. In addition to roulette, one must also arm himself with common sense, and think carefully: what tasks in the living room will be priority, how many people will be there at the same time. This is necessary for the correct calculation of seats.

It is necessary to determine the size of the sofa, the number of chairs, ottomans and other seats, while proceeding from the size of the room. So, in some rooms the task is to save space, and in others - on the contrary, somehow fill it.

Important! The interior can be made elegant, regardless of the size of the room. It’s just more difficult to do this for a small living room, since in a limited area you need to place a lot of necessary items so that it is convenient and functional.

Use the advice of professionals when choosing furniture for a small living room:

• In a small room it is better to choose upholstered furniture without armrests. It seems lighter and more open, and the comfort problem is easily solved with the help of rollers and pillows.
• Do not put a bulky wall in a small living room to store all things. It is better to buy a modular cabinet, in which many things can be stored, but at the same time, it does not take up much space.
• You need to use a lot of glass in the interior - it looks stylish and creates the illusion of free space.
• Shelves are better to take open, as closed visually reduce the room. At the same time, do not overload them with accessories - this creates the appearance of a mess.

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The choice of upholstered furniture

Upholstered furniture is an important and indispensable attribute of any living room that is selected first. Usually a set consists of a sofa and two chairs:

• Sofas can be folding, forming additional berths. If you buy a sofa just for this, then pay attention to models with high-quality mechanisms that are designed for everyday use.
• It is also worth paying attention to the filler and upholstery material. The skin looks rich, but not suitable everywhere. Jacquard and velor require careful care. But microfiber is an inexpensive material that is appropriate for the living room, where the load on the sofa is large.

When selecting furniture for the living room, it should be borne in mind that the same objects can differ from each other depending on the design features. So, corner, classic and modular furniture is different in appearance. Consider the features of each of them.

Corner furniture

Its main features are spaciousness and more efficient use of space. By placing a corner sofa, you save a few square meters of the room. But it’s important to find the right place for him.

Important! If it is placed near a short wall, it will fetter the room and make it smaller.

Classic furniture

It is not compact, but very reliable, beautiful and fits perfectly into the classic interior. It is created for living rooms of medium and large sizes. It is not recommended to put it in small rooms because of its size, since visually it will reduce the room even more.

Modular furniture

It does not consist of a monolithic case, but of many functional elements that can be put together, but at the same time, each of them is able to be a self-contained piece of furniture.

Important! They can be rearranged as you want, thus refreshing the interior, without incurring any material costs. Such furniture will fit into any living room.

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Choose a wall or rack

Previously, the wall was the unique solution for the living room - it looked bulky and unaesthetic. Modern analogues have become more miniature and sophisticated, but shelving has also become fashionable. They perform the same functions, but at the same time, thanks to the special design, they do not take up space, which is important when choosing furniture in a small living room.

And if the walls fit well into the classic interior, then shelving will be a great solution to the room, where they try to save space by all means. A great option is modular furniture. This is a set of all kinds of elements made in one style, which can be combined as you like. You can create an original and most comfortable interior.

Important! A wall with hinged shelves and translucent facades will increase the size of the room and make it brighter.

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Choose a coffee table

This is an important attribute of any living room, which serves not only to arrange all the little things on it, but also indispensable for tea drinking. The average height of coffee tables is about 50 cm, and the size and material can be any:

• For a classic style, a wooden carved table is suitable, which can be complemented by forged elements.
• For living rooms decorated in a modern style, an oval or round glass table is suitable.
• A cube-shaped table made of translucent plastic will be ideal even for the smallest living room.

When the area allows, you can choose any option that you like. On sale there are many interesting models that can become a real highlight of any interior.

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Other furniture

To date, there are no clear rules on the design of living rooms, and therefore it cannot be said which pieces of furniture should be required and which should not. Here you decide:

• If you want to combine the living room and dining room, then you will need a dining table with chairs.It is best to choose round or oval, especially if the house has small children.

Important! An excellent option is a transformer table, which, as unnecessary, can be folded and removed to the side.

• TV in our time is the same necessary element of the interior as upholstered furniture. Recently, he is most often hung on the wall. But you can put it on the stand, the main thing is to choose the stand according to the size of your TV. The material can be any - it can be glass, wooden, from chipboard or other materials. It is good if there are boxes for storing small items on the cabinet. A cabinet on wheels is convenient in that you can position the TV in the way that suits you best.
• To arrange additional seats, you may need chairs and armchairs. Proceed from the style in which your room is designed. When choosing chairs, it is worth considering that a rounded seat is much more convenient than a square one. Armchairs should be soft, but not too deep, so that you can get up without effort.
• The use of a bar has become popular. It does not take up much space and allows you to divide the room into zones. Its surface must be resistant to various kinds of damage. It can also serve as a dining table. In this case, you can pick up special high chairs, they are for every taste.
• The room will look cozy if there are accessories and decorations in it. You can choose them to your taste, for example, it can be souvenirs from trips, candles, paintings, even a mirror can become an adornment of your interior. The main thing - do not overload the room, otherwise - it will look like a warehouse of goods for various purposes.

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OK it's all over Now! You have all the rules for designing a living room with soft, cabinet and auxiliary furniture. It remains only to put them into practice in order to achieve the result that you imagined.