In the old, Soviet typical buildings often uncomfortable small but long living rooms. There is often no opportunity to tear down the walls and reschedule housing. In this case, the new design of a narrow living room in the Khrushchev requires to arm with stylistic tricks. Here it is more difficult to embody your own creative or experimental interior. If you correctly use the following ready-made solutions, you can get a table that meets all the necessary requirements:
- performs its functional purpose;
- it becomes much more comfortable;
- in the most optimal way visually becomes wider.
Planning to arrange a narrow living room to begin with finishing work. Designers strongly recommend to abandon the classic interior - it does not fit in this case. A minimalist design is advised instead.
Choosing the right color
The interior color must be white, beige and other pastel colors. Light texture reflects more light, so physically "pushing" the space, dissolve the boundaries. If, however, thoughtfully place the lighting, the design of a narrow living room of 15 square meters - 20 square meters will be more spacious. To fill the comfort of making elements with yellow, light green, orange hues. In this case, the main thing is to comply with the measure, otherwise the abundance of bright objects will make the room sparkle with colors. The geometry of the long room can be smoothed out, if you choose contrasting colors of decoration or wallpaper for the walls.
The long walls are left more neutral and calm. For the expansion of the room are also suitable painting or wallpaper with a three-dimensional pattern. Mirror surfaces, horizontal paintings are used to achieve the same effect. Do not be afraid to paint a small part or half of the long side of the room - this bold decision can avoid the sensation of the box.
Window and door slopes, cornices, baseboards can not be painted in a contrasting color - it draws a look at the parameters of the room, make out in one tone with the walls.
Ceiling decoration
Given the color approach, it is better to leave the ceiling white. Finish the material without joints, that is, the tile does not fit uniquely. In stretch ceilings, it is permissible to combine white and beige colors, but only if the built-in lighting is planned, because of which the room will not look so narrow.
It is possible to plan suspended plasterboard constructions, to make them quite complex and multi-tiered, with a recess in the center. This approach will also divert attention from the length of the living room.
The reception with a transverse pattern can be realized on the ceiling, in the form of decorative beams or painting with wide multi-colored stripes.
Proper flooring
Floor design also affects the perception of the length of the living room. Laminate should not be located along the long side of the room, it is better diagonally - this eliminates oversaturation with rectangular shapes.
Linoleum is recommended with an elongated pattern, which is placed parallel to the narrow side. In this way, another way of deceiving is involved: the sides expand visually and the long walls are reduced. To avoid the opposite effect, it is forbidden to lay long narrow carpets. It is better to do with an oval or asymmetric non-standard form. A pattern is also desirable on the carpet, a striped product is ideal. Crawl so that the elements of the picture were located across the long side of the room.
You can not occupy all the space carpet! This will draw attention to the proportions of the room.
Furniture Secrets
Decorating a narrow living room - only the first part of a thorough design change. For the completeness of the interior, the next step is to choose the right furniture and fill it with a hall for guests. Massive furniture will “absorb” the space of a narrow room, create a pressing atmosphere. Therefore, select a moderate amount of compact, miniature, concise furnishings. It is desirable with open legs and backs, glass and mirror surfaces - all this increases the perception of space.
If you place all the furniture on a long wall, you get the effect of an reserved-class car. Walls and cabinets are recommended to be placed near the narrow wall. You can completely abandon this type of furniture. Then there will be more free space, from massive objects there will be only a sliding sofa and armchairs. Such a desolation does not spoil the situation at all. On the contrary, give the taste of manufacturability and high-tech modernity. The entire functional load of the cabinets is moved to the suspension racks, open shelves - they provide additional space at the bottom. Adding decor to them will decorate and enliven the atmosphere.
When choosing furniture, focus on rounded models - this form corrects the proportions of the living room.
Conditional division of space into logical parts
Part of the furniture should be placed in the center. This method also visually expands the walls and creates visual and functional barriers:
1. In one part, for rest, you can place a sofa, in the center of the coffee glass table, on the opposite wall hang a TV. On the sides of the table - chairs, ottomans for guests. Separate seating places optically increase the space, serve as a conditional border for the guest area.
2. The rest of the extended room can be equipped for the necessary functional needs:
- For the organization of the working area here you can distribute a desk and a computer, a light bookcase or the above-mentioned shelves on the walls.
- If the second part is reserved for the bedroom, instead of the conditional zoning border, you can plan a transparent semi-partition or a screen. Light curtains will look quite aesthetically pleasing, and shelf openings will also be practical.
- It is highly advisable to combine the living room with the kitchen. The cooking zone will remain in the kitchen interior. It is better to buy compact household appliances here, and it is advisable to leave the refrigerator and washing machine outside the kitchen. In the kitchen you can put tiles on the floor. To separate the border is supposed to introduce a small bar.
Consider the quality of lighting
Lighting planning plays an important role in zoning and hiding the elongated shape of a room. The chandelier in the center makes the room cramped, as it casts a shadow. Designers advise small, unremarkable lamps located along both long walls. With a suspended ceiling, the best lighting option is built-in soffits.
If there is only one window in the Khrushchev’s living room, then the distant part will be plunged into darkness, therefore additional sources of light are put here. Let natural light meet fewer obstacles, light curtains require light, air. Massive curtains and curtains will make you feel heavy. The window opening should be maximized. On the short side, it should be extremely rectangular.
A dwelling with two or more windows can be decorated with darker and darker colors that will be lightened by abundant natural light. If they are located on neighboring walls, then between them ideally accommodate corner furniture - a sofa, armchairs, and a coffee table. If one wall - there are many ready-made solutions:
- A picture, a mirror, a family portrait, a TV set are placed between the windows, and an electric or biofire fireplace is mounted.
- Entirely emit a wall with windows for built-in shelf racks. They will have to do to order.
- Sofas with chairs can be placed directly in front of the windows.
Narrow form - the main problem of discomfort in the Khrushchev. It is the main difficulty in arranging a comfortable home. But even in a corridor-type room, you can organize comfort and harmony. The design of a narrow living room has its own characteristics and secrets. Modern architecture easily implements these subtleties, allows you to equip the most functional and beautiful rooms. Designer developments offer a wealth of techniques for effectively eliminating the tunnel effect of a room.
Selection of color combinations, decoration of the room, the introduction of masking decorative elements, furniture layout, a competent approach to exhibiting lighting, zoning effects will create a comfortable and cozy atmosphere. Your imagination remains plenty of options for arrangement. But do not try to turn the living room size of 15-20 square meters in the royal apartments. Because such difficult for design rooms require restraint. Nevertheless, the result will really surprise you.
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