The living room is such a place that unites and connects the other rooms around itself. This place is multifunctional. Here we gather with the whole family, receive guests, watch TV, sit over coffee. And in other words, in the living room, most of the life of the owners of this living room passes.
Due to the fact that the living room is a multifunctional space, it is the most filled room in the house. All the important things, interesting elements of the decor want to be placed in the living room and that they stand in a prominent place. Here, and favorite painting in a wide frame, photos of travel, donated for the anniversary of the vase and so on.
What you want to see constantly, what you want to boast about is that they are trying to arrange in the living room. Often, the living rooms are turned into a heap of different elements and a warehouse of things, while the external appearance of the living room is laconic in design. To prevent this from happening, you need to connect in the living room everything that you wanted to put on public display, you need to approach carefully the placement inside the premises of the elements.
What is in the living room?
Functionality of the living room for each family is individual. Each family has its own something that needs to be located in such a room. In modern apartments, the main place in the living room is a home theater or TV.
This is the center of the room, here the whole family gathers near the TV in the evening, they sing karaoke in a noisy company, they watch movies with friends. Now the modern world can not be imagined without technology, just as it is impossible to imagine a living room without it. Plain, plasma, small or large screens are the emotional, logical, aesthetic, visual center of the room.
In addition to the TV, there is a certain amount of things that are not inferior to this element of the room in importance, is a fireplace. Despite the fact that modern apartments are not adapted to this thing, the fireplaces become very popular.
Gas and electric fireplaces, give refinement, charm, special warmth and some feeling of comfort to any interior in your apartment. A modern design will enter the classical style in the rooms of different styles.
The aquarium is also the subject of design and is considered popular. He brings a piece of nature to the apartment, which the city lacks so much, helps to relax after a day's work, pacifies. And in any apartment is a bright spot. An aquarium with different exotic fish will be an original decoration, and it does not need to be hidden in the bedroom. I want to place in a prominent place, so that I can admire it often.
It is difficult to list those elements that serve as the center of attraction of views. It can be any design items, such as curly coasters, original sculptures, paintings in expensive frames and much more. Just mix in your living room all this is not worth it. Things then merge into a kaleidoscope of colors and shapes, and will interfere with the perception of each element individually.
How to arrange?
When you create a living room layout, you need to decide what you want to place in it. Among the items you need to prioritize and one thing you need to choose, which would be the center of the room, and would be the main element from which the impression of the room would evolve. This item should be placed so that the person who would get into the living room before looking at him would have stared straight at him. Its location is necessary and can be emphasized by the background.
This technique will add a little space around the main point of the living room. This can be a system of shelves, a specially made niche, texture and color of the wall. Everything that can concentrate on the location of such an element, which is the center of the room.
All the remaining interior items should be arranged according to the degree of priority. And make it so that with each other, they do not intersect. Each element will be a kind of center of the part of the room that you tried to take away. Minor objects can be emphasized by the background, but not so conspicuous and less vivid than the background.
It must be remembered that around the element there must be a certain amount of air, space, and background. The attention of the person should be concentrated on the chosen element, and not on changing the invoices and colors of your living room.
Errors
Points that are visual centers are located in different parts of the living room in such a way that they do not intersect with each other. Otherwise they will interfere with perceiving each other.
The error will be if such elements are placed one above the other or next. Often this is due to the desire to fit into it all and a small total area of the apartment. By disposing, thus, these elements, you deny the possibility to perceive elements as something valuable and to use them simultaneously.
For example, if you place a fireplace under the TV, you really can not use a fireplace or a TV. If you turn them on at the same time, when you watch a TV you will be constantly distracted by the fire in the fireplace, but if you want to admire the fire, you will have a desire, at least fleetingly to watch TV. The same can be said about such combinations as a fireplace, standing near a large in human growth sculpture, a TV standing to the back with the aquarium.
And it is best to distribute these elements on different walls and each element will carry the function that it needs to carry. Then the view will not be torn. It will be enough for you to choose what you want - to watch the inhabitants of the aquarium or watch TV. You do not have to interfere if the interests of family members do not match. One will want to sit by the fireplace, the other will want to see the news.
Photos and shelves
In addition to the central elements in the living room, there must be a number of small and important things. These are porcelain sets, frames with photos, bookshelves and so on. And also much, something that corresponds to the habits and tastes of each family.
With shallow filling, these little things are a good background for your center, but you do not have to go too far with these trifles. If you arrange a lot of small things around, then their motley they can kill a functional and more valuable element. If you have a habit of pleasant little things to show off, then give them a separate place.
Furniture
In the living room furniture should be placed, tied to the visual centers, but you need to be guided by banal logic. By the fireplace you can put chairs with foot puffs, so that they are sufficiently close to the fire. The sofa that stands opposite the TV, it is better to move away, proceeding from the diagonal of the screen.
Between the sofa and the TV, the dining table will look weird. If you attach a table to the outdoor fireplace, it will simply block the fireplace. When you arrange furniture, then see that it was convenient to use all elements of the interior, so that the aisles and distances to the objects were comfortable. When arranging furniture, you must simultaneously fill the living room with different elements of functionality and design.
Now we know about the design and interior of the living room. For each family is very individual, what to combine with. All things for interior comfort and comfort should be so arranged in the living room that everything should be in place and do not interfere with the perception and use of individual elements. But in general, it should look laconic and complete space.