The main purpose of the furniture wall in the hall is purely utilitarian. Modern consumer society is characterized by a large number of things. The walls are designed to organize their storage. Family, relatives or friends gather in the living room for holidays. The wall in the hall occupies a central place. The mood of the owners and guests will depend on its design and practicality. Modern multifunctional walls with a minimalist design are constructed from free-standing cabinets, shelves, and bedside tables.
What are the walls like?
Modern walls for the hall are mostly modular. They are assembled from individual parts into a single whole. For convenience, they can be swapped horizontally, and wall cabinets can be rearranged in height. Such transformation of individual components allows you to change the design and introduce some variety into the environment. There are not many options for execution. They can be straight or angular, with a wardrobe or a computer desk.
Direct
Straight walls are installed near one of the walls. They play the role of the central exposition. Depending on the design and style, owners can draw attention not only to the wall, but also to individual interior items.
This could be a free-standing vase, a stereo system, or a TV. To highlight individual parts or the entire furniture complex, LED lighting is used.
Corner
Corner walls are installed in large rooms. They take up a lot of space and are difficult to transform. The cabinet covering the corner cannot be moved or rearranged. In fact, it becomes the center of the composition, and individual modules can only be rearranged around it. Making a good design project for a corner wall is not that easy.
Wall slide
The modern wall slide for the hall differs from others in its design and structural simplicity. Modular or cabinet wall components can be rearranged, open shelves alternate with free-standing closed ones.
They often lack a wardrobe for outerwear. Preference is given to a place for a TV, a computer desk, or a DVD player with speakers. LED lighting makes it modern and stylish. For small one-room apartments this is the most acceptable solution. If desired, you can assemble a wall slide from completely different modules.
No TV
The speed of modern life is changing the established rules of life. TV is gradually being pushed into the background in front of the Internet. Small TVs have given way to large LCD or plasma TVs. There is simply nowhere to put them. The niche for the TV alone will occupy half the wall. Therefore, modern models of walls without a TV are also popular in the interior. This is furniture made in a minimalist style with a refusal to be decorative, simple contours and maximum functionality. The best styles for walls in a room without a TV are: Pop Art, Techno, Hi-Tech, Kitsch, Loft.
With computer place
Popular wall models are designed in such a way that you can fit all the necessary equipment into them. Whether it's a computer or TV. It all depends on the requests of the living room owners.
What is a wall and why is it good?
The classic furniture wall is a modular design, consisting of separate sections, made in the same style and combined into a common furniture composition. All elements of a furniture wall have the same height and are usually arranged in one row, forming a continuous visual wall, which is where the name of this category of furniture comes from. Walls have a number of advantages, including spaciousness, functionality and visual appeal. Each section of the furniture wall has the same height and depth, and, as a result, a large internal volume.
The internal filling of the furniture wall allows you to place impressive volumes of things of various types. The design often includes sections for clothes with shelves and hangers, glazed book racks, shelves for souvenirs and dishes, drawers for papers and various small items. The presence of hinged doors and drawers allows you to protect the contents of the walls from dust and prying eyes, and the entire structure looks solid and complete. The disadvantages include the size and static nature of all elements of the set. If you install one section separately from the entire composition, the integrity will be broken, and such an interior will look ridiculous.
Styles
Modern furniture is made from individual modules. It is characterized by simplicity and minimalism. Bulky, heavy structures have disappeared from use. Individual modules can be easily rearranged from one place to another. This makes it possible to change the design of the room without purchasing new furniture. The abundance of different shades makes it possible to choose a set for every taste. In the struggle for buyers, designers are increasingly mixing a wide variety of styles and trends. Despite the emergence of new materials and finishing products, old design styles and trends do not give up their positions.
Modern
This style in architecture and design appeared at the beginning of the last century. In the modernist direction of furniture making there are two directions: constructivism and decorativeness. These styles were strongly influenced by national traditional forms.
This style is not for mass production. To emphasize the status of the owner, expensive dishes and porcelain are installed in display cabinets. For closed cabinets, chests of drawers and cabinets, MDF panels are used, processed on CNC machines according to individual orders. In addition to the wall, the common room should have other furniture in this style: tables, chairs, chests of drawers, bedside tables.
There is no escape from real life. When designing furniture, it is necessary to provide space for the TV.
High tech
High tech in furniture was formed as a result of a mixture of minimalism, pop art and constructivism. It combines: high-tech design, the use of modern materials, functionality, and clear geometric lines.
In this style, technical achievements are not hidden, but flaunted. The central element of the modular wall can be a TV or stereo system. Minimum items for viewing. Everything unnecessary is put away in wall cabinets. The fronts of cabinets and cabinets are smooth, even, matte or polished surfaces. The division of zones is carried out due to the light and dark colors of the facades.
Minimalism
Minimal room filling is the most popular trend in modern design. The colors chosen are white, black, gray, beige. The wall should not be flashy and fit clearly into the overall interior. The main part of the furniture structure should be closed from prying eyes.
Loft
The wall in the Loft-style room is more reminiscent of a tool rack, rather than the usual furniture wall. And this is not surprising. This is one of the industrial design styles that came to us from America. To decorate a room in this style, you need large areas and rooms with high ceilings. All objects located in the wall are put on display.
Coffee table for living room
The highlight of any living room is an original coffee table. This is a comfortable and functional piece of furniture. There are tables with or without wheels - the choice depends solely on your desire. The average height of a standard table is approximately 50 cm. Coffee tables are made from a wide variety of materials: glass, wood, MDF, etc. You can easily make a wooden table with your own hands.
Materials for the manufacture of furniture walls
The basic materials for making furniture have not changed, these are:
- solid wood;
- MDF;
- Laminated chipboard.
Progress has moved towards color diversity. Furniture makers now have a lot of different films that imitate valuable species, varnishes, paints, stains and stains.
Solid wood
Solid wood furniture is the most expensive due to the complexity of manufacturing. The wood must dry for years to achieve the required moisture content. Technically, making furniture from solid wood is not a problem. Modern technologies and tools allow us to make furniture of any complexity and shape. The main difficulty is the finishing. Pay attention to the carved furniture from the royal chambers.
Craftsmen did not just decorate their furniture with gold. They simply did not have the technology to achieve the required surface cleanliness. It was cheaper for them to cover their products with gold leaf, ivory and precious stones than to try to polish the surface without having the equipment or materials for this. Modern technologies allow wood to be sanded and coated with clear varnishes to reveal the beauty of the wood. Solid wood furniture still remains expensive due to the high labor costs for its production.
MDF
Modern material for the manufacture of furniture facades. It is perfectly cut, pressed, and covered with decorative films, paints and varnishes. The wood-fiber mass is mobile and easily fills curved molds. This allows us to produce furniture walls for a common room of any complexity to suit different styles.
Stamped applied parts and imitation carvings make it possible to achieve similarity with antique products. Modern production technologies have made it possible to reduce prices for furniture facades made of MDF. Today, walls made of MDF facades are in the middle price category. In terms of strength and durability, MDF products are not inferior to wood.
Chipboard
Walls in the hall made of laminated chipboard are the cheapest. Thanks to the variety of films for valuable wood species, manufacturers have the opportunity to produce modular sections of different styles. This is mainly sectional furniture for general consumption. Office furniture and cabinets for furniture with MDF facades are also made from particle boards. This makes it possible to somewhat diversify the budget look of furniture walls. The only difficulty is the release of phenols and formaldehydes from finished products.
In modern furniture fashion there are no clearly established styles and trends. Everyone chooses the style and design of the furniture wall for the hall according to their own taste and financial capabilities.
Carpet
We told you how to properly place a rug in a living room, meaning that it should decorate the floor in this room. The offensive name “dust collector” was invented for the carpet by those who are too lazy to clean it regularly. Yes, we insist that this item is a must for a proper living room. And not only as a decorative element. Using a rug, you can soften the brightness of accents, balance out asymmetrical furniture arrangements, and even narrow or expand the boundaries of the room.
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A rug can even take on the brunt of the visual load—and carry it well while you experiment with furnishings and decor.
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Photos of new walls in the living room interior:
Accessories
Yes, accessories in the living room are also necessary, but it is important to choose them very carefully, without overwhelming the entire room with them. It is better to put two or three beautiful and stylish vases than to fill a room with dozens of figurines of different styles, collections and times.
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Ethnic decorative elements are very popular in many modern living rooms, even if it seems to you that stylistically they do not fit into the decor. Just mentally try on one such accessory for an already created interior and find a suitable place for it. And this item will be the finishing touch that logically completes our list of must-have items for the living room.
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Styling a wardrobe for the living room
To highlight the zest in the interior, you need to choose the right style direction. In this regard, the increased size of the living room gives greater freedom of choice:
- Colonial. The furniture is somewhat heavy and massive, but it fits perfectly into offices and halls. Capable of creating a feeling of respectability and wealth. Decorations usually include figured cutting on the doors along the contour and a lot of varnishing. The color scheme comes down to coffee, ripe walnut and mahogany. Light shades are rarely used. The furnishings have a rather simple silhouette;
- Palace styles. These are the well-known Rococo and Baroque. Italians are recognized furniture makers in these areas. Sets can be decorated with inserts made of crystal or porcelain with painting, figured casting with gilding, and carvings. As the main one, stop at all shades of beige, sand, gray, white. Dark colors don’t go well with so much decor;
- High tech. One of the trendiest trends, involving a large amount of glass, chromed steel and bright colored plastic. Characterized by extremely extravagant silhouettes and deliberately broken lines. More suitable for young and active people. With its help you can create an almost fantastic design.
Is it possible to make a wall on your own?
Another rather altruistic idea is to make a wall yourself. It will not be difficult to find samples and planned schemes, but implementing them will be much more difficult. A furniture factory will cope with this task much more successfully, however, you will have to pay in full for its services.
If you want to save a lot, you can try to make a wall yourself.
To do this you will need:
- Develop a sketch of the product;
- Change it according to actual dimensions;
- Choosing the optimal color;
- Selection of appropriate materials;
- Primary marking;
- Implementation of the plan.
It can take from several weeks to several months to make a truly standing wall. In any case, even if you lack any skills, there is no need to rush. It is better to study the issue in detail, practice on other materials, and only then proceed to further production of the wall.
Sometimes it happens that you can do without drastic changes and slightly improve the old equivalents. You just need to change outdated or irrelevant elements, decorate the doors with new fittings... An old and boring wall will sparkle with completely new colors! And, most importantly, it can last for another year!
