Interesting options for choosing wallpaper colors for the interior of the room

Every family, about once every five years, is faced with the problem of choosing wallpaper during renovation. As a rule, this process takes a fairly large number of days. Let’s simplify the torment of many apartment owners and consider: what wallpaper colors are suitable for the living room, what this or that color means in terms of psychology, how to choose, as well as examples of different colors in the interior.

Modern wallpaper for the hall is distinguished by a variety of colors and textures

Criteria for choosing the color of wallpaper for the living room

For a harmonious and complete combination of wallpaper with the interior as a whole, some criteria should be taken into account:

1. Environmental friendliness. The most important point when choosing quality material. The ideal option would be breathable wallpaper that does not attract dust and is resistant to moisture.
2. Appearance. These include: coloring, ornament, style. All parameters must be combined with the design of the room and furniture.
3. Difficulty of the sticker. Some wallpaper, especially with thematic patterns, require adjustment; such models are too expensive, since about half a roll can be thrown away during the entire process.

For any interior style, you can choose interesting options for decorating walls with wallpaper.

Living room zoning

The living room serves as a place for joint leisure of the whole family, a room for receiving guests. But, often, this room serves as an additional sleeping place or a permanent place for study or relaxation. Using one room with different functions becomes more convenient if you divide the space into several zones. The principle of zoning space using different colors and different types of finishes creates areas for different activities. It is important to take into account the layout of the room. A place of rest and privacy can be located in a niche (when planning a room with a niche) or against the far wall. For handicrafts or reading, it is preferable to arrange a separate area by the window or connect a suitable light source. It is more convenient to organize children's games in the central part of the room. Combining wallpaper with a good arrangement of furniture and properly selected lighting will help all household members and guests of the house find their right place.

If possible, when combining two or more types of wallpaper in the interior design of a living room, it is advisable to opt for wallpaper products from one manufacturer. The use of one dye recipe and the creation of drawings in one creative manner make this choice an ideal solution in finding the optimal combination.

Color meanings from psychology

As you know, color has a great influence on a person’s mood, consciousness, thoughts, activities and health. That is why the choice of colors should be treated with maximum attention.

Using the color of the walls, you can create a variety of interior effects - highlight accent areas, brighten the room, or, conversely, create an intimate atmosphere

The color scheme is divided into three subtypes:

1. Calming cold (purple, blue, light blue, green).
2. Stimulating warm colors (yellow, orange, red).
3. Neutral (black, gray, white).

Red

It is considered a stimulating color that should be used in small quantities. Is tiresome for imaginary, excitable and anxiety-prone people. The use of this color is prohibited for rooms occupied by people with high blood pressure.

Among the many shades of red, coral, burgundy, wine and terracotta tones are best suited for the hall.

But if you use color correctly, you can achieve the opposite results. By nature, red gives energy, optimism, and confidence. From the psychological point of view, red color can be used in the interior of a hallway, kitchen, gym, stairwells, and office.

Orange

An invigorating and life-affirming color that belongs to warm shades. Obtained by mixing yellow and red, from the first it acquired warmth and kindness, from the second - activity. Well suited for a living room that requires sunshine, cheerfulness, friendliness and comfort.

Wallpaper with an orange print is an excellent solution for creating a positive environment

It is better to combine bright colors with neutral shades, best of all - white, beige, gray. These colors will calm down the brightness a little while maintaining the positivity and energy of the room.

Yellow

It is considered the color of freedom, happiness, sun, fun, creating an invigorating and optimistic mood. It carries a positive charge, promotes the emergence of new ideas and making the right decisions.

Pure yellow color can cause overwork, so it is better to dilute it with green, white or brown tones

Yellow is best used in rooms where concentration of attention is required, such as the kitchen, living room, office, study. It is also suitable for increasing cognitive interest and improving memory when used in a children's room.

Blue

The cold color of the sky, sincerity, calmness, tact. Promotes inspiration and peace. Well suited for bedrooms, as it helps you fall asleep faster, fighting insomnia.

Blue wallpaper can be matched to any interior style

Additionally, the use of such colors is allowed in work areas, sanatoriums, and resorts. The main thing is not to overdo it with blue, otherwise conflicts and disagreements between the inhabitants are possible.

Blue

A fresh and relaxing color that brings peace. It embodies serenity, calmness, lightness, depth, leisurelyness. Able to free you from negative anxieties, fussy thoughts and immerse you in an element of coolness and tranquility.

Blue wallpaper takes away a significant portion of natural light

Perfect for the bedroom of a person living in a metropolis. Some shades of blue can be used in children's rooms, but without fanaticism.

Green

A fairly universal color that symbolizes spring, nature, kindness, nature and harmony. Depending on the specific shade, there may be different energy transmitted by the room to a person. To accurately understand the differences between the tones, you can look at the colors of the wallpaper for the photo hall in green.

The light green background on the wallpaper evokes extremely positive emotions

Brown

The color of devotion, endurance, common sense, reliability, hard work. Helps you focus on something specific. This coloring prevents waste of time and helps you get closer to your goal.

Brown wallpaper looks attractive both alone and in combination with other colors

There is also the other side of positive qualities - fear, boredom, disappointment, depression. Such negative consequences can appear if there is a lot of brown in the interior, or the wrong shade is chosen.

Black

Black color, especially in combination with white, looks quite bold and unconventional. You can verify this by looking at photos of black and white wallpaper in the interior of a modern room. But it is worth remembering that this color greatly conceals the space, so you should not add too much of it to small rooms.

To prevent the room from looking too gloomy, you should not devote more than 1/4 of the surface of the walls in the room to black wallpaper.

Features of combination with furniture

If there is dark furniture in the room, then you should choose a light finish. In this case, neutral or bright shades that match the surroundings are great. Light furniture is best suited to materials with different colors and textures. A great option is to play with contrast or choose wallpaper for the walls in the room with a bright and large picture.

In a room with multi-colored furniture, the emphasis is on it, so the decoration should be discreet and calm, for example, gray. This shade will be an excellent background and will emphasize the brightness and individuality of each item. As for the picture, it is best to choose products without it or with a very small pattern.

Options for choosing wallpaper colors for the living room

• Dark shades. To fully understand what kind of dark wallpaper there are in the living room, you can look at examples of photos in the apartment. For example, the most popular on the Russian market are black, purple, brown, green and blue. It is better to use dark colors only on one side, or in the form of a panel, and combine them with pastel-colored wallpaper. The depth of dark shades will help to concentrate all the attention on the necessary wall and give the room a stylish look.

  
  Dark wallpaper will harmonize perfectly with light-colored furniture

• White wallpaper.
  As you know, white is the color of purity and innocence. But in the interior it serves as a visual expander of space. White wallpaper can be: plain, with a relief pattern or with a colored print. Such wallpapers can be used both on all walls at the same time, and in combination with colored ones. Light wallpaper will save the room from excessive darkening if the windows of the hall face the north side of the house

In Khrushchev-era apartments, it is better to use as many light shades as possible, which will visually expand the area of ​​the rooms.

• And others. The color scheme of the wallpaper is selected taking into account the location of the living room on the sunny side (cold shades are suitable) or on the shady side (warm colors are used). It is necessary to give preference to colors that best suit the style of the room.

  
  Colored wallpaper will refresh the atmosphere and give you a mood

For the shadow side, neutrals are suitable: beige, white, pink; pastel shades: yellow, red, orange, green.

Beige wallpaper looks calm and elegant at the same time

A room with white wallpaper and furniture of the same color looks very light, but such an interior must be diluted with a contrasting shade

For illuminated ones - blue, lilac, turquoise. Or combined wallpaper with a light background and bright patterns.

Stylish living room with lilac photo wallpaper

Wallpaper with a gray print goes well with most other colors

Expanding space in small rooms

What wallpaper is suitable for a room if it is small in size? A correctly selected pattern will help to visually enlarge it. For these purposes, a perspective image is perfect: a street stretching into the distance, an alley, a shore, etc. If you need to paste photo wallpaper, then it can only occupy one wall, and preferably the longest one.

Those who prefer finishing with conventional patterns also need to choose the right material. Small pictures allow you to glue it to at least all four walls. And large images are only suitable for one of the walls, otherwise they will visually come closer and reduce the space. As for the nature of the patterns, it can be absolutely anything, since it does not affect perception.

Horizontal prints will help expand the space in a narrow room, and vertical ones in a wide room. An excellent option for a small room is to use products with geometric patterns: circles, squares, wavy lines, etc.

Photos of examples of wallpaper colors for the living room

To summarize, you shouldn’t run to the store and buy the first wallpaper you come across. The best thing is to sit down and think through the design of the living room, understand what color of wallpaper to choose for the room and, taking everything into account, buy beautiful wallpaper that will delight you for a long time.

Photo catalogs of wall coverings

Classic In a classic style for a hall combined with a dining room

Photo wallpaper “London Bridge” In a modern room

Paper wallpaper in a classic style For painting in minimalism With structure (brick) in the living room In the living room in an apartment In neoclassical style In a country house In a library-living room Country Combined in an apartment Photo wallpaper “Rose” in the room Photo wallpaper “Green Forest”

Textured coverings in the hall

In the interior of the apartment Factory

Wallpaper with texture for the living room With stripes in the living room

Kinds

The history of wallpaper use goes back many centuries. Wallpaper has been made from expensive fabric, from animal skins, from bamboo, from paper since its invention. Since the last century, the traditional form of wallpaper has been a rolled roll of standard sizes 10 meters long, 53-106 cm wide.

The market for modern products is saturated with different types of wallpaper; let’s try to understand this diversity using the table:

Each type of wallpaper has its own advantages and disadvantages, knowledge of which will allow you to make the best choice.

Wall decor trends this year

Last year's minimalism still haunts the wallpaper market. Its echoes are now at the peak of fashion - abstract patterns, invisible on the wallpaper until you come close, light geometric designs. Designers try to create the feeling that there is no wallpaper at all - the material merges so organically with the wall and decor.

Wallpaper of this type can be carefully combined - up to a reasonable limit of three colors, of course, which will give the walls a special charm and your personal idea, which is incredibly important for uniqueness. The desire for maximum naturalness will still show itself in the trends of 2017.

The main innovation now is the return of wallpaper that imitates natural or building materials. Fashion expectedly took a detour with a slight tilt back and modern wallpaper for the living room has become very similar to its counterparts ten years ago.

Only the quality of the print has changed - now only detailed concepts are accepted, whereas in the past there were enough rough similarities, and the materials have become modernized.

This is how walls appeared in the apartments of interior gourmets, copying with amazing accuracy brickwork, bamboo, wood and stone of different types, even fabrics with various textures.

The wallpaper described above is often confused with photo wallpaper, but in vain. This is a completely different type of wall decor that leaves you maximum freedom in choosing how to decorate your home.

Modern technology for making photo wallpaper allows you to apply any design or photograph based on any whim. All that is required from you by the studio for the production of such wallpaper is a wide-format image of what you want. And then it’s up to ultra-modern technology for high-quality printing on large volumes.

No concept? This way things will go even faster, studios have impressive portfolios, the album with which agents usually offer. Tell the consultant and immediately receive samples, choose your dream design from thousands of photo wallpapers for the room. Remember that any ideas are accepted and the concept does not have to be a photograph.

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