Small Living Room, Great Effect! 10 Setup Tips for Saving Space

You love your new home, only the living room is too small? No reason to despair! With a few tricks it will be the greatest for you.

The living room is the centerpiece of every home. Here we spend a lot of time and make ourselves comfortable with family and friends. His establishment deserves special attention. But what to do if the room is so small that there is barely enough room to set up the couch, table and shelves? Get the most out of your small living room with these 10 tips.

1. Bright colors

When designing rooms, the first question that arises is the right color scheme. The living room actually lends itself to experiments with rich, warm colors, but in small rooms, light and reserved tones should be chosen in favor of a friendly and calm overall picture. The walls of this Stockholm apartment are decorated in bright white. So it is not too dark despite the sloping roof. A gray sofa and a carpet in the same color create a soft contrast, without darkening the room. Which of course does not mean that accents should not be set with deco in bold colors.

2. Furniture and decoration minimalism

In a living room belongs a lot: sofa, armchair , coffee table, bookshelf, hi-fi cabinet, and, and, and. To put all this furniture in a small space is a challenge. So that the living room is not delivered and the way begins to resemble a course, the furnishings should be reduced to the essentials. Sort out. A move is the ideal occasion to get rid of ballast. The less space you can store, the fewer cabinets and shelves you will need. Sparingly furnished, small rooms seem much more airy. Even with the home decor you should hold back. Some selected and well-placed pieces are enough.

3. Sofa and armchair

Powerful furniture does not belong in small rooms. Instead of a sweeping sofa landscape is a narrow, combined with armchairs couch much better. Depending on your needs, (colorful) chairs or light armchairs can be easily moved back and forth. If occasional overnight guests come, you should also consider whether the purchase of a sofa bed is worthwhile.

4. Coffee table = stool

Two in one! The idea of a multifunctional device is as simple as it is practical - and should be used throughout the living room. For example, with a coffee table that can also be used as a stool. For the British, the upholstered (and often tufted) foot stool or pouf is part of the fixed living room inventory - as in this London townhouse, Glass plates or trays protect the upholstery fabric from contamination.

5. Flexible table

A couch in the room does not only give depth to the living room, but at the same time a console table can be placed on the back. As a filing, writing or dining table, it fulfills several functions at the same time. Under it, stools can be stowed to save space. And when you visit, you just have to put the entire ensemble on the other side of the sofa to sit comfortably together.

6. Built-in wardrobe and tall shelves

If the space is limited in width, you must move upwards. In this example, a room-width built-in wardrobe was integrated into the living room, which exploits every inch down to the ceiling. Open and closed compartments alternate. Behind the cabinet fronts and in the drawers, everything that is unrepresentative and unclear disappears. At the same time the entire installation element visually fades into the background.

7. Plexiglass Furniture

Well, acrylic resin furniture may not be to everyone's taste. But especially in small rooms they work wonders. Whether in the form of a chair (for example: "Ghost Chair", Kartell) or as a coffee table - the transparent and robust objects fit into any interior without dominating it. The rule they leave to other furnishings, such as a beautiful couch or a fine carpet.

8. Wall Hanger

Little makes rooms look as generous as a floor that is visible right down to the corners. Therefore, furnishings should be wall-mounted where appropriate. In a small living room, a voluminous hi-fi cabinet becomes superfluous, if you mount the flat-screen TV to a wall mount. If you need a shelf for additional accessories, you can also attach shelves below the TV set.

9. Setting accents

In small living rooms, art does not have to be abandoned. Paintings or prints that occupy most of a wall can make a room look even bigger. High pictures and curtains visually stretch the room and make it less squat.

10. Mirrors

Small rooms often have small windows, which is why they often lack daylight. With a wall mirror you conjure up more brightness in small living rooms. It is best to hang the mirror at right angles to the window or window. He directs light into the entire room and visually enlarges it. 

Source: indecortrends.com

 

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