Combining wallpaper in the living room: how to do it right

Gusevsky Andrey Anatolyevich

Combined wallpaper in the living room

Combined wallpaper in the living room is a simple but quite effective way to decorate the walls. Modern styles and design solutions make the living room the soul and heart of the whole house.

The correct combination of several wallpaper options makes the room unique, smooths out all the flaws in it. How to combine wallpaper in the living room, the article will tell.

The basic principles of combining wallpaper

When using wallpapers of different types in one room, several goals are pursued:

• The advantages and disadvantages of the premises are emphasized.
• Focuses on specific details of the interior, decor.
• Perform zoning, divide the room into several spaces in the living room.
• Make the room beautiful, create a special atmosphere in it.

The combination in the living room of different wallpapers is justified most of all.

In this room:

• Guests are welcome.
• All family members gather.
• Television shows are being watched.
• Reading literature.
• Often the living room at night becomes a bedroom.
• In the afternoon she serves as an office.

The use of various textures and colors helps to highlight areas. In addition, the living room is the face of the house. Combined wallpaper for the living room allows you to make its walls a real work of art.

Tip: It is not necessary to decorate the living room walls with paintings or paintings. It is enough to use the wallpaper in a special way, to find a beautiful combination of them.

There may be some theatricality in the living room. This is a kind of scene where the main events in the house unfold. Here in the design of the walls you can allow some kind of excessiveness, and leave calm and restraint for the rest of the rooms. The living room, in any case, should be cozy and beautiful.

The combination of two types of wallpaper in the living room “breaks” the space, delimits it, makes it more complex and attractive. By changing colors and texture, you can visually make the room more spacious, increase the height of the ceilings, hide unnecessary ledges or corners that cannot be hidden in another way. The combination of wallpaper can be a compromise if homeowners cannot decide which materials to choose.

How to choose a wallpaper

It’s not easy to choose wallpaper in the interior to combine. Despite the fact that the industry offers a large number of options, it is much more interesting to find the original combination and make the room unique with your own hands.

The wallpaper selection guide indicates that they should be combined according to:

• Color (cm. The coloring of the wallpaper in the living room: what to choose) In this case, there are two options for combining wallpaper:

1. use the same color in different shades, for example light green and green or cherry and wine;
2. create contrast from different colors:
3. black and white;
4. midnight blue and bright yellow.

The combination of different colors in the wallpaper looks especially attractive when highlighting areas in the living room. In this case, it is better to combine two colors, a wider range of palettes requires excellent taste.

Tip: When choosing several colors for the living room, it is necessary that at least one of them is repeated in furniture, accessories or textiles.

• Picture. The best option for any pattern is a strip. They go well with:

1. flower ornament;
2. abstract patterns;
3. plain wallpaper.

The main condition that should be observed when combining different patterns in the design of the walls is moderation. Very rarely, more than three designs are successfully combined.

• Invoice. The industry produces wallpaper on a paper basis, vinyl, non-woven (see The difference between vinyl and non-woven wallpaper: consider in detail) other. The use of different-colored, the same color of wallpaper in the interior of the room, especially with proper lighting, give the surface depth as shown in the photo.

The combination of different textures in the room

What are the options and methods for combining wallpaper

There are many options for combining wallpaper for the living room.

They can be combined with all kinds of stripes, inserts of different formats:

• Combine the wallpaper in the living room with vertical stripes:

The most common way is to insert vertical stripes that the ceiling in the room makes higher.

The combination of vertical inserts

In this case, the combination of bands can:

1. take the same width;
2. split a single space with vertical inserts of different widths;
3. combine stripes with different colors and patterns;
4. connect elements end-to-end or overlap, in zigzags or waves.

With such a combination of materials in the living room, it can be made very attractive without a hint of official premises. The inserts blend perfectly with painted walls or completely white wallpaper.

• Horizontal stripes.

Horizontal stripes of wallpaper in the living room

The classic option is: the use of striped wallpaper at the bottom of the wall, and at the top with floral patterns, both parts are separated by a border. This option can be made more complicated by using different texture of the wallpaper or by breaking the wall in height into three or even four segments.

Tip: With an increase in the gluing height of the horizontal strip, it should be lighter. In low rooms should not use horizontal stripes at eye level, the width of which is more than a meter. And you should not divide the room in strips exactly in half.

When using two types of wallpaper located in horizontal combination, the preparation of the walls should be perfect, and the gluing of strips should be done end-to-end.

• Wallpaper inserts.

Wallpaper on the wall in the living room

The easiest way is to distinguish a zone, to create an original emphasis on any wall, by gluing wallpaper of a different color, texture or pattern in this place. Such an insert can be made from wallpaper with an active pattern, located on the background of the main calmer materials.

In this case, the insert can be on the entire wall or occupy only a certain fragment on it, decorated with moldings, in the form of a kind of picture. Another type of paste from the wallpaper is used as a “backing” when hanging on the wall of the tv or replaces the familiar to many carpet on the wall.

In this way it is good to zon areas of the room

• Patchwork. Wallpaper panels, consisting of several types of wallpaper from flaps, can be made:

1. classic, with the correct alternation of fragments of rectangles or squares resembling a chessboard. In this case, it is allowed to use an unlimited number of colors and patterns from the wallpaper;
2. chaotic, non-standard combination, it is better to limit the number of colors to two or three components. A very colorful panel quickly enough will bore those present in the living room.

Patchwork quilt on the wall of wallpaper

Tip: An ideal option for a patchwork quilt, when all the patches have a different color and a general or similar in tone shade.

• The allocation of ledges and niches in the living room.

The design of the ledge in the living room

Such flaws in the layout of the room can not be hidden, but emphasized, creating original room accents using contrasting wallpapers, the price of such transformations is small, and the effect is huge.And when pasting in the niche of the wallpaper of the same pattern as in the whole living room, but two tones darker, a spectacular visual depth is created.

When combining wallpaper in the living room, it is necessary to observe a single interior, so that the walls are in harmony with other elements of the room, furniture, textiles. How to do it right will tell the video.