Choosing furniture for the living room is a pleasant but difficult task, because the modern market is saturated with models in all sorts of styles and design finds. For large rooms with high ceilings, the classic is ideal. This style was created by the aristocrats of the 17th and 18th century, but still remains relevant. It emphasizes the status of the owners, looks luxurious, and materials of exceptionally high quality serve for tens or even hundreds of years. Modern styles are more concise and simple forms, high functionality and discreet, delicate decor. Furniture items are made from both expensive and more affordable materials, so they are affordable for most families.
Classic style furniture
Classic style in the interior is the embodiment of elegant chic, grace and prestige, a demonstration of the well-being of the owners of the apartment, notdevoid of good taste. The distinctive features of classic living room furniture include rigor, perfect symmetry, natural colors and shades, grace and an abundance of decorative details.
Classic-style furniture items are made exclusively from natural wood, any imitations are out of place here. The silhouettes are graceful, curved shapes, the furniture is equipped with thin carved legs, rich gilding, bronze and brass inserts, enamel and decorative forging.
In the photo, the living room furniture is represented by a sofa group. Soft items are made from luxurious fabrics: jacquard, velvet, satin, natural leather. The color of the upholstery is mostly light, but there are also bright accents: scarlet, burgundy, emerald green, blue, purple.
Sofas, tables and coffee tables in the living room may be present in the singular, but chairs, armchairs, pouffes must certainly have a pair, as the classics require perfect symmetry. The backs of upholstered furniture can be large or smaller, but always voluminous, with carved details, semicircular armrests.
Cabinet furniture is available in free-standing or built-in format. Cabinets and slides for the living room are decorated with moldings, cornices, decorative columns and carved elements made from the same wood as the facade.
Modern style interior
Modern furniture is represented by a whole kaleidoscope of styles: high-tech, modern, eco-style, loft, fusion. Every directionunique and has its own special character, but some features are common to all:
- Simple geometric shapes. Modern living room furniture has a clean, strict silhouette without the need for symmetry.
- Complete or almost complete absence of external fittings. Furniture handles are almost invisible, many manufacturers are introducing technological mechanisms that allow them to be completely abandoned: doors and drawers open with a light touch.
- Practicality and lack of decor. Living room furniture in a modern style is devoid of decorative, non-functional details, only practical and useful elements are used.
- Concise design. Regardless of the chosen stylistic direction, pieces of furniture exclude everything superfluous and meaningless. The main distinguishing feature of modernity is exquisite simplicity. The lack of jewelry is compensated by original, but functional accessories.
- Integrity. Design elements are in perfect harmony, the boundaries between objects are blurred, one detail smoothly flows into another. The situation is perceived as a whole.
Hi-tech furniture
Hi-tech is considered an artificial style that has incorporated certain features of minimalism and supplemented them with technological components. In the interior of the living room, decorated in the spirit of hi-tech, there are no traditional elements of home comfort. The furniture has a laconic, geometrically correct design, it merges with the environment and does not decorate it, but guarantees exceptional comfort. decorative elementsare completely absent, but they are compensated by high-tech decorations, such as built-in lighting.
Hi-tech living room furniture is made from plastic, glass, metal, polyester, nylon. Natural materials such as wood are almost never used. The facades of the cabinets have a glossy surface, which reflects bright illumination. Upholstered furniture is characterized by lightness and conciseness.
Modern furniture
The name of the style "modern" is translated into Russian as "modern" and therefore many are misleading. This stylistic direction was formed in the 1880s and was popular until 1914, in essence it is much closer to the classics than to the newfangled trends. Art Nouveau furniture is made of natural wood, has soft, rounded shapes, calm, as if dusted, shades and soft floral patterns prevail in the upholstery.
The living room furniture includes a sofa and a pair of armchairs with a dark wood frame and light upholstery. The set must be made in a single design. In the center of the composition is a low table made of wood or glass. A few dainty accessories will complete the decor.
Eco style furniture
Eco-style living room furniture is made from natural wood, has a fairly massive silhouette and an extremely natural shape: rectangular, with smooth curves, roughly processed and covered with transparentvarnished.
Colored paint is not used in this case, but tinting is allowed, which does not hide the natural structure of the tree. For the upholstery of armchairs and sofas, textiles are used in calm, natural shades, plain or with a floral pattern. Also, wicker sofas and armchairs made of rattan, bamboo or wicker harmoniously fit into the eco-friendly environment of the room. Such familiar living room furniture as a wall, in this case, can be made of wood of a similar shade.
Fusion style furniture
This style is an "organized mess" - textures, decorations, shapes and lines can be borrowed from different eras, and the atmosphere as a whole looks luxurious and bright. Upholstery of furniture for the living room is represented by rich materials: natural leather, wool, furs, satin. Fusion welcomes vintage pieces that contrast stylishly with other, more modern furnishings.
Loft style furniture
The loft style is characterized by urban wall and ceiling decoration, and the furniture can be anything: ultra-modern, antique, artsy or minimalistic. In such an environment, pieces of furniture for the living room, borrowed from different eras, are harmoniously combined: an expensive leather sofa in a classic style gets along perfectly with a retro-style glass table.
Modern furniture is highly functional and practical, while forclassic is more characteristic of decorative elements and expensive materials. The living room interior rarely uses a single style, so with the right approach, you can combine the best of several stylistic trends here.
