Despite the huge selection of wall decoration options in a living room, traditional wallpapers hold the leading position in this list. But even here you can find scope for creativity and for the realization of your own ideas about beauty and comfort. For example, combine wallpaper when pasting, which will help create a unique interior.
Wallpaper
Before studying the principles of combining, let's dwell a little on the material to be worked with.
Paper sheets, single-layer and multi-layer. Cheap, and in stores are presented in a wide range of different colors and patterns. But extremely impractical: they tear, quickly burn out and lose their appearance, deteriorate from high humidity. They are easy to work with, but it takes a lot of work to make them look perfect on the wall.
Acrylic wallpaper. Acrylic is applied to the paper web - a relief structure is obtained. Wallpapers are inexpensive, safe, but because of the paper base, they also cannot withstand high humidity.
Vinyl. Expensive but durable. For residential premises, vinyl with silk-screen printing is most often chosen. Tothe disadvantages include a poor assortment, and the fact that this material does not allow air to pass through, which can lead to a musty smell.
Non-woven. The most popular option. Cloths are glued both as a finish and for painting. At the same time, non-woven fabric is durable, moisture resistant, vapor-permeable and environmentally friendly.
Textile fabrics. Rarely used due to the high price and complexity of the work. They consist of a paper or non-woven base and natural fabric - cotton, linen or silk. Look stylish and expensive.
Photo and 3D wallpapers. Expand the space due to the three-dimensional pattern.
Liquid. Sold in powder form, applied to walls like putty. The price is high, but they can be used several times. In addition, it is easy to eliminate any defect - remove the layer from the area and apply a fresh one.
Glass wallpaper. Durable modern material. Designed for subsequent coloring.
These are the main types of material to work with. You can combine wallpapers of any, different types and colors. But there are several common solutions, among which you can choose something for yourself.
Style and texture
Good design of combined wallpapers implies adherence to the principle of unity of style. Therefore, you should not combine canvases with a strict geometric pattern and wallpaper with flowers in the Provence style. Materials should not visually conflict with each other, despite the different color and ornament, they must harmoniously coexist. Combine different styles in the design canonly a talented designer, and not everyone can appreciate the result of his efforts.
The textures of different materials should either be well combined with each other, or play in contrast. So, for example, today voluminous wallpapers with imitation of stone or brickwork are very popular.
Ready-to-use solutions
What to do if you find it difficult to combine wallpapers? Alas, not everyone is an artist at heart. Many lack a sense of taste and proportion, but only self-confident people are ready to admit it. Fortunately for everyone, you can find ready-made solutions in stores - paired wallpaper rolls. They are perfect in color, texture and style. Most often there are compositions from canvases with a pattern and plain ones in a pair to them. The buyer only needs to decide how to glue them - alternating stripes, or highlighting individual places, for example, a wall or a niche.
Those who want to add a touch of individuality can be advised to look at the store materials from the same collection - they usually go well with each other
Wallpaper for painting
A separate space for creativity is provided to those who have chosen wallpaper for painting. This material is good because you do not need to spend time leveling the walls - all defects will be blocked by a thick canvas. Here you can combine different shades and staining techniques. The easiest way is to highlight one wall or individual elements (beams, niches) with a different color. You can also use textured rollers to create a pattern or stencils. The latter can be made by yourself, so this is a great option for those who really want to create something new and original.
The great thing is that paintable wallpaper can be repainted 3 to 7 times, depending on the type of material.
Color combinations
How to create an interesting design without much effort? We combine wallpapers of different colors and shades! It is important here not to overdo it and not turn the room into a messy color mess that cuts the eye. In order to avoid this, you need to remember a few simple rules:
- There should be only one bright, juicy color in the design of the walls. In the company he should pick up muted tones and semitones.
- Combined wallpaper in the bedroom is better to choose pastel shades. They can be combined as you like, but it is better to use no more than 2-3 in one room.
- For those who are not friends with the palette, it is best to use related colors in the interior: one saturated and muted versions to accompany it.
- To emphasize the contrast, choose colors that blend well, for example, red with gold, blue with purple, pink with coffee, yellow with green and brown, etc. At the same time, gray, white and black are universal colors, good goes well with any shade.
- The combination of two dark walls always looks bad and visually reduces even a large room.
- Light colors are much easier to combine, they go well with each other and with bright colors.
Zone selection
Combined wallpaper in an apartment is a good way to designate different areas in a room. So, in a small studio, you can highlight the kitchen area, and in the living room indicate a place for receiving guests, a space for children to play or for working at home. The same method can be applied in the children's room when you need to designate the play, work and sleeping areas. You can also divide the space of the room when two babies live in it at once. True, psychologists advise doing this if children get along with each other. Otherwise, such an accentuated division of living space will increase their dislike.
Vertical or horizontal division?
Combining wallpaper people started a long time ago. Even in Soviet times, it was customary to divide the wall: dark material was glued at the bottom, lighter at the top. This technique is still used today, while using different proportions. For example, you can divide the surface into three parts - 1/3 from the bottom is pasted over with some wallpaper, 2/3 - with others. Or vice versa. Sometimes the same material is used, and a contrasting strip is used for separation - it can also be at different heights, for example, at eye level. But more often it is tied to the height of the windowsill.
The traditional option is to use several horizontal stripes in the wallpaper. Horizontal combination is not suitable for rooms with low ceilings, but it is great to get rid of the effect of the well.
Vertical separation of walls is a very popular technique. Stripes of different types of wallpaper are arranged symmetrically, asymmetrically or makeinteresting accent on the transition of colors. To create an interesting effect, one of the strips can be put on the ceiling - this will visually expand the space.
Select one wall
Often, combined wallpaper in an apartment (in the photo below is an example) means the design of one wall with photo or 3D wallpaper. Most often, they choose drawings of nature or city panoramas. This is an interesting solution that emphasizes the individual preferences of the owner. And at the same time it is a large and bright interior detail that you pay attention to.
You can select one wall in another way. For example, today many people choose the design of one wall in an apartment in the form of brick or stone masonry. But natural materials are quite expensive, so you can use imitation - special plaster on which relief is drawn, or voluminous wallpaper.
The easiest way to highlight one wall is to wallpaper it in a different color. About combinations of shades was written above. One has only to add that the dark surface opposite the window visually reduces the space.
Panel or inserts
In fashion magazines you can find photos of the design of the combined wallpaper in the form of a panel. This design is rooted in the period when the walls were covered with expensive fabrics, and the material was attached to special frames. This design of the premises was available only to the upper class.
Today anyone can make a bright and unusual panel: you just need to order a frame of the right size andchoose beautiful wallpaper with an interesting pattern and texture. You can do without a frame - small inserts paste over various niches or columns.
If the panel is small, then you can experiment with rich colors. So it will become a bright detail of the interior. An interesting solution would also be small inserts in the form of a mosaic. It's like a patchwork bedspread, only on the wall.
