We create a minimalist living room interior:
Style features
Finishing
Colors
Furniture
Decor and textiles
Lighting
In modern trends, the interior is decorated without unnecessary elements. A minimalist living room is all about clean geometric shapes, laconic objects and modest furnishings. Despite its apparent simplicity, creating such a design requires subtle taste and a sense of proportion.
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Living room interior in minimalist style - photo
Despite the deliberate simplicity and laconism of minimalism, each living room has its own character and mood. This is easy to track if you compare different options. To do this, we offer you a large selection of photographs!
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Features of minimalism in the living room
Modernity and convenience - this is how we can briefly describe this direction. Every item here carries a functional load. Other recognizable features:
- Spacious room without screens or partitions.
- Good lighting, natural and artificial.
- Contrast of dark and light shades.
- Zoning the room with light and decoration.
- Maintain symmetry and proportion when arranging furniture.
- Use of natural materials for decoration.
Decorative elements are present here to a minimum, diluting the too strict atmosphere.
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Small living room in minimalist style
For a small living room, minimalism is a real salvation, because it allows you to save space. Here, use all the techniques and bring them to the maximum. White color, as much light as possible, contrasting verticals and horizontals, a minimum of furniture and lack of trash - even a small room will seem light and spacious.
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Surface finishing
Ceiling
For decoration, choose materials that create a calm background surface. For the ceiling, it is best to choose suspended structures or a white tension fabric.
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Walls
To decorate the walls, they use wood, decorative plaster, and sometimes they line the walls with porcelain stoneware. Proper finishing is especially critical for small (18 sq. m.) living rooms in Khrushchev-era buildings, which are combined with a kitchen during the renovation process.
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Wallpaper would be a good option. But ornaments and floral patterns are not suitable here. The main function of walls is to provide a neutral backdrop for a sofa, armchairs, pictures or lamps. Therefore, a good solution would be natural wallpaper (cork, bamboo) or paintable wallpaper. You can use wallpaper with a geometric pattern, the color of which is one or two tones different from the background. They are glued only on an accent wall. Wallpaper that imitates plaster or stone fits into the style concept. It is allowed to use relief types with a barely noticeable pattern (stripes, dots, circles, squares).
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Floor
Different coverings are suitable for the floor. The basic rule is monotony and practicality. The best option is wood and its imitation. Other suitable materials are porcelain stoneware, linoleum, carpet. When choosing a floor shade, adhere to the rule: it should be darker and brighter than the tone of the furniture.
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Color combinations
Minimalism loves light shades, and they are complemented by dark tones: graphite, steel, black, brick, brown. They create accents, but do not dominate. The greenery of indoor plants brings richness to the interior.
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The traditional color is white. It increases the illumination of the room and adds air to it. The classic combination of white and black is the most popular design option for a minimalist living room. The contrast between individual details is of great importance.
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Functional furniture
In accordance with the name, the interior uses a minimum of furniture items. Only what is necessary. This makes the room more spacious and airy. The furnishing principles echo the Japanese style. The sofa and armchairs are of the correct rectangular shape, quite low, making the room seem higher. Their upholstery can be chosen to suit your taste: textiles or leather.
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Glass and mirror details add lightness - wall facades, coffee tables, shelves, wall panels. In contrast to solid upholstered furniture, a table is chosen with an elegant, laconic shape without decorations. For example, a recent novelty - a glass model looks harmonious against the backdrop of a massive sofa and armchairs.
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In a private house, the hall will be decorated with a fireplace that fits well into the decor. You can decorate its facade with stone, if it is present in the rest of the decoration.
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Examples of furniture placement are presented in the photos of living room interiors in the minimalist style:
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Features of the minimalist style
For a long time, the classic style ruled the roost, attracting with its luxury, sophistication and abundance of decor. This was the case until the beginning of the last century, when creative people proposed rational utilitarianism, which found itself in art. A little later, this idea found itself in architecture and interior design. In the middle of the twentieth century, people were finally oversaturated with luxury, abandoning the overloaded interior.
Minimalism is not just a style, but a way of life, where simple shapes and lines and a minimum of unnecessary details come to the fore. Environmentally friendly materials are used for renovations, and the lack of decor only brings a feeling of coziness and comfort.
As a result, the interior of the living room in the minimalist style has the following features:
- No useless decor.
- Complex multi-level lighting with simple lamps.
- Zoning the space with light partitions and furniture.
- Ultra-modern household appliances.
- Multifunctional small-sized furniture.
- Restrained color palette.
- Strict shapes and lines.
- Abundance of natural light.
Lighting system
Minimalism is characterized by an abundance of light. Therefore, large windows without curtains are welcome here. But in gloomy autumn and long winter conditions, they will not be able to provide the room with enough light. Therefore, it is necessary to consider a system of additional lighting. For the ceiling, these are built-in lamps, spots, and less often chandeliers of a laconic form. For the walls - sconces and lamps. For a more romantic setting, floor lamps and table lamps are useful.
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