The living room is the facade of home, but how can you do if your living room is not well designed? It may be that there is a problem with the soft decoration. Today, Xiao Qi will teach everyone to create a high-level living room from the soft decoration.
What are the soft decoration in the living room?
Soft decoration can be divided into practical soft decoration and ornamental soft decoration. Practical soft decoration refers to items with strong functionality, such as sofas, lamps, curtains, fabrics, etc. Ornamental soft decoration refers to the furnishings mainly used for appreciation, such as decorative paintings, flower art, ornaments, etc.
Six lists of high beauty soft decoration: sofa, lighting, tea table, carpet, decorative painting, curtain fabric, etc. These six items are the key to creating a high-level living room.
1. Sofa:
The sofa is one of the more important soft clothes in the living room, which can determine the appearance of the overall space. How to choose the sofa can be seen from three aspects: size, material and color.
Suggestions on sofa size selection: ① The sofa size can be selected according to the living room area, and the total area is not recommended to exceed 25% of the living room.
② For the living room with an area of about 15m2, it is recommended to choose a double sofa or a small three seat sofa, with a length range of 1.5-1.7m.
③ If the living room area is about 20 ㎡, you can choose 3+1 or 3+2 combination sofa.
④ The corner sofa can be selected for the living room with an area of 25 ㎡ or above, and the appropriate size can be selected according to the length of the background wall.
About sofa material:
① Now common options are: cotton sofa, leather sofa, velvet sofa. In terms of style, cotton sofa is more suitable for Nordic style, Japanese style, simple style, etc; Leather sofa is suitable for simple style, luxury style and modern style; Velvet sofa is suitable for French style.
② In terms of comfort, cotton sofa and velvet sofa are more breathable and more comfortable in summer.
③ As far as easy care is concerned, leather sofa is easier to take care of. Usually, oil stains are stuck carelessly and can be wiped with sofa cleaning cream.
About color selection:
You can choose a versatile style. White, gray and brown are commonly used colors, and the error rate is low.
If the overall space is designed in black, white and gray, you can choose a relatively off color system to make the space more layered, such as mustard yellow cloth sofa and pink cloth sofa.
If you want the living room to be more stylish, you can also choose a personalized single sofa. Cobusier sofa has a spacious space, and the whole chair is more soft and comfortable. It is suitable for people who are paralyzed or curled up. With floor lamps beside it, it is a mini reading area and also suitable for living alone.
Barcelona chair, a combination of leather and steel, is placed in the middle of an industrial style home, which can show the owner's attitude towards life. The elegant curve of its chair legs makes it less cold. With French windows, the sun shines in and enjoy a pleasant afternoon.
The womb chair, the curved wrapped cloth chair is like a warm embrace, and the dog can also take a leisurely lunch break on it. It is hard and warm to collide with the slender and smooth metal chair legs. It can be combined with the book wall to create a living room leisure area.
Diamond chair is a unique existence among many chairs. It is different from the traditional chair seat design. Because the whole chair is welded by metal, it is like a beautiful smooth and angular iron mesh. Suitable for modern style and luxury style. If the balcony is connected with the living room, it can be placed on one side of the balcony.
The streamlined design of the cloud chair is like a hug between sitting and lying, which can instantly heighten the artistic sense of space. It often appears in movies and television, and modern and luxury style living rooms can be selected.
The curve of the back of the swan chair is ergonomically calculated, which can comfortably support the back, while the wings on both sides are armrests, which can be consistent with the style of decorative paintings and carpets, making the living room more integrated.
2. Lighting:
Lamps generally include ceiling lamps, chandeliers, floor lamps, table lamps, spotlights, and downlights, while the main ones to improve the appearance are chandeliers and floor lamps.
a chandelier:
Like the Danish landmark lamp PH pendant lamp, it eliminates the shadow of general lamps and can not see the light source from any angle, which can avoid eye burns. Due to the fashionable modeling, the choice of sofa and tea table can also be relatively personalized, and large films can be made at home.
There is also a pine cone lamp, which can make the light source softly and evenly spread in the space through the mutual refraction of each leaf. There is one hanging under the ceiling of many Danish families, which is very romantic, but more suitable for large families.
This musical instrument chandelier has a very post-modern industrial style. The lampshade is made of thick brass. The black exterior surface is in contrast to the warm gold interior. There are six different shapes, which can create an unusual living room design. It is recommended that this model be chosen without a TV wall.
The straw hat chandelier looks like the wide brimmed hat on the head of a French woman. It is stylish, but because the diameter of this chandelier is not small, the required floor height cannot be too low.
Fan lamp is a popular choice for practical families, which has the combination of lamp and ceiling fan functions. The main body of the current ceiling fan is rich in color texture, and has developed solid color, wood color and metal color, making it more and more versatile in style matching, especially suitable for the elderly and children who cannot blow air conditioners.
Floor lamp:
Floor lamp is not only used for lighting, but also a good companion for you to read comfortably. When you turn on the light, enrich the lighting level of your living room; When you turn off the light, it stands there with you.
The brass lamp is highly recognizable. With the extremely thin brass bracket and white spherical lamp shade, the designer can be said to have used the minimalist aesthetics to the extreme. It is placed on one side of the sofa and matched with the leather sofa, so the delicacy is instantly sublimated.
The unique tripod bracket of grasshopper floor lamp leans backward, full of vitality in shape. It can be matched with swan chair to make the space more playful.
Parabolic fishing lamp, whose huge round stainless steel lampshade is suspended at the end of a perfect parabolic suspender, is supported by a marble base weighing dozens of kilograms at the bottom, which is suitable for large units in the living room. If the space is small, avoid appearing together with the chandelier, which will be cumbersome. One living room and one focus is enough.
tea table:
A tea table with high appearance and multi-function can not only eliminate the cramped space, but also add a little more color to the living room if it is well matched with other household items. Common materials of tea table include wood, glass and stone.
Wood:
Wooden tea table is simple and warm, suitable for matching with cotton sofa, and suitable for Japanese style and Nordic style.
Geometric carpets are suitable for minimalist, cool and uniform color home style. They are reasonable and durable, and are frequent customers of Nordic style.
The color block splicing carpet is composed of multiple color blocks, which has a good sense of decoration, and is suitable for the combination of strong colors such as Nordic style and mixed style. It is recommended to match the color of the wool shaped hand mat, so that you can feel the warmth in winter. You can also use color contrast design to make your home space a little more dynamic.
It is recommended to select carpets according to the color of the floor, that is, "light carpet for dark floor, dark carpet for light floor" carpet can also be selected in the same color as the pillow.
Common materials of carpets are: wool, chemical fiber, blended fabric, jute. Jute carpet, as its name implies, is mainly made of jute, which is easy to absorb water. If the size of the carpet is small, it can be shaken off or cleaned with a brush. If the size is large, it can be cleaned with a high-power vacuum cleaner. Recommended jute carpet with Southeast Asian style, suitable for retro style living room design.
In terms of comfort, wool carpet is the most comfortable, but the most difficult to manage. Chemical fiber carpet has strong anti pollution ability, but it is easy to absorb dust, so it needs a regular vacuum cleaner.
Blended carpets have relatively high cost performance and comfort, but they are more difficult to handle than chemical fiber carpets. Jute carpet is the easiest to take care of, but its comfort is low.
5. Decorative painting:
Decorative paintings are placed on the sofa background wall, TV background wall, etc. It is common to hang decorative paintings on the wall or stand on the TV cabinet.
Or it can be placed on the sofa, or you can directly purchase large decorative paintings to make a floor mounted design.
It can also be placed irregularly. If the refrigerator is placed in the living room, in order to reduce the penalty points for the overall appearance of large household appliances, decorative paintings can be placed next to it, together with green plants, to ensure the harmony of the living space.
Decorative paintings are placed in three common ways: centered, randomly combined and side by side. Banner paintings are suggested to be placed in the middle, vertical paintings are suggested to be placed on the side, and multiple small size paintings can be combined at will. It is recommended to spread from the central point, with the large ones in the middle and the small ones around.
If you want to get rid of the wall with one or two decorative paintings directly, there are certain requirements for the contents of the decorative paintings. It is recommended to keep consistent with other elements of the living room, such as the sofa or carpet. The color should not be too much to reduce the depression of the space.
Large areas of cyan wallpaper with wine red murals make the space tonal contrast strong and enhance the space activity.
It can also be matched with green plant decorations. The decorative paintings on the wall and green plants are planned at the same place or on the opposite side, making the living room more natural.
Installation method of decorative painting:
1. Straight nail: it can be used for super hard wall, but it will leave a big hole;
2. Non marking nail: suitable for general wall, leaving three holes;
3. Blue Ding Glue: It is used on smooth walls in the form of chewing gum, and is suitable for pasting picture frames that are not too heavy;
4. 3M magic stickers: equivalent to buckles on clothes, with strong load-bearing capacity.
6. Curtain fabric:
The curtains are made of silk, linen, polyester cotton, polyester linen and other blends, pure polyester black silk blackout cloth (high-precision), and tulle. Curtains must face the sun all day long, so they must be matched with sunscreen, and cannot be used directly.
Tulle is mainly used for daylighting and privacy functions. Common yarns include engineering yarn, ordinary tulle embroidery, diamond yarn, glass yarn, etc.
It is necessary to consider the unity of color matching and style when matching curtains for home. If the living room is simple and elegant as a whole, remember not to choose too deep curtains. If the home style is simple, it is not recommended to choose flashy styles and colors.
If it is retro, the living room curtain can be dark green+yellow, which can enhance the indoor atmosphere and make the space warmer.
The curtains can not only match with the windows, but also serve as partitions. The blue cloth curtains serve as the background wall to separate the living room from another area. The track on the top is also designed as an arc, which is very artistic.
The principle of soft decoration design is to determine the style first and then make soft decoration. It is also necessary to combine your own living habits and preferences and make some choices; At the same time, we should grasp a reasonable proportion, such as 0.618 golden section; Finally, it is necessary to determine the visual center, so as to create a clear hierarchy of beauty, and also to achieve the combination of light and heavy colors.
