Living room furnishings in a classic style

Classic interiors do not lose their relevance. They are valued for perfection and beauty.

Decorating a room in a similar style means unobtrusively emphasizing your status and conveying information about the sophistication of taste to guests. In addition to the "calling card", the living room in a classic style will become the cradle of harmony, comfort, coziness, in general, the real heart of the house.

To equip the hall in this perspective, it is not necessary to invite a designer. You can easily cope with its decor on your own if you follow the basic recommendations for creating such interiors.

We must immediately make a reservation that there are no clear requirements for the embodiment of classicism. And this is understandable. The secret is that the classical direction is a mix of historical styles, bringing together the best practices of the Baroque and Stalinist Empire, the Italian Renaissance and Rococo. Despite this, the palace decor still has some identifying features that are characteristic only of the classical direction of interior design. We will get to know them today.

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Distinctive characteristics of classic living rooms

Today, classic interiors appear in a modern interpretation. Often, even in the decor of one room, you can see assorted elements of various directions. And it does not look unbalanced, because the main stylistic concept is observed - harmonious luxury.

A living room in a classic style can be recognized by its inherent style properties:

• symmetry;
• good-natured atmosphere;
• soft colors;
• lack of technology;
• original decor;
• natural finish;
• the high cost of furniture;
• sophistication of textiles;
• an abundance of accessories.

Best of all, classic decors work out in living rooms with high ceilings. In this case, their area may not be so large. If you want to add volume to the room, you can correct the space with a mirror design.

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The Basics of a Classic Living Room Layout

“In small classic living rooms, space is zoned with partitions, screens, decorations, specific ceiling decor, and lighting”

In order for the hall to acquire a stylish look, when decorating its territory, you must adhere to the following tips.

Start working on the decor by creating a composition and developing a semantic center of the environment. The essence of the latter is to attract attention. In large classic living rooms, there may be several such accent zones. They are easy to organize:

• near the fireplace,
• TV,
• rest corner.

If the semantic center is in a single copy, then the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe room will have to be divided into zones. This will help to give the room maximum functionality and rationally use its quadrature. Which zones will appear in the room, you can decide in accordance with your vision of the situation. The most popular combination of living room organization looks like this:

1. Leisure area.

2. Communication corner.

3. A place for tea drinking.

Well, if you select each of these areas can be just a group of furniture. In small classic living rooms, space is zoned partitions, screens, decorations, specific ceiling decor, lighting. The architectural elements present in the interior can also participate in the process. We are talking about niches, columns, arches.

A non-standard approach to decorating will help to complete the atmosphere. It is worth adding stained-glass windows, paintings, works of art to the living room in a classic style. Be sure to use stucco and generously add gilding to the interior. Make sure that all the elements of decor that you introduce fit organically into the main style of decorating the room.

There will be no problems with the harmonization of space if you do not turn to flashy bright colors and work only with natural, high quality materials. With a competent approach to space planning, the guest reception room will turn out to be expressive, will please with pomposity and monumentality.

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Classic color palette

Classicism is a creative direction, so its interiors have a lot of color schemes. The basic colors for finishing classic living rooms, in addition to standard black and white colors, are pastel colors:

• powdery;
• light blue;
• pale yellow;
• delicate pink;
• pistachio;
• olive;
• mint;
• purple.

From the warm spectrum, you can use beige, coffee, sand, chocolate shades. There is a place in the decor for royal purple and scarlet.

The selection of a color solution should be taken seriously. The background of the room should emphasize the beauty of the rest of the situation, and not distract attention to itself with flashy patterns and a riot of colors. If you want to use a combination of colors in the decor of the room, make sure that there is no effect of a game of contrasts. A classic-style living room should not be decorated in blue-green, red-green, red-black, green-orange, purple-yellow colors. This is contrary to stylistic canons. It is better to combine burgundy, bronze and mahogany shades or combine green and brown spectrum with pastels.

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Living room in a classic style: the subtleties of interior decoration

The interior design of the hall should begin with the selection of options for finishing global surfaces. This is a very important stage of work, the success of which will depend on the final result. There will be no main and secondary sections. Everything should have a luxurious yet balanced look.

Ceiling

It is a multifunctional surface in classic living rooms. It is an element of decor, a space corrector, a participant in zoning. To create the illusion of the height of the room, the ceiling is finished with light colors with gloss.

The ceiling may have a multi-level structural structure. Thus, it will be involved in the selection of functional corners in the room.The decoration of the ceiling surface with stucco, rosettes, pilasters, friezes and artistic painting will help to add an atmosphere of sophistication and pomp.

Walls

The most successful option for finishing their surface in classicism is textured plaster. Wallpaper, wood paneling, fabrics, and even regular paint can be used along with it. The wall surface can be decorated with an abstraction or an ornamental pattern. The main rule for decorating the walls of a living room in a classic style is the ability to decorate only one of the walls with a discreet pattern. In the decor of the remaining surfaces, monotony should be maintained. The inappropriateness of bright colors in creating a background is compensated by embossed decorations in gilding.

floors

Since the classics are the realm of natural materials, then covering the floors with linoleum, laminate and other synthetics is out of the question. For their decoration, you will have to purchase slabs of polished granite or marble.

An alternative to stone in the decor of classic living rooms will be artistic parquet, the lamellas of which are made of valuable wood and high-quality parquet boards. In extreme cases, the above materials can be replaced by ceramic tiles that imitate their texture. Its glazed surface will cope with decorative tasks just as well. Using tiles, you can also lay out non-trivial patterns on the floor. Ornamental will look great socketsplaced in the center of the floor.

When working on the interior design of a classic living room, one cannot help but pay attention to window and door openings. They also need to be decorated pompously, with ostentatious luxury. Let's start with the decor of the doors. Their opening should be modified. Instead of a standard rectangle, a chic arched structure, preferably of an open type, should appear. If you can’t do without a door leaf, then finish it with natural veneer, bronze and brass lining, forged handles.

Now about windows. The classic living room will be impressed by the wooden frame structures. You should not blindly follow fashion trends or try to save money by closing window openings with metal-plastic bags or window sashes laminated to look like wood. None of them can convey even a hundredth of the magnificence of a real bog oak.

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Choosing textiles

A stylish interior requires stylish design in everything, including textiles. The luxury of classicism will not tolerate cheap materials. What is the best way to decorate a living room in a classic style? Of course, magnificent velor, regal velvet, the finest lace, light flowing tulle, satin, brocade, taffeta or jacquard. Silks are no less in demand in such interiors, especially printed ones. The fabrics used can be solid colors or printed with discreet ornaments in a classic theme.

All textiles that appear in the environment should be in harmony with the furniture upholstery. Ideally, curtains and upholstered furniture trim are selected in a similar fabric solution.

There will never be secondary details in classic living rooms. Here everything must be balanced even in the smallest detail, and so subtly that the situation recreated as a result could convey to a person who is especially ignorant of art that he ended up in a perfectly harmonious and incredibly aesthetic room. Its atmosphere should be akin to a museum, that is, generate admiration and reverence.

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Classic interior lighting

The stylistic splendor is also reflected in the lighting fixtures. It is impossible to imagine a living room in a classic style without a multi-tiered multi-lamp crystal chandelier ringing with many pendants. An alternative to the crystal design can be a bronze chandelier with a typical shape of shades for the style. The latter often take the form of candles or balls and are made of frosted glass.

In classicism, complex lighting schemes are usually not created. It satisfies the two-level scheme. In this case, wall lamps are added to the ceiling structures. It is desirable to be able to adjust the intensity of the light flux emitted by them. With such a relay, you can do without the arrangement of spot lighting, which, by the way, is not very desirable in such an environment.

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Fireplace

“If there is no opportunity to make a fireplace with live fire, then try to imagine its imitation as realistically as possible - this is really important for a living room in a classic style”

It is worth talking about this piece of furniture separately, since for classic living rooms it is the leading design element. So what should it be? First of all, functional. If its arrangement is planned in a country house, then do not skimp on real masonry and firewood. The charm and cozy warmth exuded by such a fireplace cannot be reproduced by any modern hearth design.

In apartment buildings, this issue will be more difficult. Here, most likely, you will have to resort to installing electric models, the effectiveness of which will be somewhat lower, however, they will fulfill their role in the interior of a living room in a classic style with full dedication. Having taken up the installation of the fireplace, take care of its decorative style matching the surroundings. Its portal should be decorated with columns and forged details.

The fireplace must be large enough. The warmth he learns should spread throughout the living room and fill it with unique comfort. The presence of a hearth will help save on heating the house in the off-season. Its productivity is enough to provide the household with a comfortable stay.

If there is no opportunity to make a fireplace with live fire, then try to imagine its imitation as realistically as possible - this is really important for a living room in a classic style. Getting the desired effect is not difficult - just leave a place near the gas or electric hearth model for a woodcutter and place a forged poker, shovel and other stove accessories in a forged bucket near it. With this technique, you can emphasize the classicism of the interior.

Those who are lucky with the possibility of arranging the original design of the fireplace should seek help in reproducing it from a specialist. This is a matter of the safety of its operation and your life, so do not skimp on it.

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A few words about classic decor

Decorating classic living rooms should start with finishing window areas. Here you will need to frame the openings with heavy, well-darkening curtains, fixed tiebacks, which can be played by gilded cords with large tassels. In a pair of respectful curtains, tulle should be selected. For the purpose of additional decoration, a lambrequin is often added to the kit. All this is mounted on expensive and beautiful cornices.

Sofa cushions will become a logical continuation of curtains in a classic interior. It is permissible to slightly diversify their color scheme.Pillows can be made in several shades, consonant not only with the colors of the curtains, but also with furniture upholstery, for example, or the main interior background.

Do not be afraid to fill the space of the living room in a classic style with monumental accessories. Not only miniature figurines, but also quite full-scale statues of antique design will be appropriate here. You can put a large floor globe in a typically classic design in the room or decorate the wall with collectible weapons.

If you prefer paintings to weapons, you should look for something in the spirit of neoclassicism, romanticism, etc.

When decorating classic living rooms, do not forget about the compatibility of all objects that appear in their space. Choosing gilding, bronze, copper or silver for decoration, do not mix metals in the elements. It looks clumsy and unaesthetic.

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Classic living room furnishings

The interiors of this kind are furnished with massive high-quality furniture, mainly from precious woods. Overall sofas, non-standard type of cabinet furniture are suitable. Dressers are popular. Ideally, everything is made to order. This is another opportunity to create a truly exclusive environment. Incredible luxury emanates from pieces of furniture inlaid with enamel, stones, metal plates, gilding. No less attractive are things decorated with carvings and forged details.

When choosing upholstered furniture, preference should be given to models that are upholstered with expensive fabrics. Classic living rooms often require uniform upholstery, but this is not an axiom. Look at the general room background. If it is monotonous, then feel free to purchase chairs and sofas with a floral design or a stripe in the upholstery. Sophistication, majesty, unique grace will bring upholstered furniture covered with light leather into the atmosphere of a classic interior.

When choosing furnishings, do not forget that you will certainly need to hide all the manifestations of modernity in a stylish interior, for which plastic cases, LED backlights and keypads will need to be carefully disguised. You will need closed shelves, mobile partitions, large cabinets.

If it is planned to install an air conditioner in the interior of classic living rooms, then its body must be drowned in a niche. It is rational to place a computer and a TV in a sliding block. This is doubly beneficial: masking + saving space.

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Conclusion

In general, a classic-style living room is not so difficult to create, but unlike modern interiors, it is very demanding on details. Classics do not tolerate cheapness and do not forgive miscalculations, so if you are not ready to spend a lot of time and are afraid not to cope with the aesthetic aspects and intricacies of harmonizing space, then do not throw money away. In this situation, it will be much more economical to use the services of a designer. Then you can be sure that the result will be really impressive and satisfy your ambitions.

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