House, design, renovation, decor. Courtyard and garden. With your own hands

The hall is the main and sometimes the only room in the entire apartment. Despite the fact that the entrance hall plays the role of "welcoming" guests, the living room fully reflects the life, taste and character of the apartment owners. That is why it has been established to pay more attention to the renovation of the hall. The most expensive building materials are used here, because they want to show guests their preferred style and financial position in society. But as it turned out, even modern attributes, furniture and expensive building materials do not protect apartment owners from making mistakes. To avoid them, you should carefully study the ideas for renovating a hall in an apartment, proposed by experienced designers.

The main rules when using the idea you like

Most people, using any idea they like to renovate a hall in an apartment, do not think about the result, although they make their own adjustments and carry out a kind of manifestation of imagination. Often this is due to the arbitrary design of the living room, when a certain and approved style in the interior is not applied.
If you decide to independently recreate ideas for repairing an apartment, then you should pay attention to two basic rules.

Color combination

Carefully and responsibly treat the choice of colors in your future interior. The walls of the living room can be painted in one color, covered with wallpaper of the same shade, or you can resort to a combination. Today, in the world of interior design, the combination of colors is quite popular, and not only wall cladding is used to recreate the idea, but also furniture, textiles and other attributes. You should not use bright and contrasting shades for combination, especially if you yourself are not a designer and do not know everything about color combinations. Here it is better to use the color combinations proposed by professionals, which can be studied from the numerous photographs presented of the finished living rooms or you can use the ready-made spectra of shades belonging to the same color scheme.

When using your chosen shade to decorate a living room, carefully study its effect on a person.

So, for example, red color can cause aggression in a person. In such living rooms, quarrels often arise between family members, or simply a person has a certain irritability. Such unfavorable shades include hot pink, orange and even lilac. But a pale blue or green shade, on the contrary, helps to calm and relax a person. It is especially important to pay attention to this effect of shades if the owners of the apartment have to spend every night in the living room due to constrained circumstances.

Correct combination of attributes

An important role is played by the correct combination of the selected hall attributes. Not every person knows that the purchase of furniture and textiles - curtains, rugs, carpets and other products - directly depends on the shade used to decorate the walls. The correct combination is a combination of light walls with dark furniture, and, conversely, it is advisable to select light furniture for dark walls. As for textiles, here you can use a completely inappropriate, bright and contrasting shade. So, your living room will look stylish and comfortable.

Compliance with such rules is quite rare. Often, after repairs in the hall, the furniture remains the same, and the owners of the apartment try to somehow find suitable curtains or carpet for the new shade of the walls. This state of affairs is incorrect, because the curtains should be matched to furniture, to the shade of cabinetry in the living room or in the same style as a soft sofa and armchairs. Of course, it is not recommended to combine green walls with burgundy furniture, therefore, even before starting repairs and choosing a new color scheme for the living room, you should carefully think over everything and opt for a shade that is more suitable for furniture for wall decoration.

We make repairs in the hall

Only experienced designers can answer the question of how to make repairs in the hall, because a simple layman, due to his inattention and ignorance, cannot take into account all the nuances and trifles to create the overall integrity of the room. If you intend to use the services of professionals - designers and a company that repairs your apartment - you are incredibly lucky. They will take into account all your wishes and achieve a harmonious and comfortable result.

In case of independence, follow the sequence of actions:

• The beginning of any repair is reduced to the removal of furniture from the hall. If you have already drawn up your design project for the future living room, then you can start repairing it. Otherwise, use the emptiness of the room and "arrange" the furniture again. Perhaps you will radically change the arrangement of existing attributes. Think over the color scheme - it is more convenient to create a design project in an empty room. Mark the places where small accessories will stand, wallpaper is glued, where to screw a TV bracket or a shelf for flowers. Record everything in memory and map the new living room on paper with the designation of the distances.
• Remove old covers. To make a quality repair, it is recommended to replace all old coatings with new materials. Remove old wallpaper with a spatula and water if necessary. Open up the floor - remove old linoleum, laminate or parquet flooring. Remove old whitewash or ceiling tiles from the ceiling. Clean the room by thoroughly rinsing the walls and floors.
• The next step is to carry out all the rough work. This implies the repair of the wiring, if there are corresponding malfunctions. Perhaps, for a new design of the room, you will need to output new sockets, switches.

Only a specialist should deal with electricity. You should not take on a case on your own if it poses a threat to the life of others.

At the same stage, do all the frame work - the construction of new plasterboard partitions or a floor tier, which is often used for zoning a room. Working with drywall is not difficult, but in order to avoid injuries and other troubles, ask a specialist to do all the work.

• Wall decoration. After all the rough work has been completed, the most interesting moments begin. The first step is to work on the walls. Leveling surfaces is especially important, because even if there are even subtle irregularities, in the finished version they can spoil the whole impression. As a result, the most expensive and attractive material will not save the day. Use a suitable type of filler and re-plaster the walls if necessary.

As a design, a more suitable type of building materials is used here, which will help to recreate the planned design project. Designers recommend combining several materials for wall decoration. The most popular at the moment include:

• wallpaper;
• paint with the ability to subsequently wash the walls;
• decorative plaster;
• color;
• various panels and elements made of natural wood;
• natural stone.

Don't be afraid to combine paint and stone. With the help of such options, you can easily and simply implement the method of zoning the room, which is especially beneficial and necessary if there is one room in the apartment.

• Ceiling decoration. The next step is to finish the ceiling. Today, apartment owners often prefer stretch ceilings. This is a great option because it is not financially costly and can be used to create an attractive bunk ceiling to create an overall living room design project. Bunk surfaces can be made using two colors, for example, white and light green, which is used for wall decoration. Here, halogen strips are often used for additional illumination and giving new contrasts to the embodied interior design.
• Floor finishes are the final notes of the interior. Use whichever finish you like best. The only limitation in the choice may be practicality. For example, the chosen material for finishing the carpet floor will make your living room cozy, but it is rather difficult to clean this covering. Dust will accumulate under the furniture, which is not recommended for allergy sufferers and asthmatics. Laminate or stone flooring requires an additional heat-insulating layer to be installed before installation. Of course, if a hired team is working, such work will not take much time. If you make repairs in the hall yourself, you have to work hard.

The final step is to arrange the furniture. Add the existing attributes, put everything in its place, according to the new design project. Feel free to complement your chosen style to create the interior with fresh flowers, new paintings with vibrant images, as well as personal photos.

In the repair of the hall in the apartment, one important rule applies, which in its content can cross out the aforementioned points - the design and repair of the living room should be done so that you feel comfortable.

Little tricks for creating a large room

Old houses are not endowed with large areas, so apartment owners have to look for options to visually expand the rooms. Take advantage of some of the tricks that professionals often practice when working with small spaces. By the way, some of the above methods should be used when decorating a large living room.

• To increase the space, use:
• arrangement of furniture in a light shade and with additional mirror elements;
• use soft, solid pastel shades for wall decoration;
• weightless tulle and curtains should be hung on the windows;
• use a structure for spot lighting in a stretch ceiling.

These simple tricks can help make your room look big. As bright attributes on one of the walls, it will be superfluous to glue special designer stickers or small photo wallpapers depicting freshness and purity - flowers, nature, sea waves. You can also use bright attributes - a blanket, pillows, carpet, curtains, paintings, vases.

• In small areas, multifunctional furniture should be used. If this is not possible, to increase the room, limit yourself to installing only the most necessary attributes - a sofa and a rack for books, vases and photo frames. Modern TVs can be hung on the wall. It will be useful to use the surface of the walls to place shelves and install additional equipment on them.
• Get one corner sofa for your large family. It doesn't take up much space if you place it in a corner near a window. For a young couple, a small sofa and several poufs are suitable.
• Upgrade your apartment into a studio if the living room is adjacent to the kitchen. Create an arch by placing a bar in the middle. So, you will solve two problems - a small living room and a small kitchen - as a result, both rooms will visually increase in size, you can feel a sense of spaciousness.
• The houses built in the 60s were created according to the principle of convenience. The living room can have two entrances to the room - from the hallway and the kitchen. There is also a passage from the hallway to the kitchen. Modern designers propose to lay one door - often the entrance to the kitchen from the hall is laid. This solution will perfectly increase the "usable area". You will receive a piece of the wall where you can place additional furniture attributes or you can purchase a large corner sofa for which there is now space. By the same principle, you can simply "move" the door to a corner.
• Remove the usual wooden doors and use a new design - a sliding door. If you do not want to "give" part of the area to the door leaf at all, make the doorway in the form of an arch.

Show your imagination, experiment, and you can achieve an attractive design and functional living room in an apartment, where it will be pleasant to spend time alone and receive guests.