The living room is a special place in the apartment where friends are accepted and business meetings are held, so the choice of furniture for this room should be conscious. The sofa in the living room is a kind of business card.
Content
When planning its acquisition, clearly formulate your requirements for this part of the furniture composition and carefully study all the characteristics of the available samples.
Decisive factors for choosing a sofa in the living room
Let us consider in detail each of these factors.
Practicality
When choosing a sofa for the living room, it is necessary to clearly imagine whether the sofa will be carried out only by a decorative function, or to perform any other tasks.
- Divan-transformer. This solution is suitable for a small apartment. It is very convenient in a constrained space if a compact sofa can be converted into a full sleeping place for several people or, for example, into a bunk bed.
- Sofa with built -in boxes. Departments for storage of bedding will make their way out in the cabinets or abandon them even if the living room is designed in the style of minimalism.
- Modular sofas in the living room. Such furniture consists of disparate parts, which can be placed in different ways, depending on the need. It is very convenient if such modules are equipped with wheels. Then their movement will take a few seconds.
- Living room with a sofa and a TV. You cannot underestimate the role of TV in a modern home. Therefore, sofa structures with a built -in TV or the possibility of its subsequent placement are becoming more and more popular. By choosing such a sofa in the living room (the sample is presented in the photo), you will create a kind of home theater, and you can comfortably view your favorite television programs.
- Corner sofa in the living room. Such a model will make it possible to use a place near the walls and release, thus, the central part of the room. The interior of the living room with a corner sofa creates a feeling of orderliness and harmony.
- Two sofas in the living room. Such a solution, of course, is acceptable only for spacious premises, where a large company often gathers. Usually, such a complex includes upholstered furniture made in the same style, with identical upholstery. A full -fledged sofa, as a rule, is supplemented by a shortened sofa on which two people can sit down.
Size
- Large massive sofas will fit perfectly into the spacious living room, adding a sense of comfort to the room. Such a sofa becomes the center of the furniture composition.
- The middle sofa will be appropriate in a small living room, where a large amount of other furniture is already held. The use of a massive sofa will lead to excessive clutter of space, which is not very aesthetically pleasing and will create certain problems when moving around the room.
- A compact sofa is a furniture that will freely enter a small living room. A small sofa will create a cozy atmosphere even on a limited area.
Comfort
Sitting on the couch, a person should feel calm and relaxed. Nothing should constrain the pose of a vacationing guest. The degree of comfort is determined by the following criteria:
- The level of stiffness of the seat. This indicator depends, first of all, on the filler of the soft part of the seat and has several degrees.
- The presence of armrests, pillows and rollers. These elements are designed to ensure convenience, but, of course, they should be a continuation of the stylistic solution of the entire living room.
- The shape of the sofa also plays an important role in achieving comfort. Developers of modern furniture are trying today to create ergonomic sofas, taking into account the features of the structure of the human body.
But, in the case of using the living room for official meetings, strict furniture is needed, not having relaxation. Here it is allowed to use classic models with a tougher seat and armrests.
Quality
There are several aspects that determine the quality of sofas for the living room.
- Upholstery. The type of upholstery of sofas represented in furniture stores today is very diverse. The most popular are:
- tapestry;
- jacquard;
- shenill;
- leather;
- wool;
- cotton;
- flock;
- microfiber.
- The filler of the soft part. Vatin and felt has long been used to fill sofas, but today these materials are in the background. The most widely in the current furniture production as a filler is a synthetic winterizer, foam or polystyrene.
- Frame. The main elements of the sofa structure can be made of various materials.
- Chipboard. This is a rather popular material, due to its low cost. But models from chipboard, of course, are inferior in the qualitative characteristics and duration of the life;
- natural wood. Natural wood furniture is characterized by environmental friendliness, strength, durability and fairly high cost;
- metal. From metal, as a rule, the folding parts of the sofa and various mounts are made.
Price
This value depends on the cost of the main structural elements and the popularity of the manufacturer, as well as on the type and size of the selected model of the sofa for the living room.
Appearance
Color scheme. The color of the sofa is influenced by the shade of the walls in the room. Several options for color solutions are possible here:
- a bright spot on a neutral background. If the color of the walls is designed in pastel colors, to revive the interior, you can give preference to a bright sofa;
- calm on bright. Here, again, play in contrast. Against the background of a bright wall, you can put furniture of neutral shades, to achieve balance and harmony;
- monophonic on color. If the wallpaper has a multi -colored print or a colorful pattern, then it is most appropriate to choose a plain sofa so that the living room does not look alapo;
- colorful on plain. The principle is the same as in the previous case, only now the walls are plain, and the upholstery of the sofa has geometric ornaments or a multi -colored pattern;
- the upholstery of the sofa is in the same color scheme as the walls. This option is also possible, but you should not select completely identical colors, then the furniture will merge with the wall. The difference in a couple of tones in one or another side should be maintained. That is, the sofa should be slightly lighter or darker than the color of the surface of the walls;
- black and white combination. If you have a bright spacious room with a minimum amount of other furniture, then you can afford a black sofa in the living room. It is better to take a white analogue in a small-meter or apply a black and white combination. Since purely black furniture visually makes the room even less;
- combined option. We are talking, for example, about the combination of different colors of the upholstery of sofa and sofa pillows with shades of wallpaper or other finishing materials for walls.
Possible combinations of shades
The universal base is upholstery from materials of such colors: brown, gray, white, black, beige. These colors are well combined, practically with all other shades. Consider the most popular schemes of combination of the main shade of upholstery with the color of decorative inserts or pillows can be used when choosing a sofa in the living room:
- Green + yellow, brown, orange, pink, red, lilac, hacks.
- Black + white, blue, blue, red, yellow, orange, purple.
- Red + white, gray, black, beige, light green.
- Brown + yellow, beige, orange, green
- Blue + yellow, orange, red, blue.
- Orange +blue, green, blue, gray, brown.
- Yellow + blue, lilac, blue, green.
- Violet + beige, yellow, green.
However, now you have the opportunity to order upholstery, taking into account your own tastes and preferences, to order.
Covers . You can resort to small cunning. In order to extend the life of the sofa, which is on average 5 years, use sofa covers. This will greatly facilitate the process of cleaning. Covers, if you decide to use those, should be made of natural, tissue that are pleasant for the body (linen, cotton, viscose). 
Sofas in the interior the living room is a central figure, and therefore they should be in harmony with the main stylistic solution of the room and combine with the design elements of the entire room.
