The living room is a special place in the apartment where they receive friends and conduct business meetings, 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 his acquisition, clearly formulate your requirements for this part of the furniture composition and carefully examine all the characteristics of the available samples.
Decisive factors for choosing a sofa in the living room
Consider in detail each of these factors.
Practicality
When choosing a sofa for the living room, it is necessary to clearly represent whether the sofa will only make a decorative function, or perform any other tasks.
- Sofa transformer. This solution is suitable for a small apartment. Very comfortable in the cramped space, if the compact sofa can be converted to a full-fledged bed for several people or, for example, in a bunk bed.
- Sofa with built-in boxes. Bedding storage compartments will make it possible to release a place in the cabinets or to refuse them at all if the living room is withstanding in the style of minimalism.
- Modular sofas in the living room. This furniture consists of scattered parts, which can be located differently, depending on the need. Very convenient if such modules are equipped with wheels. Then their movement will take a few seconds.
- Living room with sofa and TV. It is impossible to underestimate the role of the TV in modern housing. Therefore, sofa designs with a built-in TV or the possibility of subsequent placement are becoming increasingly popular. By choosing such a sofa in the living room (the sample is represented in the photo), you will create a kind of home theater, and you can watch your favorite TV shows with comfort.
- Corner sofa in the living room. Such a model will make it possible to maximize the place near the walls and release, thus the central part of the room. The interior of the living room with an angular sofa creates a sense of orderliness and harmony.
- Two sofas in the living room. Such a decision is definitely acceptable only for spacious premises, where a big company is often going. Usually, such a complex includes upholstered furniture made in one style with identical upholstery. A full-fledged sofa is usually complemented by a shortened sofa, on which two people can sit down.
The size
- Large massive sofas perfectly fit into a spacious living room, adding the room a feeling of comfort. Such a sofa becomes the center of the furniture composition.
- The middle sofa will be appropriate in a small living room, where a large number of other furniture is already fitted. The use of a massive sofa will lead to excessive clutter of space, which is not very aesthetic and create certain problems when moving around the room.
- Compact sofa is furniture that will freely enter a small living room. Little Sofa will create a cozy atmosphere even on a limited area.
Comfort
Sitting on the sofa, a person should feel calm and relaxed. Nothing should be a pose of a resting guest. The degree of comfort is determined by these criteria:
- Side rigidity level. This indicator depends first of all, from the filler with a soft part of the seat and has several degrees.
- The presence of armrests, pillows and rollers. These elements are designed to provide convenience, but undoubtedly should be a continuation of the stylistic solution to the entire living room.
- The shape of the sofa also plays an important role in achieving comfort. The developers of modern furniture are trying to create ergonomic sofas today, which take into account the characteristics of the structure of the human body.
But, in the case of using a living room for official meetings, strict furniture, not placing to relaxation. It is allowed to use classic models with tighter seats and armrests.
Quality
There are several aspects that determine the quality of the sofas for the living room.
- Upholstery. Type of upholstery of sofas presented in furniture stores today is distinguished by a huge variety. The most popular are:
- tapestry;
- jacquard;
- shenil;
- leather;
- wool;
- cotton;
- flock;
- microfiber.
- Filler soft part. Vatin and felt have long been used to fill the sofas, but today these materials go to the background. The most widely in the current furniture production as a filler is used by a syntrene, foam or polystyrene.
- Frame. The main elements of the sofa design can be made of various materials.
- Chipboard. This is a rather popular material, due to its low cost. But the models from the chipboard are definitely inferior in high-quality characteristics and duration of life;
- natural tree. Furniture made of natural wood is environmentally friendly, durability, durability and quite high cost;
- metal. From metal, as a rule, sofa sofa and various mounts are performed.
Price
This value depends on the cost structure and the main elements of the popularity of the brand of the manufacturer and the type and size of the chosen model of the sofa for the living room.
Appearance
Color scheme. The choice of the sofa color affects shade of the walls in the room. There are several options of colors:
- a bright spot on a neutral background. If the color of the walls in pastel colors, to revive the interior can give preference bright couch;
- quiet on the bright. Here, again, the play on the contrast. Against the background of bright walls can put furniture in neutral shades, in order to achieve balance and harmony;
- monophonic on motley. If the wallpapers have a multi-colored print or colorful drawing, it is more appropriate to choose a single-handled sofa so that the living room does not look amilaterally;
- moto on a monophonic. The principle is the same as in the previous case, only now the walls are monophonic, and the coupling of the sofa has geometric ornaments or multi-colored pattern;
- upholstery of the sofa in the same color scheme as the walls. This option is also possible, but you should not pick up completely identical colors, then the furniture is alive with the wall. The difference in a couple of tones in one or other side should be suppressed. Those., The sofa should be a little lighter or darker than the color of the walls of the wall;
- black and white combination. If you have a bright spacious room with a minimum number of other furniture, you can afford a black sofa in the living room. In a small model, it is better to take a white analog or apply a black and white combination. Since pure black furniture will visually make the room even less;
- combined option. We are talking, for example, about a 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
Universal base - 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 the 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, khaki.
- Black + white, blue, blue, red, yellow, orange, purple.
- Red + white, gray, black, beige, salad.
- Brown + yellow, beige, orange, green
- Blue + yellow, orange, red, blue.
- Orange + blue, green, blue, gray, brown.
- Yellow + blue, lilac, blue, green.
- Purple + beige, yellow, green.
However, now you have the opportunity to order upholstery, taking into account your own tastes and preferences, under the order.
Covers . You can resort to small tricks. In order to extend the life of the sofa, which is an average of 5 years, use sofa covers. This will greatly facilitate the cleaning process. Covers, if you decide to use those, should be made of natural, pleasant fabrics (flax, cotton, viscose). 
Sofas in the interior the living room is a central figure, and therefore they must be harmonized with the main stylistic solution of the room and combine with elements of the design of the entire room.
