A small space is always a challenge for interior designers, and a small living room is no exception. As this room in the house is used quite often and not by one person, but at the same time by several people, at its small size it should be especially functional, organized and flexible.
The following simple tips will help you achieve the desired result!
1. Choose multipurpose furniture
To finish a small living room is recommended to use furniture, which can perform several functions at once. For example, the ottoman can serve both for storing items, both as an extra seat, and as a coffee table. By the way, coffee tables can also have a hidden storage for books, magazines, medicines and remotes. And many modern sofas have additional shelves, drawers and even a retractable bar.
Just think: having bought, for example, a multifunctional soft corner and a coffee table, you can completely refuse from buying a cupboard, chest or wall!
Design of a small living room - multifunctional furniture
Design of a small living room - multifunctional furniture
Design of a small living room - multifunctional furniture
Design of a small living room - multifunctional furniture
2. Use the walls
For some reason, the walls of the rooms quite often remain empty, although they can perfectly serve your purposes. For example, wall shelves are a wonderful alternative to cabinets for storing various accessories, souvenirs, books and houseplants.
Especially pay attention to the so-called "floating" shelves, which can be placed as you like and in any quantity to give the room an interesting structure.
The TV set on the wall also saves a lot of valuable space.
Registration of a small living room - we use walls
Registration of a small living room - we use walls
Registration of a small living room - we use walls
Making a small living room - floating shelves
3. Give preference to small-sized furniture
If you want to achieve an amazing result for your small living room, then do not be lazy to find furniture in shops with narrow cases. By the way, it's not so difficult today, because modern manufacturers know that most of their buyers live in high-rise buildings with not very spacious apartments.
First of all pay attention to the width of cabinets, shelves and consoles, which you are going to put near the walls. Often they are filled with various ornaments - books, souvenirs, utensils and other things. But do we need to put all this in two rows? After buying a cabinet with half the width, we get from it the same functions, the same appearance, but it will take much less space!
Design of a small living room - small furniture
Design of a small living room - small furniture
Narrow sofas, armchairs and chaise lounges are also wonderful for this purpose, but still, when choosing them, it is much more important to pay attention to the comfort of sitting. As a rule, people feel comfortable sitting on a deep sofa, rather than on a narrow sofa. But you can safely give preference to a sofa and armchairs without armrests.
Decoration of a small living room - comfortable sofa without armrests
4. Get rid of all the superfluous
Do not make the room useless decor, let it be only furniture, necessary for everyday use. In the living room there should be enough space so that people can move around freely without bumping into things. Use chairs from other rooms during the holidays and other gatherings. Better yet, that for such cases you have a bench reserved for you, which you can put at the dining table.
Registration of a small drawing room - we use a bench instead of chairs
The smaller the room is, the space seems more "breathing". This creates a sense of well-being and allows you to relax. There are also certain measures that must be followed when designing a small living room:- lanes in the living room should be at least 90 cm wide;
- the distance between a sofa or an armchair and the edge of a coffee table is not less than 45 cm.
5. Consider transparent furniture as an option
Transparent furniture is better than all other types to make a small room visually spacious.
Use chairs and sofas with transparent legs that look as if they "float" in the air above the floor. In addition to them - acrylic or glass cabinets, coffee tables 
Registration of a small living room - transparent furniture
Registration of a small living room - transparent furniture
Registration of a small living room - transparent furniture
Furniture with mirror surfaces is also suitable for decorating a small living room, however it creates a completely different effect - the room seems more due to its reflections, but does not become visually free and airy, like with transparent furniture.
Design of a small living room - mirror furniture
Design of a small living room - mirror furniture
6. Carefully select the colors
The color of walls, ceiling and furniture has a great influence on how you feel in the room.
Neutral colors are great for visual expansion of space, but this does not mean that you should abandon the use of bright colors and patterns in general. In a small living room it is recommended to create small "splashes" of color - in accessories, pillows, lamps and paintings on a neutral background of walls, upholstered furniture 
Making a small living room - choose the color scheme
It is also possible to use a bold, multi-colored sofa, but on condition of a more neutral color of the surrounding furniture, including armchairs. Refrain from using contrasting combinations that can crumple the space to pieces, and even if you decide to abandon neutral tones, choose mostly shades of a monochromatic color scheme.
Making a small living room - choose the color scheme
Making a small living room - choose the color scheme
Making a small living room - choose the color scheme
Making a small living room - choose the color scheme
By the way, if you want to make the living room cheerful and interesting, it is not necessary to use patterns - they can be perfectly replaced with textures that bring diversity to the space and do not make it saturated.
Making a small living room - choose the color scheme
7. Light the Light
Lighting can also make your room seem bigger or smaller. Floor lamps are an excellent option for decorating a small living room, as well as light sconces or hanging lamps. In doing so, try to use as much natural light as possible by hanging light curtains on the windows and leaving the window sill without flowers 
Lighting a small living room
Lighting a small living room
Strategically placed mirrors can play into your hands, reflecting the light and helping the room look not only more spacious, but also richer.
Lighting a small living room с зеркалами
8. Choose the right shapes
Some shapes are more useful for small spaces than others, for example, narrow rectangles. So, a long, narrow table and the same form of a sideboard not only look very good, but also free space.
Also triangles work well, for example, triangular corner sofas or chests of drawers, which are great for storage, but take up much less space.
Lighting a small living room — треугольный стол
