Any small and non-standard room - this is the problem of decoration for the hosts, especially if this living room, because that's where we spend most of the time.

How to achieve a balance between space and comfort? What furniture to choose and how to properly place it? On these exciting questions, dear visitors, you will find the answers in this article.

1. Use a win-win laconic tandem - mirrors and wallpaper

In a small room, especially in the one where the small windows, you can feel constrained and uncomfortable. Create additional natural lighting using a soft wallpaper and mirror.

If you can place it in front of the window, then this option is just perfect. Reflected light will scatter throughout the space, and the living landscape will create the effect of the presence of nature.

Location of furniture

Put a double sofa together with the original bedside tables, to the wall where the mirror hangs. The ensemble will be completed by a woven ottoman, which can play the role of a comfortable pouffe or a tea table. If the area allows, in the situation you can add a couple of chairs or place opposite each other two compact ottomans.

2. Enter an additional "secret" locker

Add a cabinet or ottoman with a hidden place to store things in the living room, instead of a coffee table, as shown in the example of this photo.

3. Purchase miniature furniture

There are not only cumbersome headsets, but also reduced their variations, which today is not so easy to find.

Expand the range of your entries to antique shops - that's where you'll find wonderful furniture that does not take up much space. It was half a century ago that compact apartments were built, which we are eager to renew today. Look for everything that can be placed in your room.

Location of furniture

Double sofa set against the bay window with miniature tables on the sides. A pair of armchairs executed in the spirit of Louis XVI are located opposite the sofa. Between them, compactly placed the original ottoman in the form of a suitcase. Elegant sofa, which turned out here is not accidental, gives refined elegance to the whole environment.

As decoration, laconically combined ancient recamier and modern landscapes were used.

4. Turn your gaze upward.

If your apartment has high ceilings, then in a small living room it's time to take advantage of such an enviable advantage. Fill the walls to full height with pictures. This trick and creative environment will visually relieve the space and distract from the small living area.

5. Look at the corners

However paradoxical it may sound, a small corner in the room can accommodate a large comfortable furniture, thus solving the problem of accommodating numerous guests and at the same time leaving plenty of room for maneuver.

Accommodation of furniture

A large sectional sofa, a cozy table and a pair of leather folding stools, constitute a recreation area designed for eight people.

6. Do not pass by narrow sofas

In some living rooms the furniture of standard sizes looks cumbersome and inappropriate. Therefore, look for their miniature analogs with simple streamlined shapes and always on decorative legs. They will ease the whole situation.

Accommodation of furniture

A small sofa was located in the middle of the room opposite the media center. A small armchair and chic ottoman, which can be used as a table and as a puff finish the interior composition.

7. Tahtah is appropriate in any interior

It is not necessary to put a sofa to the wall, it can be pushed to the middle of the room. But if it has too large dimensions, then you just load the situation. Then in this case pay your attention to the ottoman. A comfortable sofa without a backrest can be used on both sides and be the link of various functional areas.

8. Revitalize the interior with vegetation

Like wallpaper and mirrors, home plants add depth and volume to the room. You can not imagine a better place for flowers behind the furniture and in the corners. Here they create the illusion of a large space.

Location of furniture

A sofa without a backrest was placed in the middle of the room. Two comfortable chairs were placed near the window. And between them is a small table, which can be used as a chair.

9. Purchase universal furniture

In a small living room, each piece of interior must perform several functions. For example, a stylish ottoman or coffee tables-transformers.

Location of furniture

In this room, an impeccable minimalist sofa, set to the main wall and large pouffes, that could be tables and comfortable rest places at will, were intelligently picked up.

10. Properly arrange storage space

Instead of hanging a lot of shelves on the walls or placing bulky chests on the corners, it is better to order one large wall cabinet instead of them, which will contain both books and TV, and hide things from prying eyes, perhaps even it will hide in itself a retractable table.

11. Minimize the furniture

There are many variations of folding chairs and stools, which can be stored in the pantry or under the bed. They leave room for movement and can easily be transformed when a noisy company comes to visit you.

12. Look at your room from a different angle

In this bedroom, which is also a living room, abandoned the traditional sofas and arranged a comfortable resting place on the windowsill. It focused on soft cushions and a small table.

13. Do not get hung up on a traditional sofa

Who, in general, said that he must be in the living room? Organize a place to relax with a pair of chairs, set around a coffee table, which at the same time can be a convenient pouf.

14. Use the "invisible" furniture

Today, transparent glass and plastic tables have become fashionable. They are ideal for small rooms, because they do not visually occupy space and give a sense of ease.

15. Do not be shy of chairs in front of the home

A couple of small elegant stools, set up, straight ahead of the fireplace, not only will add a useful space, but will also embellish this zone, bringing a cosiness to it.