How to choose wallpaper for a small room?

Modern trends towards minimalism and open space are quite difficult to translate into small-sized apartments. But still, having adopted the advice of designers, you can try to get closer to the ideal. The main note in the interior is set by wall decoration, and furniture is additional chords, which is why it is so important to know how to choose wallpaper for a small room.

Important! When decorating small rooms, many follow the rule: you need to choose light coatings with a discreet small pattern, or better, without it at all. Indeed, this approach is correct and win-win, but at the same time boring - there is no place for a flight of fantasy. In fact, even in a small room there may be wallpaper with patterns, and even dark ones, while they will not “steal” the space. Only when using such solutions you need to know some tricks.

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Choose color

There are some general guidelines for choosing color for small rooms:

1. Light shades are preferred.
2. Catchy bright colors visually reduce space.
3. Pure white walls should not be.
4. You should also consider the level of lighting in the room. For a small dark room it is better to choose wallpaper in warm colors. If there is enough light, pay attention to cold tones.
5. Contrast in the interior “eats” the area. Try to choose wallpaper, furniture and other accessories that are harmonious in color.
6. Cold shades “add” space, while warm shades, on the contrary, reduce it.

For a small dark room, it is advisable to choose a wallpaper of such a color scheme:

• beige;
• cream;
• sand;
• light yellow;
• pale pink;
• peach;
• light green;
• blue;
• light gray;
• gray-blue.

Important! Under the influence of artificial light, the color of the walls can differ significantly from the actual ones. Therefore, it is advisable to bring a sample home before purchase and consider it in “native” lighting.

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Designer Tricks

Modern opportunities open up the space for the implementation of interesting ideas with a non-trivial effect. If you have an idea about some of the nuances of decorative finishes, it is quite possible to choose boring wallpapers for a small room to make it stylish, modern and cozy.

One wall

What should you do if you like saturated, dark or bright colors, but at the same time you want to get a spacious room? In this case, the designers use a very simple and effective method: only one wall is pasted with “forbidden” wallpapers, and all the rest are “right”.

Important! When emphasizing the interior with materials of a different type, think about what exactly you want to emphasize. As a rule, contrasting wallpaper:

• paste over the wall at the head of the bed;
• allocate a working area;
• separate the resting place, for example, a chair with a floor lamp and a coffee table.

Therefore, it is so important to plan the placement of furniture in the room in advance.

Additional tips:

1. Naturally, the “accent” wall should resonate with the color of three other light walls and harmoniously fit into the overall interior.
2. If you use saturated wallpapers, think about additional lighting that will help to “expand” the space.
3. Do not use contrasting wallpaper to highlight a single section of the wall.Thus, you divide the room into zones and visually make it even smaller.

Diagonal

Another trick from designers to expand the space is to stick the wallpaper not as usual - in vertical stripes, but diagonally. Of course, this method of pasting requires a certain skill - you have to look for experienced professionals.

Companion Wallpaper

A fairly common way that helps to visually expand the room is to alternate vertically between companion wallpapers:

• in rooms up to 10 square meters. m combine two types of coatings;
• with a larger area - three types can be used.

Important! With this technique, one strip of each type of wallpaper or two strips from one roll, and a third from the other, are alternately glued to the wall.

Companion wallpapers should overlap in color, but may have a different pattern or texture. Quite often, monophonic trellis is complemented by similar wallpaper with an opaque pattern or striped.

Important! So that when gluing wallpaper-companions, the joints look neat, you need to buy decor from the same material, and preferably the same quality. Many manufacturers offer customers ready-made combinations of complementary coatings.

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We select a picture

Now on sale is just a huge number of wallpapers with diverse and interesting prints. So why should you limit yourself to just plain options?

Important! The “one wall with a pattern” method can be used not only if you have a particular roll from the store sunk into your soul, but also quite purposefully - for expansion.

It’s enough just to know some rules to choose a wallpaper for a small dark room with the “right” pattern:

1. Materials with a low contrast pattern. Here you should pay attention to the size of the picture itself. The most suitable option for a small room is a small print. A medium-sized drawing is also acceptable, but here you need to be more careful. But large patterns are absolutely not suitable - they can be used only on one accent wall.
2. Wallpaper with a contrasting pattern - your look, even from afar, can “cling” to a separate part of the pattern. The increased contrast of the graphics “eats” the space. This fact can be offset by a rare, by location, pattern. An infrequent contrasting small print on a light canvas will enliven the room, while not reducing the space. But with a larger pattern, it can “pull off” too much attention, become dominant in the interior. Therefore, it should be used carefully or only for one wall. Materials with a large pattern are suitable only as an accent.
3. Wallpaper with a contrasting and frequent pattern causes a feeling of being forced, even in a room with a small amount of furniture. Therefore, if you really want to use them in the interior, then paste over them with only an accent wall. In this case, the “heavy” pattern will become the center of the interior, around which the “complementary” furniture should be located.

Important! The wall, pasted over with wallpaper with a delicate non-contrasting pattern, visually looks “behind the furniture” and is completely free of it. To maintain this effect, try to make it as free as possible from hinged shelves and cabinets.

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Extra options

Now you know how to choose wallpaper for a small room, based on color and pattern. But there are still additional parameters that you should pay attention to if you are faced with the task of visually increasing the room:

1. The relief pattern creates the feeling of extra meters due to the play of light and shadows. Textured wallpaper can also hide minor wall irregularities.
2. Reflective elements make the room more spacious. Depending on your taste, this can be a silk-screened wallpaper, silver or golden blotches in the picture.
3. Wall murals will create another world behind the walls of your room.It will be good if it is a photo with a long-term perspective.

Important! When choosing wallpapers with photo print, you should pay attention to the quality of the material and the naturalness of the colors of the picture. A 3D effect is also desirable.

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We adjust the room using wallpaper

Unfortunately, the layout of our apartments is sometimes quite far from ideal. Besides the fact that the room is small, it can still be narrow or have disproportionately high ceilings. These and some other shortcomings can be corrected if you know how to choose the right wallpaper for a small room in such cases.

Narrow and long room

A small corridor looks even smaller if it is too narrow. You can adjust such a room in this way:

1. Stick on wallpaper with a larger pattern on longer walls.
2. Use the horizontal rotation method. Moreover, in the corner of the room there should not be a junction of two strips - one segment should go on two walls.

Thus, the parameters of the room visually “smear” and the room will not seem so narrow already.

Change the height of the ceiling

You can change the height of the ceiling without resorting to cardinal architectural reorganizations. You can make a small correction by choosing the wallpaper correctly:

• For a small, low, dark room, it’s best to choose a horizontal striped wallpaper. At the same time, try to avoid a wide ceiling border - it visually reduces the walls.
• Also suitable is the horizontal alternation of wallpaper, when dark colors gently flow into bright colors on the ceiling. However, this method requires careful selection of materials and just a pasting workshop.

Important! To “stretch the walls”, when gluing the wallpaper a few centimeters step on the ceiling.

• You can also visually raise the ceiling if you paste over it with photowall-paper with the image of the sky.
• At the same time, if you have too high ceilings, then a small room in comparison with the walls will seem even smaller. In this case, the wide border will help out, and you can also glue the wallpaper, stepping back from the ceiling.

Expanding the walls

Wallpaper with horizontal stripes can make a wall visually wider. But at the same time, the ceiling may seem lower.

Important! Do not glue wallpaper with horizontal lines on longer walls. In this case, they will make the surfaces even larger in size, and the room will eventually appear narrow.

If in a square room two parallel walls are pasted with lighter wallpaper, then they will visually become longer, and the room will be perceived as rectangular.

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10 design tips for small rooms

Of course, the “right” wallpaper can significantly increase the room. But in order to get a harmonious picture in the interior, one should also listen to other tips from specialists in organizing space in small rooms:

1. When choosing furniture and other items for a small room, keep a balance of sizes and try to avoid large enough things. For example, a full-fledged bed can occupy almost the entire space in a small room and visually make it absolutely tiny. In this case, it is better to purchase a small folding sofa or transformer wardrobe-bed.
2. Observe minimalism. The more free space in the room, the more spacious it seems. Do not place too many small objects on exposed surfaces.
3. Floor and ceiling are additional “walls” of the room. To make the room more spacious, you can cover them with light or reflective tiles. Also, the room will look more spacious if the walls, floor and ceiling are in the same light colors.
4. If you want to hang a picture on the wall, remember that one relatively large is better than a group of small ones.
5. Mirrors greatly increase the space. They reflect not only light but also color. If you glue one wall with mirror tiles, the room will increase several times.
6. Fill the room with light using recessed lights and floor lamps.But a large pendant chandelier - on the contrary, will reduce the volume.
7. Glass or mirror furniture is great for small rooms. For example, a glass dining table copes well with its basic functions, but it does not clutter up the space, allows you to penetrate the view through it deep into the room.
8. Furniture in a small room needs to be placed in the corners and along the walls.
9. Place an object in the farthest corner that will immediately attract attention. It could be a vase, a floor lamp or something else. Also, the distant wall can become an accent. The incoming gaze will be directed across the whole room and a feeling of great perspective will appear. And you already know how to draw attention to it and how to choose wallpaper for a small room.
10. Large armchairs, chairs with dull backs “eat” part of the space - the perspective disappears. Therefore, low furniture is more preferable: poufs, stools, beds without legs, etc.

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For lovers of change

If you like to constantly make changes to the interior or doubt that you will like the chosen color scheme for a long time, then it is better to immediately purchase wallpaper for painting. In this case, you will not need to waste time and nerves to remove old wallpapers and paste new ones. All your design fantasies can be realized in a couple of hours.

Important! You can paint the wallpaper only after they have completely dried. Therefore, the first time the repair may be a little delayed.

On sale the most common such tapestries for painting:

1. Paper - relatively inexpensive. They are a bit problematic in work, as they are easy to tear. In addition, after drying, a partial divergence of the seams is possible.
2. Cullets are very easy to glue, durable, can be painted in any painting method. They adhere so well to the surface of the walls that it is very difficult to remove them. Therefore, such wallpapers are suitable for those who like to make repairs very rarely.
3. Non-woven wallpaper - well glued and easy to remove. They are strong enough, so they are most often bought for painting.

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Stock footage

Now you know how to choose wallpaper for a small dark room, how to combine them correctly and what else to pay attention to in the interior. We hope that our tips will help you create a comfortable space, even with a small area.