What wallpapers are suitable for a small room?

Creating a small room is not easy: every element of the interior will be especially noticeable in a small space. The psychoemotional state largely depends on what surrounds us. The color of the walls and the pattern on them can enhance performance, create a feeling of fatigue, cause discomfort anxiety, maintain a good mood. Before you choose the right wallpaper for a small room, it is important to think over the project and make every effort to make the space as comfortable as possible, free, not oppressive.

Each small room is individual and may differ in layout. There are several features of the confined space that cause difficulties during repairs. These include:

• poor lighting of the room (sometimes there is no natural lighting, the room is passable);
• the shape of the room (it may be too elongated, while the area does not exceed 12-15 square meters);
• niches or bumps that attract attention;
• door and window openings (rather large or too small);
• low ceilings (create the feeling of a small closed space).

All these features can violate the functionality of the room, they make it uncomfortable, not comfortable enough. The main purpose of the design is to visually enlarge the room, add air and space to it. Competent selection of wall decor makes it easy to cope with it. Do not be afraid of experiments and spectacular colors of decisions, limited to plain wallpaper or doubles that have become classics.

Small rooms come in a wide variety of shapes, it can be:

• square room;
• elongated rectangle;
• sloping walls in the attic room;
• a narrow small room with low ceilings.

To feel comfortable in a small room, you can use a simple rule: the smaller the room, the brighter the shade of the walls should be. Try not to overload the small room with an abundance of color and pattern, in such a space you will quickly feel tired. For a square room, it is important to create an accent on one of the walls; therefore, a combination of paired wallpapers (with a pattern and plain colors) that complement each other in color and texture is suitable. For example, one of the walls of a square room can be covered with wallpaper with a large geometric or floral pattern, while the other walls are made with plain colored wallpaper.

The uniform color scale will allow to keep harmony of style. For a square room suitable wallpaper with vertical stripes of different widths or a combination of vertical and horizontal color stripes.

For a small room, light is very important.A light or dark room, a large or small window, the presence of a loggia or skylights all play an important role. The basic rule is simple: for a sunny room, choose white or cool shades, if the sun is low - warm, sandy and cream. By combining bright and pastel wallpapers, sometimes you can achieve the effect of additional lighting in a dark room. An additional source of light can be wallpaper with mineral sputtering (for example, quartz crumb).

To begin with, we will define the color palette: this is an important point that we most often choose from and we make a start. Light colors will visually increase the space., the most successful will be shades of yellow, gray-blue tones, pink-beige variations and white color. The choice of colors depends not only on your preferences and lighting. It is necessary to focus on the color and style of furniture, the shade of the floor and ceiling. A small room with modern furniture of light colors allows you to use more vivid, rich colors.

Light furniture in Provence style is combined with wallpaper under light plaster and varieties with a slightly pronounced relief texture. Such wallpapers are also good because they visually enlarge the room (even a small relief on the wallpaper gives some shade, thanks to which the room seems larger in size).

If you are the owner of antique or modern furniture of dark shades, there is no need to hurry with the choice of wallpaper color. Take in the store a small piece (sample) of the lining and attach the house to the wall next to the furniture. So you can avoid quite frequent cases where a slight nuance of the hue of the wallpaper violates the harmony of the style of the room as a whole.

Modern technologies have increased the range of manufactured wallpapers, today we can find even wallpaper with glitter in stores. They can also be used in small rooms, although you should not glue the whole room with them, such finishing materials should be combined with a single-color companion of similar color.Glitter wallpapers look better in bright rooms (lighting can be artificial or natural)

You can pick up a small one-type picture (it is desirable that it was not very bright). Small floral arrangements, arranged vertically alternated with a pattern or stripes, are quite suitable for a small room. Such a vertical pattern will help visually increase the height of the walls if the ceiling is low.

Large drawing in a small room is also possible. It is not necessary to paste over the whole room with wallpaper with large details. (roses, geometric shapes, abstract drawings). If you combine two types of wallpaper (with a large pattern and monophonic), similar in color, this design will give originality to the house and expand its space.

Today, the market for repair products offers a large number of photo wallpapers, but choosing the right variety is often problematic. We will reveal some secrets that make it much easier to do this. Wall mural:

• Best of all look on the farthest wall from the front door.
• In a small room should have a perspective (the road leaving into the distance, hills, horizon, forest landscape, sea spaces and flying birds).
• On the wallpaper, there should be details showing the depth of the image (for example, the farther away, the less trees become). The “flat” picture with clearly defined borders does not fit here.
• Visually enlarging the space are more often photo wallpapers with a natural theme (seashore, hilly expanses, forest road), or an urban theme (for example, a night city, silhouettes of houses, a freeway going away).
• They will increase the space only if their color range is harmoniously combined with the main wallpaper. If you chose wallpaper with an abundance of green (foliage, grass), they will look bad in a pink or beige room. The main wallpaper in this case should be light green, gray-green, light green.
• Can occupy one wall completely. If it is difficult to choose a wall-paper on the size and it is not possible to paste over the wall completely, leave space for the main wall-paper below (closer to the floor) or in the right-hand corner.

The reception, called “balance” by designers, will help to make the small room of the apartment beautiful and stylish. It consists in the selection of wallpaper with a complex ornament and monophonic. At the same time, the color of the plain wallpaper that we select should repeat the color of the pattern on the wallpaper with a complex ornament. Such wallpapers can be alternated, creating effects of arches, receding space, protrusions and columns.

A great idea for a small room would be to use contrasting colors for the design of the walls (for example, white textured wallpapers and black-patterned trim, blue wallpapers and blue-and-yellow stripes). Expand space with the help of different textures. For example, beige wallpaper with the texture of the mat will be well combined with smooth analogs with a floral pattern in beige tones.

It happens that you have to use the walls to increase the room and in order to hide the irregularities, to disguise communication. A large bright pattern on the opposite wall will distract attention from the irregularities of other walls, and the overhead panels of artificial stone will allow covering the wiring. It often happens that one of the smallest rooms in the house is the nursery.

Caring parents seek to give it a cheerful and original look, using wallpapers with bright cartoon drawings and fantastic characters. remember, that these wallpapers quickly bore adults and children. Let the wall decoration be neutral.

Above we have already talked about some recommendations, but it is worth considering a few more important points:

• increase the space by combining conventional wallpaper and companion with silk-screen printing;
• heavy and oppressive colors (dark blue, brown, red and purple) should be left solely for parts or dispensed with;
• when choosing finishes, be guided by the color of the furniture (for any furniture, wallpaper 2-3 tones lighter is considered ideal);
• for a small room, silk-screened wallpaper and varieties with sparkles are suitable, do not forget to combine them with the usual ones;
• with a lack of lighting for the walls need shades of white (bright colors can only be used as an accent);
• Wall murals look good if the wall is flat;

• use wallpaper with texture: using a small shadow from the texture, the effect of increasing the room is achieved;
• if you combine wallpaper, choose canvases of the same thickness, otherwise the joints will be very noticeable;
• correctly combining colors is half the success (do not use more than three colors and more than two types of patterns in decorating walls);
• if there are many shades, the color gamut should be common (for example, the transition from the color of spring foliage to a bright green tone);
• if you use double wallpapers, the upper ones should always be lighter than the lower ones, and the separating border should not divide the wall clearly in half;
• if you like to change the interior often, you will suit the wallpaper for painting.

Designers offer the following solutions:

• The use of one large thematic pattern with the main light color of the wallpaper will allow to avoid the “empty wall” effect.
• Combining striped and plain wallpaper - almost a win-win for a small space.
• If you like small drawing on the wallpaper, do not give it up. It is important to remember that best of all it will look in combination with plain wallpaper, suitable for the range.

• Wall mural - a great option for a small room. Modern wallpapers look neat, beautiful. Use them to finish one wall in a room, creating a feeling of continued space and perspectives fading into the distance.
• Wallpaper with shiny elements are great for a small room. The main thing is not to overdo it, otherwise in such a room it will be difficult.
• If in a small room you need to make a zoning, you can use wallpaper of different colors, similar in color.

How to choose wallpaper, see in the video below.