Chinese-style living room 2019: interesting ideas, photos

With all the variety of trends in the interior, interest in the Chinese style in Russia is not weakening. We will tell and show how to make a living room in the Chinese style.

Cultural, commercial, political rapprochement of the peoples of our countries generates interest in history, art, in understanding living conditions, custom, traditions. The Chinese way of housing has evolved over millennia, based on a philosophical understanding of the course of life, the relationship of man with nature.

Chinese-style living room interior design ideas

Following the laws of Feng Shui, the Chinese learned the secrets of harmonious development. The rules for building a Chinese home depend on many factors. They are subordinate to the long-standing national way of life. Based on the principles of the unity of man and nature, many elements have become traditional in design today.

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Choosing a room for the living room

1. In a large, rectangular-shaped room filled with a certain number of objects, it is easier to create a feeling of free space, to avoid crowding and clutter.
2. Design involves the organization of different levels of stepped planes, all kinds of niches with protrusions, recesses for storing things.
3. All forms have a deep philosophical meaning. Rounded, oval lines, and the teachings cause softness, a sense of comfort.
4. In China, you can hardly find pointed objects in everyday life, since it is believed that corners cause feelings of aggression and alertness.
5. A square and a rectangle are the most common geometric shapes in the interior, introducing harmony and tranquility.

Color selection

1. Bright, colorful, saturated colors have an advantage in the interior; they underlie the design of the room.
2. They are accompanied by muted blue, yellow, pink, purple shades, leveling and smoothing the overall color and creating harmony.
3. It is generally accepted that the basis of color solutions is the contrast between red (joy) and black (wealth), with gold (sun).
4. White (mourning) color in the interior is practically not used.

Chinese style wall decoration

• the easiest option, they can be painted or glued wallpaper, you can simple paper or on a fabric basis with a pattern for silk screen printing;
• Finishes made from bamboo cloth or decorative wooden coating look beautiful.

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Choosing a flooring

1. For the floor, you can choose any modern material: boards, parquet, laminate, the main thing is that it creates the impression of using natural wood.
2. It can be decorated with a woolen or silk carpet with an unusual pattern and national ornament.
3. Bamboo mats look good.
4. Ceiling preparation.
5. Ceilings can be whitewashed, painted, painted or wallpapered with a ceiling plinth with Chinese ornaments.
6. Leave the beams uncovered, they will create a decorative effect.
7. The use of suspended ceilings with national elements is allowed.

Window decoration

1. In the Chinese tradition, windows are not draped and curtains are not used, curtains are not provided.
2. But it is possible to use lightweight blinds, preferably from rice paper, Chinese silk, bamboo wicker.

Furniture selection

1. A valuable element of the interior will be antique or artificially aged furniture with inlays or paintings.
2. A low, necessarily square table in the middle of the living room, for a joint tea party.
3. The same low seats around the table, sofas with couches, all kinds of chests and dressers are appropriate in the interior, but they should not create the effect of congestion in space.
4. In traditions, the use of furniture made of wood or bamboo with shades of red or black, coated in several layers with dark lacquer and preferably decorated with decorative elements.

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Textile application

1. This does not limit the desire and is used in unlimited quantity and variety.
2. All products are selected from natural materials, it can be silk, bamboo, cotton fabrics and satin.
3. In various colors, decorated with all kinds of drawings and ornaments.

Chinese-style interior decoration

• it is recommended to choose from the variety of cultural objects of art according to taste and possibilities, but emphasized by Chinese origin;
• the choice is unlimited, these are paintings on national subjects, porcelain and ceramics, figurines of the gods, and fans, table and floor vases, you can’t list everything, but you need to feel the measure and not overload the situation.

Decorating a living room in the Chinese style is not difficult if you know the main trends and study photos of 2019.