Classic-style furniture for the living room: what happens and how to place it?

Classic-style furniture for the living room is chosen by people who value traditional design, maximum comfort and high quality materials. Its use in the setting allows you to give the whole room a nobility and rigor. Modern furniture in the style of a classic made in Belarus is famous for its reliability and functionality. Italian and Spanish brands offer traditional European gloss for the living room.

The concept of classical style is often understood quite widely even by specialists in the field of design. What should be modern furniture made of wood and other materials to match it? What is the difference between the color palette in classic tones and what to choose for the living room? Answers to all these questions will help to better understand the features of the selection of furniture b make the right decision.

The concept of furniture in the classical style for the living room includes quite a few directions that can interest lovers of luxury, comfort and high quality in everything. Modern classics finds its origins in the traditional Victorian, Italian, French styles, with their pomp and chic in every detail. When choosing a decor in a room decorated in traditional motifs, it is worth paying attention to the following points.

• High quality materials. Furniture is made into the living room in the classical style, capable of preserving the aesthetic, noble appearance even after decades. Natural wood is taken only from hard breeds, not subject to cracking, rare varieties are often used - cherry, walnut, hornbeam, beech, maple.

• Restraint decoration. The classic style is characterized by an expensive, noble finish. You can use gilding and bronze, genuine leather and suede, carving on expensive types of wood. The use of plastic, excessively glossy parts, shiny white metal, asymmetric shapes is excluded. All details of the decoration should correspond to the general configuration of the interior, harmoniously combined with them.

• Gamma of colors. Classics are always made in pastel, natural colors. It is impossible to imagine flashy, too bright or artificial shades. But there is always a place for luxurious white - milk, cream, ivory, natural wood with its rich palette and texture, beige-brown, coffee, cappuccino and even the color of moist earth.

Classic furniture set for the living room includes the following components.

• Storage systems. They include dressers, wardrobes, pencil cases and mezzanines.

• Places of rest. They use soft corners with sofas and armchairs, cabanas, couches, pouffes, chairs.

• Open constructions. This includes display cases, racks, shelves, "walls" for television equipment.

• Functional elements. If the room combines several purposes, acts as a dining room or hallway, combined with a kitchen, a bar, a dining group, a coffee or coffee table will definitely appear in it.

All these components can be purchased in the complex, as part of a headset or purchased separately. It is extremely important to take into account the proportionality of the furnishings and the surrounding space.

If you want to create a feeling of Italian lightness, sophistication and chic, you should choose the design of furniture with Baroque elements. It is characterized by curved legs, convex facades, expensive materials, inlay, gilding, copper fittings.

The classic with rococo elements looks more beautiful and at the same time fresh. Such furniture in the living room will be decorated with carvings, made in white and pink colors. This is the perfect solution for the living room in the apartment of a young girl or in a respectable family home.

French Empire is also included in the list of classic stylistic trends. With the help of such furniture, a spacious living room can be turned into a real palace. This is a ceremonial, pompous style, distinguished by luxury in everything. The furniture here is most often milky white or solid oak, beech, mahogany, covered with stucco, gilding.

Classicism is the most traditional direction, allowing you to furnish a living room in the English tradition. Massive cupboards and tables, wardrobes, chests of drawers, armchairs with tapestry upholstery. All this creates a feeling of solidity, tradition and peace.

Among the materials for making furniture in the classical style, it is difficult to find artificial substitutes or imitations. But in the setting of modern budget living rooms you can still find veneered or painted sets of particleboard and MDF. It is important to pay attention to the quality of execution: it is better to choose products from well-known foreign brands.

Natural wood is the only material characteristic of the classical style. If you want to save money, you can simply replace the array of expensive hardwood with cheaper conifers. They will allow you to achieve a more noble design of the living room, withstand all the traditions and at the same time save on the cost of the headset several times.

Upholstered furniture in the living room in a classic style requires upholstery made of genuine leather, you can also find options in suede milky white or a shade of chocolate. It is allowed to fit chairs and sofas with tapestries with an interesting plot pattern. Most often, an imitation of famous paintings or the embodiment of stories on mythological themes is chosen. In the French style, it is possible to create upholstery in chairs and sofas with brocade, natural silk.

If you want to get a classic set of furniture or purchase additional components in a ready-made set in the living room, you should focus on expensive, luxurious, valuable woods from the very beginning. When it is planned to preserve the natural color scheme of a tree, its structure, it is worth paying attention to species with a rich texture. These include walnut, cherry, oak.

Classic sets of furniture for the living room can be found in the collections of Russian manufacturers, as well as factories and factories from Belarus, Italy, France. It is better to give preference to well-known brands that have been operating for many years. They often produce collections that can become real family heirlooms over time. In addition, here you can further select additional components in the same design option.

The main canons of color matching in the classical style have long been known. Furniture design does not stand out from the general row and includes shades of beige, various variations on the theme of white. It is worth paying attention to the fact that any calm, muted colors characteristic of natural elements are allowed here. In the decoration of classic furniture you can find natural yellow and ocher tones, coffee shades, herbal and woody nuances.

For furniture facades, manufacturers usually choose mainly the texture of natural wood. Light straw, rich red-brown, delicate beige, gray-pink, hazel-brown shades of bark or cut of wood look quite noble and respectable. In addition, classic living rooms can use solid structures coated with high-quality matte dyes. Pure white, pale pink, olive green, pearl gray, bronze, gold, copper shades will help to create a harmonious atmosphere in the interior.

Varnished surfaces are covered with craquels - a network of small cracks. When selecting colors, the lighting feature is also taken into account. A room with windows to the north side will look more harmonious in combination with a warm color scheme - soft cream, light nut, gold, coral pink. Living room, facing south, requires paler, colder colors in the decoration of furniture - gray, purple, graphite brown.

Another rule of successful combination of tones: maintaining some contrast with the overall gamut of the room. Upholstered furniture with black leather upholstery will look good in a bright room. Against a shade of ivory - chocolate-coffee.

Furniture produced in Russia and sets in the classical style from Belarus, Italy, other countries near and far abroad are abundantly presented on the domestic market. What options deserve special attention? Among the verified manufacturers, the following brands can be noted.

• "Somovo-Furniture". Voronezh factory is one of the few in the country that produces furniture from valuable and rare wood species. Classic sets for living rooms are presented in the series "Elizabeth", "Sofia", "Vasilisa". Prices for products are above average, correspond to the premium category.

• Zzibo mobili. The brand owned by Ufamebel holding specializes in creating individual furnishings and whole sets of solid wood. Among the classic living rooms of the factory, La Scala series can be distinguished.

• Manini Mobili. The factory produces premium class furniture, the best varieties of natural wood are used in the manufacture. The popular Primavera series allows you to bring a bit of chic to your living room setting without unnecessary pretentiousness.

• Camalegroup An Italian brand that produces elegant classic living rooms in traditional Baroque motifs. The classic product line is represented by the collections of Fantasia Day, Nostalgia Day, Siena Day, Torriani Day, Torriani Noce Day, Treviso Day.

• Prama. An Italian factory producing high-end products for elegant classic living rooms. Attention deserves the Palazzo Ducale collection, made in classic white and wenge shades.

• Ceppi Style. Italian factory, founded in 1976. It specializes in the manufacture of high-quality handmade furniture from solid wood, recreating the best objects of museum collections. In the design, you can find options from different historical eras and dynasties. Popular lineups are Beyond Luxury, Dinings.

• Brogiato. Italian furniture factory producing upholstered furniture and bookcases, banquets and chests of drawers, showcases and consoles in the classical style and aesthetics of Baroque. Everything looks expensive and luxurious, materials are carefully selected.

• "Slonimmebel". It produces headsets in a classic style from MDF, with painted surfaces. The brand pays great attention to product quality, while prices remain as affordable as possible.

• Timber. Belarusian factory that produces furniture for classic living rooms from solid wood. There are headsets with veneering, inlay. In addition, there are MDF products on sale, more affordable, but quite attractive in appearance.

How to place furniture in the interior of a classic living room? It is worth considering that its successful, harmonious arrangement is possible only in rooms with an area of ​​more than 20 m2. Among the important rules for completing an interior solution are the following.

• Mandatory preservation of sufficiently large passages between individual details of the situation. This distance should be at least 50 cm.

• Non-linear layout. Classic style does not provide a linear arrangement of furnishings. Modules can be placed symmetrically to each other, but not all along the same wall.

• The presence of a single reference point. The central element of the hall is a low coffee or coffee table. On the sides of it is upholstered furniture - a sofa and an armchair.

• Fireplace area as an element of comfort. If we are talking about the living room in a country house, it is worth highlighting the fireplace area in the hall, furnishing it with furniture in the English style. Here you can install a soft corner with an obligatory table or arrange several couches with arched legs.

• A complete set of finished items from one headset. If the furniture was originally purchased at different times, it is worth choosing stylistically similar solutions that have the same decor and color.

• Dining area with clear symmetry. The dining room in the classic style living room should have a pair of items. The oval table is surrounded by chairs opposite.

• Classic living room in white with elements of natural dark wood.The design used a sofa of complex shape and paired chairs, original floor lamps to match the furniture.

• The luxury and chic of a classic style in a French style. The abundance of gilding in the decoration is in harmony with the shades of ivory in the decoration and furniture, dark ceremonial textile upholstery, curtains, carpet.

• Traditional classic in the English style. Such a living room finds chic through the use of bright textile details, sofa cushions, fresh flowers. At the same time, the color scheme and the execution of furniture remain classic.

About how to make classic-style furniture for the living room, see the video below.