Furniture in a classic style 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 nobility and severity. 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 luster options for the living room.

The concept of the classic style is often understood quite broadly, 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 you better understand the specifics of the selection of furniture and make the right decision.

The concept of classic-style furniture for the living room includes quite a few areas that can interest lovers of luxury, comfort and high quality in everything. Modern classics find their origins in the traditional Victorian, Italian, French styles, with their pomp and chic in every detail. When choosing a setting for a hall decorated in traditional motives, you should pay attention to the following points.

• High quality materials. In the living room in the classic style, furniture is made that is capable of retaining an aesthetic, noble appearance after decades. Natural wood is taken only from hard species, not subject to cracking, rare varieties are often used - cherry, walnut, hornbeam, beech, maple.

• Restraint of decorative design. The classic style is characterized by an expensive, noble finish. You can use gilding and bronze, natural leather and suede, carving on expensive types of wood. The use of plastic, overly glossy parts, shiny white metal, asymmetric shapes is excluded. All finishing details must correspond to the general interior equipment, be harmoniously combined with them.

• Gamut of colors. The classics are always designed in pastel, natural colors. It is impossible to imagine flashy, too bright or artificial shades here. 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 damp earth.

Furniture set made in classic style for the living room includes the following components.

• Storage systems. They include chests of drawers, wardrobes, pencil cases and mezzanines.

• Resting places. They use soft corners with sofas and armchairs, chaise longues, couches, poufs, chairs.

• Open structures. This includes showcases, racks, shelves, "walls" for television equipment.

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

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

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

Classics with rococo elements look more graceful and fresh at the same time. Such furniture in the living room will be decorated with carvings, made in white and pink colors. This is the ideal solution for a living room in a young girl's apartment or in a respectable family home.

The French Empire style is also included in the list of classical 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, characterized by luxury in everything. Furniture here is most often milky white or made of solid oak, beech, mahogany, covered with stucco, gilding.

Classicism is the most traditional trend for furnishing a living room in the English tradition. Massive sideboards and tables, wardrobes, dressers, armchairs with tapestry upholstery. All this creates a feeling of solidity, tradition and peace.

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

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

Upholstered furniture in the living room in a classic style requires upholstery made of genuine leather; you can also find options from suede of a milky white color or a shade of chocolate. It is allowed to cover armchairs 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 of chairs and sofas with brocade, natural silk.

If you want to get a classic set of furniture or purchase additional components for a ready-made set in the living room, you should focus on expensive, luxurious, valuable wood species from the very beginning. When it is planned to preserve the natural color scheme of the tree, its structure, it is worth paying attention to the 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 from factories and factories from Belarus, Italy, France. It is better to give preference to well-known brands that have been working for many years. They often release collections that can become real heirlooms over time. In addition, here you can further select additional components in the same design option.

The basic canons of color matching in the classic style have long been known. The design of the furniture does not stand out from the general range 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, nut-brown shades of bark or cut wood look quite noble and respectable. In addition, solid wood structures coated with high-quality matt paints can be used in classic living rooms. Pure white, pale pink, olive green, pearl gray, bronze, gold, copper shades will help to create a harmonious atmosphere in the interior.

The lacquered surfaces are covered with craquelure - a network of small cracks. When choosing a color, the lighting feature is also taken into account. The hall with windows to the north side will look more harmonious in combination with warm colors - soft cream, light walnut, gold, coral pink. The south-facing living room requires paler, colder furniture colors - grays, lilacs, graphite browns.

Another rule for a 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 the background of an ivory shade - chocolate and coffee.

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

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

• Zzibo mobili. The brand, owned by the Ufamebel holding, specializes in the creation of individual furnishings and complete sets from solid wood. Among the classic living rooms of the factory, the 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 little chic to the living room without unnecessary pretentiousness.

• Camalegroup. An Italian brand that produces elegant, classic living rooms with traditional Baroque influences. The classic line of products is represented by the collections 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. The Palazzo Ducale collection, made in classic white and in shades of wenge, deserves attention.

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

• Brogiato. An Italian furniture factory producing upholstered furniture and bookcases, benches and dressers, showcases and consoles in the classic style and baroque aesthetics. Everything looks expensive and luxurious, materials are carefully selected.

• "Slonimmebel". Produces headsets in the classic style from MDF, with painted surfaces. The brand pays great attention to the quality of products, while the prices remain as affordable as possible.

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

How to properly 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, the following can be noted.

• Mandatory preservation of sufficiently large aisles between individual furnishings... This distance must be at least 50 cm.

• Non-linear layout. The classic style does not provide for a linear arrangement of furnishings. The modules can be placed symmetrically to each other, but not all along one wall.

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

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

• Complete set with ready-made items from one headset. If the furniture was originally purchased at different times, it is worth choosing stylistically similar solutions that have a similar decor and color.

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

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

• Luxury and chic classic style in a French manner. The abundance of gilding in decoration is harmoniously combined with shades of ivory in decoration and furniture, dark ceremonial textiles of upholstery, curtains, and carpet.

• Traditional classics in the English style. Such a living room acquires chic due to the use of bright textile details, cushions, fresh flowers. At the same time, the color scheme and design of the furniture remain classic.

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