How to choose a modern slide in the living room (hall)

Modern trends in interior design require a minimum amount of furniture. According to this concept, most of the things should be stored in storage systems. But not everyone and not always succeeds or wants to fully follow these rules. Cabinet furniture is still needed, albeit not in the same quantity or form as before. For example, the walls of the slide in the living room. Modern options are far from a set of wardrobes, but interesting and varied furniture ensembles.

Types of modern furniture slides

Before choosing the walls of the slide in the living room, think over what you want to place on this furniture. Someone needs to store clothes, which means there must be a wardrobe and a chest of drawers. Someone is planning to place dishes, which means you need a special cupboard for dishes. For some, a slide in the hall is needed to install video and audio equipment. So we need large shelves. Someone is planning to place books - in order to do this, there must be a lot of shelves. There are also options that only serve to install a TV and decorative items. In general, you need to select a furniture wall based on your needs.

Choosing the walls of the slide in the living room, we must also talk about the shape and size. There are three types of furniture:

• Along one wall. Such a wall can occupy the entire wall from edge to edge, or maybe only some part. In the second case, they try to place it in the middle of the wall so that it remains approximately the same on both sides.
  

  Linear wall-slide. as you can see, cabinets are optional

• Corner. Not a bad option for small rooms or if everything you want on one wall does not fit.
• U-shaped. This is an option for spacious living rooms, since such ensembles look good only in large volumes.
  

  Corner wall slide for living room

Without cabinets

If you have in your house closet or wardrobe and there is enough storage space, you can do without cabinets altogether. In this case, the walls of the slide in the living room consist of drawers and shelves. They make low wide floor boxes on which you can place a TV, other equipment, and decor items. Above, open or closed cabinet shelves are hung on the wall. Moreover, their shape is most often non-linear - broken, boxes of different heights can even be used. The main thing is to correctly arrange them. A few examples of modern wall slides for a living room without cabinets in the photo gallery.

Strictly speaking, this is a set of pedestals and wall cabinets of various configurations, but from old memory they are also called the walls of the slide.

Mini slides

You won't put bulky furniture in small living rooms - it will finally “eat up” the volume, which will make the room uncomfortable and inconvenient. For such cases, there are mini-walls. They literally consist of several items - a pair of pedestals on which a TV and equipment are placed, a small wardrobe and / or a chest of drawers. Above - above the curbstone, several shelves of open or closed design can still be located.

These walls of the slide in the living room should also be chosen for their functionality. You will have to store something in them. So think about which of the samples will be more convenient for you. Open shelves will be needed so that you can put your favorite books or decorative elements, but dust quickly accumulates on them, and this should also be borne in mind.

Linear and angular

In a medium-sized living room, linear or angular walls are most often installed. As already mentioned, the number of cabinets, chests of drawers, drawers, lockers is chosen based on what things and in what quantity will have to be stored in them. If you need a lot of cabinets so that they do not look bulky, choose a light color of the doors. Some doors can be made of translucent glass and illuminated in these cabinets. This will make the furniture even less "oppressive" and this ensemble looks more modern.

You can make furniture visually lighter if the lower part is dark, and the upper part is light. Not necessarily white. Colors are suitable but milky, light beige, creamy, light gray, etc. In the same range with a dark bottom, but much lighter.

A little about the arrangement of furniture in the wall of the slide for the living room. If there are cabinets, with a linear arrangement, they are placed along the edges, leaving the middle almost empty - a low stand is placed under the TV installation, a couple of shelves can be placed on top.

Much less common are models of slide walls in which wardrobes for clothes and dishes or pencil cases are interspersed with shelves and are not at the edges, but in an arbitrary place. This is not to say that this type of furniture arrangement is worse. It's just more distinctive and non-standard.

The corner walls of the slide in the living room are much more varied in terms of furniture arrangement. Sometimes the cabinets also stand at the edges, the middle is occupied by low pedestals, in the center (in the corner) there is a place for a TV. There is an opposite layout - in the center - a corner cabinet (or cabinets), along the edges there are low cabinets and shelves above them.

The corner walls of the slide in the living room can completely occupy one wall and only capture a small part of the adjacent one. This is convenient if the room is small and there is a window near the corner. It is the angular layout that will allow more rational use of the space, which cannot be used in any other way.

Modular slide walls

Making custom furniture is nice, but expensive and usually takes a long time to wait. Standard options are also not suitable for everyone - either the height, the length, or the layout do not suit. Therefore, furniture manufacturers began to make collections of cabinets, nightstands, shelves in the same style and color, but in different sizes.From these components, as from a designer, you make your own version of the slide wall - according to your needs and the dimensions of the room. Not a bad idea, especially when you consider that the cost is low: the set is standard, mass production, the cost is lower.

Some furniture factories or workshops offer a certain set of colors in which each system is produced. This expands the possibilities of its combination more. In general, if you need an inexpensive wall slide in the living room, take a look at modular systems.

Choice of material and color

Choosing the model and composition of the cabinets is only part of the task. It is also necessary to decide on the material from which the furniture will be made, as well as the color and type of surface.

The walls of the slide in the living room, like any other furniture, are made of wood, MDF and Chipboard... Wooden belongs to the premium class, has a high price. The cheapest furniture is made of chipboard. Economy class models are made of this material. Particleboard - the middle price segment.

Inexpensive wall-slides in the living room are made of chipboard

What are the disadvantages of chipboard? The fact that in its production a binder is used - glue, which releases substances harmful to health. In hazardous quantities, these substances are released from low quality material with emission class E2 and higher. If the emission class of chipboard is E1 or E0, the material is considered harmless and it is even allowed to make children's furniture (class E0) from it, the walls of the slide in the living room and even more so. When buying furniture, take an interest in chipboard certificates in order to control the quality of the material.

Color principles

A separate topic is the choice of color and type of surface. The color scheme depends on the style of the interior, the dominant colors in the design, the dimensions of the room and, finally, on the tastes and desires of the owners. So giving advice in absentia is almost unrealistic. But there are several universal rules that can be applied to make a good choice.

There are three main types of color combinations that are used in interior decoration:

• Monochrome. This is when all objects are of the same color, but in different shades - for example, brown and all its shades or gray in all its diversity. You can add neutral tones - white, gray, a little black. A few bright spots will do the trick, but there shouldn't be many.
• Harmonious. The combination of colors different, but close - red with orange, blue and green. It is difficult to advise here, you need to look at the types of selected colors.
• Contrasting. The colors are different, but they are quite compatible - purple with green, yellow with blue, etc. An interior in a contrasting style is suitable for active and creative people, but it can quickly get bored.
  

  The combination of colors can be different

In any case, one color is dominant and there is a lot of it, all the rest are in details and accessories. When applied to the design of a living room, the main color is usually painted on the walls and added to some furnishings.

Based on this principle, you need to decide what color - dominant or additional - your wall slide for the living room will be. If you want to transfer accents to it, then the color should make it stand out from the decor, if it is just a background, the coloring is close to the main color.

Furniture colors and their perception

Most often, furniture is made in brown tones - from dark brown to light beige. Quite often you can see black, gray and white ensembles, colored ones are not so common - they require a careful selection of style and accessories, which is quite difficult. Consider how the most common colors for the living room wall are perceived.

• Brown.Creates a feeling of confidence, stability and comfort. Dark shades make the interior heavy, well-established, solid. Fits into almost any style without problems, traditionally combined with white, beige, green, looks good with blue. Suitable for spacious rooms, making the atmosphere more intimate.
  

  Brown - wenge color

• The black. It is a very cold color and can be anxiety-provoking in large quantities. But as an accent it perfectly harmonizes the interior. If the walls and the rest of the furniture in your living room are very light, the black wall of the slide will fit perfectly, creating a contrast.
  

  If black is glossy, it does not look so gloomy

• Grey. A neutral color that serves as a great backdrop for brighter things. If you need to highlight some other group in the living room, you can put a gray furniture wall. Also gray can be combined with other colors. Dark shades look good with red trim, medium shades with pink, green, purple.
  

  Gray is one of the neutral colors

• White. Color that pushes boundaries makes a room look bigger. This color in any of its shades is combined with any other color. That is why it has been so popular lately. It can be used in small rooms to visually increase the volume.
  

  White furniture looks very lightweight

• Beige. Another of the neutral colors. It goes well with any bright color. Feels like not as sterile as white, but also not as "heavy" as brown. Often combined with dark brown, bright red, pink, turquoise, purple, azure. The beige wall slide for the living room will perfectly emphasize the texture of the floor and ceiling, will serve as a background for bright designer gizmos.
  

  Beige is the perfect backdrop. The walls of the slide in the living room are often made in beige

And all these colors can be combined with bright or appropriate ones. Black is often combined with white or beige. Also any bright color is combined with it. Anyone is generally added to white. So there are a lot of options.

The choice of color also implies the choice of the type of surface - textured, matte, glossy or semi-gloss. They all look different with the same color. If you need to create an intimate, cozy atmosphere, matte, deep tones will do. For light interiors in high-tech style, minimalism, you can use gloss or semi-gloss. Just keep in mind that glossy surfaces will have to be rubbed frequently in order to maintain their attractive appearance.