In the USA and Europe, there has long been a practice of decorating walls with posters and paintings, but this trend was brought to us by the international Swedish store IKEA. It is a unique design tool that brings more color and variety to a room.
Ikea posters and paintings are also inexpensive and you can buy related accessories there.
Paintings
Beautiful paintings for home interiors are one of the best ways to decorate. The Swedish store offers hundreds of different options at once. By the way, many of their items are sold not at 1, but at 3 at once for one price.
You just have to rely on their series:
- Wilsgult. These are paintings on canvas with European landscapes. The line is characterized by a pronounced black and white content with bright accents. By the way, the series includes fairly well-known photographs of urban infrastructure.
- Pietteride. Excellent paintings in the interior of the living room. The canvas depicts hand-drawn flora and fauna. The highlight of this line is the specific blurriness of the strokes.
- Gronby. Modern paintings for the bedroom. The canvases feature black and white photographs of famous European places.
Also at IKEA you can find reproductions of paintings, inexpensive and quite stylish. At the same time, the quality is very high. You don’t have to worry that your kitchen paintings will fade or lose their paint. They will be good in 10 years. By the way, they come in different sizes.
Real living room interiors in IKEA style
When arranging a living room, you should always start by determining its purpose: who will visit it more often, how often do you have guests, is it combined with other rooms (bedroom, kitchen)? And, of course, it is worth considering the size of the room itself; the choice of colors and furniture depends on this. Let's look at a few ideas on how to arrange a living room with IKEA furniture, depending on its features.
Small living room
Small living rooms can be arranged no worse than spacious and large ones. IKEA has compact double sofas for this purpose: Bedinge, Backxeda, Grellsta, Landskrona.
Inexpensive IKEA sofa “Bedinge” in a small living room Lemon-colored sofa “Asceta”
It’s better to avoid bulky walls and get by with a miniature TV stand on legs or without legs with wall mounting. This way the furniture will be perceived easier, and the interior will seem freer.
You can add seating using compact poufs or stools. Some of them can be used as “2 in 1” - a pouf and a coffee table. The wicker stool “Gamlegult” can also become a stylish accessory. There is a shelf inside it.
Such intimacy of the interior of a small living room and cramped space create some special charm and homeliness.
Bedroom-living room
In one-room apartments and studios, one room can serve as both a living room and a bedroom. In this case, the question of space zoning arises. To visually and actually separate these two zones, you can use different methods: partitions, screens, curtains, podium or shelving.
If the area of the room is very small, then it is better to make the partitions transparent or translucent so that their presence does not clutter up the space. A shelving unit can become such a partition. It is better to leave some of its shelves half empty so that light passes through the cells and the room does not seem cramped.
If the size of the room does not allow you to install both a sofa and a bed, then it is better to give preference to multifunctional furniture that saves space. This could be a sofa bed, which turns into a sleeping place at night, or a loft bed, under which you can organize a relaxation area or work space.
IKEA loft bed in a mini-living room
Kitchen-living room
Combining the kitchen and living room became a fashionable idea 10 years ago. But, besides fashion, there are objective advantages to this idea. For example, in a one-room apartment with a large kitchen, this is an opportunity to equip a two-room apartment and make a separate bedroom.
In Khrushchev-era apartments, this solution allows us to solve the problem of a tiny kitchen, into which even a refrigerator does not fit.
Using IKEA furniture and accessories, you can zone the kitchen-living room space. For example, using the Vadholm kitchen island or an island made up of kitchen modules from the Method system.
The finished island "Vadholm"
Additional zoning of the kitchen-living room can provide properly selected lighting. The IKEA catalog has many pendant lamps that can be installed above the dining area, installed between the kitchen and living room. In this way, the boundary of two zones can be marked.
Hektar lamps Ranarp lamps visually divide zones
In light colors
The light color scheme is a classic for an IKEA-style living room. Most of the ikea furniture is made in light colors, so it will not be difficult to realize the dream of a Scandinavian, snow-white living room or create a design in the Scandi-loft and Provence style.
Light colors are ideal for decorating small and too dark living rooms with windows facing the shady side.
To prevent the snow-white interior from seeming cold and repulsive, dilute it with wicker furniture and accessories, wooden elements, cozy decor in the form of a long-pile carpet, house plants, paintings, and a beautiful vase with flowers.
Posters
These are also interior paintings for the interior of a living room, bedroom or kitchen. But unlike paintings, they often depict various drawings, abstractions and photographs.
The “Twilling” series is worth highlighting separately. These are chic posters for the wall, made in the same style. The canvas depicts flora, and the drawing itself appears to be made in watercolors.
Modular paintings that combine several paintings at the same time are very interesting. Thanks to this, you can, for example, zone the design. Collages, by the way, are very popular.
Modular paintings for the kitchen are easily integrated into the design. They decorate the part above the table or bed, separating this area from the rest. Such paintings are often hung in the hallway on the wall or in the bedroom, as they set the mood for relaxation and comfort.
Don't forget about accessories for paintings. They are also sold in the poster section. You can get them cheaper than in other stores. Poster frames, banners, and lighting are on sale.
Additional products
It is worth considering that fastening elements are not included with the painting. Therefore, screws, dowels, screws or nails suitable for the wall are selected separately.
This does not apply to metal frames, where special hooks and clamps are an integral part of the structure. The hanging range also includes a bracket for storing them.
You also need to be careful with frames. Some paintings or posters come with them, but in most cases they are purchased separately.
Tips and tricks for choosing
And before buying posters, it is better to study some recommendations and tips:
- You should always rely on your own opinion, or the designer’s advice about the incompatibility of design and canvas. If you like this particular combination, it’s better not to deny yourself!
2. If the apartment is small, you will need a lot of small paintings. Modular collages make it easy to make a room visually larger. And it’s even better if there is a small pattern on them.
Remember that the topic is very important. A calm, romantic plot looks better in the bedroom, which will make falling asleep more pleasant. Possible natural scenery or fauna. For the hall, you can take a more colorful and brighter design.
For example, paintings from the Vilsgult series. They are used mainly for the living room. In the kitchen, of course, there is a food design. But it is possible to take any other one. The main thing is that there is no gloom and anger in the print. For children everything is very simple. IKEA has a special section for children's rooms.
3. Universal is an abstraction. It is appropriate in any room and, importantly, even in any design. The exception is classicism, baroque and oriental styles.
4. It is better not to sculpt large paintings on the wall en masse. They can be located in parallel. Closely placed canvases will make even a large room seem small.
Paintings at IKEA: catalog of postcards, posters, photo frames
So, the assortment of IKEA paintings looks like this:
- Sets of posters consisting of 2 or 3 pictures (TRILLING);
- Paintings, pictures in frames, frames separately (BJÖRKSTA);
- Posters (BILD, EDELVIK, KOPPARFELL);
- Paintings (OLUNDA, PIETERID, MANTEBO, VILSHULT);
- Set of pictures (GRONBI);
- Decorative stickers (MOSSEN, KLETT).
In addition to paintings, IKEA also sells frames for them, posters, postcards, and collages.
So, you can buy a simple frame for a large picture or a decorative frame where you can insert a graphic image of your beloved, cross-stitch with the face of a pet, where a photo of your dream home or a collage on the theme of an exotic trip where you were happy and cheerful is appropriate.
There are different frames, and if one is a modest “frame” for a picture, the other is a masterpiece in itself, like the products from the UNG DRIL series presented at IKEA in the form of a beautiful frame with openwork elements or KVILL - a baguette with imitation stucco. Other frames look like hangers with strips of several sections - you hammer a nail into the wall and hang them. By the way, IKEA did not miss the assortment for hanging pictures and posters:
- Hooks;
- Nails;
- Screws;
- Bracket for storing fasteners.
Stylish and useful accessory
A convenient and unusual option for hanging pictures is a magnetic board with hooks. It is a rectangular “board” on which you can attach pictures or postcards for decoration, and hang door keys, a shoehorn or something else light and necessary on the hooks. A magnetic board is used in the hallway, although it will not be useless in the kitchen or children's room, where after active games you will not immediately find the things you need.
Other options for Ikea paintings in the interior
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