Convenience and comfort of soft chairs in the living room will appreciate not only the owners, but also guests. Such furniture perfectly supports the back, and the variety of models and color gamma will allow you to choose the appropriate option to any interior - both to modern and classical. Consider in the article, what are soft chairs, and which upholstery option is the easiest to care.
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Soft chairs do not lose their popularity for no other decades. Despite the popular minimalism and the desire to make interiors more ascetic, such furniture finds its admirers due to comfort and noble appearance.
Currently, a different kind of soft chairs can be found on the furniture market.
- Semi-mug. Such models do not have springs in their design. The seat is filled with soft filler (foam, polyurethane foam with memory effect) and covered with cloth. These chairs are one of the most budget and most popular.
- With a carriage tie. Such a chair will truly attach the attention of all guests. A screed sends to royal, chic decoration and adds a gloss to any interior. Most often in this technique, the back of soft chairs is performed, but sometimes you can meet the seats decorated with a carriage tie.
- Bar. Such furniture usually has laconic forms and design, but it does not apply to bar chairs with a soft upholstery. Such models are perfectly suitable in the kitchen-living room as a supplement to the bar. A soft upholstery increases the comfort of this and without that comfortable furniture.
- With high back. Such chairs look very elegant and add the elegance to the whole interior of the living room. However, such furniture has "contraindication" - it cannot be installed in small rooms, as it will see them even less. Soft chairs with a high back will successfully fit into most modern halls.
- Armchair chair. Such furniture is a real favorite of comfort and convenience. By design, this chair repeats the form of the usual soft chair. There are models like armrests and without them. This type of furniture is perfect for spacious living rooms, and interesting color solutions will allow bright accents with their help.
- Folding. Such models are perfectly suitable for small rooms, as well as additional chairs for guests. They possess all the qualities of soft models, while still can be folded, and if necessary is compactly stored.
Modern soft upholstery chairs can have a circular, square or semicircular seat. Such a variety allows you to maximize them in any combinations with many tables and in different interiors.
Materials
The frame of soft chairs is made of traditional materials - metal and wood.
Metal chairs are very durable and durable. They are not deformed during operation, and also withstand a larger load. Due to the fact that the metal is not quite pleasant, tactile, most often the furniture with such a frame is covered completely. However, they still remain cold, and also have their own considerable weight. The last characteristic can negatively affect the state of the floor covering - it can be sold or break.
Wooden chairs are durable, reliable and have a more familiar appearance. In addition, they are non-cool unlike metal furniture. Chairs with a soft upholstery of wood produce from alder, oak, wenge, pine, birch and even rattan. Only cost can be attributed to the disadvantages of such furniture, because the tree is expensive material.
In addition, this natural material should be carefully taken care, periodically processing chairs with special compositions in order to prevent drying and formation of cracks.
For filling soft chairs, various raw materials are used:
- Pooh applies only in expensive models - it is folded in care, long dries after cleaning;
- Sinypron - Budget filler, quickly dries, hypoallergenic;
- Polyurethan - has a memory property, which makes the use of a chair with such a filler as comfortable as possible;
- Foam rubber - an inexpensive version, but can quickly come into disrepair.
Materials for upholstery of soft chairs are also diverse.
- Leather. This material is usually made upholstery for premium models. Genuine leather is durable, durable, resistant to abrasion, and also has a presentable appearance. The only drawback is a high cost.
- Leatherette. The material imitates natural skin, but it is characterized by the structure. Such an upholstery is afraid of temperature drops, from which it may be unusable, as well as the claws of domestic pets.
- Ecocient - This is a modern analogue of leatherette. It has a softer structure and increased resistance to elevated and reduced temperatures. However, the resistance to mechanical damage to eco-leaves is extremely low.
- Textile. Apply various types of fabric - velor, velvet, jacquard and other furniture fabrics. The disadvantage of such upholstery is difficulty in care. Due to the marching of the fabric, it is necessary to often expose the seats and the backs of soft chairs cleaning.
Color spectrum
Very important in the interior of the living room generality of the interior. Therefore, it is impossible to make the choice of soft chairs into the hall impulsively. The color of the furniture must be combined with one of the interior items indoors. There are several classic tips that designers give those who are in finding ideally suitable models:
- If necessary, so that the chairs did not stand out - their color should be as close as possible to the main shade in the room;
- If the chairs are used as a bright accent - then it is necessary to maintain the active color by other accessories (a puff, a vase or a bright frame for a photo on the wall).
The mansion is chairs with patterned upholstery. It should be maximally accuracy here, since the drawing can easily come under the interior. The main thing is not to overdo it with the pattern, it should not be too much. And also take into account the style of the room itself. For stylistry Provence, for example, a strict geometric pattern is not suitable, it will be appropriate in neoclassical interiors or high-tech style.
With a monophonic upholstery, everything is much easier - it is enough to choose the appropriate color, and complement the living room with cozy chairs.
Style solution
In order for chairs perfectly fit into the interior, Designer recommendations should be followed.
- For country styles and provence Perfect Viennese chairs. Especially successfully look at the model interiors with artificially aged wooden frame. As a upholstery, there is a burlap and a lodge.
- For a classic living room Models are suitable with upholstery from tapestry or jacquard fabric. Freshly looking metal inserts in a wooden frame of beech, oak or elm.
- Baroque interior Wood carved chairs with expensive upholstery from velvet, flock or skin will fit. If you want metal furniture, it should have forged, curly legs.
- For modern style High-tech Great metal chairs with upholstered from eco-leave in muffled classic colors - black, brown, gray, beige.
- For minimalist living room You should choose chairs with concise, strict design, without suitable inserts. Successfully fit models of the type of semi-criste, without armrests.
It is important when choosing chairs for the interior, so that they do not get out of the overall concept of the room, and then the space of the living room will be harmonious.
Design
Very often, the owners of soft chairs are looking for a way to change the design of its furniture or, on the contrary, to emphasize the unusualness of forms or colors. Achieve this can be achieved using cloth, decoupage, jute thread or high-strength satin tapes.
Many designers offer to use special capes to the floor.
This allows not only to change the appearance of the furniture, refresh it, but also simplifies care, as it comes down to periodic washing of the cover.
How to choose?
When buying soft chairs for the living room Take advantage of specialists.
- Determine the budget in advance. Good chairs are not cheap, but they will serve longer than models with dubious price and quality. Sometimes it makes sense to wait for sales, or check out the purchase of furniture in installments.
- The furniture must be comfortable, as well as withstand weight. On all modern models in self-respected manufacturers, the manufacturers are indicated by permissible load in kilograms. Some additionally indicate the angle of inclination of the back - optimally, if this indicator is 5 degrees.
- Soft chairs with armrests may be uncomfortable people with overweight. And if there are those among the households, the furniture should be purchased without armrests. And also pay attention to the depth of the seat - it should not be less than 40 cm.
- Consider whether it will be necessary to clean the chairs. If the seats in the living room are a bit, then you can buy folding products with a soft upholstery. They are easy to disassemble and collect if necessary, and they have a relatively small weight.
- Be sure to ask the Seller to acquaint you with quality certificates and the environmental safety of acquired furniture. If these documents are not available, it is better to give up the purchase.
- Consider the shared style of the hall and the appearance of the purchased furniture.
Beautiful ideas
A wonderful combination of carved elements and light upholstery with a pattern make this chair-chair with a soft upholstery perfect companion to the living room in the Baroque style.
And these two soft chair-chairs fit perfectly into the classic interior of the kitchen-living room.
Presented on the photo of a white chair with a tissue upholstery perfectly fit into the classic interior. However, thanks to the drawing on the upholstery, it can be safely combined with the interiors in the style of Provence and Country.
The chairs with a soft upholstery in the design of the living room takes not the last place. With the help of this furniture, you can not only place guests with comfort, but also emphasize the individuality and style of the room.
About how to make a soft chair with your own hands, is shown in the following video.