How can you complain about the lack of space for things in an apartment if there is an empty, unoccupied wall above the sofa in the living room? – This is a whole space for organizing a storage system for used and simply decorative items! And the examples given in this article will serve as the clearest proof of this..
Shelves and shelves
The easiest, unpretentious and least expensive way to place all your books, vases or figurines in the living room is to hang the most ordinary or unusual shelves on the wall above the sofa. Of course, don’t hang them too low. Otherwise, anyone getting up from the couch runs the risk of injury. The width of the shelves should also be within reasonable limits.
Modular hanging cabinets
You are mistaken if you think that modular cabinets are appropriate only in the interior of the kitchen. For example, the IKEA catalog presents excellent models for decorating a living room. You can find different designs of these cabinets: they can be of any width and height, with or without doors. If you wish, you can make custom-made hanging cabinets – then they will definitely harmoniously fit into the interior of your living room..
Niches
Such a solution is feasible only through repair, but believe me, the result, as they say, justifies the means. Having designed a niche in the wall above the sofa in the living room, you can immediately think about what will be stored in it, and, based on this, determine its scale and content. So, you can make a niche a purely decorative element with lighting, and, say, photographs, or turn it into a real library.!
Shelving over the sofa
Such a storage system (especially books) will be an ideal solution for a small living room, where every centimeter counts, and it is impossible to make a large niche. To do this, you need, in fact, a high rack, the lower part of which is not intended for use and may be «hidden» behind the back of the sofa in your living room.
Sofa «in the rack»
A radical option, where the sofa turns from the main element into built-in furniture. Such an idea, as a rule, implies a wall-to-wall shelving, which has a niche for a sofa. These can be separate shelving modules or one-piece structure. Its filling can also be very diverse, but the result is the same: with such a design solution, you will hardly need bookcases and shelves for decorative gizmos!
