Floor cushions have become a new trend in interior design and interior decoration of private houses and apartments. They are designed to bring elements of comfort and modernity into the human environment. Made in different shapes, colors and sizes, these non-standard accessories can transform the space of a room. Those who buy such upholstered furniture in a house remain wildly in awe of using it. And some households do sew pillows on the floor with their own hands.
Unusual upholstered furniture - amazing floor cushions
Today’s article will tell how to make such furniture at home, as well as the peculiarities of the choice and color options.
In our country, the use of such outdoor furniture has spread relatively recently. In general, this trend is not new, it comes from far times.
Most often floor cushions are used in oriental-style interiors.
Such a life is typical for:
Japanese-style living room with white soft furniture and matching pillows
Lounge in an interesting Indian style with the use of floor and cushions
Luxurious room for rest and relaxation in oriental style with soft and comfortable pillows
In the design of rooms in the Arabic style, you can not see the usual furniture for Europeans, instead of chairs often use large floor cushions or mattresses
Floor cushions are also popular in the west. The style “Lounge” got its name, precisely because of the created lightness of the interior with such textiles. Light, relaxed and liberating atmosphere created in any room of the apartment, today is appreciated by modern designers.
Picking up floor cushions in tune to the couch, you can add room colors, mood and showiness
Young families who manage to buy new housing in new buildings, or who make major repairs, everywhere prefer floor cushions.
The interior of any room can be made truly warm and relaxing to the floor cushions
But what advantages did the correspondents of our site reveal, who conducted a survey of various segments of the population about the benefits of using outdoor furniture?
Even with a huge living room, it is better to use pillows, creating a calm and peaceful atmosphere in it.
Beautiful floor cushions are a great option for those who want extra seats, which can be removed if necessary.
Floor cushions for home theater - a great solution to the problem of lack of space
Such pillows can be removed, which helps to maintain order in the house easily.
Hand-made floor cushions bring extra aesthetic pleasure to people thanks to their exclusiveness. Such textiles are ideal for bedrooms, living rooms, halls, children's rooms.
Round floor pillows in the nursery
Perhaps the location of upholstered furniture:
Outdoor textiles allowed several times to increase comfort, home comfort and a favorable atmosphere. One has only to imagine a warm winter evening by the fireplace of your own home, which you spend with your family on such a soft object.
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People often ask themselves: “What kind of interior design are floor cushions suitable for?”. The answer of design experts on this is unambiguous - for any style of interior decoration you can find the perfect combination of “soft sofa” on the floor.
What styles to choose?
Interesting non-standard, extraordinary solutions interior design. For example, a combination of textiles on the floor with classical styles, such as "Baroque", "Modern Classics", "Art Deco" and others, is selected.
By choosing the right color for the room design, you can effectively apply this object as an accent. Bright or strong shades should compensate for the visual congestion of the room.
Especially beautiful look pillows on the floor for children's rooms. In such a room creates the opportunity to organize
Children by their nature - inveterate visionaries. Therefore, be sure to ask their opinion about the situation of the children's room. Take an interest in their interests. Ask about your favorite cartoons, fairy tale characters or heroes of science fiction films. Based on this information, you can easily choose the format of textiles, upholstery colors for floor cushions.
Consider a contemporary living room setting. Organize a meeting place and rest of large companies on the floor. To do this, you can put a small coffee table in the middle of the room, surrounding it with soft textiles. The color scheme is selected depending on:
Instead of a central coffee table, you can also use a floor cushion. To do this, select the appropriate filler of solid, elastic rocks, so that you can put on such a table various items.
This section is dedicated to the “do it yourself” category. Indeed, such a product can be manufactured by every person who has in his apartment:
For sewing pillows with their own hands, we need such materials and tools.
Floor cushions, made with their own hands, will bring a lot of joy from use. The process of sewing such a product is not difficult if you follow the step-by-step instructions and carefully carry out each step.
But what should be done to obtain the original element of the interior of your home.
We lay out the fabric on a flat surface, fold it in half and make the necessary measurements, cut out the workpiece with a margin of 2-3 cm at the edges.
Tailor's pins connect the pattern and iron iron
We sew the future cushion from three sides, and the fourth is left for fastener
Sew Velcro to the fourth side
We fasten each corner with tailor-shaped triangle pins.
We stitch corners from the seamy side, departing about 5 cm from the top, cut off the excess fabric and turn out the cover
We take ready-made pillows, on one of the sides we make the same markings (stripes) with a ruler and pencil, cut them into small ribbons
We tie the ends so as to get one big pillow.
Put the pillow in the case, fill the small voids inside with suitable pieces of filler
We get a large outdoor cushion made by hand
Clearly following these 8 steps, you can make an accessory of almost any shape with high quality. It all depends on your imagination.
If you wish, you can make a lot of different pillows and place them around the coffee table in the living room, on a warm surface.
But such original and fresh ideas for you prepared our site.
What do you think about the situation of the children's bedroom of your child? Use one of our 7 ideas, or come up with your own original solution.
For the outer upholstery of the product, an abrasion resistant, dense fabric is required. Synthetic material in this case - a good choice. They do not absorb odor, moisture, are hypoallergenic, and therefore safe for health.
A prerequisite is the fine structure of the threads of the fabric. Such material will provide resistance to room dust, penetration of microbes and moisture into the internal filler. Wet cleaning with special cleaning agents should not spoil the aesthetic qualities of the upholstery. Therefore, give preference to synthetic material.
There are special requirements for the filler. It should be:
Latex is ideal as an internal material. But its high cost can be a stumbling block, as the floor cushion is made relatively large. But granules of foam or polyurethane foam will cost you much cheaper. These fillers are best purchased in granular form. Such a product will contribute to complete relaxation after a busy day of work.
See the photos presented in this wonderful section. Modern craftsmen were able to come up with original solutions for everyday life. Office workers and business people can appreciate the proposed solutions.
For large country cottages there is an interesting option to purchase (or make your own hands) several products that, when added together, form a whole furniture complex. A sort of sleeping sofas with chairs.
Using a different texture of fabric, you can make a unique piece of furniture.
Such an unusual rock may appear in your apartment.
With the help of such extraordinarily extravagant solutions, you can improve home comfort several times and bring notes of modernity into the everyday design of your apartment.
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