15 effective ideas to decorate the columns of your living room

The columns or pillars inside a room are essential architectural elements. And if they are there it is because the architect had no choice.

That said, you can see a column in a room in two ways: Either a drawback, or an advantage.

If you see it as an inconvenience, you will lose out. Because it is something immovable and your fight against it will be like fighting against the waves of the sea. A useless gesture.

So, we only have the other option, to see it as an advantage, as an addition with which we can play with the decoration of our house and create an extra point that adds decoration.

And to do this, it is best to decorate such a column. How? Well, it all depends on many factors, but in order not to confuse you more, but to help you, I have collected 15 ideas to decorate a column in the living room that will help and inspire you to decorate yours, regardless of the style you wear in your living room.

So, let's start now.

Decorate the columns in the living room with paint

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In this hall located in the basement, there were several pillars or columns in the center of the space. They could have been decorated or painted in neutral tones, like the gray of the walls to hide them, but instead they were painted a much darker gray, and, although now the columns stand out much more, they also add decoration and integrate perfectly in space.

Summarizing the idea: Paint them in a contrasting color and make them almost the protagonists of the space.

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with stone

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Whether it's natural stone, imitation stone ceramic or imitation stone panels, you can decorate your living room columns with these materials.

In rooms where the rustic style is dominant, decorating the column in this way comes in handy.

Although it is not exclusive to this style. You have a large number of different stones to choose a model that suits your living room, whether rustic or minimalist and simple.

Summarizing the idea: Coat the columns with stone.

Decorate the columns of the living room with rope

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If you want to give it a warm and original touch, you can do as we see above these lines. Wrap or cover the column with rustic rope.

You will have to nail the rope as you wind it around the column, but it is not a very elaborate job and the result is quite good, don't you think? At least it is original.

bare the column

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The next idea to decorate the columns in the living room, the one we see above these lines, is not about covering the column with bricks, no. but of removing the original plaster or plaster from the column to expose the original bricks.

With a chisel and a mallet or a hammer, in a weekend you will have been able to remove the plaster from the column and leave it bare, giving an authentic touch to your entire room.

Naturally you can also cover it with bricks, but this idea seems more original and authentic to me.

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with reclaimed wood

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You can too decorate the column or columns in the living room with recovered wood, with rustic wood. Whether you sport a rustic aesthetic in your living room or not, this idea can work.

If your living room is rustic, the column will integrate perfectly, if not, the column will contrast and create a very interesting little focal point.

add some shelves

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If the perimeter around the column is relatively clear, you can take advantage and add some shelves around its perimeter creating a decorative column, and also practical that offers you a small storage space.

With recycled pallet wood

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Before we saw how decorate a column in the living room with rustic wood, vast wood. In this case, as they have done here, in 613 Materika, we can cover the wooden column with recycled pallet boards tinted in color, creating an interesting decorative mosaic.

Decorate the columns in the living room with chalkboard paint

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It is one of the most versatile resources out there. In addition to painting the columns, chalkboard paint also offers us a surface on which we can later paint, draw or write whatever we want, adding a highly personalized decorative touch.

Also, since chalkboard paint is available in many colors, you can paint your columns any color you want, they don't have to be black.

with elegant wood

Project and photography Meme Hill

If you wear an elegant and sophisticated style, one of the best ways to decorating the columns of your living room is covering them with wood and moldings as if it were just another wall.

As you can see, this cladding is extremely elegant and makes the column integrate into the room with presence and style.

Integrating in space

Photography and project by Estudio Sincro

Look at the color of your walls, your furniture, your living room in general. What is the dominant color? In this case, in the upstairs living room designed by the Sincro studio, the dominant color is white.

Thus, the column was painted the same color, and although it is still there, it is perfectly integrated into the decoration.

It does not stand out, it does not look bad, it does not affect the aesthetics of the room.

It is one of the simplest solutions to decorate a column.

Integrating into the wall

Photography and colors by Bruguer (Rosewood Color by Bruguer)

If the column is on the wall in the form of a pillar and covered by a ridge, as in the room above these lines, you can paint it exactly the same as the rest of the wallto integrate it perfectly.

separating spaces

Look at the column in this room that is on the wall, right where the two living and dining spaces are divided. Now notice that the living room area is painted in a very soft earth tone and the dining room area in a nice red, while the column is painted white, dividing the two spaces while integrating into the decoration.

With some painting technique

It is not a living room, it is true, but this idea serves us perfectly to decorate the columns of the living room.

The walls have been painted with a glaze-like decorative effect in blue, while the column and the arch have been left in the same color but plain.

As I was saying before, the column can serve as an aid to enhance the decorative effect, as it has been done in this case.

Let's look at another example.

Photography and work of Pedro Pintor

The walls have been painted with an Atmosphere effect in iridescent black, while the column has the same effect but an almost raw white tone.

In this case, instead of integrating the column, we have opted for highlight it and make it an active part of the decoration.

A fantastic way to decorate the columns in the living room. Or any other area.

In concrete or microcement

Some of the trending materials lately to cover interiors are concrete, cement and microcement. It may seem too "rough" to you, but you only have to look at the room above these lines, so modern and minimalist where the column has been left bare, showing off the original concrete and it looks wonderful.

And, although very similar, if you have been wanting more, you can also see this other article with ideas for conceal and hide columns, beams or projections in a home.