Interior Decoration

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Living Room Decor

In the past, living room or the parlor was the place with formal settings to
welcome the honored guests. With times, it has evolved into a multifunctional
room meant to welcome guests, sit and relax comfortably while reading a good
book or watching TV, spend some time with the family, chat and gossip with
friends and for entertainment. The most common furniture pieces found in the
living room are sofas, love seat, sofa with chairs in different combinations,
coffee table, end tables, ottomans, benches, shelves and perhaps a desk and
bookshelves. If the living space is also used as a family room, you can also
find TV and entertainment center in the room along with accessories, lighting,
art and crafts on display and may be carpets.



An extra large living room may accommodate a piano, eating area complete with
dining table, tennis or billiard table or even a number of plants, if your
living space receives lots of direct sunlight. You may also shift am armoire
to make use of the extra space for storage purposes. Living room can use
maximum number of furnishings and it is a challenge to fit in all the
desirable furnishings and accessories and coordinate them with carpeting, wall
color, crown moldings, lighting style and window treatments among many other
things. Usually, sofa or the entertainment center is the largest piece of
furniture in a living room and since, placement of sofa will decide the view
and focal point for the people seated in the living, room, use it as the
starting point for living room decor.



Express your personality, your personal taste and decorating flair in the way
you decorate your living room. Remodeling or decorating your living room
doesn't just mean to throw away items and add furniture pieces to the living
room but how you arrange what you already have in the room. Arrangement
mistakes can ruin the look of your room. Do not go wild with imagination. Some
of the rules and traditional ways of keeping things and proper design must be
followed to keep things sane. Creative and unusual living room decorating
ideas should be limited by the comfort and usability of the room to make the
living room more inviting.



Designing in innovative ways that 'break the rules' can be tricky, so is best
left to professionals. Ensure that you maintain visual balance and harmony
while displaying your accessories and should not look chaotic. For budget
decorating, try to use what you already and then only opt to buy new things
that you think are absolutely necessary. See, if rearranging furniture and
accessories can achieve the effect you want. For a dream living room, it is
not necessary to start from scratch. Make sure that you do not let your
precious collection of art lie wasted or ignored just because you didn't think
of placing them correctly.



While decorating a living room, one must pay attention to the natural focal
point of the room, lifestyle of the family members, functional placement of
furniture, creating well-defined traffic patterns, creating close grouping and
intimate conversational areas, visual balance, ambient lighting, color scheme
of the room and fabric patterns of the curtains, window treatments and the
upholstery. You must also watch out for organizing things, display of
accessories, camouflaging architectural elements that are ugly, hanging art
and wall groupings, proportion and scale of decoration, unifying factor of
your decoration and most importantly, when to stop.