LIVING ROOM DECORATING IDEAS

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LIVING ROOM DECORATING IDEAS

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• Living rooms are central to any home and they
  have to be well decorated for people to feel
  welcoming and the homeowners to feel confident of
  their house. Living room decoration has become a
  necessity and living room decoration ideas are
  rampant. There are leading interior decorators in
  Chennai for living room decoration and D5 Design
  Factory is one of the frontrunners.

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• Nowadays the fact is that we have more and more
  homes where the living room or the family room
  will be smaller. This is quite challenging since
  smaller rooms have to be made to look bigger in
  space. There are many visual clues to make a
  living room look roomier, warmer and welcoming,
  here are a few tips for that.

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10 Tips For Living Room Decoration

• 1. Light furniture with simple lines
• Instead of using dark furniture try to use
  furniture in lighter shades. The lighter
  furniture if they have prominent legs will add to
  the advantage. The advantage is that the eyes
  will have a complete view of the floor and hence
  the feel will be that of a larger room, but
  darker furniture will give a heavy feel and the
  room will look much smaller. If the center table
  and the end tables are in glass and metal it will
  not obstruct the eyes and so will make the room
  look larger.

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Lighter colour scheme

• Try to use neutral colours and lighter hues of
  blue and green to open up the space in a living
  room. These cooler colours recede and thus give
  the impression of a much larger room. If the room
  is really small a palette of just three colours
  will give it the spacious look. To balance all
  these pastel shades we can use darker accent rugs
  and cushions on the furniture. Even lighter floor
  colour will help in visually enlarging the room.

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Use some mirrors

• We all know that mirrors can make a small room
  appear bigger and we have wall to wall mirrors in
  showrooms and certain upscale interiors which
  visually give the room depth and spaciousness.
  The mirrors work best because they reflect light.
  Take care to have only the proper walls or
  objects reflected.

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Emphasize on vertical lines

• Every room has a vertical axis which is more
  often forgotten in your rush to populate the room
  horizontally. Try to get the eye moving upwards
  from the furniture with objects like tall
  lampshades, vertical paintings, and full length
  drapes and stacked up art objects.

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Match the scale of the room

• Try to understand the scale of your room and
  match your furniture to it. Buy furniture that is
  smaller in scale for smaller rooms but avoid
  clutter. Use of armless chairs, small sectional
  sofas and furniture that matches the room size
  will help. Take care not to overdo this and cause
  a clutter.

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Choose multipurpose furniture.

• Use furniture like ottomans, sectional sofas and
  long centre tables with storage. Let the seating,
  the side tables and the even sectional have
  storage spaces for your knick knacks and for
  hiding the things that lie haphazardly in the
  room.

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Open storage shelves

• Incorporate lots of built-in storage spaces in
  lighter colours. These storage spaces not only
  enhance the appeal of the room but give it a sort
  of roominess with its open display of artefacts
  and books in various shapes and sizes.

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Harmonize with large pieces

• If at all you have to retain larger furniture
  make sure the eye does not stick to it. If there
  is a large sectional sofa then harmonize it by
  painting the wall in lighter shade of the sofa
  colour and use some accents on the wall to offset
  the plainness.

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Take control of clutter

• There may be so many objects which you need in a
  room be it a living room or a family room. These
  things can be stored in the room using some end
  baskets, the center table with lower storage or
  book shelves with closed cabinets in-between. In
  this way you open up spaces and at the same time
  you control the clutter by stashing off everyday
  things.

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Layer your lighting

• What adds the roominess and appeal of the room is
  definitely the lighting. Try to layer your
  lighting. First of all have natural light
  streaming into the room through lighter windows
  or larger bay windows.
• Use drapes on these windows that can be pulled
  back to light up the room.

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Layer your lighting- Con

• . At night when natural light is absent use
  ceiling lights that can be dimmed, to light up
  darker corners use floor lamps and scones on the
  walls.
• The lighting can include table lamps
  strategically placed to give the room a well
  lighted and larger appearance.

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Layer your lighting- Con

• The interior decorating ideas given above is not
  specific to small rooms but can be easily adapted
  for rooms of any size and still go to enhance the
  qualities of the room.