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How
to Decorate a Living Room
If you are just
setting up housekeeping for the first time, or perhaps have just
bought a house, you'll want to make the rooms homey and comfortable,
but may not be able to just toss out what you have and buy all new
things. On the other hand, you may have purchased a new living room
set, and now need to decorate the room to suit it. There are ways
to work around both situations that are fashionable, striking, and
don't cost an arm and a leg.
If you have furniture,
your biggest consideration is going to be the flooring and wall
colors. If your furniture is patterned, whether a cool mint green
and darker green stripe, or a Victorian Rose floral, you won't want
"busy" walls. In cases like this, your best choices are wall paint
that picks up on one of the colors in the furniture. Think
carefully though, because you may not want to re-do the whole room
in two years, if it's a couch or sectional that you will be
replacing shortly. Generally speaking, lighter colors allow you
more range for decorative accents that can be added later.
Unless you have the fabric to match your living room set, then
drapes are best left in plain colors as well. But you can create a
dramatic effect on picture or bay windows by using sweeping sheers
with tiebacks and a valance that pick up another of the colors in
your furniture that also compliments the wall.
Sometimes the choice for flooring has to be made more on the
practical than the pretty. Hardwood goes with anything, but can be
hard to maintain, especially soft pines, in a home with children.
But there are "artificial" woods with more durability that will
serve longer, and look just as nice.
If you're laying new carpet, you may choose something that is the
same shade as your wall paint, or that matches the color used in the
draperies and window treatments.
Once all the essentials are in place, you literally have a canvas to
be decorated, and the effects that you can achieve with minimal
accessories, will amaze you.
One example, is in creating an Oriental look. If you have a
red/black sectional, and matching chairs, and have purchased end
tables, a coffee table and side tables in an ebony black, you'll
want touches of Eastern color to bring the room alive. That can be
done with red silk embroidered cushions for the sectional, a bamboo
table top fountain for the coffee table, and a selection of large
potted plants grouped on the floor around a window, where you can
also place a tiered plant stand with a collection of red Hong Tze
dragon figurines. If you have a mantle, or the sectional is back
against a wall, a singular item hung here makes great impact,
whether it is a pair of crossed Samurai swords, or a large framed
print of red peonies on a white background, in a black frame.
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