Interior Design

Living Room Interior Decorating Tips

Your living room is the place for your family or friends to sit and visit, relax and enjoy- so a special effort should be made to create a comfortable and a harmonious environment. Usually living room is the first room you see upon entering your home, it is a room that must show well and a multipurpose room serving as a playroom, a dining room, a reading room, a sitting room or a TV room.

A living room creates harmony through a successful combination of color, scale, shapes and patterns. How you furnish your living room depends on a number of factors. Here are some tips to decorate the living room to suit different levels of comfort and aesthetic senses and serving lots of activities.

* Plan your living room and furniture arrangement in such a way that one can easily move in the different areas of the room easily, without bring tripped.

* If the living room is very big and spacious, you can slot out a separate area or zone for various activities that take place in it such as dining, gossiping, media viewing, reading and playing.

* A smaller sized living room should have more versatile, multi-functional arrangement so that it can be used for more than one purpose as the need be.

* Designer Furniture arrangements, decorative screens, flooring
, rugs and carpets play an important role in defining the zones in the living room.

* Durable and easily washable surfaces should be used for eating purposes.

* Area rugs make seating arrangements look very cozy.

* A throw rug in a high-backed chair
near the fireplace can make a wonderful reading or knitting area.

* Runners can be used to indicate the pathways in the living room.

* Seating arrangements in the living room should face the focal point of the room such as television, fireplace, or the garden view from the window.

* You can also make one of the walls, the focal point of the room. This can be done by adding interesting accent pieces to it.

* Functional and stylish cabinets or showcase can be placed in favorable lights too.

* You should choose furnishings according to the scale of the room.

* Use simple sturdy fabrics and some artistic masterpieces to get everybody's attention without inducing stuffiness in the room.

* Designer living room furniture pieces with additional storage space such as tables with drawers and shelves, a cocktail table, a sofa that can be transformed into bed are functional and fashionable for this versatile room.

* Neutral color upholstery can be used to make the room look more spacious and add accents, texture and colors by adding bright throw pillows and cushions to your living room decor.