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Your Ultimate Guide To Decorating Your Living Room

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Originally Posted On: Your Ultimate Guide To Decorating Your Living Room (rhianwestbury.co.uk)

 

Decorating your living room is an important step to making your house feel like a home. Sometimes putting together a living room when you are starting from scratch can seem daunting and overwhelming. This is understandable because there are lots of things to think about. Things like what colors you want to work with, the type of furniture you may already have paired with the furniture you may need, and how to arrange it can be complicated. Here is your ultimate guide to decorating your living room.

Choosing The Right Furniture

Not only should you pick the right furniture for your space, but you should also know how to properly arrange the furniture in your living room. Your instinct might be to push everything, including the glass console table, against the wall, but you want to avoid this. Determine what your focal point will be and build your conversation areas around that. You cannot forget about the traffic flow of the room as well. You can create all of this with your living room furniture.

Choosing The Right Area Rugs

Picking the right or wrong area rug can either make or break your set up. One of the most common mistakes people make is getting an area rug that is too small for space. When you have an area rug that is too small for space, it can make all the rest of your furniture look unorganized. As a rule of thumb, all of your furniture should be able to sit on top of the rug and there should be at least 10 to 20 inches of bare floor between the edges of the rug and the walls.

Picking The Right Art And How To Hang It

You may think that after purchasing all the right furniture and the perfect area rug, you can get by with leaving your walls bare.

You are doing yourself a disservice. Putting art on your walls helps bring everything together. That does not mean that you have to fill every empty wall space with art, but you do want to have eye-catching art on your walls. You should also know how to properly hang your art. Avoid hanging it too low or too high up. If you were to divide your wall into four sections, you want to ensure that your art is hanging on the third quadrant.

Choosing The Best Lighting

When you are thinking about lighting in your living room, there are a few things to keep in mind. There should be at three types of lighting which include ambient light, task light and accent light. Those lights should also be located on different levels all throughout the room. Do not make the mistake of ignoring your lighting, or leaving it up to what is the default in the room. Spice things up and make them your own. Personalize your space by installing chandeliers, other forms of recessed lighting, hanging pendant lamps, table lamps and even floor lamps. All are great sources of those three types of lighting.

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