Monday, May 16, 2011
Decorating ideas for small living rooms
The living room is an important area because you spend a lot of time in this area with your family or just relax. It should be comfortable, welcoming and personal style should reflect. Redecorating the living room to provide for all these factors. When decorating, the amount of space that you have a great determinant of how you go about it. Do you have a small living room, will let too much crammed accessories.
For small living rooms, there are certain techniques that you can use to make it appear larger and more spacious. Installing large mirrors on the walls is the first important step to the space. The mirror also serves the purpose of reflects light leaving the room a little brighter. This will be best achieved if the mirror is placed in front of a window. Another trick you can use the room to make it appear more spacious area is the use of ceiling-mounted hanging curtains. Lightweight curtains should be used on the windows since heavy fabric curtains tied the living room and small will appear. Install different types of lighting to change the look and feel of the room. Using overhead lighting will only make the space look very clinical. Use of table lamps or lights with dimmers makes more heat in the room giving it a feel cozier and ambient. To avoid spoiling your efforts decoration, remove all the junk in the room. This makes the room look bigger and spacious.
Apart from small living rooms, decorating a budget can be a problem. You do not need to dig into your bank to a stylish space. There are certain cheap decorating ideas that you can use to overcome this. You can add style to it with the help of attractive and unusual light color tones. Your local flea market have antique light stands and shadows that you can use for this purpose. This should be placed in a corner or on the coffee table to give a special area that even be used as a reading corner. You can also accentuate your living room by having a wall painted a deep color as a complement to the other walls. For example, one of the walls are painted turquoise blue while the other walls painted white or beige. You can also use the ceiling painting a different color of the walls for a similar effect. However, this should be for the ceiling a brighter shade. If your living room sofa is worn out, you don't necessarily need to upholster it or buy a new one. You can give a makeover by just buy new pillows. You can mix cushions of different shapes, colors and designs. The color should aid you in choosing the colors cushion. If the light-colored, orange and jade pillows work well to brighten up the room.