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3 Easy Tips for Decorating Your Living Room

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by Emma Radebaugh

Of all the areas in your home, the design of the living room arguably sets your home’s tone the most. It’s where you sit down to relax after a long day out, and it’s also where you entertain guests who come to visit. Consequently, you want to make it comfortable and attractive for all who come in and use it.

Tips for Decorating Your Living Room

If you want to know how you can improve the space, we offer some tips for decorating your living room to consider.

Pay Attention to Lighting

The way you light your living room can drastically impact how it looks and how you can use it. Make sure you have proper illumination so that you can make it as bright or as dim as you want. An effective way to achieve this is by using a combination of lamps and overhead lighting arranged around the room. By doing this, you can turn on and off different combinations of the lights to change the mood.

Take care to choose lights that work cohesively together, as well. The structure of lamps and the frames of hanging lights, from a company like smithersofstamford, play a significant part in the space’s overall styling.

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Plan the Layout

It’s easy to just push your seating against the walls and place furniture haphazardly around the room, but planning your layout strategically will ensure that you use the whole area to its fullest potential. Arrange your seating so that it surrounds a central point if your living room is wide open. This is usually a coffee table where you and your guests can place drinks or food in front of you. If your room is long and narrow, as is the case in many townhouses, you can create a few conversation areas by grouping chairs together.

Another important point to think about is how people will move around the room. Try to arrange furniture in a way that doesn’t disrupt pathways or make the room hard to navigate. This attention to detail will make it more pleasant for anyone who walks through.

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Purchase the Right Rugs

Rugs are an undeniably excellent marriage between form and function. More than just softening the floor and keeping your furniture from sliding all over the place, rugs can elevate the living room’s appearance. If you harmonize the rug’s design with the other aspects of your décor by considering color, texture, and pattern, you can make your room more inviting and visually appealing. Set aside some time to search through the various styles of rugs to find the best match for you.

During this process, pay special attention to its dimensions relative to the measurements of your room. A rug that’s too small will only split up the room and look odd under a table or sofa. On the other hand, a rug that covers a lot of space will make the room feel larger, and it’ll provide enough surface to accommodate all your furniture.

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