Decor Ideas For Living Room

Your home reflects your personality and living room plays a key role in reflecting your lifestyle. There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort. Here are few tips that can transform your living room into a comfortable, functional & pleasing abode.

The first thing before decorating a living room is to know about how many purposes the room will going to serve like TV room, drawing room , family room or may be all these. Then choose the stuff according to its purpose. 

Next you should place all the furniture in a way that it should look uncluttered, spacious and most importantly functional. If you are living in a small apartment then multipurpose and small furniture is always a best option to give your living room a spacious look. Sofa is the main furniture and plays an important role in overall look of the place. Choose it wisely according to the space available, theme of the living room and color of the walls. It should be comfortable and gorgeous as well to beautify the space. Put some throw pillows to perk up the place and to add some color. Center table comes next and can be very appealing if accessorized properly. Don't over accessorize it.

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An indoor plant in eye catching planter or a vase filled with some fresh flowers, few candles or may be some pebbles or shells all kept in a tray and some good books these are the accessories that work well with any kind of theme.

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Wall color should be light for your room to look spacious and bright. Though you can create a focal point by painting one wall in dark color with texture on it or stenciled wall or a wallpaper according to your room's theme can do wonder. Putting up a collage of family pictures that oftentimes called picture gallery wall is always a best choice to give your room a personal touch. You can choose a big canvas painting also to give your place a traditional feel. A big mirror or collection of mirrors displayed on wall not only looks pleasing but also makes your room look bigger and brighter.

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Curtains, rugs and carpets create a complete look of any living room. All these furnishings should be color coordinated and blend well with rest of the decor.
Lighting plays an important role in creating a warm ambiance. Where chandelier can make your room look classy and traditional, spotlights and floor lamps give it a contemporary look. Table lamps placed on either side of the sofa looks pleasing and create warm and welcoming feel.

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Just keep these few things in mind and you can surely transform your place in no time.In case you missed reading post about Foyer Decorating then click here to read.
Happy Decorating!!

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Fall-Winter Living Room Decor Ideas

As the soft morning sun rays peep into my living room I am pleasantly reminded that winters have arrived.

Everyone wants to escape from chilling winter weather outside and this is the right time of the year 

to create cozy, warm and inviting interiors. How can you achieve that look for your living room...oh let me share some very easy ideas here to welcome winters.

The key is to create cozy living room by adding some warm colors, plump cushions, woolen throws, thick rugs, soft warm lights and may be a woolen blanket to snuggle up with piping hot tea/coffee. 

Give a coat of rich color to a wall to make your living room warm and cozy instantly. Colors like yellow, terracotta, gold, purple, orange and red can do wonders. Add rich colors with accessories, furnishings and furniture too.

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Lay soft carpets and woolen, knitted, crochet or thick floor rugs to cover up cold floor. Rugs not only give warm and cozy feel but it looks elegant and add element to your decor too. Choose one in right color and texture. It enhances relaxing feel of room.

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Plump cushions & pillows scattered or lined up on sofa with matching fur or woolen throw feel as good as bear hug in frosty winter weather. Floor pillows and ottomans in warm fabric create a perfect cozy living room for winters. 

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Soft lighting is better way to add warmth and create perfect ambiance for winter. Dim and mood lights are more appealing than brighter ones and give wintry charm. Candles centerpiece and fall flower & leaves decoration not only beautifies the surrounding but glow of candles bring calming, warm and inviting effect also. 

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 Now some more things that you can do to make your living room comfortable and relaxing for winters. Line curtains with thermal lining or simply swap them for heavy ones. Create cozy reading nook to add a touch of winter. An arm chair placed near book case with some floor cushions scattered around make winters more enjoyable and your home interiors more inviting and cozy. 

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Hope these ideas will be helpful in transforming your abode into a warm, inviting, relaxing and cozy winter retreat. Enjoy winters!!

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Some Eye Candies!!

Sharing images of some rooms that instantly caught my attention and stole my heart.

Quirky artwork and lighting is what that giving this room a retro appeal.

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Cane wood coffee table, chair and some house plants are a nice way to make your living room extension of outdoors.

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Look at this bedroom, so bright and airy. 

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Everything is so appealing in this cottage style kitchen. Blue hand painted cabinets are what I found something unique.

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Ceiling in this image remind me of my grandpa's home :) It's a prominent feature of Tuscan interior.  

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Room in white and bucket full of blooms and that vintage armoire is a true heart stealer.

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These gorgeous cushions grabbed my attention in this colorful country living room.

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Liked the way colors are blended beautifully.

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White and off white highlighted with colorful oil painting and a treasure of books, perfect place to get lost in your own world. 

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Combination of white and pale aqua is setting calming effect in this French style living room. My favorite is that paper chandelier.

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Set ocean theme by bringing a large piece of thrift wood inside. Wicker chest and rope seat (Khaat) are setting ethnic appeal on the other hand.

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I am drooling over all these images. Which one you liked most.........tell me I'm all ears!!

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Vastu Gyan: Living Room Vastu

Vastu creates a harmonious balance and linkage with nature to attract favorable effects of Sun and other planets. Vastu balances the various energies in environment to ensure good and stable mental & physical health. The size and cost of the house doesn't matter in vastu rather impact of various energy fields and natural forces from different directions is more important.
Living room is the heart of a house. Its the place where you spend time with your family and entertain your guests. Best direction for living room should be north-east or east but it depends on the direction house faces. For north or east facing house living room should be in north-east. For a south facing house it can be in south-east. For west facing house living room can be in north-west direction.

Color of the walls in living room should be light. White, cream, yellow, orange, green, blue all in lighter shade can be a good option. Light colors brighten up the space and make it appear larger as well. 

Placement of furniture in living room should be in south-west and west direction. Owner of the house should always sit in south-west or west direction facing either north-east or east. Reason is that sun rays and fresh air from east and north direction ensures positivity. Furniture should be rectangular or square and there is always some space left between wall and furniture to ensure the free flow of air. Placement of furniture should be done in a way that it should appear uncluttered and allows free movement of the dwellers. Avoid seating area under a beam as it can increase your stress. Better idea is to conceal the beam with false ceiling. 

All the electronic and electrical gadgets should draw power from socket placed in east or south-east direction. T.V should be placed in a direction in such a way that viewer should face east or north direction. AC, cooler should be placed in west direction as west of the house becomes hot during the day. Fireplace all  things related to fire or heat should be placed in south-east direction as this direction represents Agni or Fire element.

As they say 'We become what we behold'. Paintings we put up in living room evoke strong sentiments. Thus keep in mind that paintings should always be calming, positive and uplifting. Picture of Sun or nature should be hung on east wall, painting of waterfall on the north wall and painting that denotes strength like horses, mountain or elephants should be hung on south or west wall. Always avoid paintings that depict war, sadness, violence, death or has negative impact on our life.

Make your living room a stress free zone and relaxing space by following these simple rules of vastu. With a little care in the relative positioning of different things in a room one could expect to live a peaceful, happy and prosperous life.

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Living Room Decor

Few days ago I updated on my Facebook Page 3D Design Decor & Disha that I have rearranged and gave a completely new look to my living room. Here is a post that I promised for.

Earlier seating arrangement in my living room was on the other side of the room where it partially blocked the way to terrace as you can see in the picture below. You can see more pictures here.

Sometimes rearranging furniture in any room can make it appear completely new and arranging furniture in a good way is the secret to make it spacious too. I shifted whole seating arrangement to the other side of the room and it worked. Room is now looking more spacious, pleasing and inviting.

Now I keep my terrace door always open and the result is room filled with natural light and fresh air that makes me even more happy.

Keeping some green and flowering plants in a tray with aromatherapy essential oil fill the room with soul refreshing aroma and work as a stress buster place in a room. Picture gallery wall brings lot of memories back and make me smile every time I look at them. 

Here entrance wall has got a new mirror that my sweet little sister got me from her trip to marvelous Bhedaghat in M.P. This is the view of room from entrance.

Entrance sets a tone for the rest of the home. This mirror made of shells and conch is perfect for summers and look stunning against my mango yellow wall. Separate post on this mirror will be a good idea.

Next posts will be on my weekend project and of course about this shell mirror. So stay tuned!!
Wish you a very happy and creative weekend!!

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Extending the Fireplace!

I wanted to figure out a cheap way to extend my fireplace...



To make it look like it extends all the way from the ceiling to the floor.



To do this was easy...



Even though I had to correct a mistake that I made!




The original fireplace in our living room is huge. I can stand under the mantel at 5 foot tall!

First, I began by taping off the wall at the edge of the mantel and cut in

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This Summer

This summer what you all are doing to bring in cheer to your place. I simply love bringing in greens and blooms. Flowers always create such lovely ambiance and add splash of color too.

My Petunia is doing very well and I was completely surprised when I saw flowers in two shades(violet with white stripes)  b'coz when I bought this plant it was so tiny and flower was in one shade only(Purple).

This corner look so cheerful and serene at the same time. 

 

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Bright Living Room

What else can I do other than dreaming about this bright and beautiful Living Room this summer. Try to do something like this to make your space ready for summers.

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Hope you spent your week well and wishing you a very happy weekend ahead.......Stay creative friends!!!

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