Rectangular Living Room Ideas

One of the most beautiful living rooms I have ever been in had a bright red, large, rectangular area rug in the middle of the golden oak floor. The red rug was stunning and simple, but brought energy to an otherwise nondescript room. Utilizing color on your living room floor will change the way your living room feels.

Oftentimes we use bright colors as accent pieces, throw pillows, or even splashes of art on the walls. Occasionally we get up the nerve to paint a wall or even an entire room a bold brilliant color. But just as often we neglect to see the floor as a viable option to hold bright color. Bright colors bring energy and life to a room. Using a bright colored area rug will vitalize a living room and give a look to the space that people will remember.

Take a look at your living room. Is it boring, bland? Does it need something new? Does it need an added pick-me-up? Why not try a bright area rug? It will brighten up your living room immediately. Even if the walls are white and the furniture nondescript, a bright area rug will energize the space. You could start by picking your favorite color. Is it blue, pink, red? Will it coordinate or compliment the colors in your living room? If so, find a bright, bold area rug large enough to fill the area you want it to and see what a transformation it brings to your living room.

Bright emerald or rich cocoa will perk up a tired room. You may choose to use an oval rug or a rectangular one. You may decide that a plush rug works better for your space than a tightly woven rug. Whatever your choice in texture or sizes you should be able to find a rug that you like in the color you desire. You can build your living room decoration around the colored rug. You might find accent decorations in similar or complimentary colors.

You may find that the rug provides a base of an entire decorating scheme, or perhaps you already have a decorating theme that you love and a colored rug will finish off the room. In the room I remembered with the bright red rug, they built the decorations around the red rug. Patriotic decor hung on the walls and red pillows sat on darker couches. They even found a coordinating oversized red chair that they bought to go along with the rug. The brightly colored rug freed them to make other bold choices in a room that was not structurally special but because of the decorating theme became visually spectacular.

When you decide to add to a living room, or decorate from scratch, try utilizing a boldly colored area rug and see what possibilities open up for you. You may be surprised at the way your entire space changes because of the decision to decorate with a boldly colored rug.

A coffee table is a vital piece when located within a living room, den, or family room setting. It is the playing field, the surface across which all interaction takes place. They tend to stand out, dominating an environment, while also defining it. Seating, entertainment settings, and all other aspects of the room must by nature fit in around this central piece, and so it is important that you choose wisely when making a selection.

The first thing you should consider is the size of the space relative to the size of the table. You want to ensure that wherever you put the piece, there is plenty of room to make your way around it. On the other hand, if you surround the table with couches, you don't want the seats to be so far apart that people have to shout at one another to communicate.

Leaving about two to feat of walking space around a coffee table is generally a good rule of thumb. That ensures that you have plenty of room for the environment to flow naturally, while not isolating the piece in the center of a void.

Another consideration is whether you want a round, square, or rectangular piece for the room. Round tables generally take up less space, since they don't have corners.