Decoration Ideas Living Room

Ideas for decorating are available in plenty, but the most important thing to remember when you start out on a project to do up your living room is to appreciate the fact that this is the area where you would spend most of your waking hours when you are at home. A living room is a common room for all the members of the family and so any ideas of decorating or furnishing it must include the needs of everyone in the family.

The interiors of the room must be pleasing to the eye and the design and décor must be such that it fits a particular theme. This may be in the colors, the materials used or even a recurring motif that is not too jarring or obvious. Themes can be traditional like plants, flowers, and animals or modern with abstract designs.

Living room decoration ideas must include furniture which fits in with the overall theme. Modern furniture with clean straight lines would in turn influence the choice of furnishings and color to see that the consonance is not broken. Traditional furniture of deep sofas and the like call for warmer paint colors.

Lighting in a living room is one aspect of decoration that cannot be neglected. The lighting should be such that the highlights or central theme of the décor is given prominence. While this is being done, the comfort level of the users of the living room must be taken into consideration. Lighting should be such that the normal activities in a living room like reading or just relaxing are assisted.

While decorating a living room, the cost aspect has to be kept in mind depending on the funds available and a total estimate must be worked out before even starting on the decoration. This will allow all the various areas like furniture, fixtures, furnishing, paints and lighting to get equal importance. All the styles need to be balanced so that one does not look out of place when compared to the other.

Most people enjoy decorating their living room with all the ideas and plans in their mind, but they always tend to make common mistakes over and over again yet never know what are the causes. Here I will share some tips on how to decorate a living room avoiding some of the common mistakes.

Instead of quality, people go for quantity, this is a common mistake we often made. Just because the accessories are very cheap doesn't mean we have to buy a lot of them to accessorize our living room. We will end up purchasing something needless and don't add a contribution to our decoration, even made our room cluttered which in turns offer nothing but annoyance, in short, we are wasting our money for something don't worth. It doesn't mean that we can purchase moderate to very expensive furniture because it looks beautiful, we still have to take theme matching into consideration when picking a nice furniture. I won't take the risk to purchase a piece of furniture that won't match with my living room theme. It's a waste of money. Think wisely before you purchase anything.

Cluttered and messy furniture arrangement, this is another big common mistake we often made. I remembered my first office room furniture arrangement consumed too much spaces and the whole room was very cluttered and messy, there is not much spaces for walkway. After some rearrangement, my furniture were arranged in much more organized way, there is even a big spaces for walkway and the whole room looks bigger although it was just a 200 ft room. Try to arrange your furniture in a more organized way as this not only make your living room clean and tidy, it also creates a harmony and comfortable environment.

Non-matching style or theme, either directly or indirectly, well planned or go without any plan, we often purchased a furniture we like much but it never matches with our theme. Maybe the price is reasonable and the furniture style is one of the best, but keep in mind that, furniture that don't match our theme from the beginning will always be not matching until we switch our theme or style that matches with it.