Wall decoration tips

Make brilliant Effects by your self

1- Sponging effects

When you look at this effect it should remind you with scattered drops of water on the surface, it gives you vibrant energy and warm live feel. And it's one of the easiest effects to apply.You can use many colors of glaze. 

The tools:

               Natural Sea Sponge                        Application roller 

    

     

Choosing your hue:

For quiet view choose the matching colors with furniture, curtain to focus on, or can you choose a different colors to achieve the strong effects.

A few ideas: By varying the pressure you can get a stronger and different effects.

If something goes wrong you can always sponge on the basecoat color to balance the final effect.

To get a stronger effect try to use two layers with same sponge color or use different colors with light color to dark.




2- Colorwash effect

It's like the desert that has been disturbed by the wind. It's as random as the infant's first scribbles. For a good idea of the effect, imagine haystacks, Sparrow's Nest and the wind clutters. 

This effect appears different and contrasting colors with even using one color glaze by moving sponge randomly it give a wonderful degree.





The tool: 
               Colourwash Sponge                  Application rolle


          


Choosing your hue: The colour range offered is saturated and pure. It has glowing colours and mystic hues. For a truly dramatic play of colours, mix two shades of the topcoat and create a magical moment.


A few ideas: To create a softer look, use colors from the Sponging palette. for a rich and dramatic effect, use color combinations from the Brushing Palette. 

Use colors from the Ragging Palette for a more vibrant effect. Try colorwahing several layers of the same color for a more intense effect.




3- Combing effect

Combing is a fun technique that creates a striated effect with paint. Vertical lines that mimic the sheen of opulent silk. Create waves, curves, horizontal stripes or weaves for a striking impression.

Combing allows you to transform virtually any smooth surface into delightfully textured & stylized veneer.

The tool: 

      Special Effects Comb or any sharp brush                  Application rolle                                     

                                  

Choosing your hue: This is a complex colour combination palette. We have used unexpected contrasts that are most suitable for this palette only.

A few ideas:: Work with stroke size you are comfortable with. Too much pattern may make this look busy. In the room where you use this texture, enhance its effect by using natural materials. Use cane furniture, handloom weaves or terracotta.

4- Ragging effect

Ragging is a faux finish technique used to create subtle or dramatic effects allowing you to create a fabric-like finish that changes the appearance of your entire room. The muted colour palette exudes a rich and hand worked feel.

Experimentation is the operative word when you want to rag. The Ragging effect in bolder colours can be casual and fun. The effect provides an almost surreal experience when set against minimalist, modern furniture or an abstract painting.

The tool: 

Ragging Roller 

(you can bye it from the store or easily fix some painting papers on a rolle)                                                                               

                                                                            

                                            Application rolle

Choosing your hue: The colours offered in Ragging are bolder, but still harmonious for tone on tone.

A few ideas: Traditional ragging calls for a topcoat colour that's few tones darker than the basecoat colour. To get a softer ragging effect, use the colour combinations from the Sponging Palette. For an eartier look use the colour combinations from the Spatula Palette.

5- Moire effect

Also called Graining, this effect gives the look of the old Moiré material and forms a pattern like the Moiré on Walls. The technique needs some skill and practice in application using the special graining tool. This is a glaze-off technique and requires faster working by paying extra care when doing over large surfaces to get an even pattern of the Moiré effect.

Combing allows you to transform virtually any smooth surface into delightfully textured & stylized veneer.

It looks a bit difficult but the result will surprise you.

The tool: 

                     Graining Tool                                     Application rolle              

                     

Preparing the base coat: First, apply the base coat colour from Acrycoat Silk or Eggshell Emulsion like normal emulsion finish with a roller and let it completely dry.

step 1 Wood 1: Get another person to help. As one person applies a roller width of glaze, the other should drag the graining tool from top to bottom with even pressure up and down wrist movement to create the pattern.

Step 2 Wood 2: Plan to complete the entire length in one stretch without stopping end to end, move the graining tool again vertically from top to bottom by constantly dragging it down and at the same time rolling the tool up and down to create the pattern. Keep wiping the glaze being removed every foot with a clean cloth to get a sharp pattern. For large surfaces it is recommended that one person applies the base coat while the other grains the glaze (Moiré Effect).

Creative Tips: Use this effect in thin strips over manageable lengths that can be completed in one stretch of application. Alternate strips can be in complementing or contrasting colours.

Bathroom Ideas – Planning and Design Ideas

Find out about bathroom design and decoration, the different design styles of bathrooms and some interior designer critiques on designer bathrooms, this always gets you thinking and helps improve your interior design skills.

Bathrooms are no longer the small washroom squeezed into a back corner of the house on the cold side of the home, where you can pivot on one foot and reach everything.

Bed bath and beyond. with this Luxury Grecian Themed Bathroom.

The modern bathroom has evolved into a place of design serenity. A place to linger and enjoy the surroundings, a bathroom now accommodates our every need and pampers us with pulsating shower heads and jets, heated towel rails for snuggly warm dry towels, under floor heating, demister mirrors and probably soon espresso machines. No seriously, they are now a place of indulgence.

In todays’ busy world we need time to recharge and what better way to do this than soaking in a hot bubble bath, or having a steaming hot shower to clear your head.

Lets face it, there are a lot of do’s and dont’s for bathroom and ensuite design and it important to get as much knowledge possible to design the most ergonomic and user friendly space possible. I know as a designer that I have made a mistake in our design. We have a pedestal basin, and it is very high, my children can’t wash their hands in it and I need a stool in front of it which is great for them, but a hazard for the taller of us.  No stool equals mum lifting them to wash their hands……very tedious.

Think about who will use the space and accommodate the heights of the fittings and fixtures. This is not only for children, but the elderly or disabled who require a lower basin, easy access to the shower, hand rails. Lots to think about.

Ideas for Bathroom Design and decoration

We use the bathroom every day. That’s a good reason to have a well designed and decorated  space, because often we can have the whole family sharing the small bathroom space in the mornings, we need to work out how we can achieve a harmonious flow in this area.

We not only look at aesthetic considerations but also ergonomics and functionality. Learn about bathroom and ensuite design planning and renovation and find out what  fittings and fixtures you need. There are examples  to give you inspiration when you have your planning sorted.

Bathroom Styles, Critiques, Design & Decoration

See examples of  designer styles, get ideas for decoration, and learn how to critique a design to see if it works.

Bathroom Lighting and Electrical

Bathrooms today are very dependant on electricity as well as water. We show you some electrical fittings and items that you need to think about when you are planning a new home or renovating an existing space.

Bathroom Plumbing, Taps & Faucets

Have you ever wondered how the water gets to your tap or where it goes to once it leaves the basin or bath? We show you the basic principals of plumbing which isn’t as difficult as we have been lead to believe, it is actually very interesting. You won’t ever look at a WC pan the same again. Have you ever tried to purchase atap or faucet? Then been faced with hundreds of choices, we break the barriers down and make tap and faucet selection easier.

Bathroom Accessories

Accessories are the finishing touches that we always forget to budget for in our project planning. They may sound small but they add up quick, so learn what they are and specify them at the beginning of your bathroom project.

Bathroom Makeovers

We have some ideas for bathroom renovating, the first one is a simple change of wall color – somewhat radical color choices but it shows how little you need to do sometimes to create a big change to the bathroom’s look and style. The second is an Historic Bathroom Makeover, it is simple and provides some good ideas for the use of materials and color in your bathroom makeover.

Bathroom Flooring, Vinyl, Tiles

We provide information on materials such as vinyl flooring – a great product for wet areas in the home, and tiles and stone products add luxury and create a clean and sophisticated look.

Bathroom Color, Paint & Wall Coverings

If you are renovating, using a decorative paint finish is an economical way to update the look or style  or even the simpler makeover using paint color provides a wonderful facelift for any tired looking bathroom or ensuite.

Bathroom Resources
Bathroom Curtains and Blinds
Bathroom Fittings and Fixtures
Bathroom Photographs

Bathrooms can be simple and functional or luxurious and ornate.

Kitchen Design, Planning, Advice and Ideas

The kitchen is said to be the heart and hub of the home or house. It is usually the first place we stop to sit down on one of the barstools when we enter the house, therefore it is crucial that we get our kitchen design to work for the family or occupants of the house.

It’s where we store our food and prepare our meals and often the kitchen is where we dine.

However its not just the food area of the house as its usually central to the traffic and living flow.

Preschoolers will play there while the parent is cleaning up and working with food, children will often do their homework there with the help of the parents while preparing an evening meal and if you have a party you can bet that’s where many of the partygoers will gravitate.

It’s an odd phenomenon but the kitchen is the heart of the home and that is why this website explores all the areas and needs of the kitchen, the design and decoration. All the activities and more are part of the kitchen’s role and the themes are endless from contemporary, modern to a traditional country kitchen.

The fantastic thing about modern kitchens is that they can look old or to any style and still be practical with the modern finishes and appliances available. Kitchen design is not a simple process but it is logical and using this website will enable you to answer many of the questions you have and how to design and plan a kitchen.

Kitchen Design Decorating and Remodeling Ideas

Get information on kitchen decorating and cabinetry design.

Kitchen design is a large topic, covering space planning, appliance selection, decoration with flooring, finishes, colors and hardware. You could be looking to design a new kichen and want ideas on different styles or you could be remodeling and looking to choose different finishes for your cabinetry. Whatever your position, there are ideas and inspiration for you here.

We know that the kitchen is the central hub of every home, even if you don’t cook in it, it still houses the refrigerator and we access that frequently. If you do cook, then you will be particular about where everything is stored and placed in your environment. The kitchen makes up a large focus of interior design and is often one of the major areas of the house that people consider when looking at purchasing a new home because it is one area that costs a lot to alter.

Whether you want to remodel your existing space, design a new kitchen from scratch, gain skills for being a kitchen designer or you have a general interest in decorating and making your existing space work better then you will find articles of interest for you here.

The golden question is how do we go about putting a kitchen and the associated areas together, how do we make the choices from the hundreds of options available.

Planning a Kitchen Design

Planning a kitchen design, like all things that are built, if you get the foundation correct then the finishing items usually go into the main system fairly smoothly. So it follows that if you plan your kitchen correctly and methodically then the process should be relatively straight forward, however if you start with the finished idea then that may not be at all practical.

To plan a kitchen we need to start with establishing the parameters within which we have to work. This includes the actual space, the uses of that space and the budget.

There are four stages to planning a kitchen:

1. Defining the space, which includes either measuring up, and noting the position of the existing services, windows and doors of planning from the start with the architect on how you want the space laid out.
2. Designing the room’s layout to get the appliances, work tops and cupboards where you want them.
3. Confirming that layout and the services that are needed.(This includes lighting).
4. Confirming the finishes that you require for the bench tops, the exterior of the cabinetry and the interior of the cabinetry, the flooring, the walls, ceiling and window treatments

The following is intended to help you with the actual kitchen planning, but they are only suggestions and will not be practical in all situations, you will often have to compromise. The golden rule is – keep it simple – and remember that the kitchen is one of the main selling points for a house.

For years now kitchen designers have used a simplistic method of a triangle to connect the three main work spaces within a kitchen.

The main working zones in the kitchen are generally recognized as being – food preparation, cooking and serving, and finally washing up. Each activity zone needs to include the work top(s) and appliances required for that activity, also the zone will require the storage space for the utensils, ingredients etc. required for it.

In addition to the three zones, it is important to arrange the appliances and work tops in the correct order i.e. work top – appliance – work top. A work triangle is formed between the three zones 

For the greatest efficiency the total length of the three sides of the triangle should be between 3600mm and 6600mm, and as far as possible, the work triangle should be uninterrupted by through traffic.

Kitchen Styles - Which One Suits You?

Kitchen styles – sleek and industrial, rustic and homely, crisp and fresh, which one suits you?

There is an expression for all the differing kitchen styles available, but they all have one thing in common.

They all have a sink, oven and refrigerator!

Most have many more appliances and this makes the kitchen the most expensive room in the home to equip.

So careful planning and attention to detail for every aspect is essential from electrical power point placement to light fittings; the kitchen is a complex space to design.

The kitchen is the hub of the home as we all have to eat regularly and it is always a constant buzz of activity. Kitchens are therefore one of the major area home buyers look at along with bathrooms when purchasing a house.

The first consideration whether remodeling your existing house or starting out with a new home is the current style of your home and your furnishings. The kitchen is often placed centrally in the home and therefore visible from most rooms, the decoration and style should flow harmoniously throughout.

Imagine how crazy a sleek single line, white marble top, lacquered cabinetry with stainless steel appliances would look in a country cottage. An exaggeration of concept but crazier style combinations have been seen, unfortunately most of them fail as the contrast is too great and the detail of the styles is broken and lost with the jolting differences in a small space.

In this area of the website we outline the features of different kitchen styles and allow you to decide which style reflects your home and your lifestyle best.

Kitchen Styles

Traditional Styled Kitchens – Timeless and versatile.

Country Styled Kitchens – Relaxed and Comfortable.

Contemporary Styled Kitchens – Sleek and Streamlined.

So follow through and find out which style of kitchen fits the look of your home.

To learn about which type of kitchen layout best suits you visit Kitchen layouts.

Remember that there is a style of kitchen out there for everyone, when you add your decoration to the space you completely create your own unique sub style of kitchen design.

Kitchen Photos of Interior Design and Decoration

When it comes to choosing what type of kitchen design you want, the choice can be overwhelming. That is why looking at kitchen photos can help you rule out what you don’t like and start zeroing in on what you do.
You will find after looking through magazines and web sites, that a particular style or theme will start to prevail and it will give you a great starting point for working out what look you want for your kitchen.

Below are some kitchen photo examples with interior designer critiques of what they think works and doesn’t in the kitchen design. Please browse through and get ideas for your kitchen design or even just kitchen decoration, see how different finishes look combined together, how appliances are teamed up, lighting ideas and flooring combinations. There are lots of things to explore in a single kitchen photograph. See if you can find the one thing that makes the kitchen special, is it a functional item or simply decoration? Collect little ideas and collate them for putting together your kitchen.

Kitchen Photos of Interior Design and Decoration

	White Timber Country Kitchen
	Dark Timber or Wood and Stone Kitchen
	Detailed Kitchen Cooking Area
	Upholstered Chair in Kitchen Design
	French Castle Kitchen Design
	Timber Kitchen with Colored Glass Vases for Decoration
	Chandelier over Kitchen Island
	Kitchen Design Improvements
	Molded Timber Kitchen with Tile Inlay
	Modern Stainless Steel and Timber or Wood Kitchen
	Sloping Ceiling Kitchen
	Textured Kitchen Design with Stone and Tiles
	Traditional Paneled Cabinets

Get inspired with the kitchen photos, look at all the detail and imagine yourself using the kitchen, then you will start to see what will work for you and what won’t.

Look at the size and placement of the sink, see what type of faucet or tapware they use with the different styles of sinks, see how they use extract fans and decide if you want them to be a feature of be hidden away.

Examine the lighting, this will make or break your kitchen.

Most of all, take your time, a kitchen is a very expensive room in the house to design or renovate and believe it or not, your taste will change the more kitchen photos you look at, so don’t jump in before you have done all your homework or you might regret it.

Home Office Renovating Tips

Coping with the Home Office When Renovating

 

royal home office

Working from home has many great advantages, being able to sleep in a few extra minutes, make yourself a snack when you’re hungry, have a nap in the sun for a coffee break, saves on fuel costs, hang out your washing on a sunny day, work in your trackies and trainers, but all these advantages can be lost and a great deal more disadvantages added when you decide to renovate your house and still have to work in your home office, so here are some home office renovating tips to help you cope with whats ahead.

As we have just gone through all this renovating ourselves and we work from home and had a new baby at the time, we have some tips on how to cope with living and working in your home when you have building contractors pulling your house and lifestyle apart.

Make life easier for your contractors by moving everything out of their way and store it in an enclosed space, preferably out of the building area. This way your precious possessions won’t get broken or covered in “building dust”. This dust seems to sneak into every little seam of the house.

Pack away most of your children’s toys. This doesn’t sound fair for the kids, but it is a lot easier than having crying children with their favorite toys damaged from leaving them under your builders feet! It is also a lot safer environment for them to work in if there aren’t obstacles for them to trip over.

Never plan to work while the contractors embark on major noisy jobs, ask them the night before what they will be doing the following day, this way you can sort out the best time for making phone calls and coordinate when to leave the house for lunch. Loud noise can build up and make you aggravated and very grumpy, especially if you are trying to concentrate.

An valuable item in your home is the flooring, this is often overlooked when renovations take place, so ensure you place protective coverings over your carpet or hard flooring. Even the most prudent workmen will still manage to drop things on the ground. Building dust can really scratch hardwood floors and get embedded into the carpet fibres and cause your carpet to wear prematurely, so make sure you keep it covered and taped down.

Take down the drapes and blinds from your windows, this way you can protect them as they are easily soiled or damaged by construction work and an expensive item to replace.

Remove your pictures and paintings from the walls.Contractors often travel blindly carry timber and plasterboard sheet through your home which can easily disrupt your posessions. Another subtle variation to this is the vibrations from a hammer on the neighbouring wall making the artwork fall from the wall.

Make an effort to vacuum the whole house every night. It sounds like a lot of work but it is well worth the time envolved. Work the area thoroughly around the construction site and quickly for the remaining areas of the house and this reduces any long term damage to your home and your health. Dust can engulf your entire house, by eliminating as much as you can on a daily basis, when the work is complete the dust will have less impact on your living areas. The dust remains in the air and will settle over a few months, so getting as much away as possible before it gets airborne is a positive step to reducing this problem.

Before the contractor starts work in your home inform them that your home is a family home including children and / or pets and they all have different needs that have to be considered. That prepares them for the environment that they will be working in and ensures that they are aware of leaving doors or gates open, and this then reduce the risk of you losing something precious.

Make sure you set yourself achievable work goals each day. Remember that there will be constant noise, which does upsets your concentration, the contractors will be asking questions and taking breaks and wanting to use your facilities. The mental stress of renovating will make you feel more tired and the house will feel in a constant state of disarray.

Achieve what you can while the contractors are working during the day and once they have left you can attempt some extra work at night to keep up your work load, remembering that this is only a temporary situation.

Don’t even think about setting up meetings with clients in your home office. You won’t be able to be professional with the renovations happening around you so make the most of it and book in your meeting at a local cafes.

Taking care of your contractors with a little sweetening up of tea, coffee and occasionally some cake or muffins is a good way of making them respect your home and the fact that you want them to feel welcome to stay and finish the job. Don’t get too engaged though as often like to sit around and chat, remember who is paying for that chat.

It is vitally important that you have an agreed date that the project needs to be completed by. This ensures that the work will get done as soon as possible, reducing the amount of disruption in your home and office. If not you could find your home office world upside down until the contractor decides he is ready to finish your job. This costs your sanity and money as you cannot fulfill your simple daily work tasks.

Create one “sane” place to go in your home through the renovating process. An untouched area in your home. This will be your escape space! When you feel you can’t cope with the mess any longer you can go to this place and regain some sanity.

Children’s room 

Fun Ideas for Decorating with Children

Use these children’s decoration tips to get your kids involved in decorating their own bedroom. It doesn’t have to cost lots of money, just get creative.

A great way to teach your kids recycling and have fun is to collect old cards, pictures of things your child likes from magazines, photos of family, friends etc and artwork that they have created. Paste them onto an A3 piece of card. Laminate it and then you can use it as a table place mat for meal times, it is easy to clean and makes meal time interesting. (They make great gifts for family and for your kid’s friends too).

You can also use cards to place into small picture frames for wall decoration for your child’s room. They can be updated frequently and you child gets to have a say in the decorating of their room. They add color and texture to the room, and are great way to make a space your own if you have a rental property.

Paranoia steals into my thinking when I think of my daughter’s fear of spiders, and some children are afraid of bugs finding them when they are sleeping. To help them get over this fear which can be very strong and frightening for them, try installing a mosquito net over their bed. This should stop any creepy crawlies as well as creating a decorative look for the bedroom.

Furniture is a great way to decorate a child’s room, you can paint existing furniture in fun colors or simply make your drawers look more fun by changing the knobs. You can use wooden toy animals, plastic flowers, or paint the existing knobs to look like lady bugs, a pig or mouse’s nose. Get creative. You can also purchase very creative children’s furniture knobs at most design stores for a reasonable cost, and the kid’s love picking out which ones they like. My daughter has different designed knobs on all her drawers and that is how we remember what is in her drawers, for example her hats and tights are in the love heart drawer, her singlets in the little girl drawer, her t shirts in the little boy drawer and so on! I am trying to teach her how to find things and put them away. Who says decoration is only for aesthetic reasons?

Children’s taste in color matures just like our own, as they get older, they often like to have some input in how their personal space looks and feels.This can be done simply if you already have painted furniture. You can paint the walls and the furniture to match the color that your child is happy being in at that point of time.

children bed with study desk

Some people don’t have the luxury of a designated play area in their home for their children to mess up and close the door. This makes sharing spaces with children, adults and toys a problem, they get stood on and broken and look untidy. To be able to overcome this and share your living space, use a large timber trunk and store the toys and books in there. When your children have finished playing, load everything back in and you have your “adult” space returned and a decorative trunk that fits in perfectly with your design scheme, you can even use it as a coffee table.

If you rent a house and are unable to make permanent changes to your surroundings then use novelty cushions as a fun way to add color to your child’s environment.

permanent wall paper decoration

This was the best idea I ever had. I made a pin board from cork tiles and painted it, hung it on my daughter’s wall and we now have a space to display the endless supply of drawings, certificates, paintings and photos that she collects. It adds color and personalizes the room, filling it with all the things that they love, and can be changed frequently.

To make the ceiling a better place in the room, hang mobiles, or stick on place night glow stars and moons. We often have every thing at small child’s level and forget about the ceiling, and as they roll around a lot on the floor and are constantly staring at the ceiling when they are trying to get to sleep it does make sense to decorate it.

For some casual fun use bean bags – now available in exhaustive designs from soccer balls to cuddly toys with arms, or make large floor cushions. These are an easy way to introduce color and texture as well as being useful places to rest or read, or make huts out of!

Children’s room can often be small and they always have so many things to store, so ensure that you use every bit if space in their room available. Under the bed is a great place to have roll-away storage containers for toys, or this space can be used for a trundler bed for visiting friends. This keeps the room open and is a good use of space.

Bedroom Design Ideas and Interior Decorating Information

This web site is dedicated to providing free interior design education about bedroom design.

Find out about bedroom design and decoration, the different styles of bedrooms and some interior designer critiques, this always gets you thinking and helps improve your interior design skills.

Get down to the nitty gritty of the bedroom and learn about the types of sheets and pillowsavailable.

Most young and enthusiastic designers want tolearn how to make romantic bedrooms, try making a canopy bed or pick up some tips on romantic bedrooms. The four poster bed is quite a favorite of the romantic, see how this guest room stacks up for romance, or perhaps you have bolder ideas and the red walled room with zebra skins is more to your taste!

Bedroom Design and Decoration

The sophisticated have turned to the humble feature wall in recent years to add a little splash of color to your room and make them more vibrant and interesting, this example is subtle and works well for a modern sleeping space. Get bedroom decoration ideas for kids.

Skills Required for Bedroom Designers

Mirrors are a great way to add depth to a room, enhance the decoration, add more natural light to a space and generally improve the aesthetics, apart from the obvious, being able to see yourself in it. Learn more about how mirrors can change the space.

Tablescapes are something that we all do without knowing it, create little groupings of things on a table, get some ideas on how to to make a decorative tablescape work well.

Pictures are a simple way to decorate. The selection of a single picture can create the theme or mood of a room, learn how to hang pictures and how to group them successfully.

If you are having difficulties choosing the right size bed for you, I have an opinion on this from personal experience. Read about queen, king or super king size beds.

Curtains and blinds are a necessity for bedrooms, get ideas and see what types of curtain work best.

Living Rooms, Designing and Decorating

The living room, lounge or originally the drawing room is the area we withdraw to relax, read a book, watch TV or a movie, listen to music, entertain or be entertained in. It’s interesting that the room can have a single function or many as open plan living came into being or fashion with the influence of architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and le Corbusier. So you can see why there is so much to consider when you choose to design your living room. There are multiple spaces within one space that need to be designed. The flow from room to room or space to space soon incorporated many differing functions into one space. When designing a living room there is no right or wrong way to go about it but each design and decision must be justified with well thought out practicality and argument about its proposed uses and functions otherwise the design is usually ridiculed.

  

Living Rooms Today

Living rooms in today’s modern world may also have many functions or be limited to just a few and we often see homes with two living areas. One for the family and the other for “formal entertainment” or socializing. Not everyone advocates open plan living and there are many examples of the spaces divided into separate rooms. In fact with modern day living the need for separate media rooms, studies and dining areas has become more and more prevalent and there seems to be a trend to have the main living rooms and dining rooms connected but separated by movable walls and large opening doors.

Family Living Rooms

The family living room has to cater for all those using it. This not only includes the adult family members but also children and pre-schoolers and more often than not is attached to the kitchen where the parent may be working. Considering this, site lines and storage also need to be considered as well as the different methods or techniques employed to define the areas.

Decorating Living Rooms

More often than not, the television becomes the focal point of the living room. This is great if you spend all your time watching TV, but not so good if you want to make your living room multi functional. Some people have the luxury of having a family room, here they keep the television and leave the living room for more formal occasions and entertaining. Whatever the case, the living room is often the room in which people judge our design taste.

So the living room should portray you and your family’s personality, what you are interested in, your collections, your artwork, your travels, all the things that make your living room feel like home and comfortable to you. It should house all the things that you love to have around you. Not things that you think you should have because they are in fashion or the style of the moment.