How to Decorate a Living Room

Your living room is the most important part of your home, where you can relax and spend more time with your family and your friends. A well-decorated living room makes you and your family more comfortable in front of guests. One can make any number of changes in their living space with walls and flooring, however, there is nothing like a well done up living space. There are three main important ways to decorate and make your living room more beautiful and appealing.

1) Modern Techniques for decorating your room:

A- Hang a Painting-: You can select beautiful painting’s for hanging on your wall which is a best option to decorate your living room. You can also choose a canvas painting or something that is an accent type painting like war of kings or something related to nature according to your taste and lifestyle.

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B- Display your favorite photographs-: You can also use your favorite photographs and best memories photographs, family photographs to decorate your living room. You can also go for a standard route by hanging small photographs of loved one’s on your wall, or you can make the space even more interesting by hanging a large photograph and centering it above sofa. You can select posters, calendars or a greeting cards with nice designs and fix these objects to the back of a frame but for calendar you can’t use frame since it will be difficult to flip the pages.

 C- Use hanging bell and mirror photograph -: You can use more small mirrors on your wall close to a window for observing light and reflecting around your living room. For mirrors you can select the same in different shapes like round, rectangle or in diamond shape. You can also use hanging bells inside your door and can use bell-jar hanging lantern in center of ceiling.

2)  Essential elements for decorating your living room-:

There are so many options for making your living room more attractive and beautiful.

A- Use neutral colors for wall and select furniture for your living room-: The wall color scheme should consist of neutral colors like beige, white, black etc. First you decide that what kind of furniture to use for living room in terms of size and color, and also determine how people use your living room and then decide the type of furniture accordingly.

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B- You can use soothing green color for your wall and the furniture and pillows etc in yellow and orange, this color scheme creates a warm environment.

3)  Use Handmade Carpets or Rugs-: 

Carpet is the best and a classic option for decorating your room. Carpets also absorb sound waves inside the room and make the area softer and comfortable surface for those who want to sit, walk and also lay on the surface. This is a very integral part for home decorating. This is also very important for babies and pets in winter.  Carpets also protect a space from dust. This is the best way to make your living room more beautiful and different from other peoples home.  A Beautiful Handmade carpet can increase the overall beauty of your home and can give an amazing look to your home.

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Medallion rugs versus All Over Pattern rugs

Choosing a rug design can be quite cumbersome. In today’s fast paced world, picking a rug for your space should be the least of one’s problems. However, it is important to know what kind of carpet would one want to pick to adorn his or her living space. A traditional rug can be usually be categorized in two types. On one hand, there are rugs with a medallion in the center of the piece that is generally a large floral pattern.  On the other hand, there are other types of pieces that have an all over floral or geometrical pattern. There are various factors to consider as deciding what kind of rug should one go in for.

Medallion Rug:

A medallion is also know as the centerpiece of the rug and is a big motif design pattern placed right in the center of the rug. When choosing a rug with a medallion pattern, it is highly recommended not to place a table on top of it. Placing any piece of furniture right in the center of the carpet not only covers or hides the medallion design but also ruins the whole look of the room.

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It is best to place furniture like a table, a decorative piece etc. on the sides or corners of the rug. This way the middle design is visible and the look of the entire room is also enhanced.  Some experts are of the notion that the medallion designs stems from religious nature of the craftsman or weavers. It seems that their inspiration probably came from domes of the mosques or its artwork.

All over Pattern Rugs

All over Pattern rugs are those types of carpets that do not have a medallion in the center of the piece. Such rugs have an all over running pattern and can either be geometrical or floral. These rugs are formed by repetition of the same motif. The design is woven by nomadic weavers and the motif of a carpet can be used to determine the particular tribe, or place of origin.

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Experts highly suggest placing a piece of furniture when placing a rug with an all over pattern and without a medallion. Placement of such furniture or decorative items in the center of the rug, break the monotony of the running design pattern of the rug and also create more room to place other items on the four corners around it. In such rugs, all parts of pattern are interconnected and usually drawn without the designer’s hand being lifted.

Hence, though it is an individualistic choice to pick a rug with or without a medallion, it is highly suggested to choose one according to the look of the room and place the furniture accordingly.