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It’s the room that
your family relaxes in and the space in which you entertain your guests — your
living room, then, should be as comfortable, appealing, and atmospheric as it
can possibly be. To ensure this is the case, especially if yours is very much
stuck in the past, it might be time for you to change the look of your living
room.
For cost-effective
advice on how to update your home’s main living area, be sure to check out the
advice below.
De-clutter
the space
If you continue to
treat your living room like a dumping ground for all of your worldly
belongings, sooner rather than later, the area will feel cramped, muddled,
smaller and, worst of all, uncomfortable. To fight this plight, you have to
resolve to de-clutter the space… and you have to be ruthless when you do
so. None of this ‘I might use it again’ when you have absolutely no intention
of using it again — if something doesn’t benefit you and your family right now,
sling it. This is the only way you are going to inject your living room with
the spaciousness it needs to transform back into the comfortable living area
you need it to be.
Let
there be light
Lighting could do
wonders for you in your bid to change the look of your living room. Preferably,
you should let as much natural light as possible rain in through your windows,
as this will make your living room appear to be much larger than it actually
is. At the very least, you should ensure that your electrics are wired up
correctly and that all the lights are working. Quite simply, nobody is going to
want to spend time in your living if they cannot see what they are doing or who
they are speaking to!
Change
your color scheme
If you wish to give
your living room’s look a complete overhaul, then you should seriously consider
changing its color scheme.
In this instance,
there can be no half measures — either go all in, or don’t go in at all. Don’t
just invest in a few matching ornaments, for example, and instead change
absolutely everything about your color scheme. Lay your floor with white oak,
such as that made available at Kensyard.co.uk, and buy white curtains and furniture that match
it. By taking this kind of action, your living room will be transformed to the
point where it will be all but unrecognizable.
Change
your seating arrangement
Changing your seating
arrangement is a simple yet effective way to change your living room’s look.
When it comes to
re-planning the layout of your seats, you must keep the focal point of the room
(which is, more than likely, your TV) in mind at all times. No matter how pretty your
new layout may be, if visitors to your home have to strain to see something or
talk to someone, it will constitute as a fail.
The next time you
feel the urge to change the look of your living room, be sure to remember all
of the above advice.