Live in your living room
Is your living room a place for show, only used if you are entertaining? Living room, as its name suggests is encouraged to not only reflect who you are to the outside world, but should they lived in. Here are some suggestions for making your living room warm and inviting for Guests as well as functional and comfortable for family members.
If your living room is large, divide it into smaller areas through the positioning of the Furniture. You want a "conversation pit" to cozy – a couch and chair and a few chairs around a large cocktail table will seat many people, but they will listen to all be in a position to say what the others. A good place for family gatherings and for entertaining. Make sure all the seats are within reach a table – somewhere to lay down those drinks and chips!
Face the couch at an architectural focal point, like a fireplace or a large window that looks to your garden or the lights of the city. If you do not have an architectural element for the work, make a by hanging large pictures or a mural on a wall. This allows people who admire the art and it is safer than hanging anything heavy right above the seats (especially in areas the frequency of earthquakes!). Hang cloth wall hangings or small pictures on the wall behind the couch. Not, however, hangs a mirror, her reflection where people can see the whole Time. Not everyone is enthusiastic about his image.
If your living room into two or three seats and / or dining area to use rugs to define the conversation grouping, another under the dining table, and another to set off a place to the Buddha brought from Thailand or show you a wall of bookshelves, that not only keep your books, but also display your collection of antique toys and Bennington pottery. Rugs work well over waxed wood floors and neutral wall-to-wall Berber-style carpeting.
A decorative room dividers, such as shoji screens, can be used to separate a large room in a living room and TV room. In a smaller place, face the couch to a wall unit that holds the television – it is certainly a favorite meeting place for the family now.
The days for "good" living room Furniture with plastic are over! New leather or microfiber fabrics are easy to clean, great looking, and can survive the guests, children and pets. If the furniture is in neutral colors, add colorful decorative pillows. Remember a couple of blankets to stay cool nights cozy throw.
If your living room Walls are painted in light, neutral colors, you will be able to change the furniture and decorative elements, easy. Other options for the look of your living room will change sufficiently by the addition of tall plants or silk tree, a permanent flower arrangement in a basket or tall vase, or even a fountain and small pond in a large room.
Forget about not lighting! Floor lamps, especially in dark corners, can brighten up large areas while table lamps good lighting for your favorite reading / knitting to make chair. An arrangement of candles on the mantel or a table created ambience in your living room. Now go ahead, live in your living room!
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PARVATI MARKUS is a writer/editor with a Masters in Creative Writing from Antioch. She works with The Kabbalah Centre and freelances on non-fiction books and articles. As a recent arrival in L.A. Parvati is completing her “residency requirement” by writing a screenplay.
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