Living rooms are central to any home and they have to be well decorated for people to feel welcoming and the homeowners to feel confident of their house. Living room decoration has become a necessity and living room decoration ideas are rampant. There are leading interior decorators in Chennai for living room decoration and D5 Design Factory is one of the frontrunners. Nowadays the fact is that we have more and more homes where the living room or the family room will be smaller. This is quite challenging since smaller rooms have to be made to look bigger in space. There are many visual clues to make a living room look roomier, warmer and welcoming, here are a few tips for that.

1. LIVING ROOM
DECORATING
IDEAS
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2.  Living rooms are central to any home and they have to be
well decorated for people to feel welcoming and the
homeowners to feel confident of their house. Living room
decoration has become a necessity and living room
decoration ideas are rampant. There are leading interior
decorators in Chennai for living room decoration and D5
Design Factory is one of the frontrunners.

3.  Nowadays the fact is that we have more and more homes
where the living room or the family room will be smaller. This
is quite challenging since smaller rooms have to be made to
look bigger in space. There are many visual clues to make a
living room look roomier, warmer and welcoming, here are a
few tips for that.

4. 10 TIPS FOR LIVING ROOM
DECORATION
1. Light furniture with simple lines
 Instead of using dark furniture try to use furniture in lighter
shades. The lighter furniture if they have prominent legs will add to
the advantage. The advantage is that the eyes will have a complete
view of the floor and hence the feel will be that of a larger room, but
darker furniture will give a heavy feel and the room will look much
smaller. If the center table and the end tables are in glass and metal it
will not obstruct the eyes and so will make the room look larger.

5. LIGHTER COLOUR SCHEME
 Try to use neutral colours and lighter hues of blue and green to open
up the space in a living room. These cooler colours recede and thus give
the impression of a much larger room. If the room is really small a
palette of just three colours will give it the spacious look. To balance all
these pastel shades we can use darker accent rugs and cushions on the
furniture. Even lighter floor colour will help in visually enlarging the
room.

6. USE SOME MIRRORS
 We all know that mirrors can make a small room appear
bigger and we have wall to wall mirrors in showrooms and
certain upscale interiors which visually give the room depth
and spaciousness. The mirrors work best because they reflect
light. Take care to have only the proper walls or objects
reflected.

7. EMPHASIZE ON VERTICAL
LINES
 Every room has a vertical axis which is more often
forgotten in your rush to populate the room horizontally. Try
to get the eye moving upwards from the furniture with objects
like tall lampshades, vertical paintings, and full length drapes
and stacked up art objects.

8. MATCH THE SCALE OF
THE ROOM
 Try to understand the scale of your room and match your
furniture to it. Buy furniture that is smaller in scale for smaller
rooms but avoid clutter. Use of armless chairs, small sectional
sofas and furniture that matches the room size will help. Take
care not to overdo this and cause a clutter.

9. CHOOSE MULTIPURPOSE
FURNITURE.
 Use furniture like ottomans, sectional sofas and long centre
tables with storage. Let the seating, the side tables and the
even sectional have storage spaces for your knick knacks and
for hiding the things that lie haphazardly in the room.

10. OPEN STORAGE SHELVES
 Incorporate lots of built-in storage spaces in lighter colours.
These storage spaces not only enhance the appeal of the room
but give it a sort of roominess with its open display of
artefacts and books in various shapes and sizes.

11. HARMONIZE WITH LARGE
PIECES
 If at all you have to retain larger furniture make sure the eye
does not stick to it. If there is a large sectional sofa then
harmonize it by painting the wall in lighter shade of the sofa
colour and use some accents on the wall to offset the
plainness.

12. TAKE CONTROL OF
CLUTTER
 There may be so many objects which you need in a room be it a
living room or a family room. These things can be stored in the
room using some end baskets, the center table with lower storage or
book shelves with closed cabinets in-between. In this way you open
up spaces and at the same time you control the clutter by stashing off
everyday things.

13. LAYER YOUR LIGHTING
 What adds the roominess and appeal of the room is
definitely the lighting. Try to layer your lighting. First of all
have natural light streaming into the room through lighter
windows or larger bay windows.
 Use drapes on these windows that can be pulled back to
light up the room.

14. LAY ER YOUR LIGHTING - CON
 . At night when natural light is absent use ceiling lights that can be
dimmed, to light up darker corners use floor lamps and scones on the
walls.
 The lighting can include table lamps strategically placed to give the
room a well lighted and larger appearance.

15. LAYER YOUR LIGHTING- CON
 The interior decorating ideas given above is not specific
to small rooms but can be easily adapted for rooms of any size
and still go to enhance the qualities of the room.