The heart of a home is the living room. Many activities such as watching a film, reading a book, hosting guests, or resting, having one’s own time or even sleeping are done in a living room. In crowded families, living rooms are almost like a city center…
In homes with a single person or a small family, these areas are rather centers of activity or to spend time together. Crowded or not, what makes a home is the living room which lives and breathes 24/7. Everyone takes special care of these living centers which gives a home its identity, which everyone rightfully should.Because while the decoration of the space, which we look at, live in and share our enjoyable moments in should be brilliant and elegant, all parts or areas of it must have a functionality of its own.
We need to tell you outright that one should avoid definite judgments in this regard, and that the criteria for living room decoration must be your own taste. However, every suggestion and every new idea brings another idea, leading to much more genuine ideas and discoveries. So we wanted to help you trigger your decoration ideas and make it easier for you while you are looking for that refreshing touch you so desire for your living room, by giving you some clues and approaches.
Living Spaces
Content
• Living Spaces
• Define Your Target
• Define Your Central Point
• Use of Light
• Choosing Colors
• A Special Touch
If you take a living room as the center of your home, you can accept your seats or couches as the center of your living room. The choices you’ll make here are so important that they’ll define the future of your living room.
If you like mobility and get bored of always sitting at the same spot in your home, you should definitely choose your seats accordingly and create different sections in your living room. Creating a seating arrangement that opposes your personal traits can be bothersome. An overly comfortable armchair can bother a dynamic and energetic person after a while.
Are you one of those people who like to sit in an armchair and eat while watching TV? Do you host your guests in your salon? Do you share your home with a furry friend? Do you have children? Every one of your answers to these questions are critical since your choice of armchair depends on them. While choosing an armchair or couch, it is good to ask yourself what you will use it for. The answer will take you to the right choice. In addition, when buying your armchair, it’s good to try it by sitting, laying and lying down on it. After your armchair selection, you can choose the rest of the living room elements.
Define Your Target
The moment you decide to refresh your living room, you can mostly start defining your focus point and target Now you know what kind of seats you will get, so you will choose the rest based on this. This workflow will make it much easier for you. At this point, you will find decoration sites or a simple Google search very helpful.
What kind of an environment would you like to create? Even just taking a look at photographs showing rooms that are similar to the one you want to create will bring you your work plan. Choosing what to get and what to let go of and acting with a plan will save you a great deal of time.
Define Your Central Point
There can be a few central points in your living room. The place you spend your most time, what should it look like? What do you want to grab your guests’ attention? Those paintings you can’t keep your eyes off, or those flowerpots, where should they be located? Where will you get fresh air when you are bored of sitting? Why not a sweet bergère by the window? Questions like this will define the central points in your home, and let you focus on the small details within the big picture.
Use of Light
The direction and amount of natural light will guide you in terms of what kind of lighting would fit your living room. Light is the most important element that defines the atmosphere in your salon. If you are a book person you can prefer an elegant, decorative and focal reading light which you can control, rather than a general illumination solution. If your dining table is in the salon you can use lamps to crate a strong atmosphere around it. If you have various figures, frames or paintings on your walls you can consider using LED lamps to illuminate them, just like in picture galleries.
Adding decorative lights to your room is a good option too, but using lights only for decoration will create an unnecessarily crowded appearance in your living center. Therefore we need to be very careful with this option.
Sometimes even a cold environment can turn into a warm space with the correct lighting. This is the collaborative success between light and the correct colors. Therefore the colors we use in our homes, as much as natural light, can define our lighting choices.
Now to color selection.
Choosing Colors
You may not attach much importance to the colors of some rooms, but you definitely need to mind and pay some attention to the color of your living room. You can either decide on the color you like at the beginning and then choose all of your furniture according to it, or get your furniture first and then decide the color. The choice is yours here. Still, before making this decision it’s good to check the colors of fixed elements in the room, such as windows.
There should not be more than six colors in a room.
Your house may already be painted and the paint might not bother you. That way your work is much easier. We have a rule which you should never forget. If you remember this rule in every step you take, your work will be much easier and you can filter your options. The most idealized version of this rule is that three of these six colors should be taken from the same color palette, and two from auxiliary colors.
Different colors may sound nice at first, but they wear your eyes down over time. You should avoid chaos and choose tones which instill the feelings of comfort.
A Special Touch
Even if catalogs and magazines can help you, you have decorated this room yourself and everything is completely up to your decisions. You can create a more unique collaboration out of this, to have your own signature in your salon. A figurine/figure of a superhero which you loved when you were a child, cheery beanbag chairs, paintings, ornaments, candles or a five o’clock tea corner…
You don’t have to do all of these things. For instance you may as well like a minimalist home. For your salon, which will feature your essentials only, you can use voluminous and beautiful candles. Even a little touch can change your atmosphere in your salon in an instant.
In all of these decisions, the only think to look out for is the main colors of your room. Because you’ve done so much thinking about them. You should go for complementing this nice harmony. Every little touch of yours will turn into major elements which complement this harmony, and every one of them will bear your unique signature.
