Deciding the Focal Points of Your Living Room point 1

When you decorate your living room, consider your furniture and its layout. ‘Where can we put this?’ is not a good starting point for furnishing a room. Instead, begin by deciding which part of the room you want to make into the focal point. If you have a fireplace, for example, this would most naturally form the focus for your seating arrangements. Or you may have a fine view from large windows that you like to look at. If your living room is a large space, there could be an opportunity for you to have two seating areas one for relaxing in, grouped around a low coffee table, for example, and the other for watching television.

Living rooms provide the most scope for stunning curtain treatments, and if you have a featureless room with modern windows, curtain effects are a good way of adding the kind of decorative detail that is usually supplied by architecture. However, there are many factors to be taken into account before deciding on the final shape and fabric of the curtains such as how much natural light you want or whether there is a strong architectural or decorative style in the room that needs a complementary curtain treatment.

A low ceiling, for example, makes an elaborate pelmet treatment difficult to carry off, and a dark room will be made even gloomier with thick, heavy curtains hanging sumptuously over a small window area. Conversely, a too low window can be made to seem higher with a tall pelmet, or a narrow window can look wider with a lavish curtain treatment taken across the wall on either side.

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One Response to Deciding the Focal Points of Your Living Room point 1

  1. ParcdoXa says:

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    And according to this article, I totally agree with your opinion, but only this time! :)

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