LIVING ROOM

        Appearance of the living room reflects the status, way of living , mental stability of the family and creates an good or bad impression on you. 

Living Room Interior Flooring

        Living room flooring also creates an impression for the person who owns the house. There is a wide range of flooring available depending on the size of the house, the type of furniture, budget and one's personal liking. Let's share some of the types of flooring available in the market to provide you a detailed view before you wish to purchase one. Options available in the market are:-

• Hardwood Flooring: - It remains in the style always and looks elegant. If your furniture is made up of wood then it will enhance the beauty of the living room. Creativity in the living room hardwood flooring is endless as there are many stains you can select for your living room. Wood has a long life and in general your hard wood can last up to 50 years or more depending on your maintenance. You can always polish and wax your living room floor to restore its original beauty.
• Tile Flooring: - It is the fastest selling type of flooring but one might think about the reason to opt for tile flooring for the living room. One of the answers could be the rise of temperature due to global warming. It provides a cool alternate which you can have for living room plus it comes in great designs. Generally tiles are used in the kitchens and bathrooms where there is great moisture and change in temperature.
• Vinyl Flooring: - It's hard to distinguish between the vinyl and ceramic or from its other cheap counterparts. Vinyl is very resilient, inexpensive and good on feet. It gives a warm feeling and the tiles can be used on literally any type of floor. Living room vinyl flooring comes generally in 1feet by 1 feet size, just in case if it gets damaged one can remove the damaged tile and replace it with the new one without notable effect. It can be regularly cleaned mop or sweep and has an average life of 20 years.

Living Room Interior Furniture
        Living room furniture comes in a many options like wood, plastic and metal (aluminum and steel). After selecting your living room furniture, you can opt for best upholstery as it provides you a comfortable and warm feeling. A good choice of fabric used will steal the look of the furniture to new dimensions. One can always experiment new things with the type of furniture and fabric used.

• While placing your furniture, make sure you have a good access to all the rooms and avoid cluttering. Cluttering can be fatal for elegant look of the living room. Make sure you have the required and selected number of furniture in your living room.
• Sofas cushions are the tricky ones to pick from a variety available in the market. but don't get wiped away in them. If you have small living room you can go for for 2 seated sofas instead of a 3 to 4 seated sofas. The sofa upholstery also plays a major role as you can choose from a fabric, leather or synthetic leather.
• Select a pleasing natural fabric with colors matching or contrasting to the color of the wall. The pillow with a opposite color will do well with your wall and sofa.The natural look of the fabric will enhance the beauty of the sofa. Your sofa color also gives the theme color to your living room. Leather living room furniture always provides an elegant and royal look.
• With a living room furniture sofa, a creative center table makes an excellent combination. Try choosing something with glass top and some interesting wooden base. Example of such a combination can be like the side tables which are made of oak wood with round, oval or square shape.

Living Room Lighting Designs

       Living room lighting is where you can use your imagination to the maximum. You can use a variety of ideas to give a different look to the different corners of the living room. The living room can get a complete makeover if one uses the right choice of the lights. A room can look big or small or can give you a tall feeling by using different type of lights. Make the best use of the natural light in the day time. One should make sure that he creates a homely atmosphere by using good living room lighting fixtures as over lighting may spoil the pleasing look of the living room.

You may consider following factors after the selection of lighting fixtures of the living room:-

• Always use an energy efficient lamp as this would help you save a lot on your monthly electricity bills. These devices are atmosphere friendly and provide the same amount of light as our other bulbs and tube lights.
• From the day one of the construction of your home, you should keep a place for the living room lighting fixtures as this would play a major role in finalizing your living room. If any time any of the lighting fixtures gets into non working mode, you can immediately change the defected piece. All the replacement can be done by your own and would not require any professional electrician.
• Lighting determines the temperature of room your to some extent. For example if an indirect source of lighting is thrown on the ceiling, it will enable spreading of the light and will also keep the heating effect limited to the roof only. This small activity will help you keep your room cool in summers. LED's also provide a better alternate to it as it consumes less power and comes in many color's.
• Living room ceiling lighting helps in providing a great change to the proportions of the living room. Installation of small things to the living room can always make a huge difference. If anyone wishes to make his small living room look big and vice -versa. We recommend you to install the lighting fixtures on the wall and change the direction of the fixture towards the ceiling. If you use end to end lighting this would make the living room appear longer.
• Highlighting the things in your living room is an important task. You can put a small lamp on the painting to seek attention of your guests.
• Planting inside a living room can be a passion for someone and some consider this a mess. To the plant lovers we recommend to put a floor lamp behind the plants that would provide an exotic look.
• Controlling the lighting system from a central board or with the help of individual dimmers would depend on one's choice. The designing of the living room entirely depends on an individual's imagination and the amount of experimentation one wishes to add.

Living Room Furnishings Ideas

       Furnishing a living room can be a tricky situation for those, who have little knowledge about the various modular designs and style available in the market. Living room is a place where entertain your friends and relatives, hence it should be created with a feeling of acceptance. Living room furnishings involves many aspects like art, paintings, wood work, glassware, linen, decorative cushions, ornamental work, runners, handcrafts and many other types of work that allow you to even personalize available space as per your needs. Living room interior furnishing can be done in number of ways using different ideas and one's own customized ideas as well.

       If you have a dark room, you will have to provide extra attention so that it looks more warm and attractive. You can also decide to paint all the walls with a different colour than from what is featured in your living room furniture styles. Another thing that might help you furnishing a dark living room is to include wall mirrors in the living room furniture selection. This would entirely depend on the type and colour of furniture selected by you.

       Living room furnishings include little details & some soft furnishings in the form of carpets, rugs and accessories such as art-work, paintings, glass-work, ceramics and much more. There is direct & indirect type of lighting which is used for different spots in the living area. A living room furnish may involve paintings, runners, carpets, chandeliers or hanging lamps, rugs and silverware.

Let us highlight some of the living room furnishing ideas:-

• Furniture selection: - Once you know about the functioning of the room, now you can start working on the decoration of the room. Moreover, there are a lot of really wonderful pieces out on the market these days with a wide range. If you an entertainment lover, consider going with groupings of furniture or such pieces that can be easily moved around the room. In short, go for mobility of the furniture. 

• Use color intelligently: - The right colours for your room can really add life to it. Choose such wall colours that will complement your furnishings. Use accent colours for your accessories to be used inside the room. Any how it should provide a nice combination with the colour scheme.
  

• Make it shine: - A wonderful way to add some space to your living room is to provide reflective surfaces for tables, fixtures and lighting. A lamp with a glossy shade can make the room look bigger than its actual size. You may experiment a little if you wish to as who knows it might lead to a better creative idea. 

• Locate large pieces: - The sofa and other large furniture should be arranged first. After considering the function of the room try to arrange the things accordingly. Large pieces mean heavy pieces, therefore, we recommend you to make a blue print of the pieces with exact measurements and then purchase them. This process would save ample amount of your time and energy.