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Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Pottery Barn Media Systems
I love Pottery Barn designs and the way they display and storage every little thing. Their media systems always come into my mind when I do my media room planning.
very multi-functional, classic design and most importantly, a wonderful storage without any messiness
Friday, 13 April 2012
Wednesday, 4 April 2012
Monday, 26 March 2012
Choose A Wall Colour In The Living Room
As the social center of the home, the living room plays many roles. It is a busy place where families gather and guests are entertained, a focal point for seasonal celebrations and decorations, and a quiet refuge for relaxing and reading. The wall colors for this multipurpose space should provide a flexible backdrop to this ebb and flow of activities.
Simply because of their scale, the sofa and flooring should play a major role in the choice of living room paint colors. Generally, it's best to let one of them take the lead. If the sofa plays a neutral role, choose a paint color that plays off of the room's accents. A warm neutral (Hush AF–95) picks up colors found in a natural stone fireplace and highlights reds in the carpet and pillows.
Paired with brown or softened with gray, mellowed shades of blue and green work like neutrals. Taking its cue from the kilim–inspired pillows, a cool blue (Blue Porcelain 1641), accented with crisp white trim, can show off sandy neutrals and darker woods with effortless grace.
Minimizing the contrast between trim and walls has a way of calming down a space and making it seem larger. This is put to good use in living rooms, which are prone to busyness or clutter. Instead of painting the bookcase and French doors the same soft color as the walls (Capri Coast OC–87), give them a slightly lighter shade (White Blush 0C–86) to preserve their character and keep the whole effect understated.
In a room where living moves easily from indoors to out, draw on the palette of the landscape outside to dissolve the transition and visually expand the space. With dark wood keeping a room grounded, a pale green (Etched Glass 626) creates a restful airiness throughout the space.
Pick up the natural stone colors of the hearth when choosing a paint color for living room walls.
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Choose Furniture for Living Room
Furnishing your living room with comfort and style is simple: use furniture that has good lines and bold shapes; add unique pieces and heirlooms for wit and soul.
Furnishing a living room is like filling a wardrobe with things you might wear every day. As with clothing, basics come first. When selecting main furniture pieces – sofas, chairs, armoires, and side and coffee tables – classics are always best. Start with a generously proportioned sofa, which is versatile and timeless like your favorite cashmere sweater. Add a comfortable armchair or leather club chair – the equivalent of a well-made suit. Once you have easy-to-live-with foundation pieces, you can begin to dress up your living room with details that add personality, intrigue and interest.
Proportion
When choosing living room furniture, keep the proportions of your space in mind. Oversized furniture in a small room can be overpowering and can compromise traffic flow, while pieces that are too small produce an environment where the space, rather than the people in it, dominates. Create a sense of balance by choosing furniture that is the right size, shape, and scale for the room. For example, a love seat and a small club chair are well-suited for a small living room, while a grand living room needs a sectional or two adjacent couches plus an armchair with ottoman. Play with your space and hand-picked pieces to create your perfectly balanced living room.
Harmony
Dissimilar pieces can be visually linked by grouping them closely together, or by relating them to a common line, such as along a wall or the edge of a rug. You can also arrange living room furniture in relation to a backdrop – a large painting or an archway or other architectural element. Think of groupings of furniture as islands you can occupy for different purposes: socializing, watching TV or writing letters.
Format
You can group pieces in your room symmetrically, asymmetrically, on the diagonal, or radiating out from a specific point, to create different effects. By finding core pieces that work in many orientations, you're free to reinvent the room later without entirely starting over. Shapely basics that adapt easily are the best building blocks to accomplish this. They'll see you through many years, rearrangements, and changing style trends.
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