100 Modern Living Room Design Ideas 2023 TV Wall Decorating Ideas| Home Interior Design Ideas P2

Hello everyone and welcome to DecorPuzzle. Today we'll be learning all about living room design. Want to get your living room design right first time? Knowing how to design a living room can be a challenge if you're starting with an empty room. Perhaps you've just moved into a new house, or you're doing a thorough renovation. In this guide, we take you through everything from paint, to layouts, to floorings, so that you can make the right choices. Whatever the size of your living room, whatever its shape, and whatever its orientation, there's always a creative way to design or decorate it. Where to place the furniture? So the first step of learning how to design a living room is the layout. It might be that you have a small living room, with little flexibility for your furniture positions, but there's no denying that most of us, whatever the size of our spaces, work our living room design around one thing, the TV. While turning your living room into a home cinema room may be great for Friday nights, it's not always the most efficient and certainly not always the most attractive way to arrange your furniture. If you have the space, and particularly in through living rooms, arrange furniture to create purposeful zones. Sure, have a sofa that's just for TV worshippers, but also create a defined reading space by putting an armchair next to a window or table lamp. Assign a dedicated workspace to a corner with a console table, desk or home office hidden in a cupboard. Or separate a children's play space from the rest of the room with open shelving. Consider what you need in your living room design as well, and what you can live without. At the very least, you'll need enough seating, side and or coffee tables, a TV unit, storage for everything from gaming equipment to toys and books, and if this is starting to overload the room, think about what can go elsewhere. Here's a tip. If you really don't know where to start with your living room layout, use a tape measure to size up the room. From that, you can sketch out a floor plan, and draw up a few different ways your furniture could fit into the room. Decide on a living room style. Once you've planned your living room furniture design placement, you can move on to the fun stuff, choosing the style of your living room. It's where you'll spend much of your time, in the evenings if you don't have kids, and from the afternoon onwards if you do. So while the style of your living room design will be largely dedicated by the age of your property, its inherent architectural feature and the style of the rest of your rooms or existing living room furniture has got to suit your lifestyle too. In other words, if your house is full of kids, choosing a living room filled with ornate antiques probably isn't practical, and a modern living room style might be more your scene. Make notes of living room designs that you like, and you'll soon notice themes occurring, which will be a good base for your room scheme. And while you might be tempted to stick to one style, don't be afraid to mix and match. Doing so will create a less constructed, more relaxed feel. And after all, it's the room you unwind in at night, so it should be a true expression of your taste. Pick a color scheme for your living room. Think about its size and the height of its ceiling when you're making this decision. It may be interior design 101, but if you're looking for design ideas for small living rooms to make yours look larger and brighter, you will need to opt for lighter colors. But if you only use your living room in the evening, maybe you'd rather it felt cozy and intimate with darker colors. If you're blessed with a larger living room, you can be more adventurous with color. Try experimenting with a darker decorating palette. Add a striking feature wall, or get creative with bold paint colors. Bear in mind too that the natural light your living room receives should affect your color choice. North and east facing living room color schemes suit rooms that get cooler light. So warmer shades of all colors, including anything from white to blue to gray, will make them feel more welcoming. Equally, south and west facing rooms will get lots of sunlight. So you may want to choose cooler colors to keep them feeling restful. Wallpaper or paint for your living room design. Whether you choose a wallpaper or paint colors for your living room is largely down to taste. But here's what you need to know. Larger walls defined by a wallpaper when one wall matched into a paint color of the rest of the walls are somewhat out of fashion. Love the idea? Put the wallpaper on a more unexpected wall. Behind the sofa perhaps, instead of the chimney breast. Large prints will overwhelm small living rooms if on all four walls. Only consider them if one wall is taken up by a large window or French doors to provide relief. Otherwise, go for a subtle design. Small prints look more traditional than contemporary ones and suit small spaces or country cottage living rooms. You can use wallpaper patterns to exaggerate your room's proportions. A subtle vertical stripe can make a room feel taller. Horizontal stripes make it feel wider, for example. Paint can be used for color blocking to create interest and is a cheaper, easier to update option for living room walls. How to choose practical living room flooring. Your living room flooring suffers a lot of use and abuse, so choosing the best is key. A carpet may look lovely to begin with, but light colors should be avoided in favor of darker shades, contemporary patterns, or a low-pile, stain-resistant carpet. Either way, it's worth knowing how to clean carpet before you have yours laid. Hard flooring, such as sisal, is another option, but these can be tricky to maintain. So opt for a rug in these materials over hard floor. Alternatively, go for hard-wearing wood or laminate flooring. You can always add coziness and comfort with a living room rug. And for you apartment dwellers, if you don't live on the ground floor, consider adding a really thick underlay beneath your living room flooring. That way, you can minimize the chance of a neighbor banging on your door if you're partying. Pet owners might want to consider a carpet that is going to disguise pet hair. Otherwise, invest in a vacuum cleaner, specifically for pet hair. Choose the best living room furniture. Moving on to choosing the best living room furniture designs, this is probably going to be the most pricey aspect of your living room design. So really think about what you do and don't need. Which may mean giving up on your coffee table as anything other than a footrest and replacing it with an ottoman that can be used as extra seating instead. Start with the basics and assess what furniture your living room really can't do without, and how you might make it more versatile with hidden storage for example. Also think about how durable each piece needs to be, and what's worth investing in. Soft furnishings get the most wear, so get the highest quality you can within your budget, or opt for removable covers that can be machine washed. And be sure to choose furniture that will stand the test of time, not just in practical sense but in style sense too. Don't go with styles, shapes, colors, or patterns that will date or that you will get tired of too quickly. If you found this video helpful, don't forget to like it, and subscribe for more ideas on how you can elevate your house. Thank you for watching, and goodbye!