How to Maximize the Space in Living Room

The most highlighted room when the guests come to visiting us is the living room in a house. Small rooms can feel confining and uncomfortable whether you live in a big place or small, clutter can make things cramped and uncomfortable. Here are some tips the can minimize the mess and bring openness to your living space.

Lighting is a key element in opening up a space. The light flow in a room makes it appear bigger and spacious. If you have access to natural light, make full use of it. Bring it into your home through windows. If we lack natural light in our living room then lamps can also bring in color and focus attention along with illuminating the space. Living room over looks all the other activities taking place in the house. It marks the centre of house thus it is already enclosed by all the rooms needing no specific wall or boundary. In this way it looks bigger and open.

Nature always seems great when is looked in a house. Full height glass panels work best. Having a large picture window can make a room seem bigger because a barrier between visitor and outside view has been removed. If the view is bad use hanging plants and potted flowers near windows. Brighter rooms look bigger and more inviting. Cream colors and icy blues are just a few of the best color combinations that can open up a tiny room into a bigger living area. It is all about illusion. Light colors make your room look bigger and brighter. Light and brightly colored walls are more reflective making a space feels open and airy, which will help to maximize the effect created by natural light. Utilize the corners which are a perfect place for additional shelving.

Stick to clean lines in the furniture .Use multi-function furniture like a chest that can be used as a coffee table, sofa beds. Use folding tables and nest of tables, which can be tucked away when you don’t need them. Place the large pieces of furniture against the walls so the open space in the middle isn’t broken up. Choose a sofa and chairs with open arms and exposed legs. A glass table will keep the appearance of a open and free space. This allows light to filter under the furniture, making the room appear airier. Mirrors also create depth in a room if placed on a focal point. Avoid over crowded walls. Don’t cove your walls with a lot of pictures. One large painting works better than a group of small paintings. ......

14 Beautiful Living Room Designs

A living room is the most important part of the house where all family members share their common interests and spend time together.So everyone want this place as a best spot in the house.Walls are one of the most important part of any space.An illusion of wider space can be created by painting walls in some cool and different way.Following are some pictures of great living room designs that we found from different sources. From these pictures we can see that artwork adds immediate sophistication and provides visual interest in the room.We hope these living room's pictures will help you develop some ideas for your living space.......

FENG SHUI BRINGS HARMONY TO YOUR HOME

Feng shui is an old Chinese practicethat can bring peace and balance to a space as well as influence the flow ofenergy. When used correctly, this tradition will help with all these things,plus, it will most likely make your room look and feel more pleasant. Smallchanges on the arrangement of the room’s furniture can improve the energyexchange and consequently, create harmony in your room and home.

It is the ancient practice of positioningoneself and one's belongings in an environment in such a way to bring goodfortune, health and well-being. 

Its' goal is to harness and balance the Chi energy (the universal life force) in your living and working environments. 

Like the positive and negative energies (yin and yang) existing in nature, every room and every home has bothpositive and negative areas. There are strengths that already exist, just asthere are weaknesses. The Feng Shui design changes that are carried out in ahouse are always meant to help enhance the weak areas and decrease Chi that istoo strong, ultimately yielding a balanced, harmonious feeling that is thecornerstone of a contented and successful life.

All the elements of a Feng Shui Living Room.

A successful room is functional, expresses your mood and exhibits a sense of harmony.

A calm, clutter free bedroom is balanced.

A traditional Living Room can be both functional and harmonious.

Even ultra modern can radiate harmony & balance.

A prosperous entry hall.

Even your home office can be situated in a harmonious position.

Even your bathroom needs balance!

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...AND THERE WAS LIGHT

An Array of Light for Every Room 

Remember yesterday's post: ambient lighting, natural light, task lighting, aesthetic lighting and accent lighting. These home lighting design ideas for each room can help you think about how you can better focus the available light in your home from room to room.

For the living room, you'll want to have enough general lighting for  a larger space. This general lighting can come from one or more mainceiling fixtures, or perhaps several indirect lighting fixtures that reflectlight down from your ceiling and provide soft illumination for the entire room.

Living rooms can also have features like a fireplace, or perhaps alarge painting on the wall. Why not install some recessed ceiling lights thatare focused on these special features to highlight and bring attention to them.  (more on yesterday's blog)

In the kitchen, sufficient lighting is an absolute must, to be able tosafely cook and prepare food. Most likely a large ceiling fixture, recessed ceiling lights or track lights perhaps. But then consider installing strip lights underneath your cabinets that will clearly light up your countertops and work areas. And perhaps, your recessed lights in the ceiling can focus even more light on your sink area and range. Generally speaking, the more specific task lighting you can have in a kitchen, the better.

 Bathrooms have their own specific lighting needs, including a recessed downlight in the ceiling over your shower or tub area. Recessed ceiling light with direct units are always good. And perhaps the most common area for lighting fixtures in a bathroom is around the mirror. Here's where you want really soft and gentle lighting that leaves no facial shadows. Very often this is accomplished with lighting on each side of the mirror that contain several small wattage bulbs. 

In the bedroom a ceiling fixture or recessed ceiling lighting is very useful for illumination of the entire room. And recessed lighting on the ceiling placed on a dimmer switch can be used very effectively to set a romantic mood. But don't forget your bedside lamps for reading, a sure necessity. And you may need task lighting at your dressing table or desk.

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LET THERE BE LIGHT

There are many types of lighting thatcan be used in various rooms of the home. 

Ambient light: A hidden source of light that washes a room with a glow. Itflattens an interior and creates very little shadow. A wall sconce is anexample of ambient lighting. 

Accent lighting: Directional lighting or lighting that adds interest orhighlights a certain object or unusual architectural feature in a room. Halogen spotlights and table lamps with opaque shades are goodways to achieve accent lighting.

Task lighting: Task lighting is just that; lighting that's used to performdaily activities such as reading, computer,cooking, shaving, putting on makeup, etc. Itneeds to be glare-free. 

Different banks of task light areuseful in the kitchen — near the stove and chopping areas are places for thistype of lighting. Task-lighting sources are never seen and any task lightshould have a reflective shield. Ambient lighting and task lighting go hand inhand. Pools of light created by several spots produce a lovely effect.

Aesthetic lighting: Lighting itself can be a work of art. A purely decorative lamp is an example of aesthetic lighting. A spotlightilluminating a statue on a pedestal or portrait on the wall is also artistic. 

Natural lighting: Sunlight, candlelight and firelight; this is light that moves andis sometimes referred to as kinetic. The quality of natural light, sunlight inparticular, depends on many things — time of day, weather, what season it is. 

There are many ways to light a room.And the room's function greatly determines the way it should be lit. Some examples:            If a room is too tall, use lowluminaries that let no light out the top to help shorten those high ceilings.

            If a room is too small, visually pushone wall open by washing it with light.

            If a room is too wide, illuminate thenarrow ends. Conversely, if a room is too narrow,

         illuminate the wide sides.   

         If a room is too tall, use low luminaries that let no light out the top to help shorten those high ceilings. 

         

Dark walls and floors reflect lesslight than light-colored ones. White walls reflect all light.

A balancing act is important in allrooms when it comes to light. Up lights, down lights and wall washers work welltogether. They make a good team in almost any room and if dimmers are addedthey can perform well in any atmosphere.

Here is an an array of options for illuminating your world:

Natural light with task lamps.

Recessed ceiling lights with dark wall.

Aesthetic lighting.

Task lighting & natural light; with recessed ceiling light for darker wall.

Very tall ceilings require additional light; but the tall windows give natural light.  

Ambient lighting to set an evening mood; with daylight from unobstructed windows.

White walls reflect light. 

This has it all: under counter lights, ceiling recessed lights, fireplace for ambience and natural light.

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