Whether your living room is a 21 foot length with a giant picture window at one finish or you live in a tiny apartment and the lounge is bijou to say the least, there are living room decor ideas to suit you and your budget. You can go for cozy stylish and warm up your living space or go for open-plan with vaulted ceilings and an expanse of herringbone hardwood floor. Are you aiming for a calm retreat, filled with serenity and harmony or a more user-friendly, basic living space where you feel comfortable slipping your shoes off and putting your feet up.

If I was one time choosing a color technique for my living room I would go to the cooler colors on my color wheel chart – the blues and greens which can be used in different shades to accomplish a ‘joined-up’ look of cold elegance. I always make definite that, when I paint my ceiling, I use a light shade of the room’s main color on my ceiling so, if my color technique was blue, I would use the lightest eggshell blue I could find for my ceiling and then a slightly deeper shade of blue for my walls. In the event you have moldings you could paint those white, or go for a darker shade of blue to both the walls and the ceiling. I would use Matt paint on my walls and paint with some kind of sheen on the moldings.

For windows, to add height, place the curtain pole as high as feasible close to the ceiling. This will give your curtains lots of drops to accomplish an elegant drape. Modern decor arrangements always recommend that the fabric ought to be allowed to pool on the floor – seldom in my house. Alter styles to suit you and your lifestyle.

You would think, would not you that a giant picture placed on the wall in a tiny room would be overpowering. I have the tiniest lounge you can imagine and, on the wall above the hearth I have a very giant picture of the Defense of Rourke’s Drift, depicting the British soldiers of ‘B’ Company, South Wales Borders