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How to create a living space that reflects your personality, provides comfort and exudes style.
How to create a living space that reflects your personality,
provides comfort and exudes style.
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The living room tends to be a hard working multi-functional space. Somewhere to chill, watch tv, impromptu office, social gatherings and more. Follow our guide on how to create a space that feels inspirational, creative and laid back.
Colour.
Restrict the Palette.
Painting out the walls, ceiling, window frames, skirting boards, door frames and even fireplaces and in one colour is a real game-changer. Choose a hue that you love, dark and dramatic or muted and earthy. A disciplined colour palette will act as brilliant backdrop to your room and allow your furniture, rugs and accessories to sing and not fight for attention, not only that but it will instantly make your space feel cooler and grander.
Paint colours to try from our collection, designed to animate your home with their earthy and wild tones.
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When deciding on your colour, just remember to test using the biggest sample that you can and see how it performs at different times of the day with the different lights.
Focal Points.
Add more than one focal point so the eye is excited and engaged wherever it looks. A statement lamp, oversized art, a supersized vase filled with botanicals or maybe a curvy cosy chair will all add a tantalising vibe and varying heights will create visual intrigue. Just remember to also ground your space with quieter, more restrained details, as too many starlets in one room will create too much drama! Stimulation is great but we also need breathing space to take stock and regain balance.
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Visual interest comes through layering different materials and textures. Whether your room embraces maximalism or minimalism, it needs to be visually grounding.
How to arrange
your furniture
It's a common mistake, but do not arrange your furniture against the walls and around the edges of the room, you’ll need a flow around the room and around the seating group, but not so large the space feels empty and miserable.
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You shouldn’t be able to walk in a straight line from one end of the room to the other and arranging your furniture in this way actually makes your space feel cosy but looks bigger as you are not accentuating your boundaries.
Lighting
Lighting in any room is super transformative and adds depth, enhances colours and creates a mood. A successful lighting scheme should consist of combination of three types: task, accent and ambient lighting.
Accent
Soft lighting that gently illuminates your room as dusk falls, think table lamps, candlelight or decorative sconces.
Task
Concentrated lighting like this Wall Light for performing certain tasks like reading and creates intriguing shadows.
Ambient
Provides general illumination, think chandeliers like our Beautiful Ballroom in this pic, recessed lighting and other ceiling fixtures.
Lighting
Lighting in any room is super transformative and adds depth, enhances colours and creates a mood. A successful lighting scheme should consist of combination of three types: task, accent and ambient lighting.
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Unify the room through, rugs, plants, colour, materials and lighting. Within this harmony, you can introduce elements of friction, blending silks with wools, leathers with grainy woods, these elements contrast yet complement.
Botanicals
Plants and Flowers are essential to bring your space to life, they add colour, shape, texture, warmth and intrigue. Pop small succulents on bookshelves and vignettes or use a large scale plant as one of your focal points. Decorating with nature and celebrating the changing of the seasons is an easy way to liven up your space. A cluster of blooms on your coffee table will perk up the greyest of days and a rustic vase filled with grasses adds movement and texture.
Finally...
Accessorise
Accessories give your living room it's personality. Artful ceramics, books, trays, ornaments, artworks, sculpture, throws, rugs and cushions.
These are the items that give your space energy and reflect our unique personalities. Just remember to restrict the colours, rein in the patterns, constantly repeat and everything will look and feel cohesive.
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