Need Help Decorating Living Room With Numerous Windows And Doors

RE: Need Help Decorating Living Room With Numerous Windows A Post By Delores Fitzgerald (Guest Post) (07/30/2008) My living room furniture is a sand color. I have burgundy accessories, area rug, pillows on sofa and love seat, and valance on the window are all burgundy. The walls are white.What color should the the walls be, and what others colors will go well with a sand color furniture. Report Spam or Abuse RE: Need Help Decorating Living Room With Numerous Windows A Post By Tangela Chandler (Guest Post) (03/17/2008) I bought a section that is dark brown leather at the bottom and and the seat cushions a light color, it has a large square dark brown ottoman that goes with it.I need help with window treatments wall color and a area rug. The pillows on the sectional are different shades of brown. Can you help me please? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Need Help with window coverage in living room & dining room Post By Wilma Madison (Guest Post) (10/25/2007) I have two windows in my dining room and also the living room on opposite walls. My ceilings are low as are the windows. Should I use venetian shades to make the ceilings look higher (with curtains draped from the ceiling or should I use vertical shades and no curtains. The rooms are not big rooms. I want to give the impression of more room and higher ceilings. Help!! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Need Help Decorating Living Room With Numerous Windows And Doors Post by TreesaNguyen (2) | (06/24/2007) Profile | Contact I'm about to start decorating my living room and I have no idea where to start. My parents have never decorated the house before, so everything is really plain and mismatched and the house needs a lot of work. The living room has two arched openings that are about 6 feet wide. Three 5 feet wide windows and a fireplace. The two walls adjacent to the openings have high ceilings that slant upwards where they meet the open side of the living room. http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o58/treesapeesa/livingroom002.jpg http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o58/treesapeesa/livingroom001.jpg Any ideas? Report Spam or Abuse RE: Need Help Decorating Living Room With Numerous Windows And Doors Post By Martha (Guest Post) (10/14/2005) Please visit www.tatouage.org and locate a designer near you. You won't regret it! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Need Help Decorating Living Room/Diningroom with firepla Post By Lizzie (Guest Post) (05/18/2005) Hi, I have a major project.. I tried doing a layout of the room and this was very depression. But here it goes, I have standard height celing the room is about 11 feet across 17-18 feet wide. This is the whole room.. livingroom/dining room. the Fireplace takes up a pretty big area(corner) it has brick walls with a steel (i think its steel) black fireplace very nice very diffrent I do like that. Just that my space, area is very small cuz I have opening everywhere. Please help.. Report Spam or Abuse I need help decorating living room!! Post By bouchra (Guest Post) (03/27/2005) hi, I am having trouble decorating my living room, it has a fire place with wooden bookcases in each side, and large windows covering most of the left side of the room. I am very frustrated with this room...I would really appreciate some help Editor's Note: Bouchra, we have added this as a new request: http://www.thriftyfun.com/tf951995.tip.html Report Spam or Abuse RE: Need Help Decorating Living Room With Numerous Windows And Doors Post By Fran Marie (Guest Post) (01/12/2005) Furniture doesn't need to be lined against the walls. As a matter of fact, that's quite boring! I would postion a couch facing the fireplace aprox. 10 feet back. Put a nice area rug (that has some version of the wall color to make it pop) in front of the couch. In front of the couch I would put a long, low coffe table or oversized cushioned hassock. Opposite the couch, situated caddy-cornered on each rug corner some kind of chair, either matching upholstered or one upholstered and one rocking chair. You may have to adjust couch distance. Or you could use those chairs for sitting areas by the windows by the fireplace. Use a small table, table light and maybe low standing plant in each corner. Lamos do not have to match and just need to be loke-themed. Behind the couch you could put a table slightly lower than the height of the couch and not quite as wide as the couch for letter writing, reading, game playing, etc. I would avoid anything but a laptop computer. No one wants to look at the wiring of a computer while relaxing on the couch! If you can't remove the built in shelves, put a small round table with two chairs for a Cafe'Library area. Next to the doorway to the left of the shelving and on either side of the other doorway you could put a nice 3-4 fern type plant. To really make the room look lush, hang matching window treatments on your doorways, too. Don't hang higher than the top of jamb. Inside the the door jambs you could put either wood or wrought iron cornices. The doorway opposite the long window could have two fairly small mirrors on either side to reflect the natural light, unless this would cause light overload! I don't know how high your fireplace is. If it's small in relation to the rest of the room consider framing it out with wide molding to make it really dramatic. Again use a color paint or stain that is complementarty to the walls and rug. You didn't give the footage on the room so I'm not sure what to do under the large window, but hopefully, the ideas I gave will help spark your own imagination. Hope it helps! Report Spam or Abuse RE: Need Help Decorating Living Room With Numerous Windows And Doors Post by Jo Bodey (279) | (01/05/2005) Contact I assume the 'path' between the doorways is used so avoid furniture there. Rooms like this, (I had one too!), always look bitty and cluttered so less is more when decorating. I see your longest run of wall is around the corner where the fitted shelves are - do you need these shelves? They basically use up all this corner for very little storage/display space. Either fitted shelves with a cupboard which follows the L of the wall or a piece or two of enclosed furniture there would look neater maybe - an armoire or cupboard. This is your most versatile wall area and it seems wasted at present. Paint door/window architraves the same colour as the walls to minimize their appearance - they will appear to fade back into the wall and the wall won't look so 'chopped up'. My room was also small with 2 windows, 4 doors and a corner fireplace. I maximised space by having 2 sofas set at a 90 degree angle with a coffee table at the apex - they sat along the edge of a rug which defined the seating are - so they were placed in an L arrangement around one corner of the oblong rug if that makes sense! At one stage I also had small low tables each end of the L placed sofas as well. Your arrangement could sit on the edge of a rug in front of the fireplace, probably facing the window and then your TV could go in the corner so the light from the window doesn't fall on the screen. Does the room have any other function? If not I would go with the seating area, one or two enclosed cupboards in the 'shelf corner' and keep other furnishings to a minimum - lots of small tables/cabinets in the small spaces between doors/windows will just emphasize them. A long low piece of furniture if you have any space under the front windows will draw the eye along in a continuous run. In my last house, a period cottage, I had wooden dado rails which also pulled the eye along the walls past the window/door breaks. I quite liked my small wall spaces in the end - I have a lot of old paintings/prints and they fitted nicely in the spaces! My present loungeroom is larger than my last one but is similar with 5 doors, 3 windows plus a wood burning stove in the corner! I have made my main storage/display area in one corner with fitted wooden adjustable shelving for book storage china display. It is the equivalent of your shelf corner but I have extended the shelving floor to ceiling and it continues over the top of the two doors - which is normally wasted space anyway. I have 2 other enclosed freestanding bookcases/cabinets in the room, am planning for one new sofa by the woodburner but, because of traffic flow between the bedroom, bathroom, kitchen and 2 verandas which all open off the loungeroom, I have kept the centre of the room fairly clear. Hope this gives you some ideas. Regards Jo Report Spam or Abuse RE: Need Help Decorating Living Room With Numerous Windows And Doors Post by kji (2) | (01/05/2005) Contact since you have a lot of windows be sure to make the most of your window treatments and of the fireplace area too. Also I would use small wall tables with lamps to brighten the areas, so it draws the eye away from the middle of the room.also small curio cabinets work great too. Iwould arange my furniture around my fireplace with a sofa in the middle two chairs on each side a ruge in the middle and a sofa table on the back of my sofa. Report Spam or Abuse