| How to Decorate a Living Room - Home Décor - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Hi, my name is Hilary Unger from Perianth Interior Design in New York, and today I am here to talk with you about living rooms and how to plan your living room. I just want to give you a couple of tips on where to start. The first thing you should think about is what function you want to have in your living room. Do you want to have a play space for your children? Do you want to watch TV? Are you going to be entertaining a lot with guests, and so on. So, those are the things that you should consider. Also, if you want to have a workspace in your living room, and so on. So, once you know what functions you have, then you can think about what furniture you need and where to place it. Sometimes it is very obvious that you should place the sofa, which is typically the main piece of furniture in most living rooms. And do not feel bad that you are not doing something really, you know, crazy or outlandish. Sometimes it is just obvious, so you do not want to recreate the wheel. So, you put the sofa in the most obvious and comfortable place for you. Then you create the room around that. This is an example of a living room that has some traditional elements to it. There is a built-in bookcase. You need to think about, also, do you have a lot of books that you need to store and display? Do you have artwork? Do you have decorative elements that you need to put out? So, that would determine whether ... |
