Decorating An Open Plan Living Space
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Every home is different but when it comes to decorating your home you may feel overwhelmed when you look around the room and notice how small it really is. Can you create a larger looking room? One that adds more light? Yes you can. How you decorate is entirely up to you but you can make every corner in your room stand out and feel welcoming.
An open plan arrangement is ideal for making your home as light as possible, so if you like light, go open plan and remember to decorate with maximum light in mind. This means choosing light colors. Make the walls, floor and ceiling as pale as possible, as well your main pieces of furniture. Without large amounts of dark color the area will look more open and more continuous. White and cream are excellent base colors, as you can then use any color as an accent.
It’s important to accent your room when you have such a large open space to decorate. If you are separating certain areas in the large room you can successfully do this in several different ways.
If you have a long bare wall in the room you may want to place several framed photos on that wall or a picture within a group that will break up the look. Your pictures will be able to help create the illusion of two separated areas even though there are no walls standing between them.
One solution to seperate rooms is to purchase an area rug for each section. This will help you separate different parts of your space. You can use a large rug to put down in front of all the seating in the living room. Or you can add a group of rugs in a certain area to get the same effect. For example, you can place a group of four rugs with a small gap in between each one to give the illusion of one large area rug.
What you do with your living space is entirely up to you, but some spaces simply lend themselves to open plan living while others do not. It is of course your decision whether you decide to go open plan or not. The results can be extremely impressive but the emphasis should always be on light and ease of movement, otherwise you will end up with a very cluttered space which doesn’t look open plan, even if there are no separating walls at all. The idea is to have only minimal separation of the different areas, a mental division of living from eating from cooking, rather than actual physical barriers.
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