Two Color Schemes to Rebuild a Nice Living Room II – Solution A

Step 1. Build a comfortable working corner

The working corner consisting of a desk and a chair, now it become an DIY area. Use two folders to collect those original scattered documents and letters, the dame time place a notice board at the horizontal position in the eye, aside which there is a floor lamp to replace the original table lamp, so it can illuminated the whole region when after dark.








 

Step 2. Added color elements

Add a piece of carpet to cover the ground, as well as cushions on the sofa, the carpet with plant patterns and those color cushions added vivid colors and soft coziness to the living room, as the bright floor windows reflects windows and the fireplace, all is seemed so dynamic and vibrant.

Step 3. Make the admission more reasonable

A cloak cabinet has been added into the corridor, which can provide abundant storage space for the family members. From small storage cases to large size storage lockers, the family members can store a variety of items, so they will no longer to have those piecemeal items on the table, and no longer make the space looked in a jumble.


-->After 1: A new tidy and comfortable living room

After a preliminary rebuilding, we have made full use of the original resources in the living room, at the same time added new colors and patterns, thus solved the problem of absence of storage space for small objects. We also have replaced the original old TV, and placed an ultra-thin plasma TV, so the living room looked as a small home theater, is that feeling wonderful?

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* Original post: Two Color Schemes to Rebuild a Nice Living Room II – Solution A

Two Color Schemes to Rebuild a Nice Living Room I – Resolve Problems

Maybe you have been aware of that the living room in your house is somewhat too dim, the walls and furniture are pale and monotonous, although they are comfortable but absent of colors and vigors.

Now in this article we enlarged the problems of a living room specifically, and put forward two schemes to rebuild a nice living room, you will see the comparison before and after, and the living room will become a place full of colors and charms, and become a beautiful and nice space for gatherings of you and your family members and your friends, and let you could enjoy more memorable time.



Before: The Living Room without Much Charms

Dull beige walls, comfortable but less vigorous furniture, simple decorations and home furnishings, all make this living room looked quite far to a nice home. But there are still some good elements, as long as it taken some rational reconstruction, the living room should be become very attractive and lightful.

Existed Problems:

1. Lack of Functional Furniture



There is no coffee table in front of the sofa, so you will feel somewhat unconvenient when sitting on the sofa chatting and watching TV. And all things in the room are looked not enough relax and comfortable, this living room is need more colors, patterns, and soft corners which could make you become relaxing.

2. Space is Under Utilization



Corners of the room are special nooks of the home, which could be used for storing or other purposes.

The corner of this living room is sufficient with sunlight, so it is entirely competent to act as a multi-functional workstation, rather than just been placed with a breakfast table and a number of books on correspondence merely.

3. The admission is no structured



The storage of goods in the living room seemed to has some problems, family members will be readily placed their schoolbags, clothing, sporting goods, toys and DVDs by random. There is no suitable space for storage, so everyone only put things by random and without much order.

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Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration III – Soft Wall Package

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Trend III with Soft Wall Package: Living in Cloth

When the author entered into a prototype room of the home furnishings MALL, I found myself as if entered into a world wrapped into fabrics, it is so soft and quiet.

"The feeling what we want is just this - use soft cloth to wrap hard walls, and a type of warm and serene feelings thus produced”. Said the designer to the author with smile, “This approach of wall disposing is called soft-wall package, on the surface are fabrics, while inside linings are sponge, that is to use fabrics and sponge wrapped walls, and any type of fabric is applicable.

Due to its excellent performance of sound-absorbing, the soft-package wall are general be used on backdrop walls of TV in the living room, bedroom or audio-visual room, but in most occasions you can not use it in a large area.

In general, walls decorated with flexible packaging cloth are simple, generous, as well as features of soft colors, looked warm and splendid, with angular edges and continuous symmetry, which could giving you soft and relax feelings, it is very comfortable.

Cleaning tips: can be cleaned with spray cleaner.

* Original post: Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration III – Soft Wall Package

Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration II - Textured Brick

Trend II with Textured Brick: Zipper can also on the Wall



 If you are still young and meet the fashion trend well, the same time has enough courage to accept fresh and personal elements, you may wish to try textured bricks in a small area.

Textured brick is a type of high-density ceramic tile with unique modeling and imitated leather texture, whose surface was made to imitated leather texture with special mould. The decorating style intend to rather wild and cool, and are more suitable to modern style home decorating, and are mainly used in the decorating of TV walls, bathroom or study walls.



On the wall cover with textured brick displayed by the designer, the author was surprised to find that the wall with leather quality and texture, as well sewing threads, close-ups and polishing edges, on its central area, there is an imitated copper zipper! 

No wonder the designer was emphasized all along that "fans" of textured brick should be a fashion bird, or else it is really difficult to take it back to your home.


Textured brick is a new member in the porcelain tile group, which is a symbol of fashion and trends, and people who favorite with leather products can achieve a warm, comfortable and soft dream in the home decorating.

Textured bricks featured with novel design, well-made, delicate handcraft, which could restore the sewing art of leather products truly, together with its pure glazed color, so the natural texture of leather were returned to a natural textural quality, and looked very artistic and attractive, so this type of wall decorating material can not only applied to bathroom in large area, but also to all wall space of bedroom, studies, balcony and even kitchen.

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Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration I - Wood Fiber Wallpaper

Wall decoration is the impression builder of the whole cubic space, which can render the space atmosphere effectively, and to create a unique and distinctive impression to the interior space.

Once we referred wall decoration, inertia of thinking will always make us concern to three things: paint, wallpaper and color painting.

So in 2009, what kind of new coatings is in fashion for the wall decorating?

Trend I with Wood Fiber: Wallpapers Made of Sawdust

Can sawdust also be posted on the wall? The answer is: Yes, and the results were pretty good. This is a new term of wall decoration especially popular in this year - wood fiber. According to the introduction of designer, as the visual effects of wood fiber is outstanding, colors bright, simple and generous, wide variety of colors and easy to match with furniture, so there is a very wide application to its suited style, now this kind of wall decoration were mainly used for walls of TV backdrop, bedroom or study to do modeling decoration, but it is not suitable for large-scale use.

As it is called wood fiber, actually it was pressed with wood fiber, wood pulp, cotton fiber and a small amount of quartz, because containing quartz, which makes it shiny, but in fact it is a member of the wallpaper family".

With the designer's guide, the author came to a light yellow wall covered with wood fiber, and found it is really shiny, and rich in texture. Reach to touch it, felt very rough, and looked closely, there are many tiny cavities on its surface, which shown in granular and uneven.

"Does such a wall easy to care for and maintain? Do those cavities inside it will not conceal dust?" the author asked. "Of course it is easy to care for and maintain, you can use a horizontal filter of vacuum cleaner to clean it directly” said the designer, “and it is also very simple to install this type of wallpaper, you only need to do some basic processing on the original latex paint wall” On another side, "wood fiber can also be repaired and overall moved, but pay attention to avoid knocking and bumps”.

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* Original post: Resolution of 2009 Popular New Trend in Wall Decoration I - Wood Fiber Wallpaper

How to Furnish a Beautiful Hallway?

Hallway is an area at the door entrance, which is not designed to produce convenience to the guests to take off clothing as well as change shoes and hang hats, more importantly, it is the first scenery people seen before entered the room, though it is small in size, but play an extremely important role to the style of the whole room. And the most effective way to beautify the hallway is to decorate it with furniture and home decorations. 

At first, the design of the vestibule should be based on the room type and home decorating style, it could be made into arc-shaped, strip shaped as well as rectangular shape, and material scope can contained wood, glass, stainless steel, stone and so on. 

Generally the hallway made of stainless steel and glass materials are more closely tied to the simple modern style home furnishings, while hallways made of stone material and wooden boards will more suited to countryside style home furnishings.

As regard to home furnishings and home decoration, small tables are very suitable to place in a hallway, whose desktop is not need wide, and can stand lean to the wall, above which, to hang a mirror or a selected painting, plus matched with a pair of decorative wall lamps, the effect is be quite good. 

If the hallway area is large enough, an arc-shaped wall table will be a good choice, which will even bring your home more luxurious temperament. If you pay more attention to the practical function of the hallway, the simplest way is to display a group of vertical clothes hangers, and there are many novel design clothes hangers are takes up much less space, but also can provide some storage space for things, with them you can store each pieces of things at the door entrance and incorporate them altogether; another choice is to place a big size oblique triangle or converted trapezoidal shaped cabinet in it, which can store a lot of things and at the same time seemed small and exquisite.

 As respect to home decorations, you can use fabric furnishings, lighting and green plants to decorate. You can place an exotic printed cloth or an antique desk flag on the wall or tabletop.

Lightings as small spotlights, tube-shaped lights, strip lights, wall lamps, neon lights and other items of lightings can irradiate the hallway very bright, at the same time make the environmental space looked more elegant. If the vestibule size is not much large, you should notice not use too much lightings in it, and two or three pieces is appropriate. 

 Make use of the wall face and countertop behind the door, put several potted foliage plants, for example, chrysanthemums, primrose, etc., which can bring the hallway a bit of vitality, but should noticed that the placed plants should not hinder sights of guests as well as not impede the access.

 * Original post: How to Furnish a Beautiful Hallway?