An easy way to change the look and ambiance of your living room is to replace your existing lampshades with ones that are more visually appealing.
Updated traditional family rooms.
Before buying think about how the new shades will look during the day and night.
Updating a traditional living room can be done without replacing expensive furniture or painting the walls.
Dial up the drama in your living room or den by painting your ceiling and millwork to match your walls.
The monochrome approach will wrap the room with color and create an elevated jewel box effect in space.
You ll find lots of easy to copy ideas for your home when you tour this family room decorated with an updated traditional style for christmas.
The metallic shades in this living room tie in with the gold hues seen throughout the design creating a compelling space.
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Take this room for example.
In traditional living rooms the pieces don t all need to match but they should definitely relate to each other in terms of style shape and overall weight like they do in this lovely room designed by mcgrath ii while an offbeat piece can certainly be incorporated as contrast or a statement piece don t stray too far from the traditional baseline.
They say that the kitchen is the heart of the home and mine usually is but that role switches to my family room during the christmas season.
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Use the same paint color in different finishes to bring dimension and add movement to the design.
To create dimension in size color and texture layer a smaller rug on an over sized area rug.
A bright patterned area rug incorporates style underfoot.