Large Room Decorating – Get That Cozy Feeling
Posted By on December 15, 2009
Many homes these days are made with larger spacious rooms and very high ceilings and of course wooden floors. They are great living spaces since you have a large space to design with many different ideas.
People, well most of us anyway want a room that feels cozy. There are ways to make the room seem more cozy, by just using a few decorating tips. Painting the walls a dark shade will help to make the room seem a bit smaller. With a dark color the room seems to warm up a bit more.
Placing a light color in the room will make the light bounce off the walls and this will make it appear even larger. To make high ceilings look lower paint the dark color on the ceiling. Less light that is reflected will make the room feel cozy and smaller.
Also when you are trying to make a larger room feel smaller, don’t place as much lighting in them. Also try purchasing larger furniture and plants which will make it seem cozier since you have the room. You won’t have the clutter feel in a larger room with bulky furniture that you would with a smaller room with the same furniture.
Another secret is using oversized furniture that rather swallows up the space. You might use groupings of furniture. In a very large room, like a great room, you can make an area for watching television, an area for reading or intimate conversations, or perhaps an area for playing board games.
Now that you have created little areas in the room you need to have a way to specify the areas and anchor them. Area rugs are the answer here. An area rug will not only add warmth and interest, it will pull the pieces of each grouping together. Place an area rug in each group and keep the pattern and tones cohesive, and your room will be instantly transformed into a large, yet cozy room.
When planning to group areas in a large room and add area rugs, make sure you aren’t crowding the flooring. For instance, if you have a 12×24 area you could choose two 8×10 or one 6×9 and one 9×12. Two different sizes will break up the room as well and make it look more stylish.
When picking out the area rugs for your large room you have a few options. You can purchase similar carpets and place them in the groupings or you can do two different designs but make sure the colors are a bit similar so it doesn’t clash.
If the rugs look too similar you’ll feel as if it’s still a large room and not grouped into a few different sections. Don’t’ be scared to choose two different carpet styles when placing them in a large area. Try choosing a larger area rug for the biggest grouping in the room and then a smaller oval one for the other part. After all is put together you should feel as if the room did shrink in size and it should feel cozy.
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