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Interior Decorating your Living Room and Dining Room


Make your living room into the ultimate place to relax and unwind!

Make interior decorating your living room and dining room a resounding success!

Read hints, tips and ideas on how to create gorgeous and stylish living areas.

You can also read about other people's living and dining rooms, and ask your own questions, if you get stuck...

  • Your living room areas are probably the most important in your whole home.

    It is where you will spend most of your time - certainly most of your leisure time...

    ...so it is important to create a room where you will be happy to relax, have fun and entertain friends.


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Practicalities

  • Comfort and practicality are important factors for you to consider...

    ...your seating, TVs, hi-fi's, computers and other AV equipment, and storage for books, CDs, DVDs, magazines, etc...

    ...the clutter soon builds up, doesn't it? Well, certainly in my house it does...!

    Take a look at the practical guide to decorating living rooms for more help with the practical side of interior design in your living room.

Help with Interior Decorating a Living Room

Read style and design tips to help you get a great living room decorating idea in your home.

Back on a practical note, discover ideal layouts for decorating living rooms, incorporating your surround sound and AV equipment, and get the recommended seating distances for different screen sizes - you can learn how to get comfortable viewing, listening, and a stylish living room!

Every living room should have one! And although the TV is important, it's not always the most stylish and beautiful of centerpieces in your home! Create a gorgeous focal point with these fireplace design ideas

Look at Pictures of Fireplaces - Fireplace Gallery to inspire you to create your own cozy focal point.

Need a sudden flash of inspiration to get you started? Try these real room photos of great interior designs for living rooms.

Open Plan Living and Dining Areas

Do you have an all-in-one living and dining area? Open plan living is becoming more and more popular, and is especially suited to a contemporary style...

Read practical hints and ideas for successful open plan interior designs for your living room/dining room.

Dining Rooms

Are you lucky enough to have a separate dining room in your home? Check out these tips and ideas for decorating your dining room.

For special occasions, or just to look nice everyday, check out these table decorating ideas.

Also have a look at the decorating dining room ideas and photos in these dining room gallery pages.

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Your Interior Decorating Living Rooms and Dining Rooms

Ask your own living room and dining room questions, here...

Readers' Living Room Layout Problems

Ask your own living room and dining room questions, here...

Jill's L-shaped living room...

Mary Jane decides how to create focal points...

Janine's long, narrow room...

LG wonders if a coffee table will fit...

Bess squeezes in a big sofa...

Readers Open Plan Questions and Comments

Sylvia plans her own big open plan living project

Rebecca's small space living-dining room...

Des's open plan living-dining room layout problems

Kaye's open-plan living area...

Colorful Living Room Decorating Projects

More ideas to decorate a living room - in lilac and red!

Kristen is inspired to create a purple and red style in her living-dining room

A Victorian style living room in pink

More reader Q&A about living and dining rooms - see if their problems and my replies can help you...

Comments, Questions and Pictures - Living and Dining Rooms

This is the page to share all your photos, stories, questions and comments about your living and dining room concerns...

Finding it tricky to choose the right color? What color goes with that sofa? How to choose a new look for existing furniture and carpets?

Show us your living room and dining room remodelling triumphs, and let us help you with your makeover disasters...

Share your thoughts and questions with us...

While I always make every effort to answer your questions, I'm sorry but sometimes not all submissions will receive a response.

To improve the chances of your submission being included in the website, please let me know as much information as possible about your current interior decor, and what your problem is.

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What Other Visitors Have Said about their Living and Dining Rooms

Read real-life questions and concerns from readers to this website...

Take a peek into other peoples' front-rooms...

Help and be helped - ask your living and dining room questions, and try to help someone else with their worries, too...

Click below to see...

Designing a dining-cum-living area in a small flat  starstarstarstarstar
Hi

I got a flat where the main entrance opens up into a L shaped area surrounded by rooms and kitchen.

The area when looked from the main door seems ...

Ideas for Displaying China  starstarstarstarstar
I would like to display my great grandmother's pink depression china and old family photos in my dining room but don't know how to display them on the ...

Living room - purple and red scheme  starstarstarstarstar
Hi Charlotte, we spoke via facebook...

Sooo, I uploaded some photos of the way my place is now. I live in a 1920s character home.



The main ...

Living room - pale green and chocolate  starstarstarstarstar
Hi: I have no idea how to decorate my living room...

I have a chocolate brown sectional with Pine cathedral ceilings.

I have just purchased a very ...

How to decorate a narrow L-shaped, odd ceiling height living room  starstarstarstarstar
My particular room is a little difficult to describe. It is a long relatively narrow space with a small L shape at the one end.

The long space has ...

Centering of Chandelier  starstarstarstarstar
We are building a house and the dining room is part of the den (not a separate room) and the ceiling is coffered.

Question is how to correctly place ...

Dining Room Asian Style Makeover - and a funny story!  starstarstarstarstar
Charlotte - I just want to say thanks for your e-zine and all the links therein, I bought a 130 yr. old house that needs tons of work.

That's the ...

Positioning a Plasma TV in the Living room  starstarstarstarstar
I am replacing my TV with a plasma and am not sure if I should wall mount it or what. Any ideas/help would be appreciated, thanks.

Which Wallpaper would Suit?  starstarstarstarstar
hi, my sofa is red and at the minute my walls are cream but I would luv my fire wall done in nice paper.

I dont want one with too much red as my living ...

Redecorating a TV room  starstarstarstarstar
Hi, I am currently redecorating the TV room.
I already have cream and gold curtains with matching valance as well as two cream pouffs with two matching ...

Faux brick or stone paneling around the fireplace  starstarstarstarstar
We are wanting to cover the area around our fireplace with either faux brick or faux stone, but we want to also keep the decor contemporary and modern,...

Lightening up the Living Room  starstarstarstarstar
I recently rented a tiny NYC apartment. I currently own a nice dark brown leather small couch with clean lines and an antique persian rug which has rich ...

Help for a Cluttered Living Room  starstarstarstarstar
Hi everyone!
Our small living room has the piano and a bookshelf along the right hand wall.

Our large blue couch is on the opposite wall to the left ...

Dining room - elegant and sparkly!  starstarstarstarstar
I'm looking to make my dining room look elegant and sparkly, with eye catching/bold colors (blue, brown, gold, silver, or white.)

My major dilemma is ...

Where to put the TV in the Living Room  starstarstarstarstar
I have an L- Shaped Living Room/Dining Room combo. The house was built in the 1930's so the space is smaller, and the very even dimensions make it hard ...

Off center chimney and fireplace causing problems  starstarstarstarstar
I have an ugly two sided white tiled fireplace with an off centered chimney (and high ceilings).

I can't seem to make it look right, help! (picture ...

Flora oil painting above the sofa  starstarstarstarstar
Hi,
A friend of mine painted a beautiful floral picture for above my sofa. I love it, but the problem is its just about 24 inches wide, and framed makes ...

Walnut dining set in a red dining room  starstarstarstarstar
We are moving to a new house which is bigger and has a nice formal dining room.

The dining table and chair that we have is nice, but not too stylish....

Old tile on concrete in corner of hardwood floor  starstarstarstarstar
We decided to pull up the carpet and refinish the red oak floors underneath in our new-to-us house.

The living room is basically 17' x 12', with bookshelves/...

Making the large lounge room work.  starstarstarstarstar
How would you paint/decorate a large lounge room which has an opening to the kitchen (galley) and also the front door/hall opens onto it.

The lounge ...

Built-in TV problems - it looks unattractive  starstarstarstarstar
I like that there is a built in tv area, but it doesn't fit my tv, the black distracts from the "beachy colors," and I HATE the marble fireplace next to ...

Family room and adjacent dining room  starstarstarstarstar
Just purchased a house on Lake Michigan. Very tall ceilings, walls of windows, lots and lots of natural light and views of the beach and lake.

I want ...

Painting to Go Over My Sofa  starstarstarstarstar
HI,

I am looking at the Monet 'Chemin Dans Les Bles a Pourville' ocean painting for over my sofa.

I have a standard sofa and I want to add two ...

Stuck for Ideas for my Living Room  starstarstarstarstar
I really want to redecorate my living room, but I'm not very creative and I don't have much money. I can't even decide on a good color scheme for it.

I ...

Living room with low and sloping ceilings  starstarstarstarstar
Our living room is a large square shape. The ceiling is very low (only around 7 foot).

Two sides of the room have sloped walls incorporating a velux ...

Help for a Narrow and Dark Lounge  starstarstarstarstar
Hi. I have a flat on a farm. My biggest problem is my lounge/living room.

It is a long narrow room. It has dark brown carpeting and unfortunately ...

Want a cozy, warm living room  starstarstarstarstar
I would like to change my living room to make it more cozy and warm.

I was thinking of changing the furniture to darker furniture (dark leather) and ...

what i can do with this mess?  starstarstarstarstar
Hello, I have this problem,

I don't can find something to put beside the tv for the dvd because under the tv I don't have space,

ANY IDEA, PLEASE ...

Modernizing a small living room  starstarstarstarstar
My husband and I bought an antique house a couple of years ago (built in 1920).

My living room is relatively small, but with a very high ceiling - the ...

Disapointing living area's colors :(  starstarstarstarstar
Dear there,

U can't believe how happy I'm to find such a helpful website! it's over than great, really!!

My problem is sooo disappointing. I'm a ...

Living room ... ideas please?  starstarstarstarstar
I live in a 2 story Townhouse and the problem is with my Living room.

I purchased 3 large pieces of furniture separately and now find that they are ...

Help for a long narrow room  starstarstarstarstar
This room was a patio that we enclosed.

It measures 9 x 20.

As you can see it has a patio door on one side. Also, on that side behind the chair ...

Our Living Room Makeovers

Interior Decorating Our Living Room

Take a look at how we decided to decorate our living room

UPDATED Now take a look at our new and improved decorating color schemes in our living room makeover...

UPDATED AGAIN Another revamp for our living room...

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