Right Kind of Lighting & Furniture for Open Plan Living/Dining Room Designs Part-2

Right kind of lighting & furniture for the living/dining room

Think about your lighting carefully as you plan your interior designs for living room/dining rooms - use a good combination of task, mood and accent lighting, to enhance different tasks and areas, and to create different moods and feelings in the different parts of the room.

One of the main challenges when planning open plan interior designs for living room and dining room areas is whether to design for one large, single room, or to section the separate areas for living, dining or study, off from each other. The ideal is to create a combination of both, with each separate area combining to form one unified room.
The key to achieving this in your open plan interior designs

for living room/dining room, is in good organization, layout, and color and style.

The layout can be smartly planned to create several separate areas within the whole covered area:

- Do not line all the furniture up around the edges of the room, with a large, empty space in the middle.
- Use a modular sofa as a 'divide' to separate the living and dining areas.
- To create a cozy feeling of intimacy and coziness, build up the centre of the living area around a coffee table.
- Visual screens can be created with storage walls and shelving systems, folding screens, or beaded door curtains.
- Define the separate dining area with a low-level pendant light.
- Rugs can also help to visually define separate areas within your open plan space.

If your open plan area also incorporates an area that people have to walk through to get between rooms, this can cause some problems in your interior designs for living room/dining room. People will naturally take the shortest route between two points - and this can be very off-putting, if you are sitting watching TV, and trying to relax, and someone keeps walking through. Try to re-arrange your furniture, so that people will not need to walk through the actual living or dining areas. You may need to screen or section off two areas, creating a kind of 'passageway' in between, so that your relaxing, studying, watching TV or eating does not get too disturbed!

Although open plan interior designs for living room/dining rooms create more space, do not be tempted to fill the room with loads more furniture. Open plan areas can easily appear overcrowded with furniture and look cluttered. If it fits with your style, try glass, or clear acrylic furniture. This gives you a clear path of vision, so making your room appear less cluttered.

Remember, in an open plan area, you do not have a room where you can dump a load of clutter and close the door, keeping it nicely out of sight. Take care that your open plan room does not get too cluttered.

Take your storage options seriously for your interior designs for living room/dining room. Include lots of it! Shelves and storage units can be ideal solutions, and can double up as screens/room divides. Try to find shelving units that can be accessed from either side, so that they will look attractive from both angles - and you will be able to catch little glimpses of the room beyond...

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Contemporary Interior Designing - Open Plan Living/Dining Room Designs

Open plan designs are becoming the contemporary, a must have option for kitchens, living and dining rooms. It has become so common that dining rooms stay unutilized gathering dust. So why not combine a relaxed and friendly living room and dining room into one area.







I think it is a great idea that your family will be able to enjoy spending time, together in one room, when modern life seems to mean so much less time for family life, and family leisure time.





Open plan living room/dining room interior designs are avant-garde, wonderfully spacious, sophisticated and look absolutely stunning. These types of kitchen dining living room styles are absolutely easy and manageable way of living with sleek look.











If you are considering making two small reception rooms into one open plan area, or would like to reclaim a bit of that unused hallway or corridor into a useful living area, read on for great, handy tips ...



· Do not knock out any walls down without taking advice from a structural engineer.

· Think if you want to keep any structural divides within the room such as a large archway or sliding or folding doors.

· Try to integrate alcove into your living space at the planning stage of your interior designs for living room/dining room. These can be very useful for storage or if you want to modify or if a change of mood occurs for creating something new in your open plan area. An immense idea would be using an alcove under the stairs would be the ideal spot for a desk, tucked away with the separate function and role of studying, or computer work, confined to a specific area. This space can be transformed as a reading area by adding a comfy sofa it would create quite a silent reading area.

· Consider your natural light sources for an open plan room. You can knock through the wall to create a porthole, window or glass-tiles, to give more light, and a feeling of space to the room.

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