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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Variation between Home Interior Design and Home Interior Decorating

Do you plan to buy a home and make your family happy or are you thinking of giving your current home a new look with a total makeover or to a room. If your reply is a yes, than you will need to have an idea on how to design home interior.

Home interior design is the very procedure of shaping the interior space of your home according to your lifestyle. Whereas, home interior decorating that concentrates on finishes such as painting, window coverings, wallpapers and soft furnishing; Interior design is incorporated towards structural design of the home and is occupied in the room layout, cabinet designs, windows and door placements, and so on.

Home interior designing relies largely on the types and measurement of the rooms. Basic rooms include the living room, kitchen, deck, bedroom, bathroom and at times a home office. These rooms can be subdivided into a guest room, dining room, children rooms and adult rooms, study room, amongst others.

The different aspects involved in home interior design such as cabinet making, room layout, window placement, appliance selection of tile and floor selection should suitably fit the rooms since each room has a different function.

If you are planning to do some home interior designing, decide what rooms need improvement and integrate the seven elements of home interior design form, mass, shape, line, color, texture and pattern.

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