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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The Impact of Fall Colors in Interior Decorating

I would never recommend you paint interior walls just to decorate for a season, but so many of our favorite colors come in fall anyway. You can safely paint almost any room in warm tones and it works all year round. Paint a single wall in orange or another bright fall color and leave the rest white for strong contrast.

Bold is Beautiful - Go for Orange & White!

Orange is a bold color, but look at the contrast you get when you paint just a single wall in a room in a very bold primary color and leave the rest of the room white? It is striking and, again, will work well all year. Other ‘bold’ fall colors that work well as wall paint colors include cinnamon, cranberry and burgundy.

Think contrast!

Blend or contrast colors, generally using no more than two or three colors in a room, a cranberry wall with white chair rail looks great but four cranberry walls and no trim will seem too stark.

Though, you can get away with a little color addition to greatly affect the overall look of a room. So, you can add red, yellow or orange to a room that otherwise has none of these colors, creating a central point in one area or splashing the accent color in several places throughout the room.

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What Colors are In for Autumn Season

Fall is a time of spectacular, vivacious color and pattern. Harvest colors, falling leaves, nuts, seeds, berries, dried grasses, fall fruits and grapes are just a few of the endless possibilities to create a fall display inside or in your garden.




Autumn displays her earthy browns, brilliant reds, liquid amber and orange, pear gold and muted yellow. Bringing the feel of autumn into your home creates natural warmth and echoes the changing season. You can really embrace the season and go a little further … read on to learn some fun and inexpensive ways to usher in the fall season.





Chocolate browns, ruby reds and glowing greens — what could be more appropriate for the months of fall? green kitchen eating area. When you have a deep, rich color on the walls, you don't need elaborate window treatments.


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Home Design – What’s Out

Yesterdays home design trends are on their way out of home fashion. A home with fashionable designs and features can easily attract trendy homebuyers, and may increase the value of your property.


The home designs trends that are losing ground are bamboo floors, spiral staircases, and laminate flooring that looks like hardwood. Bamboo floors have been found to be scratch-prone and laminated flooring is often noisy.

Spiral staircases are unfriendly for elders, pets and young children; Home sellers and real estate agents can use some latest home design trends to add more value and appeal to a home, condo or any other type of residential real estate before putting the property on the market for sale.

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