<p>You’ve recently fashioned a festive facelift for your living room with fresh furnishings and fabulous furniture. <br /><br />With the end of the year round the corner spelling parties and visitors, a spruce up, albeit on a budget, is called for.<br /><br /> So, how will you manage a makeover for your living room without overshooting your budget? You accessorise artistically.<br /><br /> If you are wondering how, here it is.<br /><br />First, mull over these aspects.The accessories must gel well with the room’s overall décor theme (modern, contemporary, traditional, ethnic, Victorian), furniture, furnishings and wall-colour scheme. For outrageous novelty, hire a professional designer rather than experimenting.<br /><br /> Plus, consider space constraints before deciding the accessories’ locations.<br /><br /> What purpose does your living room serve? Merely receiving visitors or does it also double as a family room with a cosy entertainment area or accommodate the dining area, too?<br /><br /> Your choice of accessories will also depend upon the extent and variety of functions you allocate for your living room space. <br /><br />But, in your enthusiasm, don’t end up cluttering the space. Strike the right balance by focussing on the number, size, colour and style of the artefacts and accessories.<br /><br />You can start at the accessories’ market with stylish shelves for either utilitarian storage or aesthetic displays.<br /><br /> Make these a home for prized pieces like sculpture, coloured glass/crystal vases, or little <br />ceramic artefacts.<br /><br /> Else, place your coffee-table top items like trays, pots, vases, ashtrays and the like here, when you wish for clear space.<br /><br /> You’ll need deep shelving to accommodate delicate display items. Heavier objects demand robust weight-bearing shelves.<br /><br /> Bookshelves can serve as décor too. Go for wall /floating shelves if you’ll place only a few objects.<br /><br /> Want them to masquerade as room-dividers? Then, pick large, open-air shelving. Material <br />options include wood, metal or a combination of the two.<br /><br />Now select some dramatic display bowls. Feng Shui recommendations include bowls containing fresh fruit and wealth bowls filled with coins and other wealth symbols. <br /><br />Choose a bowl design that can draw attention (could be hand-carved wood vessels or crystalware). <br /><br />Fill these with artsy objects or leave them empty to serve as décor items on their own.<br /><br />Light it up</p>.<p>Go for gorgeous floor/table lamps and hanging lanterns for task lighting. <br /><br />Create the right mood in the living room, by choosing lamps of the right style, size and design to coordinate with the décor, while ably fulfilling your lighting needs.<br /><br /> Heavier floor lamps are better where kids frolic about since these are more stable.<br /><br /> Pick a single, large hanging lantern or suspend a cluster of little ones from different heights.<br /><br />Next come the time-keepers. Go for an oversized wall clock on a wall where the clock is the only display piece.<br /><br /> Modern clocks with a monochromatic scheme ally amicably with minimal furniture. </p>.<p>Place a traditional table clock on your coffee/side-table or a retro clock on your shelves. <br /><br />A mantel clock is for the fireplace. Contemporary clocks come in unique designs like those embedded within a guitar-shaped contour or a gigantic wristwatch’s dial. <br /><br />Vases are a time-honoured option.<br /><br /> Fill glass /ceramic vases and canisters with knick-knacks, flowers, peacock feathers, willow branches, palm/fern fronds, potpourri, or other goodies.<br /><br /> Jute-wrapped or wicker vases, clear glass ones, jewelled shimmer finish, silver urns with intricate carved patterns, tall floor vases – your options are endless.<br /><br /> Even left empty, such artistic pieces can serve as décor items. <br /><br />Arrange a single large vase on a pedestal table, a couple on a corner table or a cluster of little ones on a console table.<br /><br />Decorative trays can again meet both decorative and utilitarian needs.<br /><br /> While round, rectangular, square and oval are common shapes, the usual materials used for making them are glass, metal and wood.<br /><br /> Uniqueness comes in the form of lacquer, capiz shell and mirror trays. Choose either accent or vanity trays.<br /><br />Candleholders can spice up your living room, too. <br /><br />Painted black/white metal holders, floor candleholders, ornate silver /brass ones, glass/crystal beauties, mercury-finish mesmerisers, silver-flecked sphere hurricanes, porcelain ones, taper holders, glass candle pots, glass candlesticks (slim and tall or round and stubby), thick-cut glass holders, little lantern-shaped holders and tealight holders are some suggestions. <br /><br />Mirrors are recommended for creating a semblance of spaciousness. But, for <br />décor purposes, a huge, single mirror isn’t your only option.<br /><br /> Arrange an array of smaller ones on your wall.<br /><br /> Other possibilities are a huge mirror over the couch and mirrors with minimalist, interesting frame designs.<br /><br />Throw rugs, throw pillows, cushions, window treatments, coasters, art prints (a big, expensive one or a group of smaller prints), frames, fresh /artificial flowers and coffee-table decorative pieces to finish décor with a flourish.</p>
<p>You’ve recently fashioned a festive facelift for your living room with fresh furnishings and fabulous furniture. <br /><br />With the end of the year round the corner spelling parties and visitors, a spruce up, albeit on a budget, is called for.<br /><br /> So, how will you manage a makeover for your living room without overshooting your budget? You accessorise artistically.<br /><br /> If you are wondering how, here it is.<br /><br />First, mull over these aspects.The accessories must gel well with the room’s overall décor theme (modern, contemporary, traditional, ethnic, Victorian), furniture, furnishings and wall-colour scheme. For outrageous novelty, hire a professional designer rather than experimenting.<br /><br /> Plus, consider space constraints before deciding the accessories’ locations.<br /><br /> What purpose does your living room serve? Merely receiving visitors or does it also double as a family room with a cosy entertainment area or accommodate the dining area, too?<br /><br /> Your choice of accessories will also depend upon the extent and variety of functions you allocate for your living room space. <br /><br />But, in your enthusiasm, don’t end up cluttering the space. Strike the right balance by focussing on the number, size, colour and style of the artefacts and accessories.<br /><br />You can start at the accessories’ market with stylish shelves for either utilitarian storage or aesthetic displays.<br /><br /> Make these a home for prized pieces like sculpture, coloured glass/crystal vases, or little <br />ceramic artefacts.<br /><br /> Else, place your coffee-table top items like trays, pots, vases, ashtrays and the like here, when you wish for clear space.<br /><br /> You’ll need deep shelving to accommodate delicate display items. Heavier objects demand robust weight-bearing shelves.<br /><br /> Bookshelves can serve as décor too. Go for wall /floating shelves if you’ll place only a few objects.<br /><br /> Want them to masquerade as room-dividers? Then, pick large, open-air shelving. Material <br />options include wood, metal or a combination of the two.<br /><br />Now select some dramatic display bowls. Feng Shui recommendations include bowls containing fresh fruit and wealth bowls filled with coins and other wealth symbols. <br /><br />Choose a bowl design that can draw attention (could be hand-carved wood vessels or crystalware). <br /><br />Fill these with artsy objects or leave them empty to serve as décor items on their own.<br /><br />Light it up</p>.<p>Go for gorgeous floor/table lamps and hanging lanterns for task lighting. <br /><br />Create the right mood in the living room, by choosing lamps of the right style, size and design to coordinate with the décor, while ably fulfilling your lighting needs.<br /><br /> Heavier floor lamps are better where kids frolic about since these are more stable.<br /><br /> Pick a single, large hanging lantern or suspend a cluster of little ones from different heights.<br /><br />Next come the time-keepers. Go for an oversized wall clock on a wall where the clock is the only display piece.<br /><br /> Modern clocks with a monochromatic scheme ally amicably with minimal furniture. </p>.<p>Place a traditional table clock on your coffee/side-table or a retro clock on your shelves. <br /><br />A mantel clock is for the fireplace. Contemporary clocks come in unique designs like those embedded within a guitar-shaped contour or a gigantic wristwatch’s dial. <br /><br />Vases are a time-honoured option.<br /><br /> Fill glass /ceramic vases and canisters with knick-knacks, flowers, peacock feathers, willow branches, palm/fern fronds, potpourri, or other goodies.<br /><br /> Jute-wrapped or wicker vases, clear glass ones, jewelled shimmer finish, silver urns with intricate carved patterns, tall floor vases – your options are endless.<br /><br /> Even left empty, such artistic pieces can serve as décor items. <br /><br />Arrange a single large vase on a pedestal table, a couple on a corner table or a cluster of little ones on a console table.<br /><br />Decorative trays can again meet both decorative and utilitarian needs.<br /><br /> While round, rectangular, square and oval are common shapes, the usual materials used for making them are glass, metal and wood.<br /><br /> Uniqueness comes in the form of lacquer, capiz shell and mirror trays. Choose either accent or vanity trays.<br /><br />Candleholders can spice up your living room, too. <br /><br />Painted black/white metal holders, floor candleholders, ornate silver /brass ones, glass/crystal beauties, mercury-finish mesmerisers, silver-flecked sphere hurricanes, porcelain ones, taper holders, glass candle pots, glass candlesticks (slim and tall or round and stubby), thick-cut glass holders, little lantern-shaped holders and tealight holders are some suggestions. <br /><br />Mirrors are recommended for creating a semblance of spaciousness. But, for <br />décor purposes, a huge, single mirror isn’t your only option.<br /><br /> Arrange an array of smaller ones on your wall.<br /><br /> Other possibilities are a huge mirror over the couch and mirrors with minimalist, interesting frame designs.<br /><br />Throw rugs, throw pillows, cushions, window treatments, coasters, art prints (a big, expensive one or a group of smaller prints), frames, fresh /artificial flowers and coffee-table decorative pieces to finish décor with a flourish.</p>