Modern Living Room Lighting Ideas

There are many modern lighting and fixtures on market with various sizes, accents and style that can be ideas for decorating modern living room. In fact, lighting in interior design has several major functions. Certain illumination level can change orientation inside rooms so the higher level must be chosen for this room, including for high ceiling home.

Living room can be considered as center of your activity with family and friends. Most homeowners love to install lighting rod system recommended with adjustable pendants so it will be easy to décor room with right ambiance, based on taste and needs particularly avoiding casting shadows and glare. If you are boring person and want to move lamps to different area, portable lighting can be solution.

If your living room is small or has size limitation, be sure to choose the right one that will take less space with sufficient ambient so eyestrain will be prevented. You can diffuse the light by using glazed window panes on large windows. Here are top five modern living room lighting ideas.

Modern Lighting Ideas with steel shades

Presenting by lampclick.com, the design has laser cut halos on polished stainless steel shades with polished nickel intersection. With etched geometric pattern, it offers incandescent lights that change the overall look of living room.

Heather Garrett Design

If you love chandelier, this is perfect lighting with beautiful color matches to wall and sofa, designed by heathergarrettdesign.com.

Miami Beach

Designed by PepeCalderindesign.com, it is modern style with technological taste.

Funky and Fun Living Room

Designed by www.annlowengart.com, this light suits to living room with large windows so fresh space will be gained. Natural look and modern style are combined.

Bergen Street Residence

Designed by http://www.coburnarchitecture.com, it combines hanging light with sofa and windows.

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Black and White Bathroom Decoration Ideas

Are you lacking ideas of black and white bathroom decoration to make it look stylish and contemporary? This color combination becomes favorite themes for many homeowners because it offers contrasting characteristic and bold statement so it will match to fixtures, subway tiles and other furniture.

In my opinion, choosing combination white and black color for decorating home can be wardrobe decision that provides meaningful scheme. Yes, black emphasizes dirt-look that it will be hard to clean it compared to white color. This combination shows that homeowners love chic and elegant design as well as simple symbol. In other words, your personality is considered as powerful, classic, classic and dependable characters who love purity and neutrality (white).

Here are some black and white bathroom decor ideas that may inspire you.

Dynamic Joan Scheinberg’s black and white bathroom

Designed by joanscheinberg.com, it combines many textures to deliver interesting combination of antique and modern style.

Bathroom by Dana Cohen-Vishkin

It has colorful lighting with black tiles for wall to deliver clean lines and dark background behind white furniture.

Main Bath by Birdhouse Interior Design

It delivers dramatic effect for traditional and modern feeling. The subway wall tiles and black vanity play main role to offer nice contrast, combining with eclectic vibe. See other pictures of designs on historic 1910 foursquare Field Club home.

Black & White Powder Room

Designed by REFINED LLC, it uses Martha O'Hara wallpaper and curtain with unique accent. Glass door, plate and faucet made it perfect look.

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Modern Wooden Wall Units For Living Room

It will be good ideas if you plan to decorate living room using wooden wall units. They come with modern and traditional style. Fortunately, it is easy to get it because there are wide range of choices in market with various patterns and different types of wood species such as oaks, maples and cherry.

For perfect combination, it is advised to use wood veneers with other wood furnishing and adjustable shelves so it will be easy to arrange books, photos and other collections. It is also great idea to apply window valance ideas. Some choice also goes by employing glass, wood and metals in such wall units.

There are many advantages that you can get due to use of wood wall units. This decoration does not improve overall looks of rooms with desired pattern and colors that match to your personality only but it also can be functional shelves and drawers. Here are three examples of designs that can may inspire you.

Great Living Room

Designed by Yossi fridman, it combines wooden wall units, TV, sofa, lighting, rugs cabinets and shelves to get perfect contemporary look on modern apartment or house.

Eclectic Family Room

It is awesome family or living room from projectinteriors.net. The sectional setting, cabinet and furniture are arranged to deliver stylish personality with entertainment center.

Moraya Bay Residence

It is good wooden wall units and the excellence is located on design of hidden speakers with painted speaker cloth. The sofa and other cabinets complement the overall look. See other images on grandwoodworking.com/portfolio.

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Boy's Football Bedroom Themed Decoration Ideas

You may think about boy’s football themed bedroom ideas when you find your kids love this game so much. It will be happy projects to get best decoration that can make him happy. The complexity depends on how old he is and which football team. Football theme can be American Football or soccer and it can be applied to college dorm room.

The first step is to determine right ideas to implement with right team so you can buy related theme of wallpaper, curtains and duvet covers with logo and right color. Most favorite colors are dark ones because it allows you to get less maintenance where scratches and chips are formed on doors and woodwork. Here are some issues to take into consideration while planning and decorating.

Walls

The color must be suitable to favorite team of your kids. You can combine two colors where neutral colors on upper one and strong color on other side. I love to add strip of cork board on the where the colors meet with football accessories, merchandises and posters. If you do not have time to repaint the bedroom, you can attach removable wallpaper on wall with right pattern and scheme to favorite football team of your kids.

Bedding and Accessories

There are many online and offline store to provide fabric bedding, duvet sets, pillows, curtains and accessories with football theme. You can add football helmets on headboard to give new look. In fact, there are also hand-made accessories of football theme that you can buy including clocks, name plaques, light fitting and some prints.

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Modern Bachelor Pad Interior Decorating Ideas

Are you lacking ideas of bachelor pad decorating including design of interior, bedroom and living room? As long as you are creative and can spare much time to think about it, you can bring modern style and scheme by adding your personal preference on overall design.

Taking research can be first step to determine which ideas can be implemented based on your needs and budget. You can surf magazine and search online to find kind of modern theme suits to you. You should take simplicity and comfort as principle to get modern look. Therefore, using single color scheme and proper amounts is recommended to do, including having suitable characteristic of area rug.

For masculine theme, it is advised to choose pastel or shelves walls with men’s miniatures instead of having floral scheme. Please remember, men tend to design from bottom and top. So selecting rug can play important aspect here. The ideal combination is white wall with solid color of rugs. You can add some curtains on windows to add softening effect. For display, it is relative. If you like soccer, you can hang the sports accessories such as posters on wall. Of course, it will be different concept than designing for dorm room.

Here are some pictures that may inspire you get modern bachelor pad interior decorating ideas.

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High Ceiling Living Room Decorating Ideas

If you have high ceiling home, you may find difficult ideas to decorate living room. The problem is due to big space height and cubic space so improving looks of luxury, royal and grand may be hard to implement. You should consider that large space can consume higher heating and cooling bill as well as you must use big chandeliers to cover lights on all sides in room. Of course, you do not need multipurpose furniture.

So how can we do to get decorating it? It all depends on your needs and budget. You even fresh up overall look without using many things. To shorten the walls, you can remove wall applications and install light shade. To make your ceiling higher, the color of ceiling should be continued to wall in single horizontal stripe and you can hang slim light fixture in the room center. Other curtains and accessories also play important roles to make the ceiling visually higher and shorter.

Here are some pictures that may inspire you get ideas of high ceiling living room design and decorating

David Coulson Design Studio

By implementing Japanese interior style, you will make your high ceiling living room warm and comfortable with nature accent and beautiful style. The custom bamboo cabinet is designed perfectly match to heated terrace. Please visit davidcoulsondesign.com.

Lucerne Living Room

It is designed by Emily Andrews with approximately size of 8.0m by 8.0m by 5.7m. It offers contemporary design with stylish backsplash, island made of marble and pale floor. The lighting comes with mirror ball design and great chandeliers. The window concepts are addressed for homeowners love the openness so they can see city views all time, even in dining time.

Tribeca Loft

Designed by DHD Architecture and Design, this radical alteration design combines new steel structure with elevator and smart home technology.

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Top Five Multi Purpose Furniture For Small Spaces

Choosing multipurpose furniture for small spaces can be challenging task to do because you need get beautiful design ones at affordable price. While it comes to live in small environment, you must think functionally and modernly, including choosing furniture with innovative, practical and less maintenance character that serves more one function for small space, particularly if you stay in small apartment. It is like to choose two or three items in one package such as writing desks.

There are many factors while it comes to get decorate your small room with furniture. It will be good idea if you raise the furniture off the floor so it provides spacious look particularly if you put full mirror on wall to get spacious perception on room size. Bright color will be pleasing to eye.

In this article, I include top five-multipurpose furniture that can be your inspiration while decorating your small spaces in home and small studio apartment.

Maisonette Italian Furniture Design by Simone Simonelli

It is perfect solution of furniture in small living space with modern design and multi purposes. It can be used as small table, tray, bookshelf and clothes rail. Visit simonesimonelli.it for complete pictures.

Goliath Console or Dining Table

With its unique telescoping mechanism and deep console, this table is made of aluminum that can be extended from 17’ to 115’ for five extensions. It is distributed by Resource Furniture. It allows you to maximize space of your home by making cozy dinner table or breakfast bar for 10 people. See the video below.

Madame Est Servie Mirror

It has dual function to be vertically and horizontally locked as full-length mirror to dress up and ironing board. You can aissalogerot.com for more photos.

Convertible Bamboo Table by Tom Rossau

Introducing by tomrossau.dk, this table can be coffee and dining table. It maximized the space, easy to maintain and made of light material, bamboo.

Sweet Talk and Dream by Matali Crasset

It is incorporated multi functions table that offers adaptability and flexibility so you can talk, relax, read, write and welcome your guest in soft surface by folding it depends on your needs and space. For viewing all pictures, visit www.designboom.com

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Shabby Chic Bedroom Ideas For Teenage Girls

Have you ever considered shabby chic ideas for decorating bedroom of your teenage girls? This theme can be favored for many girls because it can make them look like innocent, smart and cute lady. In this concept, the signs of tear and wear are distressed to obtain antique look by combining vintage interior design, wallpapers, furniture, feminine accessories and lightings.

You even can combine this theme with other vintage accents such as Moroccan style. There are some issues to consider while it comes to decorate teenager girl’s room with shabby chic style. You can do it as DIY projects.

Color of wall

There are many colors that can propose the concept of this theme. Blue, green, pink and white are recommended choices to take on classic cottage style for cozy bedrooms. You also can change wallpapers with accents of laces, eyelet and laces.

Flooring and Furniture

Like wall color, flooring can be carpeted with natural look. Adding floral rug, wooden bestead, bedspreads and furniture is great idea to get old fashion look. To save, it will be good idea to ask grandma for vintage or old table, desks or chairs. Sometimes, you just need to repaint it for perfect shabby chic look and put some flowers from garden in vase and put on the desks.

Accessories

If you have vintage rocking chair, you can seek for antique dolls, puppets and displays and put them with old cushions. For windows, it will be good idea to buy curtains with floral or stripped pattern. Some teenagers also love to hang crystal chandelier in middle of room or wall as well as flower or books posters on wall.

Here are some photos that may inspire you to get shabby chic look of bedroom of teenage girls.

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