When it comes to interior decorating, how many of us can honestly say we’re experts? Sure, our living room looks good to us — and we hope it looks good to our friends, too. But do we have professional-level talent when it comes to putting together a living room that is stylish, cozy and, most importantly, in budget?

Here are some tips on how you can turn your living room into the best room in the house:

Decorating your living room is a challenging task for two reasons. First, you have to find somewhere to put all the stuff that used to be in your living room. Some of it will have to go in the bedroom or kitchen. Other things can go in the attic, or in the garage, or out in the yard. But unless you’re going to be getting a lot of visitors, you’ll probably end up putting some of it in the trash.

This will give you a chance to practice sorting through your possessions and deciding which ones are essential, which ones are sentimental, which ones are junk and which ones are worth keeping. The idea is not to pack away everything that’s left over after you’ve found places for everything else; that would make your house too hard to live in. It’s just about keeping as much of your stuff as possible out of your living room so it doesn’t clutter up the place.

The second challenge is that living rooms are tricky spaces. A dining room has more space for furniture because it has fewer windows and no fireplace; a kitchen is more flexible because you can move appliances around whenever you need more counter space; bedrooms aren’t expected to look attractive when they’re empty, so people leave stuff lying around; but living rooms

It is important to remember that your living room is not just a room where you watch TV and read books. It is an expression of your personality and taste. This makes it all the more important that you give it some real thought when you are decorating it.

For example, do not just throw together a mishmash of furniture from different rooms and leave it at that. People who do this clearly have no appreciation for the finer things in life. What looks good in one room will look out of place in another. So before you go shopping, make sure you know what look you are going for.

Basic color schemes are simple to apply: black and white, red and black, purple and green, blue and yellow — these are just a few ideas for combinations of colors that work well together. They can be taken apart as necessary too: if your favorite shirt is red with black swirls, you can use it as inspiration for a room’s color scheme.

If you want to take this idea further, or perhaps just find something less expected than red and black or blue and yellow, try mixing two or three complementary colors together to get new shades — this works well with light pastels or pale shades of jewel tones like green or blue; for example,

You can choose a dominant color to paint the walls, or you can use an accent wall. But you should choose wisely; choosing the wrong wall color can make your room look smaller than it is.

A bright color will make a small room feel more open, so if you have a small room, try painting one of the walls brighter than the others. A dark color makes a room feel more closed in, so it’s better in larger rooms.

The walls in any given room tend to reflect light coming from that room’s windows, so you want to choose a wall color that will reflect as much light back into the room as possible. Dark colors absorb light; light colors reflect it. This effect is called “the brightness effect.” If you want to feel like your living room is larger than it really is, paint one of the walls a light color and keep the rest of the walls dark.

A bright color will work better if your north-facing windows are large and face directly east or west; otherwise they may not be bright enough to overcome darkness on the dark wall opposite them. The ideal arrangement is to have two north-facing windows, on opposite sides of the room, with one facing east and one west. When morning sunlight comes through those windows and

One of the most attractive features of the living room is its doors. They allow you to close off other parts of the house from your living space, ensuring a certain level of privacy.

It is easy to decorate a room if you don’t plan to spend much money. But the key to good decorating is knowing how to mix styles and periods.

Here are some tips for mixing different pieces of furniture, from different designers and from different centuries.

Before you begin, clear off the space where you will be drawing. If you must use a sheet of paper and a pencil, don’t forget to include those in your drawing. Have a friend take a picture of you drawing, or have a professional photographer take several pictures.

An artist’s life is filled with many difficulties, but none is more troublesome than thinking, “I am being an artist.” There is no space for this in your drawing. You must not think about anything but what you are doing.