How would you describe a living room? Is it a place where you can entertain your guests? Is it a place where you feel the most relaxed? Is it a space where you can connect with your family? No matter what you chose, it is quite obvious that the living room is the liveliest place in the house. Therefore, you have to make sure that it remains that way. However, when you are entertaining your guests formally, you can’t expect to do so in a brightly colored living room. The room design idea that we would be talking about today is based on a simple, elegant, luxurious and classy theme that would give a very modern look to your home. It is designed especially for an urbane setting but can be used pretty much anywhere that you like. Let us get started.

The most important thing that you need to focus upon in this room is the furniture of the house. Therefore, we would first start talking about the furniture. You need to buy a big fluffy sofa for your living room. Make it a cottage style thickly padded sofa that would help you in making sure that the room retains a very earthen look. The sofa should seat three and must be provided with both large and medium sized cushions. While the sofa must be in an oyster white shade, you can chose the cushions in a complementing pattern. This would help in maintaining the theme of the room. The armrests must be simple and not very high. Keep moss green colored sofas on either side of the 3 seater sofa. These two must follow the contemporary designs but must have a high and straight arm chair. These sofas need not be very fluffy. Just keep them firm and comfortable. It can also come with accents of deep chocolate brown color. A bench with textures and similar moss green colors would complete the look.

The table that you must keep in the room should be rectangular in shape and must have a glass tabletop. Keep a small flower vase on the table but keep only yellow flowers here. This is because it would match the theme of the room. Keeping red flowers is also okay but it would hardly do anything to accentuate the look and feel of the room. Keep side tables that are chunky and stand exactly at the height of the armrests of your couch. Add lamps and flowers here to complete the furniture part of the room. You must ideally have large French windows here. Use solid grey and sheer white curtains with patterns. The room must be painted in an extremely light variety of moss green. This would help you in keeping the room looking light even after using heavy furniture over here.

Remember, you don’t have to use anything that is too heavy or too dark in the living room otherwise it looks quite boring. Keep it light but make sure it looks fairly elegant.

Patios are really special parts of your house. This is because it is the only space after the living room where you can socialize with the others. A good patio is a necessity for you home. Therefore, you must always pay attention to making a great seating and socializing space in your backyard or a big lawn if your have one. So, what are the important things that you must focus on when you are getting a patio built for yourself? Basically, you must be focusing on the usage and the size of the patio. This and other things are mentioned below in detail.

• First of all, decide what would be the purpose of the patio if you are planning to get one built for yourself. Many people like their patios to be very private spaces where they sip in their beverages and just look at the stars. There are many others that want the patio to be a space for socializing out in the open. There are many others who want a multipurpose patio. Therefore, you must first decide how you are going to use that patio. Once this is decided, rest of the things would become easier.
• Decide the size of the patio. The size of the patio would largely depend on the size of your backyard but is entirely a matter of your personal preferences. Therefore, be very sure of what you want with that patio. Socializing spaces would obviously be bigger while private patio spaces would be smaller. Therefore, keep these things in mind and make sure you don’t budge much more the size that you have decided for the patio.
• Decide about the decoration of the patio. You might want it to look extremely natural. For this, you have to focus on growing a few plants around it. You can even opt for decorative flower rails all over the patio. Some might want it to look simpler. If this is the case, then you can simply go for carvings. If you are still undecided and don’t even wish to go over the top, just use some fancy lights on the patio. This would help you in making sure that it looks trendy and elegant at the same time.
• Decide the furniture that you would be using for the patio. You have three options. First, is metal. This material is generally used in patios that are more relaxed and provide a good way to get relived of all the stress in life. If you want to use it for a personal space and would only socialize with a small number of people, metal would be a good option. Wood is certainly an evergreen option and it can be used in both casual as well as formal settings. Finally, we have wicker and rattan furniture. It looks quite good and would be providing a very casual and laid-back appearance to the patio. Many people also opt for plastic furniture at this space. You can decide as per your wish.

Buying a furniture item is quite an expensive task. You would be spending anything between $300 to a few thousand dollars in buying furniture for your house. In this case, you would definitely have to save some money for at least 6 months or even a year and make sure that you are able to buy a really great piece of furniture for yourself. However, you can never know if the furniture that you wish to buy would fit in your budget or not. Therefore, for an average homeowner, buying furniture is quite a tricky task. Therefore, you need to buy some alternatives for yourself when it comes to furniture items.

A great furniture option can be plastic. Yes! Most of the homeowners might get not really take this idea in a very good way. They think that plastic is not something that they can depend upon when it comes to furniture. Well, if you would think plastic furniture would be using the same variety of plastic that is used in food packaging, you are mistaken. Plastic is a man-made material and its strength, color etc. can be changed as per the wish and need to the makers. When it comes to plastic furniture, the material is given a lot of strength and its flexibility is reduced.  It is provided with many bright and different colors as well. This makes sure that you are getting good quality plastic for creating furniture items. They do not crack or break easily and would not be very flexible and malleable like the usual plastic things we come across every day.

The best thing about plastic is that it is available in a huge variety of colors and designs. You can be getting anything and everything that you like in plastic. The plastic furniture items can be used in any kind of weather, both indoors and outdoors. There is no effect of sun, rain, sand or any other corrosive agent on the plastic furniture. Therefore, you would be seeing that plastic provides a great opportunity for you to buy cheap and durable kind of furniture for your house. Plastic is mostly used by people in their outdoor spaces like patios and in their kids’ room as well. However, it can be used almost anywhere that you like. There are plastic coffee tables, plastic dining tables and much more available to the buyers. Therefore, there would be no question about the lack of furniture in the house.

Some of the best quality plastic furniture is also available in very hard quality because of which it looks and feels exactly like wood. You would now be able to make sure that you get the same hardwood quality and looks as feels exactly like hardwood only. Therefore, you would never be compromising on looks, even if you are buying for a far lesser price than a hardwood furniture. Therefore, always make sure that you buy only the best. Plastic is in and it would be for a fairly long period of time.

You know what is the best kind of furniture wood available in the market these days? All of them. Yes, when we think about furniture, what we first think about is a wooden item. Furniture is actually a synonym to wood itself. No matter how many new materials we have seen in the past, there is nothing that beats the charm and glory of wood furniture and this is exactly the reason why we all love to keep wooden furniture in our homes. It is more elegant, more beautiful and definitely has a very charming appeal that cannot be avoided by anyone. Therefore, buying wood furniture is definitely an essential for your house if you are looking for really appealing home design ideas.

When you are buying wood furniture, you have to focus on the fact that the furniture that you are using can be made of many different kinds of woods. Therefore, it is essential that you focus on the fact that you only get the right kind of wood for the right use and the right room. Each kind of wood would be different in terms of looks and characteristics. If you are willing to buy furniture for your bedroom, you must definitely be buying mahogany and teak. These are two of the woods that make bedroom furniture look really chic. They are true to type hardwoods that are highly durable as well. If you have a classic furniture design, then you must definitely be looking for these two woods. However, you must always remember that these are exotic wood varieties and can be very expensive as well.

There are many varieties of wood that can be providing you the same looks but not as huge a quality. These woods are grown domestically. They may not be as good as teak or mahogany, but they are definitely durable enough and would be providing you a great cost effective measure to buy furniture as well. There are many varieties that either match the exotic woods in looks or in strength. Therefore, you must make sure that you are buying good quality wood only. Some of these varieties are exported from china and sold in the name of domestic or even exotic wood. Do not fall a trap to these tactics. If you must buy, buy from the most genuine dealers only. The domestic wood can include both softwood and hardwood like oak, maple, ash, walnut, cherry, poplar, pine, redwood and many more.

You must usually opt for softwood in wood as many of the hardwood furniture is out of the reach of the common homeowner. You must also look out for other alternatives in wood. There are many more alternatives to softwood and hardwood. One of these is composite wood, particle boards, plywood and pressed wood. They are made of wood particles as well polymer which keeps them light and durable as well. It is also very cheap to buy and is available in any number of colors and varieties that you can think of.

Wooden furniture is definitely the best that you can find around. This is because wooden furniture gives you an opportunity to express your interests in the most natural forms possible. This, in turn, in helpful in making sure that the true style of your home décor comes to focus. Remember, if it isn’t wood, it is probably not that good. Though metal, cane, rattan, wicker and even composite wood furniture has become quite common these days, nothing beats the looks and the quality that you would be getting with wood furniture. It is so versatile that it can be used in virtually any kind of home décor idea and theme. Are you also planning to buy wood furniture for your home décor? If yes, then you must definitely get to know about a few points related to wood furniture that we have mentioned below.

• There are many varieties of wood available in the market. Each variety would be further categorized under different places of origin, their characteristic and even their quality. Though it is a very vast subject to be talked about, you must definitely make sure that you find all the right kinds of wood that might suit your needs and research about them as much as possible. This would probably help you out in becoming a more accomplished buyer than you were. Getting to know about a few common varieties would always help you.
• Whenever you are buying wooden furniture, always make sure that it is high on strength and durability. It is okay if the looks are not what you desired. However, for the sake of looks, you must never ever try to compromise with the quality of the wood.
• Always ask the furniture dealer about the kind of wood he is using. There are solid wood varieties as well as composite wood varieties. If you find the furniture to be very light and available in many bright colors, you might be buying composite wood. So always check what you want and then ask the dealer about it as well.
• The color of the wood is really important in making sure that you make the right furniture buying decisions. This is because a good quality furniture wood have differences in colors that can subtly tell you about its high quality. This, however, is only applicable to natural wood, not composite wood.
• Whenever you are buying any kind of furniture that has drawers or chests, always open and close them and make sure that they operate smoothly. If not, they have not been made with good quality bonding glues or have some or the other problem in their construction. Don’t buy any such piece or you would regret later.
• Don’t buy a furniture by looking at it from a distance. You need to sit on it and examine each and every part of the furniture closely so that you can find out those minute manufacturing faults that ruin your purchase. Don’t pay for anything that doesn’t provide you the quality that you desire.

Are you planning to buy wood furniture for your next home design and renovation project? Well, you have made a great choice certainly. There is nothing better than wood when it comes to providing elegant looks to the furniture and décor theme. The real natural wood is definitely a great choice. It is more durable than ever. Moreover, it has a very good grain and a very good color as well. Therefore, you can definitely expect something good to look forward to. However, buying wood furniture is not an easy job. You would have to face many kinds of issues while buying wood furniture. Though there is no dearth of wood furniture in the market, buying quality furniture items can become a real struggle for the homeowners. Here are three of the most important factors that you must consider while buying wood.

• Look at the origin of wood- one of the biggest problems in finding quality wood is that there is such a variety that even an expert can have a hard time with wood furniture. There are many wooden varieties that belong to the same species but are available in different parts of the world, because of which their characteristics, color and quality vary greatly. Other than that, there is also an increasing variety of composite wood, plywood, particle boards and press boards that would further enhance your confusion about this material. You don’t have to be confused about it. Simply make sure that you get to know about the origin of the wood. Ask where the wood was grown or manufactured. This would help you in understanding the qualities of the wood better than the rest of the factors. For example, there are many trees that are found both in the US and Europe. However, European varieties are darker in shades and are stronger as well. If you can, then please spend some time in understand or researching about the different varieties of wood available to you.
• Manufacturing- no matter how high quality wood you may use, the manufacturing of the furniture would matter a lot. A good quality wood can be destroyed by bad manufacturing. So see how the wood has been made. Are the hinges and joints on their place? Can the furniture drawers move with ease? See how the different parts of the wood have been joined to make the furniture. Touch the furniture upholstery and see if it is made of good quality fabric or not. These are small things that you must understand. One common understanding is that good furniture items might have dowels or screws but they never have staples.
• Finishing- there are different kinds of finishing available in the market these days. They can either be matte or gloss. You can choose it as per your requirements. A common rule of the thumb is that no matter what kind of finishing you chose, it would never have bubbles, rough spots or even dust specks. Smoothness is a good indicator of quality finishing as well.

There is no doubt regarding the fact that a minimalist home décor is in these days. This is because the modern or urbane styles do not allow cramming of many elements of furnishings in the same room. People have now started focusing more on the spaciousness in the room rather than the number of seating options available to them. This, quite obviously, demands for new kind of home design ideas. The minimalist home décor is on one extreme of this idea. In this theme, we focus on keeping things at the level of bare essentials and allow as much space in the house as possible. Some people say that Asian style home décor themes are the best representations of this kind of ideas. They use solid furniture but make sure that the room doesn’t look too crammed up. However, the minimalist theme and design is much more than this.

Minimalism became quite popular as an architectural achievement in the past century. The designs are sparingly decorative and are quite straight and streamlined as well. Still, the designs are quite appealing. The sole idea is to create clutter free spaces and a cleaner or neater living space that has more of personality and less of furnishing elements. If you also like this idea and want to incorporate it in your house, here is something that you might want to try before. This tips are simple but they always work really well.

• Create a neat area- minimalism is not about ‘stuffing’ things into your household. It is more about keeping what is really needed and doing away with the rest. You don’t create an illusion of space, you actually make space for things and that is exactly what needs to be done. The lesser the number of décor and furnishing elements, the better you would be feeling. Start with the furniture. We are habitual of cramming things in our room. Having three pieces of sofa with ottomans was not enough so we also bought a huge coffee table that left a space of merely 4 feet between the sofa and the coffee table. Now, this is something that you don’t want. Clear it. Don’t go for cluttered surfaces as well. Accents are meant for accentuating the beauty of your surface, not making it a collage. Be it tabletops, countertops or even your walls, you would need only a couple of colors and accents to the max.
• Buy simple- if you are planning to replace the furniture of your room, then go for chic pieces that look very elegant but are very simple as well. Don’t go for heavy paddings and upholsteries and overly bright designs. Just keep it simple.
• Lighting- focus on the lights that you have kept in the room. Use recessed lights as well as track lights instead of bold floor lamps or even table lamps. All install dimmers in your room so that you can change the amount of light you need.
• Use cozy colors- let them neutral or natural. Earthen shades look good too.