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Arrange Living Room Furniture

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Living rooms serve different purposes for different people. In some homes they serve as the main gathering area for family, while in others they're more of a show room, used only when company comes over. Either way, there are certain issues that always come up when trying to arrange living room furniture. Check out these tips for placing furniture in your living room.

Tips for Positioning Living Room Accessories

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A lot of items tend to go in the living room so it's important to arrange them all in a balanced and well-proportioned way. Once you've arranged the living room furniture, you need to place the accessories in a balanced way. Here are a few tips for hanging and placing living room accessories.

Tips to furnish Coffee Table

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As a large surface that has a prominent place in many living rooms, the coffee table needs to look good while it serves its function. You want to accessorize it with a few items that look great and compliment the style of the room, but you don't want it to be too crowded or obstruct anyone's view. Here are some tips and ideas for coffee table displays that will make the most of form, function and style.

Accent Furniture

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Accent furniture is a piece of furniture that complements a room's decor. The term comes from a meaning of the word accent which means stress, or emphasis.

How to Furnish a Dining Room

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How big is your dining room? A cavernous room with a small table will look cold and empty, while a too small space with a large table and chairs will seem unpleasantly crowded. Always measure your room before buying furniture, and remember to leave enough room around your furniture to move around easily.

Louis Philippe Furniture

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The Louis Philippe style of furniture, which is still very much in vogue today, is derived from a nineteenth century French style. It takes its name from the monarch who reigned from 1830 to 1848. The simple, softly rounded lines with very little ornamentation, and darker woods such as mahogany, palissandre, and walnut are its distinctive features. Table and commode surfaces are frequently topped with marble.

How to Maintain Wood Furniture

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Wood furniture is popular for its beauty, strength and durability in the home. While some exotic or antique woods require special care and maintenance, most wood furniture today is easy to clean and maintain. All it takes is a little care and a few simple steps to keep your wood furniture in great shape and looking its best.

How to Maintain Leather Furniture

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Some Useful Tips to Maintain your Leather Furniture

Shabby Chic Furniture

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Shabby chic items are often heavily painted with many layers showing through obviously worn areas. The style is imitated in faux painting using glaze or by painting then rubbing and sanding away the top coat to show the wood or base coats. Fabrics tend to be cottons and linens, with linen being particularly popular, inspired by old French linens. Whites and worn or bleached out pastels are favorite colours. Fabric is often stained with tea to give it the look of old fabric. Bleached and faded are terms often applied to the style.

Renaissance Furniture

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The Renaissance period that gives its name to the style of furniture that is becoming increasingly popular today, actually began in Tuscany at the end of the fourteenth century, but soon spread throughout the whole of Italy. Setting a new trend that finished the Middle Ages and led the way for a brighter and much more cultural future, more scientific advancement came about as did the style of a more complex guild of furniture makers.

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