Make Your Living Room A Room To Live In
The living room seems to be the first and last room everyone sees when visiting your home. It is the central gathering place for many occasions. Here are a few tips to make your living room more functional and livable:
*Use lightweight stackable tables near the seating. These tables are great places to park books, cups and can be moved around for a more useful purpose.
*Arrange your room the way you want to use it daily. Don't arrange it for how you want it to look for company. Chances are you will spend 95% of your time in this room without company.
*Have a variety of lighting in the room. Use bright lights for reading and writing and softer lights for conversation and relaxing. Put dimmers on your lights to control the mood. Dim lights will also hide the dust!
*Provide a nice area for reading with good lighting.
*Buy a coffee table with storage. You can store board games, remotes, blankets and books in the storage compartment. To save a little money, you can use chests, old toy boxes or even a decorative crate with a glass top. Be creative.
*Provide plenty of floor pillows to keep kids from jumping around on furniture. Make or buy zippered pillow covers for easy clean ups.
*Place a short and easy to reach bookshelf behind the sofa instead of a sofa table. You can only sit a few items on a table, but dozens on a bookshelf.
*And most importantly, teach everyone to clean up and take their own items when they leave the room.
Roxanna Ward may be contacted at Roxanna30135@aol.com. Click here to view more of their articles.
Roxanna Ward, Community leader and staff writer for http://www.BabyUniversity.com, lives in Georgia with her husband, Stan and her three children, Kirstie-Raie, Chase and Kale. As a published freelance writer and breastfeeding advocate, the focus of her writing is concentrated on sharing household tips, her experience with her frugal lifestyle which is compensated by being able to afford to be a stay-at-home mom, as well as the phenomenal process of breastfeeding, child rearing related issues and romantic relationships. She is also currently the Editor of three newsletters: What's New at BabyU?, Intimate Encounters and At Home with Baby University. Roxanna can be contacted at Roxanna30135@aol.com
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