How should I decorated a large square living room?

Our living room is large and square (ish). What decorating tips can you provide?

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CM Prestige Heating & Plumbing Ltd
10 Reviews, 80% Positive
Send some pictures
17th Nov 2015
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EXPRESS BUILDING SERVICE
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Paint two-tone walls. While tall potted plants are great for drawing the eye up and accentuating high ceilings, sometimes we crave the opposite effect. Painting color on your walls only part of the way up creates a cozier feeling, tricking the eye into thinking the ceilings are lower than they are.

Use wainscoting as a natural guide or simply tape off a line and paint everything below it.
30th Jan 2016
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Ella Finley Decorators and floor fitters
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All depends on whether you are looking to make the space look big in which case I would use a light neutral colour on each wall. You could have one wall or two opposite walls in a feature colour or the same but with wallpaper. I don't think a loud patterned wallpaper looks good on all walls as it does tend to make the room look smaller
2nd Feb 2016
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You can either wallpaper or emulsion the walls.
20th Apr 2016
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Young's Decor
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Always use a good quality paint and good brushes to avoid brush marks and stray bristles. Try using a good quality roller as well. Keep the room well ventilated too.
9th Jun 2016
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dcdecor
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Fashionable these days are 3 walls emulsioned and one wall papered as a feature wall
25th Oct 2015
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DIYStressBuster
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I can provide many decorating tips - too many to post here! If you need advise for a particular aspect then feel free to contact me. Otherwise I would recommend a look through the many YouTube videos on the subject as I simply could not compact it all in to one short message! Two useful tips I can fit in here are 1. take your time and 2. if you cannot afford a professional for all the work then why not have them do the stuff you are not comfortable with, say you do all the painting and have a professional paper the feature wall. Or for difficult to reach stair walls have the professional do the emulsion and you do the woodwork.
18th Jan 2017
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stephen webb
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start from the window to hide joints.
6th Dec 2016
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