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Page 8 2015 Fall Home Improvement and Garden LINCOLN DAILY NEWS.COM SEPT. 29, 2015
E
very room in a house or apartment needs
to reveal some kind of statement about
the people that live in it from day to day. A
home, whether owned or rented, is decorated
to show off the personalities of those who
live there. In a way, decoration gives a room
a personality of its own, with each piece of
furniture or wall hanging add to it in some
way.
In other words, rooms often have themes;
patterns in the ways they are decorated or
organized. With a bit of searching around, we
can found some of the common contemporary
themes for home decoration.
A higher cost element of decorating serving
big impact is furniture. Larger furnishings
may help personalities shine through, but
more importantly provide function to a home.
Living room
furnishings
In recent years,
television has
brought forward a
number of shows
such as ‘Mad Men’
or ‘How I met
your mother’ that
are period related.
These shows
take place in past
decades from the
twentieth century,
and they try to
create accurate representations of homes and
the way they looked. Due to the popularity
of these types of programs, we are seeing a
return to a simpler form of decoration with
the rise of “mid-century modern” furniture.
A lot of mid-century modern furniture will
look familiar to those who lived in past
decades, as modern designers have tempted to
recreate the look of it. Tables and chairs for
living rooms and dining rooms have thinner
legs and are much shorter. Living room
tables have returned to being not just a space
to set a drink or a magazine, but instead often
have shelves, drawers, or small cabinets in
them. New couches and chairs are often one
solid color, although a pattern of stripes is
also common.
With the popularity
of mid-century
modern furniture,
designers have
begun selling
complete furniture
sets that match.
These sets share
a common color
scheme or at least
a small number of
colors, resulting
in a simpler look
for the living
room. This could
be a popular
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Show your
PERSONALITY
through furnishings and decor