Decorate Living Room

Keep the door open on kids' rooms

Not anymore. Parents are increasingly looking to make their children’s spaces both functional and reflective of the aesthetic in the rest of the home. When my husband and I set out to overhaul our girls’ room this summer, we were astonished by the sheer amount of serious attention kids’ rooms are getting from magazines, retailers and amateur enthusiasts.

Take Dwell magazine ’s July/August issue devoted to children’s rooms and play spaces. A feature shows kids romping through beautiful, functional rooms with features that are both fun and inexpensive. Design and parenting blogs, too, have fueled the interest as parents trade tips on everything from fitting in a third bunk bed to accommodating a teen’s electronics to hacking Ikea furniture .

If you, too, have tackled the kids’ rooms, now’s the time to show off.

Today, The Post is launching an online Kid’s Room Contest . Editors are looking for the best-designed kids’ rooms: “lively, engaging and fun rooms that are good-looking and meet the child’s needs, whether he or she is an infant, school-age, a tween or a teen.”

The room must belong to a child and cannot be decorated by a professional. Enter by submitting five high-resolution photos online by Sept. 23. The winner will be featured in a fall issue of the Local Living section.

More details are in today’s Local Living section and at washingtonpost.com/kidsroomcontest .

Purple Living Room Design

When we decorate our house we do not simply buy things that we see in the store and then try to find their place in our homes. If we do this we will have a chaos and a weird mix of styles and colours and everything will look funny, but not in a good way. So most of us try to choose a style and a colour for the living room and then choose the matching furniture, drapes, carpet and all the other accessories that complete a room. And , of course, this colour differs a lot from house to house, depending on the owner’ s taste and style. Today I am going to show you some inspired designs for a purple living room .

Purple is the colour of royalty, the colour of good judgement and of those seeking spiritual fulfillment. It is good to use in meditation because it gives you peace of mind. It is said that most artists prefer this colour and that it attracts positive energies. However, it is seldom chosen as the colour of the background for people’ s living room. That may be because you cannot combine  it with other colours easily and it looks awful near brown and most furniture pieces are made of wood, so brown in colour.

Any way, the secret of having a nice-looking purple living room is to combine purple with white. This combination is the best and try to use lighter hues of purple for a conservative classic look. If you want to have a modern stylish purple living room, then you are free to try stronger hues combined with metallic grey and maybe black. Choose violet or pink accessories and an adequate lighting, as this colour does not make your house bright, but on the contrary. Just try not to go to extremes.

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