Decorating Your New Home - The Family Room

What a great room to create if you are just moving into your first new home! This

room will mark your home as your own and give you and your loved ones much joy. A family room should be a room to be enjoyed by all and be a place of joy, comfort and memories too.

Firstly, working on the comfort theme: as one of the main trends for 2012 is home crafting, consider throws and blankets along with patchwork and tactile cushions to encourage fun and feeling. Traditional check blankets are great for covering sofas old and new.John Lewis (johnlewis.co.uk) have a sweet shop of soft furnishings for you to get lost in. Some recommendations include the cosy throw by Avoca in a purple check tartan style, priced at 80, and a range of accentuated cushions. If you are working with a young theme to please your little ones, the cushion range by Borderline offers a cat or fox design cushion, each priced at 30, which will bring much amusement. If, however - and rightly so - the adults have the first choice, look at complementing the Avoca throw and opt for the Designers Guild Royal cushion, priced at 75, which will not only harmonise with your throw but will add a rich regal family theme to your room.

Continuing with the family theme and the lines of the family tree, look at displaying this in the form of silhouette portraits as decoration for your walls. If you have a fireplace, place your framed pictures above it, or if you have a feature wall, display as an off-centre placement of decorative frames. To create your family portraits, take a piece of A4 ivory card as the back ground and black card to create your silhouette. Take a picture of your family member/members in the form of a Victorian silhouette (i.e. a side view, similar to the Queen's head on a coin) and once printed, cut out around the outside of the shape to get your silhouette. Transfer this shape onto the card and cut out, then place this onto the background card and fit into the frame of your choice.

If you want to work with the soft furnishings suggested in this article, the complementing wall colours would be suggested in the seasonal colours of grey or a light heather. Such choices would be Pavilion Gray 242 or Smoked Trout 60 by Farrow and Ball (farrow-ball.com). Frames should be metallic in the form of sprayed silver or a more contemporary version in chrome.

Enjoyment is still a main theme to incorporate into a family room and although a wall-mounted TV is much needed for those family film and Wii games moments, a good-sized coffee table should be considered when all technology is forgotten and the board games are brought down from the loft. Coffee tables do not have to be boring: why not opt for something different and take a look at Go Modern (www.gomodern.co.uk), at the coffee bean-shaped table which is top of the trends, with its glossy white surface that will suit most decors or themes.

by: Keith Osborne

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