Every room in your home can have a mood or personality of its own. If you select the right furniture you can create the look you want for each room.

    With proper planning you can make each room distinctive and add new beauty to the total look of your home. Your living room can have one look while the family room has another. Problem is…how do you go about achieving this without the rooms feeling disconnected?

    The easiest way is with color. By taking one of the colors in your scheme and repeating it in the adjoining room, your rooms will have continuity, although the look may be totally different in each room.

    When planning your rooms, remember the scale of the furniture, patterns, and the accessories that will be used to complement your furniture. Don’t forget to take advantage of natural light to emphasize a feature of your home, and then supplement it with the artificial light you need so that you’ll have adequate lighting any time of day or night.

    Using pictures, the right type of furniture, and eliminating non-essential items are good ways to maximize the space in your rooms. If you are a collector, these items will have more importance and create more interest in a room if you arrange them in a grouping rather than placing them in different parts of the room.