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How To Decorate A Traditional Living Room and Choosing the Right Hardwood Floor

A traditional living room should have all of the traditional elements
including hardwood flooring. In colonial and Victorian times, houses of note
were built with highly polished hardwood floors covered with fine carpets to add
design, warmth and insulation.

Arrange Floor Coverings

Then, select a large rug to cover the middle of the room. Avoid solid colors
or contemporary designs as these are indications of casual or modern rooms.

Prepare Wall and Window Treatments

In a traditional living room of the past, wall treatments consisted of
wallpaper, wainscoting, picture molding and paint in almost any combination.
You might hang a chair rail molding over wainscoting. Paint both the wainscoting
and molding white. Hang wallpaper with a floral, hunting, or small stripe
pattern above the wainscoting to finish the look.

Pictures in gilded frames of still-life, portraits or country scenes could be hung centered inside
the picture frame molding.

Windows in your traditional living room should be treated with wooden blinds
or shutters.

Select and Arrange Furniture

Once the floor and walls have been arranged, it is time to assemble your furniture.
Traditional living rooms are almost fussy in their detail regarding furnishing. Traditional living rooms had more than one seating area, so create another
area for conversation in a corner or by the fireplace with two arm chairs or
straight-back chairs facing each other over a small table.

Kitchens/Family rooms

These are the most common spaces for wood floor installation in new construction. The ease of care, open floor plans, and the flow of traffic make this a very popular area for wood floors. Dark and white/bleached wood floors do NOT fare well in this area because of the high traffic, and the possibility of food & water being on the floor. Good cleaning habits are very important part of maintaining a wood floor, high traffic or not. Clean regularly, and always wipe food & water spillage immediately.

Formal Living and Dining Rooms

Not matching the exact color but a darker or lighter color in the same family of the floor color, thus complimenting each other. Remember the darker the floor, the smaller the space will appear, and maintenance consideration will increase.

Home Offices, Bedrooms

Wood Floors work well in bedrooms, often with area carpets being used. Office settings lean toward the traditional darker colors, and bedroom are a 50/50 toss up on colors used. NOTE: Rolling furniture, chairs, TV stands etc., can damage the finish very quickly, if used day to day.

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