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3-Step Makeover: Small Living Room

A new living room with tiny dimensions meets an old hodgepodge of furniture. Sparks don't fly. Enter our 3-step plan to ease in romance without breaking the bank.

From Better Homes and Gardens Magazine

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Stage 1: Getting Started

With spartan white walls, bare windows, and mismatched furnishings, this small living room lacks personality and coziness. Pushing the furniture against one wall -- opposite the entertainment center -- is a no-brainer floor plan, but it leaves a runway down the middle, blocks the tall windows, and squeezes access to the adjacent stairs.


The Makeover To-Do List
  • Create a focal point
  • Get rid of depressing white walls
  • Arrange the furniture for comfortable TV-watching and entertaining

Continued on page 2:  Stage 2: Color and a Floor Plan

 

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