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Are you looking for a change of style for your living room? Tired of the same old comfortable but uninspiring style? Then it might be the ideal time to update your home decor with the latest Industrial style ideas for your living room.

Take a leap and choose a style a little out of the ordinary, combining an industrial aesthetic with stripping back unnecessary materials and mid-century furniture for a chic and cool modernist appeal. But just what is industrial style and how does it work in your living room?

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With summer approaching and travel plans still uncertain for some, now is the perfect time to invest in your accessories and furnishings to get that hotel experience without leaving the house. With just a little creativity, you can enjoy that five-star feeling every day of the week and create a home your friends and family will love. Here are some of our favourite hotel-inspired ideas to get you started.
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Half painted walls are a big home decor trend right now. They are an inspired interior design feature for any room with a low ceiling and an easy low-cost way of elevating the look of your room to a whole new level. Split wall painting is also a great artistic idea if you want to experiment with bold dark or bright colours but don’t want to risk overdoing it. And if you aspire to give your home a chic, classic style but live in a modern build, half painting your walls can be a brilliant way to sprinkle character over a room lacking in original features.

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We all love a good cushion. Key to both the style of a room and that cosy feeling while sitting on your Swyft sofa with snacks and the TV remote in hand, no home would be the same without cushions scattered about the place. And, while pondering whether to go for animal print over pink ‘n’ frilly, or vintage over modern, is all part of the cushion-buying fun – and an easy way to spruce up a room – you also have to consider your choice of fabric.

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As one of the more multifunctional rooms in a home, your living room is one of the few areas where you have free rein to do whatever you like to it! Other than a must-have corner sofa, the walls, displays and lighting options are pretty much up for grabs depending on your taste and aesthetic.

Below, our interior design experts have put together a 24 point list of over the sofa wall decor ideas. So strap in, grab a cuppa and let’s begin!

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While furniture is of course one of the most important features of any living room, no space can truly look its best without well designed lighting. Good lighting can help a room to look just as good at night as it does during the day. Creating a warm, welcoming atmosphere and attractive aesthetic, lighting can make a huge difference to your nocturnal interior design.

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Over the past year, home offices have become more important and more ubiquitous than ever before. A huge number of people now work from home, making a dedicated workspace a must for millions of professionals around the country.

Luckily, home offices can be squeezed into the smallest of spaces. With just a little creativity and a bit of organisation, you can transform an unused corner of your home into the perfect place for working, meeting, collaborating and generally taking care of business.

To help you achieve the workspace you need, and give your home a stylish extra feature, we’re taking a look at some of the best small home office ideas out there.

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There are four of them in almost every living room, although sometimes you barely notice. The corners always seem to be areas of dead space. A place where unloved things get left or where cobwebs accumulate. The idea of the corner has even entered the common imagination as a place with negative connotations: the naughty corner, being cornered, and more. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

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