How to Make Kitchen Decor Flow Into the Living Room
When you want your living room decor to tie into your kitchen decor, you need to consider what elements of your kitchen you wish to repeat in your living room. The elements should be basic, such as flooring and wall color, that are appropriate for both types of rooms. It would be inappropriate to decorate your living room with items specifically related to kitchens, such as utensils. Does this Spark an idea?
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Choose a paint color for your living room that matches your kitchen wall color to create a flow from the kitchen to the living room. Alternatively, choose a slightly different shade of the same color. If you have a bold yellow in your kitchen, for example, opt for a paler version of yellow for the living room. Or, if you have a red accent wall in your kitchen, you could also have a red accent wall in your living room.
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Opt for the exact same flooring from the kitchen to the living room so you have a flow from the one room to the other. The flooring needs to be suitable for both rooms, however, such as hardwood, laminate or even cork. Kitchen tile would not be suitable in your living room space.
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Continue a theme or motif from your kitchen into your living room. For example, if you enjoy French Country as a style and like sunflowers, you could have sunflower dish towels in the kitchen and paintings of sunflowers in the living room. Alternatively, you could decorate both rooms with real or artificial sunflowers in vases.
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Use curtains to carry the same decor from one room to another. You could use the same fabric but different styles. In the kitchen, for example, you could have a valance or Roman shades on your kitchen windows. You could use the same material for curtains in the living room in panels or swags.
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Create a flow from your kitchen to your living room by using the same type of furniture in both rooms. If you have oak kitchen cabinets, choose an oak coffee table or oak wall unit for the living room. Use the same style of furniture in both rooms, such as rustic or contemporary.
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Tips & Warnings
Another way to create color flow from room to room is to start with the strongest accent color in one room. Use a lighter shade of the same color in the next room, and then an even lighter shade of the same color in the next room, and continue throughout your home. Alternatively, start with a light color, and use a darker hue of the same color in the adjoining room and then an even darker shade in the next room.
