How to Design a Living Room Online

Designing your living room online can save time and aggravation.

Your living room welcomes guests to your home and gives you a quiet place to relax when you get home from a long day at work. Deciding what color to paint it, or how to arrange your furniture can be a difficult proposition. It can involve moving your furniture countless times and bringing home color swatches to try to guess what they would look like on your walls. With an online living room designer, you can do all of this from your computer and see exactly how it will look before you move one piece of furniture.

Things You'll Need

• Computer
• Imagination

Instructions

1. Find a room design program online. Many of them are free and give you plenty of options to choose from. You can search with terms like "design living room online" to find them.

2. Read the instructions for the site you have chosen and use those to create your living room's current layout.

3. Follow the directions to move virtual furniture around and try different shades of paint on the virtual walls.

4. Save your creation. Many of these sites will also allow you to email or print your designs.

Tips & Warnings

• Be careful when downloading ANYTHING from a website that you are not familiar with.

References

• See my Design: Interior Design and Decorating Online
• iVillage; Design a Room-Virtual Room Designer

Resources

• Read this Article in Spanish