There is an important aspect to be considered when decorating your living room, you will need to find the focal point of room and when you have done this it will give you the opportunity to place your furniture around it. For example, maybe you have a beautiful bay window which has some magnificent views, or perhaps you have in your living room a fireplace that is pleasing to the eye, if that is the case, then you will want to place your furniture in such a way that will take advantage of it.
If you have a bay window take full advantage of it by having an appropriate window dressing; the days of finding ready made curtains and bay window curtain poles or cheap Roman blinds is long gone. Today you'll be able to find all manner of styles, colours and designs to suit your décor.
With the amount of information that is available today, whether it is from browsing the Internet and looking at different websites that contain information on different interior design ideas, or magazines that have photographs of rooms that have been beautifully decorated, you will be able to decide easily, what style you want.