Editor's Advice: How To Style Your Living Room Like A Designer

Great tips, but I'm always put off by all the decorative bits and pieces that have no purpose other than to gather dust and look pretty in *juuuuust* the right arrangement. I would love to see a video where you take the actual useful objects that most people have in their homes and arrange those in a stylish way. Things like how to make a bookcase (containing mostly actual books rather than vases and sculptures and who knows what else) look styled while still being functional, for instance.I know thi...

It looks good on the photo for showcase, but not for actually living among all this stuff. They didn't go overly stuffy here imo, but still.

Ana I so agree with you! Too many objects. Love the art though.

my favorite part of the room was the dog!!

my favorite was the plant haha

ok sooo are we decorating for a photoshoot or a real home? please please get real with this stuff. its getting stale, predictable, snooty and quite frankly boring. your magazine is not called "window displays and magazine covers." its called "house and home" is it not? ...like, come on now. get serious.

It's worse than that: ever try to LIVE in a chalk-white house? It makes lovely photos and videos, but everything looks worn out in a white space. Then of course the whites don't match. Some are cool, some are warm, etc.

Jennifer Shawley right

The guy is just saying things that don't have much substance behind them...

Forgive me, but a lovely plant would be perfect for that fireplace....this treatment has too much white~~~~*

The 3 white vases are horrible. Not even good space fillers...too small and too white. I would have preferred an upholstered stool or bench placed on the hearth. (Could be pulled out for additional seating when required.)

so we have this white painted fireplace... it will highlight those also white vases perfectly..... uhmmm no?

putting white art in the fireplace was a wasted opportunity for something more colorful, maybe if you painted one a hazel brown, another a kind of red color like the coffee table, then one a kind of blue like that bookcase type item in the corner I think it would look far better, too much white on white for my taste, and if you didn't want to take away from the mantel you could do muted colors, really any colors you want

Fine for staging but really, it's all a bit contrived and obvious. It looks unwelcoming. I'm imagining a sign outside the entrance to the room that bossily states: _Books and Soft furnishings are not to be touched as they are there to enhance the overall æsthetic. Please, remain standing at all times_ Best piece has to be that chair and next, the monkey lamp though not necessarily for that space. Worst? Those undoubtedly overpriced bits of tat that decorated the dead fireplace.

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Purple chair, green rug with red glass coffee table ?!