Today’s modern homes don’t always have a natural focal point such as a fireplace, with fires no longer required to heat a home. If there isn’t a natural focal point in your living room, it can be tricky to come up with one, but the good news is that there are a few tried and tested ways to add a focal point even if there is not an obvious one in the room. Some of the best ways to add the main area of interest to your living room include the following:
Add a Fireplace
If your room does not have a fireplace already, adding one can create an instant natural focal point for your room. And the best part is that even if you live in a modern new build home that is not designed to have an old-fashioned fireplace like a log burning fire with a chimney, today you can find electric fires that plug in and can immediately be added to your room. You can even build a fake chimney breast for your fireplace. A flueless gas fireplace is another option to consider that does not require your home to have a functioning chimney.
Feature Wall
Sometimes, all you need is to decorate in such a way that the eyes are drawn to a certain wall in the living room. There are various easy ways to do this using paint, wallpaper, or wooden panelling. If you are painting, you can create a stunning feature wall using colour blocking, which is a technique that uses several complementary shades to paint various blocks or shapes on the wall, often to highlight certain accessories like artwork or shelving. Wooden panelling is another simple yet effective way to add a focal point to your living room; you can create this effect using strips of primed MDF before painting the entire wall and MDF in a colour of your choice.
Large Artwork
Adding a large piece of artwork to your room is a sure way to make sure that the eye is drawn in a certain direction. It’s hard to avoid looking at a huge piece of artwork, and the best part is that this is one of the easiest ways to add a focal point to your room, with no decorating required. You could choose oversized art, or create a gallery wall.
Entertainment Centre
If it’s all about entertainment in your home, there’s no reason why you can’t turn the TV into the main focal point in your living room. There are various ways to do this, including adding shelves around the TV and adding strategically placed accessories, or you could go even further and build an entertainment wall into your living room including LED lights around your wall-mounted TV. Mounting the TV on the wall immediately turns it into more of a focal point compared to having it on a TV stand.
If your living room is quite plain and does not come with an obvious point of focus, the good news is that adding a focal point and making the most of the space in your living room is easier than you might think.
