Wall And Floor In the Living Room

           For day-to-day living - and certainly if you need to sell your home – neutral walls just make sense. Creams, oatmeals and the palest pastels, they’re easy to live with, inoffensive and create a fresh, clean finish. But sometimes sensible just feels a bit, well, samey.

As a basic rule, choose a wall that’s as plain as possible, without doors or windows that will break up the flow of colour. Alcoves, fire surrounds and chimney breasts can also work well.

For a harmonious finish, choose complementary shades that are different intensities of the same basic colour. Most people think of a feature wall as taking a darker shade, but that doesn’t have to be the case. 

           Stronger, deeper colours will make your feature wall appear closer, which is useful if you want to make a long room seem squarer.
If you want to make more of a statement, a feature wall may be the answer. Choose your focal point, add a stronger, more vibrant colour and, for minimum effort, you really can have maximum impact.

Wall framing in the living room includes the vertical and horizontal members of exterior walls and interior partitions, both of bearing walls and non-bearing walls. These stick members, referred to as studs, wall plates and lintels (headers), serve as a nailing base for all covering material and support the upper floor platforms, which provide the lateral strength along a wall. The platforms may be the boxed structure of a ceiling and roof, or the ceiling and floor joists of the story above.

            The technique is variously referred to colloquially in the building trades as stick and frame, stick and platform, or stick and box as the sticks (studs) give the structure its vertical support, and the box shaped floor sections with joists contained within length-long post and lintels (more commonly called headers), supports the weight of whatever is above, including the next wall up and the roof above the top story. The platform also provides the lateral support against wind and holds the stick walls true and square. Any lower platform supports the weight of the platforms and walls above the level of its component headers and joists.

           A living room is a space with so many different functions. From a quiet, cosy reading space to a place where you can gather with friends to watch the game, your living room needs to be functional, but it also needs to look great and reflect your unique style. In many homes, the living room is the biggest room of the home and a space where you can make a real statement.