It’s not uncommon for most people to struggle with the idea of taking living room decorating beyond setting the couch up at a good angle to catch the best television shows. Few people arrange and decorate their living room without taking the television into consideration.

If you want to create a stand out living room, start of course by closing in the television and using a different focal point, of focal points, throughout the room. In this room, home accents, large wall clocks, and decorative candle sconces can add a depth to the room that a television simply can not do.

Starting at the walls, after you have determined the television is now a secondary piece of furniture, decide exactly how you want the room the envelope you. If you are looking for a definite statement, try a large wall clock directly above the sofa. These days, you can get some incredible works of art willing to tell time for you that are about as large in diameter as you are long.

These things are incredible, and they make a loud and poignant statement to anyone who walks into the room. The use of a large wall clock is not only functional, but downright bold against the backdrop of a living room. Being bold doesn’t have to mean barren and uninviting. Quite the opposite, in fact, as boldness creates a room that attracts people rather than ushering them away in silence.

Home accents can be used throughout the room to catch the eye of those who walk through or sit for a cup of tea, or anything else you have in mind. Using home and wall decor accents sparingly throughout the room, just two or three that are by far above the standard, will draws the attention to the areas that you wish to highlight.

Most often, if you have drafted the room around the sofa, you will want to use the home accents along the coffee table or end tables, to draw attention to the area for sitting, socializing, or perhaps the occasional television viewing. For every area that you may have for additional seating and socializing, you may want to use a beautiful decorative home accent piece to draw attention to it. You can do this by using the tables surrounding it, or use the coffee table as one centerpiece for all the areas, depending on the size of the room and how much seating you have.

Decorative candle sconces can be added above these more intimate areas in order to create not only a gentle lighting that indicates there is socializing that happens here, but also to help draw the eye to these areas, just as you did with the accent pieces. What you end up creating is a combination of bold intimacy that directs the attention away from the television and back onto the people who are in the room altogether, even if that remains immediate family 99% of the time.

Creative decorating, the use of accents and decorative candle sconces, and even the clock, turns the attention of the room onto the live bodies that occupy the space. Intimate decorating is not hard, but because it is relatively rare, it creates a more powerful room. The use of decorative candle sconces also highlights the area for the occasional party or holiday get together.

The floor can be left bare, which makes for a more formal look, or covered with a wide variety of floor covering. Bamboo rugs are becoming slightly more popular, and add a distinctive look to a bare floor, are easy to maintain, and are surprisingly comfortable under the feet.

Regardless of the styles you choose, the most important aspect of living room decorating is that you draw people together in a setting that seems privately comfortable and relatively intimate for encouraging conversation over mindless television viewing.