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What colors do you like to live with? Sometimes a nice painting that appeals to you can give you ideas for color. Walk around in a good furniture store that has decorating, to see what you like. Some have rooms & rooms with different styles.
 

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Start with a central designing device, such as a large artwork for the wall next to the fireplace. Just choose something that you really love. It will be striking as people enter the room. Then plan for the colors of the rest of the room to be designed around that piece. Modern furnishings for a large abstract. Old timey for a vintage photo art. Cozy for a botanical art. You could stick with the neutral tones for the large items and choose colorful accent pillows, vases, etc. Or go the opposite and paint one wall in a bright accent color that augments the large artwork colors.

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Go to the store and buy a graph paper pad, draw your room space to scale on it, at one square = 6 inches or so. On another piece, cut out your tv and sofas and whatever, and play around with where to put them and visualize how people would walk into it.

With a sliding deck door you can't use blinds, so you have to do curtains. Colors you have now and the wood look nice.
 

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I would always do 3 walls in a light colour and 1 vivid wall maybe with a wallpaper?
I have just recently decorated my house and found that curtains and furnishings really help to transform a rooms look. I got all of my curtains from Julian Charles and also got quite a few matching cushions.

I would also add a rug that's bright as it looks like a big room

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Your space is a big playground and would be perfect for stunning artworks, wall murals, wallpaper murals and decals. Try the pre-pasted and removable ones, so that when you get bored or you're interested with another theme or design then you can change it easily-without destroying your walls. :smile:
 
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