Open Concept Kitchen Living Room Design Ideas – Creating More Impact With Contrast & Variety

If you have an open concept kitchen living room area one of the first things you'll want to do is to create a cohesive look to this multi-function space. But another essential element that I encourage you to incorporate into the interior design of your open plan room so that it isn't flat or dull, is variety. In this video you'll learn some interior design ideas on how to create variety through contrast by using a variety of lighter, darker, and mid tone values of colors and materials. Just by adding a black and white filter to the images I share in this video, you'll be able to focus just on value, and see examples of open plan kitchen living rooms that have a nice variety of values, and rooms that are flat because everything is in a similar value. You can do this too to find out if a room in your home needs more variations of value just by taking a photo with a black and white filter. Let me know if you have any questions on adding variety to a room by incorporating a variety of values, and if you have any other design suggestions you would like to share.

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Video Chapters:
0:00 Open Plan Kitchen Living Room Design Ideas
0:35 Creating a Cohesive Look to an Open Concept Room
1:53 Variety and Contrast in a Room
2:05 What is Value
5:27 A Well Balanced Open Concept Kitchen Living Room
6:45 Open Plan Kitchen Living Room Dining
8:18 Open Concept Room That Needs Darker Values
9:26 Kitchen Living Open Plan Room That Needs Deeper and Darker Values
10:16 What is Visual Weight



















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