How to Update Your Living Room in 3 Easy Steps With Rita Konig | Architectural Digest

Interior designer Rita Konig joins Architectural Digest for a quick lesson on how to refresh an outdated living room in just a few easy steps.

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My name is Rita Konig,
I'm an interior designer from London.
And here are three of my go-to formulas
for reinvigorating your house
when it's feeling a bit sad.
One is to rearrange your art.
When you do change your pictures out,
not only do you change the look of the room,
but you also see things that you'd stopped seeing.
It's hard to give hard-and-fast rules
about what to do and what not to do
to get your gallery wall together.
But there are a couple of things
that I always realize that I'm doing.
And one of them is this sort of tram lines,
and not ending up with a sort of map of Manhattan
with avenues and streets.
The minute I see a highway going up the wall,
just shove a picture out
so that it breaks that straight line.
And the same the other way.
Another quick thing to do is to buy an old quilt
or use a throw over the back of the sofa,
or even over the whole thing
and then put new pillows in front of it.
Just adds new texture and is a way
to bring in some new pattern.
Let's say you have lovely, big, white sofas.
And then in the winter, feel like you want to just
enrichen it a little bit.
You know, a dark mohair, delicious throw like this
across the back with some dark purple velvet.
Just these new textures are so lovely
and bring a sort of completely new vibe.
Just literally move all the furniture around.
You completely and utterly change the whole feel.
And what's really funny is when you do that,
it really forces you to sort of see things differently.
So if you're bored of your house,
don't turn it upside down, get the decorators in,
and feel like you've got to throw everything out
and start again.
You can change it up so easily by just moving the dial
a little bit to the left or the right.
And moving things around.

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