Monochromatic decoration has become among the most popular trends in interior design recently (for easy imagination, it’s the decor style using many shades of one main colour). Because a monochromatic design always features different values (shades & tints) of a specific hue, it creates a pretty calming & elegant decor scheme, and makes your living room look much bigger.

There are, however, 3 important elements you need to consider if you are really serious about building a monochromatic scheme for your living room, they are:

• Contrast: though it’s never an easy task to create the contrast in monochromatic style (because the use of various colours is obviously much easier to bring the contrast), you have to understand that your living room needs contrast and variation for an interesting look.
• Paterns & Texture: Since the colour scheme is quite limited in Monochromatic style, you have to focus onto Paterns & Texture instead (and have to make sure every details look special)
• Materials Mixed: Avoid mixing too many types of materials (woods & metals). A safe strategy you can go with is to choose 2 different shades of either wood or metal (make sure they look quite different from each other), then arranging them repeatedly in your living room. This will help maintain the monochromatic design flow (via repetition) but also bring a slightly difference for your space.