Your living room is your ultimate zone of weekend relaxation after the long tiring work days. Thus, everything in your living room should be designed to bring the maximum comfort. The chairs are an important part of the relaxing chamber and are available in a variety of options.

Firstly, you have the very popular recliners which are wall hugging and fit comfortably within a very small space. They come with pillow, cup holders and many different types of equipment for providing a convenient sitting experience. The cheap models take around 300 USD while there are even the high end items charging nearly 900 USD or more.

Theatre style couches and love seats would make a great choice for living rooms. The couches hold more people and come with electric buttons to recline them as desired. Besides, they even have storage bins for your magazines and cup holders. This option is a bit costly and the cheaper ones only ask for 2000USD while the more expensive models sell for 4000 USD or more.

Lacquered furniture has always been in great demand, as they are considered to last much longer. They are also very easy to maintain, and do not cost additional maintenance expenditure for the owner.

Painting lacquered furniture is difficult, as repainting glossy furniture does not help a great deal. The paint fades away very fast, still there are few tried and tested ways to paint lacquered furniture.

Here are they.

• Use 220grit sandpaper to peel glossiness off the surface.

• Wash with soap and water to finish the cleaning process. Use towel and let the furniture dry.

• Use stain blocking primer before you paint the lacquered surface. A stain blocking primer is essential to protect wood against stains but you need to let it dry.

• Once you are done with primer, use oil based paint to paint the lacquered furniture. Use two coats of paint to finish the painting process.

Never buy only the headboard. You may have to pay a premium price, if you happen to purchase just one headboard for your bed, because headboards are sold in sets. There are simple measures, and if those are followed rigorously, you can always create a good matching headboard for your full sized bed.

1. Begin with measuring the distance between the floor and top of your bed.

2. Now cut two headboard strips which are perhaps 30 inches more than what you had already measured.

3. Use sand paper to clean the headboard strips.

4. Use a wooden plank, and attach the strip on the plank. Use nails to attach the strip onto the plank. Make it firm so that plank holds the strip tight.

5. Again put the second plank over the strip to complete the headboard.

6. Paint the headboard with a matching colour to give it a refreshing look.

Your chairs may have grown old, but still, you are in no mood to part away your precious chair. It must have been an expensive one when you bought it, the paints have faded away, and it looks sloppy now.

You need a paint to make it look more attractive, and possibly to have a newer look.

Follow the few steps listed below to paint stripes on your chair.

• Start your proceedings by washing your chair with water and soap. After this allow the surface to dry.

• If this is the first paint on a chair, you can use a primer, otherwise leave out primer.

• Choose paint colour and use high gloss latex paint to put stripes on the chair.

• Take the help of painters tape and a chalk to mark the stripes. Use a paint brush to apply paint on the surface, between the two tapes, to create stripes.

• Leave the tape for at least 24 hours to have the best effect.

Your living room couch can be a beautiful furniture right near the doorway, but if it’s low then many older people or someone suffering from joint pain won’t be able to sit in a couch. You are therefore, advised to make arrangements to raise your living room couch to a considerable height, so that every visitor can comfortably sit on a couch.

Take pains to look underneath the couch to find how the couch legs are stalked. If you do not intend to remove legs, opt for a furniture riser. Put furniture riser below the couch legs to make it higher.

Otherwise, if your couch legs can be twisted and removed by unlocking screws, you may use wooden block to raise your couch. Simply put 4 inch by 4 inch wooden block on all corners of your couch, and raise it to the level of your choice. Use wooden screws to jam the wooden blocks.

Bunk beds are the best way to go because they can be separated into two. Though, not all bunk bed separates into two, if you bunk bed is made up of metal, then it won’t get apart, but wooden bunk beds do get separate in most cases.

If you choose to separate bunk beds and decide to make them a twin bed, first look at your bed to identify whether your bunk bed can be separated. If yes, then proceed to separate bunk beds into two.

The separable bunk beds will have pins attached, and you will be able to recognize that the bunk bed in question can be separated or not. Simply lift the upper bed. Take the help of your partner to do so. Pull the upper bed, and the bunk bed separates into two.

Now remove the pins away from the bottom bed so that you can again attach the separated bunk beds later.