• Dress up blank living room walls to reflect your style.Living Room image by Dawn from Fotolia.com
  
  The living room may be the most important room in the home when it comes to decorating. If this is where you entertain guests and relax with your family, making it reflect your style and personality is vital to your home's reflection of who you are. The options for decorating living room walls are limited only by your imagination.
  
  

Shelves

• Get creative with shelving.magnificent shelf image by terex from Fotolia.com
  
  Hang display shelves on living room walls to personalize the space. This opens up decorating options to objects that cannot be hung directly on walls and it provides homeowners with a way to open conversations about treasured heirlooms and fun vacation finds. Group objects together rather than scattering them one by one on the shelves. Grouping adds a sense of cleanliness and organization.
  
  

Art

• Choose art pieces that compliment the room.art image by Svetlin Rusev from Fotolia.com
  
  Eye-catching wall art may be more readily available than ever. Purchase prints that fit your design sense on the Internet, in department stores, discount stores and even some pharmacies. Choose art that reflects you and your sense of style, but be aware of the rest of the colors in your living room and draw them out with the right art piece. Choose pieces that compliment the color of your furniture and mimic colors of other decorative accent pieces. Use large art pieces as focal points or group smaller pieces together in odd numbers.
  
  

Fabric

• Cover a living room wall with curtains for texture.Stage Curtains image by Darragh Tobin from Fotolia.com
  
  Soften the look and feel of the living room by decorating walls with fabric. Fabric can add visual appeal as well as texture. Fabric on the walls may soften the look of a living room with hard lines or hard floors of wood or tile. Hang floor-to-ceiling-length curtains along an entire wall to create an accent wall. Avoid loud or busy patterns in rooms that are already filled with visual interest.
  
  

Paint

• Use a color wheel to choose contrasting colors.Color guide to match colors for printing image by Piter Pkruger from Fotolia.com
  
  Use regular wall paint to create the illusion of depth by painting large squares or rectangles on your living room wall in a shade slightly lighter or darker than the original wall color. You can also create contrast and a focal point by painting an "accent wall." Accent walls are a lone wall painted a drastically different color than the rest of the room. Try using a color on the opposite side of the color wheel from the rest of the walls for dramatic impact.
  
  

Warning

• If you rent your home, check with your landlord before painting or attaching anything directly on your walls.