Help! I’ve just bought a new apartment and I have a large living room which incorporates a dining room. The kitchen leads off this but it’s really small. I’ve never had to decorate such a large room before and I really don’t know what to do as it doesn’t have a huge amount of natural light.

My husband and I had our four bedroom house on the market for the past 10 months. However, due to the current situation with the property market we have decided to stay until things pick up again. We would now like to make some interior updates in our home, in particular our living room. Although we have two beautiful two-seater couches and a vintage dark oak wooden floor, the décor is very dated and is not very welcoming. We would like to modernise the room and transform the space into somewhere we enjoy spending time.