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The glitz and glamour of Hollywood. How else can we describe the lifestyle of the rich and famous with their fame, riches and sprawling California homes? Such houses are the epitome of grand living with the spacious kitchens and living room, high ceilings, big bedrooms with walk-in closets, bathrooms with Jacuzzi and sometimes three stories accented with a grand staircase.

Living the life huh? When it comes to decorating a mansion, here comes the worry of not getting it right. How to fill all the space? Where to get all the big furnishings? How to make the rooms look warm and cozy instead of imposing and uninviting? These typical questions plague a California home-inspired homeowner. The thing is, decorating such a house is not all about filling the space with something or decorating with everything big. It's really about the colors, design, decors and placement of furniture.

Utilize the storage you have. Big kitchens have cabinets and drawers that can blow your mind away…or not. The anxiety can strike if you have more drawers available than actual kitchen utensils. The good thing with more storage is the no hassle of keeping your things in order. You can easily keep your kitchen equipment without worrying about space.

Next, the living room should ideally be a warm and inviting space even if it's twice as big as a regular house' living room. The coziness can be achieved by placing the furniture away from the walls and using soothing colors, particularly light shades. Bright hues meanwhile give the room a more vibrant, almost casual look. Dark colors are actually suited for a big living room but if you don't like the formal ambiance, you can accent the dark color with a light or bright tone.

Don't forget your bathrooms, especially the one that guests use. It should not only be clean but stocked well with bathroom essentials. To make it nicely decorated won't hurt either.

Decorating the dining room with an area rug as a secondary piece to the dining table set is enough to give this room the atmosphere you want to have. Depending on the color and design of the area rug, a dining room can be a formal eating space or a laidback place for sharing meals with family and friends.

Bedrooms are personal spaces, therefore decorating to suit the owner's style and taste is perfectly okay. It's usual to reflect one's personality in adorning the bedroom and one essential item to have is the area rug. It adds quality to the interior but also gives more warmth to the place of utter relaxation.

Modern Californian homes often have vaulted, high ceilings in the foyer or atrium, and it can be a problem to accent these spaces tastefully. If you place a big oriental design area rug in the foyer, with some tall indoor plants such as palms, and perhaps some trailing vines, this may be the only decoration you need to place in your home's entrance in order to make it welcoming.