Ok so our house is a small two bedroom new build (8 years old now) so when we moved in everything was just magnolia, carpets, walls etc. we've decorated the bedrooms a few years ago but my main bug bear is the living room. Other than the kitchen it is the only room downstairs so it's used a lot. We have two young DC and the youngest recently got left alone for a maximum of 5 mins whilst me and DH were getting ready for work and decided to take a pencil to almost every wall in the room 
. I've been wanting to redecorate the room for a while as it desperately needs a new carpet but DH wanted to wait to do the carpets until DC we're old enough to stop spilling everything on it.
So now the walls are ruined I've decided to part decorate it. I want to get it looking nice and the carpets will just probably have to wait another year. When we decorated the bedrooms the whole grey style was in fashion so we went with a grey feature wall for both rooms but now I think it's been done too much. I can post pictures if needed but my living room is quite a good size. It's got an alcove bit where the sofa goes. I still like the idea of a feature wall so I was thinking of maybe doing the alcove in one colour and the rest in another. But I'm crap at creative ideas and that's why I need your help!!