How To Arrange Your Living Room Furniture

 

Arranging furniture in a living room should have some purpose. It should be easy to distinguish activity areas in your room and each of such area should be reflected or easy to make out. You have to bear in mind a few factors before you start out to buy new furniture or arrange the existing furniture. Some of these factors are :

1. Measure the area of the room. This plays an important part in your arranging the furniture business. Smaller rooms need a single sofa, a chair, and a couple of end tables. If your living room is large then it requires a large sofa, coffee tables, and a couple of extra chairs ;

2. You have to make a list of those things that may affect the process of arrangement ;

3. Another simple idea is making a scale drawing of your new living room on a piece of paper ; this helps in experimenting with new ideas and new looks and also you can have an imaginary view of your living room before moving in the furniture ;

4. Next step lies in creating a point of focus; any of these namely a bookcase, or a show case, or a piece of modern art hung over a piece of your furniture, or a fireplace can act as the point of focus. You have to highlight this focal point by arranging the furniture and lighting as complimenting the focal point ;

5. Please bear in mind not to group out all the focal points together ;

6. You have to create depth. How do you do this ? Simple....by arranging the furniture in specific angles and laying carpets on one another to get that effect ;

7. There should be some gap left between the sofa and the coffee table to place your legs comfortably ;

8. The furniture should be so arranged that there should be place for conversation ; you can arrange a love seat and couple of chairs for the purpose of setting up a romantic area; neither place the sofas and chairs too close to each other as it may become difficult to move about or sit nor place it too far away so that it may become difficult to converse with each other corner fireplace;

9. Ensure walking space between one end of the room to another end ;

10. Area rugs define the seating areas well in a room ; do use them;

11. One of the important tips in arranging a complimentary room decor is to chose neutral or lighter shades for walls because basically furniture of any style, scheme or color can be selected by this type of wall decor ;

12. While you are placing the furniture always arrange the larger pieces first and the complimentary pieces or the pieces that relate to the main piece is to be arranged next. For other activities you can add always the accent pieces. Now, all you have to do is arrange the furniture in that place, where you think it will look best.