Place Living Room Furniture
Living room design is one of the easiest to master. Most of the furniture elements in the room will revolve around a focal point and will invite people to gather and stay awhile. Seating for many will play the starring role, while everything else will be secondary. Does this Spark an idea?
Instructions
1. Draw a layout of the room that includes all doors, windows, outlets and radiators or air vents that cannot be covered.
2. Cut out miniatures of all of your furniture items and label with their measurements and names.
3. Find or create a focal point in the room around which all the other furniture will revolve. This could be a large piece of artwork, a fireplace, a mantle, a big-screen television or a large picture window with a fabulous view. Draw your focal point on the layout where it exists in the room. If it is moveable (like a painting) consider where else in the room it might be better off.
4. Move your miniature furniture pieces around the room layout and experiment with different ways to place the furniture in your living room design. Start with seating: Place sofas and chairs at right angles to each other so the seating forms a rectangle or square in front of the focal point. You'll want the seating items to face each other, not the focal point, to facilitate socializing in this spot.
5. Find a coffee table, two large ottomans or a trunk to place in the center of the seating arrangement to act as place to put drinks, or to use as a display surface for books and other collections.
6. Use the spaces in the corners between the seating (they should be square) to place useful end tables. If you have an extra chair that fits this seating group, you can widen the arrangement and place the chair diagonally into the corner and skip the table. A great floor lamp will fit in any of the corners left by the seating group.
7. Find empty walls or corners and put leftover pieces of your furniture collection where they fit. A long, slim credenza belongs along a wall or under a large mirror or piece of artwork. Some may look elegant as a sofa table behind a sofa if the credenza is low enough. Interesting floor vases and one-of-kind chairs and chests can find a home in an unused corner or by the front entryway.
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