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Tuesday, March 2, 2010
Interior Design
Arranging living room furniture in a right way decides whether your living room looks cluttered and overstuffed or an organized comfortable room where you like to spend most of your time. We will learn how to make a living room furniture layout and see how living room furniture placement can help us in making our lives easier. The first step to plan how to put the furniture in the living room is to measure up the room and draw a sketch of the room on a graph paper using a scale such as ¼ in to 1 ft. Note down where and how many windows and doors are situated in the living room, their size, the height of the windowsills and the space between the windows and the doors.
Be sure to mark the location of the electrical points and outlets, telephone point, cable and light switches in the living room to help you know what goes where. You can also use small-scale furniture paper cutouts to see your living room will look after arranging the furniture. Choose a focal point of the living room and arrange your furniture and lighting around it. Some of the popular focal point ideas in a living room are a fireplace, a view from the window, window opening out in a garden, a large bookcase, sofa with a special painting hung above it, a home theater system or big size plasma television.
You may also turn one of the corners of the living room in a focal point using an interesting lamp, tabletop waterfall or other unique decorative pieces on it along with the lighting to highlight it. Set up conversation areas for your guests. There should 4 to 10 ft of distance between your sofa or loveseat and chairs, so that people can talk to each other easily. Less than 4 feet of distance will make your living room too cramped, while more than 10 feet of distance between sofa and the chairs will make conversation difficult. Legroom between the sofa, loveseat or chairs and the coffee table should be at least 14 to 18 inches.
Try to make pathway to walk freely in the living room without stumbling on the furniture that is at least 2 to 3 feet wide. Furniture placement and layout in a small living room can be quite challenging. In a typical apartment living room with space restraints, we will usually find that the entertainment center is the biggest piece of furniture and has to be placed at the right position first. Rest of the furniture is set around it. The sofa goes directly opposite to the TV and you may place the chair at an angle. It can be turned around to watch TV or talk to the person sitting on the sofa at your convenience. Two chairs on either side of the sofa will give a balanced look to the room.
In a small living room, the height and mass of the furniture should be too contrasting. A low table against a high back chair can be visually balanced by adding a tall piece of art above it. Do not use bulky cabinets and sleek metallic chairs together. Maintain visual harmony and thematic balance in your living room decor. Keep the number of the pieces of furniture down to avoid cramped look in a small living room. Use two love seats facing each other instead of four chairs or one sofa and two chairs instead of one loveseat and three or more chairs. Tall living rooms can be subtly divided into separate conversation and work areas by using a sofa or other big piece of furniture that does not need support of a wall to divide up the room.
Be sure to mark the location of the electrical points and outlets, telephone point, cable and light switches in the living room to help you know what goes where. You can also use small-scale furniture paper cutouts to see your living room will look after arranging the furniture. Choose a focal point of the living room and arrange your furniture and lighting around it. Some of the popular focal point ideas in a living room are a fireplace, a view from the window, window opening out in a garden, a large bookcase, sofa with a special painting hung above it, a home theater system or big size plasma television.
You may also turn one of the corners of the living room in a focal point using an interesting lamp, tabletop waterfall or other unique decorative pieces on it along with the lighting to highlight it. Set up conversation areas for your guests. There should 4 to 10 ft of distance between your sofa or loveseat and chairs, so that people can talk to each other easily. Less than 4 feet of distance will make your living room too cramped, while more than 10 feet of distance between sofa and the chairs will make conversation difficult. Legroom between the sofa, loveseat or chairs and the coffee table should be at least 14 to 18 inches.
Try to make pathway to walk freely in the living room without stumbling on the furniture that is at least 2 to 3 feet wide. Furniture placement and layout in a small living room can be quite challenging. In a typical apartment living room with space restraints, we will usually find that the entertainment center is the biggest piece of furniture and has to be placed at the right position first. Rest of the furniture is set around it. The sofa goes directly opposite to the TV and you may place the chair at an angle. It can be turned around to watch TV or talk to the person sitting on the sofa at your convenience. Two chairs on either side of the sofa will give a balanced look to the room.
In a small living room, the height and mass of the furniture should be too contrasting. A low table against a high back chair can be visually balanced by adding a tall piece of art above it. Do not use bulky cabinets and sleek metallic chairs together. Maintain visual harmony and thematic balance in your living room decor. Keep the number of the pieces of furniture down to avoid cramped look in a small living room. Use two love seats facing each other instead of four chairs or one sofa and two chairs instead of one loveseat and three or more chairs. Tall living rooms can be subtly divided into separate conversation and work areas by using a sofa or other big piece of furniture that does not need support of a wall to divide up the room.
Living Room Designs
In the past, living room or the parlor was the place with formal settings to welcome the honored guests. With times, it has evolved into a multifunctional room meant to welcome guests, sit and relax comfortably while reading a good book or watching TV, spend some time with the family, chat and gossip with friends and for entertainment. The most common furniture pieces found in the living room are sofas, love seat, sofa with chairs in different combinations, coffee table, end tables, ottomans, benches, shelves and perhaps a desk and bookshelves. If the living space is also used as a family room, you can also find TV and entertainment center in the room along with accessories, lighting, art and crafts on display and may be carpets.
An extra large living room may accommodate a piano, eating area complete with dining table, tennis or billiard table or even a number of plants, if your living space receives lots of direct sunlight. You may also shift am armoire to make use of the extra space for storage purposes. Living room can use maximum number of furnishings and it is a challenge to fit in all the desirable furnishings and accessories and coordinate them with carpeting, wall color, crown moldings, lighting style and window treatments among many other things. Usually, sofa or the entertainment center is the largest piece of furniture in a living room and since, placement of sofa will decide the view and focal point for the people seated in the living, room, use it as the starting point for living room decor.
Express your personality, your personal taste and decorating flair in the way you decorate your living room. Remodeling or decorating your living room doesn't just mean to throw away items and add furniture pieces to the living room but how you arrange what you already have in the room. Arrangement mistakes can ruin the look of your room. Do not go wild with imagination. Some of the rules and traditional ways of keeping things and proper design must be followed to keep things sane. Creative and unusual living room decorating ideas should be limited by the comfort and usability of the room to make the living room more inviting.
Designing in innovative ways that 'break the rules' can be tricky, so is best left to professionals. Ensure that you maintain visual balance and harmony while displaying your accessories and should not look chaotic. For budget decorating, try to use what you already and then only opt to buy new things that you think are absolutely necessary. See, if rearranging furniture and accessories can achieve the effect you want. For a dream living room, it is not necessary to start from scratch. Make sure that you do not let your precious collection of art lie wasted or ignored just because you didn't think of placing them correctly.
While decorating a living room, one must pay attention to the natural focal point of the room, lifestyle of the family members, functional placement of furniture, creating well-defined traffic patterns, creating close grouping and intimate conversational areas, visual balance, ambient lighting, color scheme of the room and fabric patterns of the curtains, window treatments and the upholstery. You must also watch out for organizing things, display of accessories, camouflaging architectural elements that are ugly, hanging art and wall groupings, proportion and scale of decoration, unifying factor of your decoration and most importantly, when to stop.
An extra large living room may accommodate a piano, eating area complete with dining table, tennis or billiard table or even a number of plants, if your living space receives lots of direct sunlight. You may also shift am armoire to make use of the extra space for storage purposes. Living room can use maximum number of furnishings and it is a challenge to fit in all the desirable furnishings and accessories and coordinate them with carpeting, wall color, crown moldings, lighting style and window treatments among many other things. Usually, sofa or the entertainment center is the largest piece of furniture in a living room and since, placement of sofa will decide the view and focal point for the people seated in the living, room, use it as the starting point for living room decor.
Express your personality, your personal taste and decorating flair in the way you decorate your living room. Remodeling or decorating your living room doesn't just mean to throw away items and add furniture pieces to the living room but how you arrange what you already have in the room. Arrangement mistakes can ruin the look of your room. Do not go wild with imagination. Some of the rules and traditional ways of keeping things and proper design must be followed to keep things sane. Creative and unusual living room decorating ideas should be limited by the comfort and usability of the room to make the living room more inviting.
Designing in innovative ways that 'break the rules' can be tricky, so is best left to professionals. Ensure that you maintain visual balance and harmony while displaying your accessories and should not look chaotic. For budget decorating, try to use what you already and then only opt to buy new things that you think are absolutely necessary. See, if rearranging furniture and accessories can achieve the effect you want. For a dream living room, it is not necessary to start from scratch. Make sure that you do not let your precious collection of art lie wasted or ignored just because you didn't think of placing them correctly.
While decorating a living room, one must pay attention to the natural focal point of the room, lifestyle of the family members, functional placement of furniture, creating well-defined traffic patterns, creating close grouping and intimate conversational areas, visual balance, ambient lighting, color scheme of the room and fabric patterns of the curtains, window treatments and the upholstery. You must also watch out for organizing things, display of accessories, camouflaging architectural elements that are ugly, hanging art and wall groupings, proportion and scale of decoration, unifying factor of your decoration and most importantly, when to stop.
Luxury Living Room
Quality living room furniture is not as easy as it seems. Only having more bucks in your pocket doesn't mean that you can go on furniture shopping without having to worry about what to look for. Luxury and modular living room furniture available in the markets are best suited for elegant, classic, formal and stylish living rooms. They are expensive but they are also there to make a statement. Living room furniture is the first impression that your guests will get about your home in general and you will naturally want to make it a powerful one. Search well on Internet, home Decor and furniture stores and specialty stores before ordering beautiful furniture of premium quality that offers value for money.
You may be looking for practical, space-saving living room furniture with hidden storage options that come in handy to keep the living room look clean and tidy or you may prefer to buy comfortable furniture pieces with good aesthetics in particular styles. There are stylish and luxurious living room suites to choose from. You may want to add a tall grandfather clock to give a royal old-world look to your living room or even funky accent furniture pieces to make your ease the elite look of your living room and add some fun to it. Modular living furniture not only has matching sofas, tables and chairs along with a cabinet or two, it is also more functional and practical when it comes to offer modern comforts.
You can add facilities and amenities to the normal furniture in drawers that can be dragged open and then pushed back to hide them. Luxury living room furniture often finds its way to large and spacious living rooms that can accommodate delicate looking French cabinets easily that offers more storage space. Their elaborate details and gentle curves add elegance to the living space. You may also add beautiful and classic vases, lamps and clocks to the corner tables or light up decorative candles for serene looking zen living rooms. Use your walls space to add a large Venetian mirror that doubles up the richness of your living room furniture in an instant with its intricately carved frame. You may use beautiful screens to partition too large living rooms into two parts and use one of it as a dining room. Dining room sets these days come in expensive artistic designs that will make your guests admire them.
Use the beautiful balcony space extending from your living room by putting some potted flowering plants there. It will provide beautiful views from your window. If there is enough space, make use of it to make a tea and breakfast area there to sit with your family in the mornings. If you love tropical beaches or wish to live on a Caribbean island, you can actually add a small Zen garden to your tabletop in the middle of your living room. The tray painted in a bright primary color has some indoor plants and shells to replace the rocks to make your very own beach to help you calm and relax while you read. Since living rooms are also leisure and entertainment areas for most households, a big television and entertainment unit and perhaps a plasma television and its stand is a fundamental part of luxury living room furniture today.
A fireplace with a mantle, collectibles and artwork on display on shelves and modular cabinets and a bookshelf to show of your favorite collection of books is a part of premium and luxury living room furniture, you won't want to miss. You may divide your spacious living room in separate smaller living areas subtly using different lighting arrangements, flooring such as area rugs and carpets, and perhaps sofas and seats with low backs. You may hide your television, stereo and other high-tech gadgets in decorative cabinets and pull-through drawers, specially designed cupboards and mobile furniture with wheels. You may use traditional three seater sofas, loveseats and couches, sectional sofas and even modular corner sofas that are best for rooms with awkward angles. You may also use sofa beds that can be used by occasional guests and match your chairs. Beanbags, foot stools and floor cushions are some other ideas for low seating arrangements.
You may be looking for practical, space-saving living room furniture with hidden storage options that come in handy to keep the living room look clean and tidy or you may prefer to buy comfortable furniture pieces with good aesthetics in particular styles. There are stylish and luxurious living room suites to choose from. You may want to add a tall grandfather clock to give a royal old-world look to your living room or even funky accent furniture pieces to make your ease the elite look of your living room and add some fun to it. Modular living furniture not only has matching sofas, tables and chairs along with a cabinet or two, it is also more functional and practical when it comes to offer modern comforts.
You can add facilities and amenities to the normal furniture in drawers that can be dragged open and then pushed back to hide them. Luxury living room furniture often finds its way to large and spacious living rooms that can accommodate delicate looking French cabinets easily that offers more storage space. Their elaborate details and gentle curves add elegance to the living space. You may also add beautiful and classic vases, lamps and clocks to the corner tables or light up decorative candles for serene looking zen living rooms. Use your walls space to add a large Venetian mirror that doubles up the richness of your living room furniture in an instant with its intricately carved frame. You may use beautiful screens to partition too large living rooms into two parts and use one of it as a dining room. Dining room sets these days come in expensive artistic designs that will make your guests admire them.
Use the beautiful balcony space extending from your living room by putting some potted flowering plants there. It will provide beautiful views from your window. If there is enough space, make use of it to make a tea and breakfast area there to sit with your family in the mornings. If you love tropical beaches or wish to live on a Caribbean island, you can actually add a small Zen garden to your tabletop in the middle of your living room. The tray painted in a bright primary color has some indoor plants and shells to replace the rocks to make your very own beach to help you calm and relax while you read. Since living rooms are also leisure and entertainment areas for most households, a big television and entertainment unit and perhaps a plasma television and its stand is a fundamental part of luxury living room furniture today.
A fireplace with a mantle, collectibles and artwork on display on shelves and modular cabinets and a bookshelf to show of your favorite collection of books is a part of premium and luxury living room furniture, you won't want to miss. You may divide your spacious living room in separate smaller living areas subtly using different lighting arrangements, flooring such as area rugs and carpets, and perhaps sofas and seats with low backs. You may hide your television, stereo and other high-tech gadgets in decorative cabinets and pull-through drawers, specially designed cupboards and mobile furniture with wheels. You may use traditional three seater sofas, loveseats and couches, sectional sofas and even modular corner sofas that are best for rooms with awkward angles. You may also use sofa beds that can be used by occasional guests and match your chairs. Beanbags, foot stools and floor cushions are some other ideas for low seating arrangements.
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