Arranging Your Living Room Furniture

Most people enjoy decorating their living room with all the ideas and plans in their mind, but they always tend to make common mistakes over and over again yet never know what are the causes. Here I will share some tips on how to decorate a living room avoiding some of the common mistakes.

Instead of quality, people go for quantity, this is a common mistake we often made. Just because the accessories are very cheap doesn’t mean we have to buy a lot of them to accessorize our living room. We will end up purchasing something needless and don’t add a contribution to our decoration, even made our room cluttered which in turns offer nothing but annoyance, in short, we are wasting our money for something don’t worth. It doesn’t mean that we can purchase moderate to very expensive furniture because it looks beautiful, we still have to take theme matching into consideration when picking a nice furniture. I won’t take the risk to purchase a piece of furniture that won’t match with my living room theme. It’s a waste of money. Think wisely before you purchase anything.

Cluttered and messy furniture arrangement, this is another big common mistake we often made. I remembered my first office room furniture arrangement consumed too much spaces and the whole room was very cluttered and messy, there is not much spaces for walkway. After some rearrangement, my furniture were arranged in much more organized way, there is even a big spaces for walkway and the whole room looks bigger although it was just a 200 ft room. Try to arrange your furniture in a more organized way as this not only make your living room clean and tidy, it also creates a harmony and comfortable environment.

Non-matching style or theme, either directly or indirectly, well planned or go without any plan, we often purchased a furniture we like much but it never matches with our theme. Maybe the price is reasonable and the furniture style is one of the best, but keep in mind that, furniture that don’t match our theme from the beginning will always be not matching until we switch our theme or style that matches with it. Once we decided to go for our style, stick to it and never get tempted to other furniture style especially the latest trend. They will be the past very soon so never follow the trend as it is not practical at all.

Created two or more competing focal point, another common mistake. Lets say We have a big beautiful canvas wall art on the wall, then we have another big plasma TV on the other side, and maybe there is a beautiful grand piano on the other side again, these 3 decor are actually competing with each other in terms of focal point because they are very attractive. We only want to create one focal point in our living room, so choose either one to become our living room focal point, depends on situation, we may or may not combine either 2 or 3 together to become a very strong focal point.

These are some of the common mistakes that we should avoid when we want to decorate a living room. By avoiding these common mistakes, it would ride us off the hassles when we are going to decorate a living room thus making the process much more simple. How to decorate a living room without hassles is as simple as avoiding common mistakes.

When it comes to arranging your living room furniture, interior designers in Seattle, New York, or LA will tell you there are important rules to follow. Luckily, it’s not rocket science. Apply the following to your room and notice the difference they can make:

1. Choose a focal point

Find something in the room that you want to be the main focal point. This could be something that is already in the room like a fireplace or a large window with a nice view, or you might choose a TV or entertainment system as these will be used often. Whichever you pick, you will then need to arrange your furniture, decorative items and seating around it.

2. Set your seating

If you want your living room area to be a place where those inside it can easily socialize, arrange your seating facing each other – or at right angles to each other – so that the seating space feels intimate. As described before, it should still be in front of or centered around your focal point. You will also have to decide if you wish to place a table or ottoman in the center of the seating, for placing drinks, etc, or if you wish to keep this space clear. If you choose the later, add small tables to the seating arrangement line (e.g. next to sofa ends or in between the squares created by placing the seats at right angles. These squares are also great for adding lamps.

3. Consider balance and symmetry

When you look at your room, are there certain areas which appear cluttered with large objects while others seem awkwardly empty? Try and place items so that there is a sense of balance to the space you have used. Using symmetry helps a room look good too, e.g., placing matching items at both ends of a sofa or hanging the same sized picture frames at opposite ends of a wall.

4. Think about your lighting

If your room doesn’t have ceiling lights, you will need to prioritize the placing of lamp stands or tables that hold lamps. Work out which areas of the room need brightening during the day and place lamps there to maintain a balance of light in the room. Again, when it comes to night, make sure your lighting is well-balanced.

5. Experiment in miniature

Draw a layout of the room on paper and cut out paper miniatures of all the furniture and large belongings you will be placing inside it. Experiment with moving everything around, choosing different seating layouts, focal points and other arrangements. This will help you generate ideas and allow you to find the most practical and pleasing way to arrange your room.