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Article #65: Furniture Placement Secrets

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The easiest and most inexpensive way to sofa out, away from the wall. If you
invigorate the design of your living room prefer this look and feel for your sofa
is to rearrange the furniture items you placement, allow at least two and a half
already own. Furniture placement can be a to three feet between the sofa and the
daunting task, no matter how big or small wall for comfortable walking space. Less
the room. If you are someone who always space is needed between chairs and a
figured furniture placement would be sofa, but always keep in mind walking
better left to professional interior patterns.
designers, fret no more. These tips will Go with the Flow
help you embrace the task of balancing Imagine how you and your guests will
your sofa with your coffee table or maneuver in your living room with all the
armchair, and allow you to create peace furniture in its proper place. For
and harmony amongst all your furniture. example, if there are two doors, you may
Location, location, location want to place sofas and chairs in a
A room must be balanced. Specifically, manner that will allow passersby to walk
the furniture in every room should be behind or around the seating arrangement
placed in a way that is pleasing to the instead of through it.
eye and easy to maneuver around. If all If there is only one door to the room,
the heavy furniture pieces like sofas, don't block the flow with a large coffee
armchairs, entertainment centers and table right in the way of the sofa. Make
bookshelves are loaded on one side of the sure you allow easy access directly to
room, a room can feel like a sinking the sofa and chairs from the door,
ship. allowing for some space around the
On the other hand, if you spread your seating area as well.
furniture around the room haphazardly, a Larger living rooms can be designed so
room can feel cluttered even when it is that they function effectively as two
relatively empty. Think about the size of areas. For example, have one social,
your living room in relation to the entertainment center seating arrangement
amount of furniture you have. in one section, and a quieter study
You can anchor the room by situating a arrangement in another. Tall side tables
large entertainment center against one can be placed behind a sofa with
wall, and then arrange all seating decorative vases and pictures on top, as
comfortably around that anchor. Or, long as there is still walking space
anchor your sofa against a wall, add a behind the couch.
small side table or a coffee table in When deciding on how to arrange your
front for convenience, and violá! Your living room furniture, listen to your
room is balanced. instincts. Wait to decorate the walls for
Sofa Secrets a few days or even a week once you have
Using your sofa as an anchor, or as the decided on where you are going to put
focal point for your living room can be each piece of furniture, to give yourself
an effective furniture placement tool. a chance to get used to the new
However, modular sofas, or sofas with placement. Live in the space for a bit,
many components, can be too heavy an and assess how you feel. If something
anchor, tipping the balance of the room doesn't feel right, you can always move
with its bulkiness. A creative solution it, and use these tips to help you bring
to this problem can be found in breaking your living room back into balance.
up the pieces of the sofa. Please find the original article and more
Place the largest sofa piece against the information about this subject at
longest wall of the room, then the If you would like to publish this article
smaller sections on the opposite side. If on your own site, please feel free to do
you have the smaller sections of the so. Please let us know the URL of the
modular sofa face the long sofa at an posted article by emailing the URL to
angle, you will avoid that boring, boxy All we ask is that you include the whole
look that comes with having all furniture article, without changes, including the
pieces pressed with their backs straight link to the original article location,
against a wall. author information, this disclaimer and
A fresh alternative to placing your sofa the following link.
against the longest wall is to bring the






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