A Guide to Arrange Your Living Room for Comfortable Modern Living

Furniture is one of the most important objects in the living room since it regulates and dictates how it is used. As a result, within the living room space available, inhabitants would devote a significant amount of time and resources to arranging the furniture in accordance with their unique tastes, wants, and priorities.

The operational demands and inventiveness of the users have a big impact on the furniture selection and layout in a room. One must maximize the use of space virtually beyond real dimensions and diversify the use of space within the restricted size of an apartment's living room. Furniture in the living room is arranged in a number of ways to suit the demands of the family or individual living within the house.

Furniture placement is a delicate art that takes into account not just the room's size but also its form, kind, and type of furniture. With so many permutations and variations, figuring out how to put all the pieces together in the most efficient way may be a challenge. But we've got you covered with this guide, which will provide you with ideas for how to arrange your living room to make the most of your space available.

It's All About the Size

To maintain a visibly free-flowing space in smaller living rooms, furniture designs must be very sleek and less expansive. “The depth of the furniture should be less and in a subtle combination of neutral and tonal colours. For bigger living rooms, the design can be more luxurious, with heavier, chunkier and more experimental forms.

The depth of the furniture along with its length should be larger, with solid centre tables and a lot of loose furniture like a chaise, coffee tables, and accent furniture pieces,” says Punam Kalra, Creative Director, The Centre For Applied Arts. The idea is to make the space cosier. Even wallpaper, curtains, rugs, chaise lounge, an attractive room divider, too many greens; all play an important role in the look of the room.

Shape Cues

The shape of the room is very important; square, rectangle or other as it defines how you can place your furniture. In rectangular rooms, dual arrangements are easier to create lengthwise but in square rooms, single arrangements are better. In case there is a bay window or built-in niches, interesting seating can be created within them. A mix of lighting pieces placed in different zones can highlight different spaces in a living room. You can choose to highlight specific objects or illuminate the whole room. The television can be installed on a wall-mounted cabinet so that there is more space to move around. Installing bookshelves and sculptures can bring style to your living room.

Place it Right

Furniture placement majorly depends on the direction of doors, windows, entryways and exits—you need to ensure the furniture does not block access. Functionality and traffic are two important considerations for furniture placement. Say, if your focal point is a TV and you place sofas facing each other, it defeats the purpose. Likewise, depending on your floor plan, you will need to strategise furniture layouts that will make locating the pathway easier.

The lounger, main sofa, recliner chairs, easy chairs, centre tables, nesting tables, floor lamps, bookshelves, T.V. units, rugs, study table all put together with interesting artwork contribute to creating a story where the whole family feels happy and relaxed and a good, healthy ambience is created.

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Less is certainly more and understated elegance is the new rationale. Simple Scandinavian furniture with quality wood and linen upholstery is always timeless. A throw, a rug and complimenting cushions add the right energy and softness to a living room. Ambient lighting helps in creating the right mood for the living room.

Living room interior design is all about making the best use of the space you have available (be it small or large) and sectioning the space with furniture is a great way to do this. Compact side tables, nesting tables, multi-utility furniture, bold colours, textures, graphical prints, use of mirrors, and wood finish furniture are some trends that are best for living rooms.