Living Room Design: Starting Notes

Designing a living room can be both a pleasurable and a difficult task, depending on how you go about it. Here are some guidelines to help you to design the living room along the way by starting with the most basic question asked by the customers:

Let’s Get Started

The first thing you need to do before you start looking at furniture and colours is to define the purpose of the room. This will help you with figuring out your seating requirements and the style of furniture and furnishings. Here are the things to consider when planning to design your living room

How Do I Utilize Living Room Space?

You might be wondering, how to utilize space in the living room, to hang out with family, or to socialize with friends? If you prefer to use the room as a family space, then your design arrangement can follow suit – keeping things cosy, intimate, and the style more on the casual side. If you’re more inclined to use it to host parties, then you’d have to make a larger seating plan, and keep the style a little more formal. It would also help to think about the average number of people you’d be hosting. Do you want to keep it conversational, with the sofas or chairs facing each other, or do you want it more entertainment-driven, with the seating arranged to get a good view of your TV unit?

Plan Living Room Layout

Plan your layout in such a way that there is enough space to circulate around your furniture. Keep in mind that the movement has to flow around, and not through, your seating plan.

If you have space, you can create clustered seating spaces that make for little pockets of intimacy, with enough room to navigate between the clusters.

Choose Personalized Theme for Living Room

And now we come to the fun part! Choose a basic theme that will help you with those smaller decisions and details. Do you want to go traditional? This would mean a slightly more formal space, with some added flourishes in the design. A contemporary design would be more geometric, stripped down, with solid colours. If neither of these appeals to you, think eclectic, mix and match with colours and styles and patterns. This would be a bold and distinctive look, so go for it if you trust your style sensibilities!

Living Room Seating plan

Your seating plan doesn’t necessarily have to tune in to whatever is available in the readymade market. You can try new things, make your own combination. Here are some of the ways in which you can adapt or innovate with your seating plan:

• Comfortable Sofa: Try a large, comfortable sofa with a set of two sleek chairs and a peg table between them.

• Sectional Sofa: An L-shaped sofa with a low back chaise, or a backless upholstered bench, or an ottoman, can be great ways to negotiate smaller living rooms, creating a lighter ambience.
• Large sofa: Try large, chunky upholstered sofas with many cushions for a larger living room – this will make it look warm and cosy.
• Feature walls: Add an accent piece of furniture to make a distinctive statement – a cosy armchair, an antique piece of lamps, a unique work table – even a chandelier or pendant light of your choice.

Create a strong focal point

One of the most important aspects of designing a common living space is creating a focal point, that draws the eye towards it. It could be a feature wall, an entertainment unit, even a large mural painting or just a swing. You can create a feature wall simply by using a wall panel or screen, or wallpaper, creating a contrast to the remaining walls.

Lighting for Living Room

It’s a key element in your living room design, so don’t neglect it! The first priority is, of course, visibility, but don’t go overboard with bright lights. Try a warm white light source instead of pure white, to create a wonderfully cosy and intimate ambience. Use dimmers to set the mood for those special occasions.

• It is good to make the perfect use of the living room window, drape it with light colour curtains.

Express yourself!

Last but not least, your living room should reflect your personality. Use corner spaces to keep those works of art or larger vases, and put your favourite painting up on the wall. Decorate the space with the different wall panelling patterns. Add the statement floor lamp to the space that goes well with this purple colour palette. Make the space truly and definitively yours!

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