Things to avoid while arranging living room furniture

Lets have a look at things to avoid while arranging living room furniture. Arranging your living room can be a tricky business, and people often end up making common mistakes while doing this. The living room is the center of your house – where you sit to relax, where your friends sit with you, where you enjoy evening drinks and family time, where you watch television, where you occasionally eat – and it is unfortunate how many people, while trying to make their living room aesthetically pleasing, end up doing either the opposite or end up minimizing its utility.

While what a living room requires varies from house to house, here are some things you should always avoid doing while planning how to arrange your living room:

1.    Don’t ignore the focal point:

This is the first and most important consideration that you need to have. Most living rooms already have a natural focal point or a focal wall, and all your furniture and accessories need to compliment that. This is where you start. Sofas and seats should face toward the focal point. Tables go next to or in front of the seating. Smaller accessories like end tables, rugs, etc. must compliment all the bigger furniture together.

2.    Don’t forget either utility or aesthetics:

Every piece of furniture has a service, and it must be placed in a way that it can serve its purpose. Putting coffee tables out of reach of the sofas defeats the use of the coffee tables. Putting lamps where extra lighting is not needed defeats the purpose of the lamps. Placing sofas too far apart makes it difficult for conversations to take place smoothly.

But while you consider the utility, do not ignore the aesthetics either. If your large table does not match the sofas, do not put it inside the living room, even if it serves a great purpose. This does not mean that you should not mix up your furniture; experiment with all colours, shapes and sizes, but if something does not look good, remove it from the living room and place it elsewhere in the house.

3.    Don’t push up the furniture against the walls:

Contrary to common belief, having your furniture pushed up against the walls does not necessarily give the room a more prominent look. What it instead does is leave a large empty space in the middle of the room. Conversations become awkward and strained. If you have a television mounted on your focal wall, it is probably blasting in the background too, so you need to shout over it to make yourself heard. So pull your sofas and seats away from the wall, and focus them towards a central conversational point, while not ignoring the focal wall. In this way, you all can sit closer together, have better conversations, and also watch television if you need to.

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