How to furnish your living room in an elegant, practical and functional way? How to furnish a rectangular or square living room? The living room is probably the most important room in the house: the heart of your home and the space in which guests are received and where you share a lot of time with your family.
In every living room designed with classic modern furniture you cannot miss sofas and armchairs or even bookcases, shelves, tables and paintings. How to insert every piece of furniture and furnishing element in your living room in a harmonious way? We try to answer in an exhaustive way to this question by giving you some suggestions on how to furnish your living room and living room together.
How to furnish a classic living room? To help you complete the furnishing of your living room, let's start with some important tips, which will help you understand how to place furniture and furnishing accessories in your living room. Let's look at some simple rules for furnishing a living room.
What we are about to say may be particularly strange to most people: starting the furnishing of your living room from the carpet can help us to define every detail with great harmony and style. If we decide to prepare a rug as the first piece of furniture in our living room, we can in fact define the space within which we will position the respective seats, furniture and accessories, creating a sort of mesh within which it will be easier to orient and organize all the elements.
A rug can therefore represent an excellent focal and strategic point from which to start furnishing your living room.
As stated in the previous paragraphs, the sofa represents an essential piece of furniture that must be present in every living room, regardless of its size. Today the market is saturated with a great variety of commercial proposals, not all of which are characterised by the right quality standards.
When choosing the right sofa for your living room, even before considering the aesthetic aspect, it is advisable to take the measurements of your rooms and of the area dedicated to the sofa. Often and willingly a single sofa can be enough for a living room. A sofa must always be characterised by dimensions proportionate to those of the room in which the furniture is placed. Our advice is always to avoid buying an excessively large sofa, even if you have large spaces available in your rooms.
In some circumstances it is better to opt for the purchase of two sofas of limited size, from two seats or two and a half: this choice is often and willingly the most functional and the one able to better delimit the relaxation area within your own spaces.
In environments characterised by less important dimensions, it is better to avoid the predisposition of peninsula sofas or those characterised by curved shapes: these models lend themselves to be prepared in particularly large environments such as hotel lobbies.
By choosing a comfortable, functional and not particularly bulky sofa you will have the possibility to complete your relax and television area with other seats (armchairs, chairs or stools). These furnishings will be important when you find yourself receiving your guests inside the living room.
Even if you may think that the stools are few and far between suitable for your relaxation area, their arrangement within your spaces will be a clever and practical idea to benefit from small shelves on which to place magazines or other small objects and accessories in your living room.
The front table is another essential element in any living room. This furniture becomes a useful support surface and offers the opportunity to characterize your space and give originality and personality to your living room.
For these reasons our advice is to choose a frontal coffee table for your original living room and that is able to integrate harmoniously with the rest of the furniture. Another important thing is to choose a low front table model: in this way the furniture will be more practical to place books, remote control and other objects of your living room on it.
In addition to a front table, you can decide to set up one or two side tables at the side of the sofa. The front tables represent an excellent furnishing accessory, able to give a complete stay and an extra touch of style.
If you decide to arrange side tables in your living room, consider the fact that their height must be approximately that of the armrests of your sofa. The side tables are also excellent furniture on which to place the lamps: they will add a touch of light and colour to your rooms.
We could say that we have finished decorating our living room only when we have also taken care of the walls. Once we have prepared sofas, tables and armchairs it is time to think about the walls.
Photographs, paintings, prints and figurative art in general represent an excellent opportunity to complete the wall space of a living area. The use of prints certainly represents a furnishing and design prerogative of a modern living room. In this regard, our advice is to choose works characterised by dimensions in proportion to the space in your living room.
It is also very important to be aware that knowing where to arrange the paintings is as important as deciding what to buy. A piece of important dimensions will become the undisputed protagonist of a wall. A set of small pieces will instead be hung respecting a sort of geometric grid, with a more or less free pattern, which will achieve the desired effect.
Curtains are a much debated and controversial piece of furniture. Generally there is no middle ground: curtains are either hated or loved. Regardless of taste and opinion, curtains are a functional and important piece of furniture. In some ways we could say that a house without curtains is in fact naked. Curtains are sometimes able to make a real difference in the design of a room.
There are different models of blinds: packaged, on rails or even attached to sticks. Obviously there are many fabrics used for the realization of curtains and the market offers us endless aesthetic solutions: geometric patterns, floral patterns, plain colours, striped patterns, etc..
Everyone will be able to choose the fantasy that best suits their tastes and is able to integrate perfectly with the design that characterizes their spaces. Those who want to intervene with simple curtains can opt for the models made with the help of a light transparent gauze, which will simply soften the natural light.
We remind you once again that it is very important that the curtains are in perfect harmony with the furnishing style of your living room. It is also good to consider that the curtains are furniture that will remain in your living room for a long time; beyond their style and design, we advise you to choose curtains of a tina in tone with the walls of your living room, in order to obtain an effect of continuity and give the impression of being in a larger space.
