Want to switch up the furniture in your living room?
But you don't know where to start. Help!
That's right, how do you find the ideal and most suitable location for the room?
The arrangement of furniture in a room is one of the most complicated aspects of interior design.
Indeed, the way you arrange your furniture can transform a room from top to bottom.
Relocating your furniture can not only make a room visually bigger...
...but also make it more functional and pleasant to live in for your family.
Living room, dining room, living room, or bedroom... how to arrange furniture in a room according to its size and configuration?
Well, the best way is to be creative and imaginative :-)
So, to inspire you, we've put together the best interior design tips and ideas!
Here are 10 ideas and tips for arranging your furniture like a pro at home . Watch:
Finding a perfect place for your furniture? What a puzzle! But no need to take out the Doliprane or break your back.
Instead, view and save all your design ideas on your computer screen!
Indeed, there are excellent interior design software that allow you to change all your furniture and find new layout ideas.
You can try Space Designer 3D, Sweet Home 3D or IKEA Planners.
And the good news is that all these sites are free AND in French !
All three are easy to use and allow you to recreate any room in your home and then experiment with your different arrangements.
You can even download the IKEA Place app on your smartphone to see exactly how the furniture would fit into your interior.
How it is possible ? This app uses augmented reality to embed IKEA furniture directly in your living room!
It saves you from buying a sofa that is too big or a piece of furniture that does not match your interior...
Interior design software not your thing? Then you can do it the old-fashioned way, too.
Just take out some grid paper and draw your room to scale:1 square =50 cm, for example.
Afterwards, cut out pieces of paper, also to the same scale, and write the name of each piece of furniture to clearly distinguish them.
Now all you have to do is make Tetris with the furniture and find the perfect arrangement for any room in your home!
To properly furnish a room, first try to remove all small furniture and objects from the room.
Indeed, it is recommended that you focus on the essential furniture – that is, the key elements like the sofa or the coffee table.
Logical, because most often the key pieces of furniture are also the most voluminous.
Thus, by keeping only the key pieces of furniture, you can more easily visualize the best way to arrange them and adapt them to the volume of the room.
In other words, the bigger a piece of furniture, the more space it takes up… So be sure to find the best possible location for it!
And only after that, take care of arranging, one by one, the smaller objects – which are modular and easier to integrate.
This method allows you to find the ideal and most suitable location for the room.
Here is a good example of arranging the key pieces of furniture in a living room to bring a more cozy character:
Before: all the furniture is aligned along the walls, a typical arrangement.
After: a perfect example of a new arrangement of key furniture. Here, the seats make it possible to create new living spaces, such as a reading corner, while respecting the volumes and balance of the room.
Here is a great interior design idea that you can easily test at home:arrange the furniture across the room.
In the end, you will surely not keep all your furniture diagonally.
But to start, try to align all the furniture on a diagonal that crosses the room.
And if the result does not suit you, play with the arrangement of each piece of furniture.
Instead, try changing one item at a time – including the rug.
Arranging the furniture and elements across the room helps to make the perspectives more harmonious.
It's a simple method to bring more charm to a room, but also visually enlarge it.
If you have a small living room or a long living room, try playing around with the arrangement of armchairs and sofas.
So you can create new relaxation corners in your living room and make your living room more warm and friendly.
Putting furniture in front of the windows greatly limits the diffusion of natural light.
As a result, it makes the room seem small and cramped...
Therefore, avoid obstructing the windows of your room.
If you have no choice, put only low and small furniture in front of the windows.
Likewise, do not neglect the perspective of the room:that is, the general view of the space.
For example, if your living room is seen most often from the dining room, avoid obstructing the passage between these 2 rooms.
That way they will look nicer and bulkier.
When you live in a house, the living room is often in the same room as the dining room.
So, how do you distinguish between the 2 rooms?
The trick is to use the layout above to create 2 rooms in one.
Cut the room in half and put a large living room rug on one half to mark the living room floor.
Place the sofa, armchairs and table on it.
All that remains is to put the TV cabinet in front of the carpet to complete the living room.
As for the dining table, place it near the door preferably, well in the middle of the place in front of a bookcase for example.
There you go, your living/dining room is now perfectly arranged!
Just because you have a small bedroom doesn't mean you have to feel cramped!
Here is a clever arrangement to save space in the bedroom and feel good in this important room.
All you need is a small secretary to answer your emails and a nice armchair to place in the corner of the room to catch your breath.
Maximize storage with a bench at the end of the bed and 2 nightstands with drawer space for socks, belts and accessories.
For most people, bedroom furniture is limited to the bed and bedside tables.
To give your bedroom a little extra, try adding a bed bench with storage like this one.
Not only do you save storage space in your bedroom...
...but in addition, it brings a stylish touch to this piece!
Also handy for putting down your breakfast tray, a stack of books or your favorite winter blanket.
If you don't need extra storage, you can also try a padded bench, an ottoman or even a low stool.
Remember:just because you've always arranged your furniture the same way doesn't mean you have to keep doing it!
Here, the idea is to test new ideas to see if there isn't a better arrangement of furniture.
For example, do you really need all the furniture piling up in your living room?
Perhaps you can try to reduce the number of pieces of furniture in a room to the essentials.
Or, do you have a big armchair in your bedroom that serves no purpose other than to pile laundry?
Maybe this armchair would make a perfect reading nook in the living room!
Don't be afraid to experiment with new layouts for your parts and find new uses for your furniture!
