Living Room Furniture For Small Rooms – If you live in a small apartment, you may think there is nothing you can do to get quality and comfortable furniture that is also within your budget. The good news is that there are more than a few outlets that cater to this market. Look around even for a short time online and you will find many places that have furniture designed a scaled for the smallest apartment space.
Style of Furniture
As you can maybe tell, the style of living room furniture you choose will make a difference on how your living room looks. You will quickly be able to tell if certain coffee tables or chairs will fit when you take an account of the space. Even with the same chair design, a lighter color will brighten up the room thus makes the room look larger than darker colors. Similarly, clear transparent acrylic furniture pieces, which have the least existence or visual weight, are the best when you have very limited space.
If you are modern furniture fan, then congratulations! After the boom of modern acrylic furniture designs, there is a decent variety of this type of furniture available in the market. From accent table to bar stools, acrylic products are offered for the full product line too.
Versatility of Uses
It might be better to focus on living room furniture that is versatile. If you want to have sofas & loveseats, why do not you choose sleepers that have a bed hidden in them? Do not underestimate the use of ottomans. Not only are they a great way to prop your feet up in front of the sofa or chair, but you can use them for additional seating. You can find a comfy ottoman that works fine when you have lots of people over to visit.
The type of chairs or end table you choose may be less based on the fabric and more on whether they could be used no matter the size constraints of the living space.
The Full Picture
Finding the best living room furniture when space is an issue in your apartment may mean making some concessions or paying discount prices for something when it will work better for your apartment. Whether it is building a total look using individual pieces or finding those living room collections made especially for apartment use, you will find what the right combination if you take the time to conduct a good search. The major ingredient in locating the right furniture is to know what you want while understanding what the space demands.
If you understand this, there is no reason that a hunt for living room furniture has to become mired in drudgery and complication. What waste your time messing with furniture that does not work in your studio apartment? You want to find locate pieces that both accent your living space but also keep things moving. Overall, your picture should be one with ease of movement and the ability to adapt depending on the particular uses you put to your furniture.
Mood Lighting For Living Rooms
Chances are that your living room is the biggest room in your home. It is the place where you want to impress your guests with your taste and style. You also want them to relax in a warm and cosy environment. The easiest way to create the right mood is by using the right lighting in the room.
It’s best if you plan the decor of your living room with the lighting in mind. The most important fixture for creating the right mood is the table lamp. So place table lamps in strategic places like the side tables on either side of your sofa or next to the armchair where you like to sit and read. You can also place table lamps on a sideboard, a wet bar or a chest. Table lamps act like accent lights, lighting up only their surrounding areas. They create interest in the room because there are pockets of light and shadow and the different areas in the room are lit selectively. If your room only had a ceiling light, the entire room would be uniformly and, perhaps, quite brightly lit, creating an uninviting, cold feel.
If you have a nice plant in the room, try placing a small lamp near it and watch how the leaves cast interesting shadows on the walls. Lampshades too can add to the mood as they cast soft and diffused light. Sometimes the unique shape and patterns on the lamps and their shades elevate the lamps themselves from a functional purpose to an aesthetic statement.
A floor lamp with an up light can also be placed in the corner of the room to highlight a ceiling detail. If you have painting or pictures on the walls, use spotlights to focus on them.
If your living room is also where your children occasionally do their homework, then supplement the lamps with a ceiling fixture. If the kids do their assignments on the coffee table then a fixture directly above the table is a good idea as the light will also be in the center of your seating area and won’t look out of place. But don’t forget to use dimmers, particularly on the ceiling lights, as you can control the brightness of the light and thus control the ambiance in the room.
If you have a TV in the room, make sure there’s no glare on the screen from any of the lights. This can be controlled by placing a table or desk lamp next to or behind the TV.
The next thing to do is to carefully select the bulbs. Unlike the kitchen or bathroom, the color of the light in the living room should be warm and yellow not stark white so choose the light bulbs accordingly. CFL (Compact Fluorescent Lights) and LEDs are more energy-efficient than conventional incandescent bulbs and can result in significant savings in the long run.
Finally, on the day that you are entertaining guests, use only your lamps and spotlights and perhaps light a few candles in the room to create added intimacy. The ceiling light should remain switched off.
Originally posted 2016-02-25 21:15:37.
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