Furnish Your Living Room in Style
Posted by in Living Room on August 1, 2011
Living rooms are the part of a house where family and friends gather. Creating a stylish living room requires numerous considerations, such as the appropriate size of the furniture, the colour scheme, personal taste and the ultimate function of the room. Fortunately, it is easier to furnish the living room with style than most people may think.
Room Proportions:
Before buying any furniture for the living room, determining the appropriate proportions that suit the space is vital to avoiding an odd look in the living room. Take a measuring tape and find out the dimensions of the living room.
In general, a large living room requires larger furniture while a small living room should have smaller furniture. Keep in mind that in a smaller space, it might look best with two small pieces of furniture rather than a large couch. In some spaces, even having a few different chairs rather than a sofa and loveseat might suit the room better or having a small couch with two armchairs on each side. While the ultimate decision of which furniture suits the room best is a personal choice, keep the rules relating to the furniture size in mind. Too large furniture crowds a small space while too small furniture leaves too much open space in a large room.
Quality:
Quality in furniture will often dictate the cost. A high quality piece of furniture is going to be more expensive than lower quality pieces. In general, high quality furniture will last longer than it’s lower quality counterparts and should also retain its’ value (if looked after). The finish will also be superior (due to materials used, i.e. leather as opposed to plastic etc), however that doesn’t mean that cheaper furniture can’t look good and last with value for money. Make sure you budget your money for furniture spending, you don’t want to end up with just a beautiful Jacobean table, and nothing to sit around it! Read the rest of this entry »
Tips on Modern Living Room Furniture
Posted by in Living Room on August 1, 2011
It’s hard to imagine a world that doesn’t have modern living room furniture, but before the modernist movement in the early 19th century, furniture was overly ornate and complicated, almost to the point of ignoring comfort.
The modernist movement changed all that. Their mantra was “form follows function” and was amazingly simple in its intent. Build a chair that is comfortable, then make it look good. Emphasize shapes and designs that fit the purpose of the piece and don’t make it artistic just for the sake of showing off your workmanship.
That doesn’t mean that modern living room furniture is ugly or cheap. Far from it. Some of the best designers in the modern movement have had their hand in creating modern living room furniture that is beautiful to behold, yet fabulously functional in design.
The names are familiar to fans of modern living room furniture: Charles Le Corbusier, who greatly influenced mass production of modern living room furniture. Many of his pieces, including the Le Corbusier chair, are icons of the movement. So too is the work of George Nelson who created the Marshmallow Sofa and Florence Knoll, whose pieces are housed in the Museum of Modern Art. And who could overlook the names of Charles Eames and Ludwig van der Rohe, whose modern living room furniture transformed millions of American homes virtually overnight with their visionary designs that are just as fresh today as they were when first introduced.
If you’re drawn to modern living room furniture, you’re not alone. Its minimalist form isn’t static or boring. It is vibrant, energetic and very fashion forward. The wonderful thing about modern living room furniture is that pieces designed in the late 1920s blend seamlessly with other pieces that came onto the scene just last year.
Because form always follows function when it comes to this style of furniture, it never looks dated or goes out of style. That’s an added bonus as you can continue to add to your modern furniture over time with new pieces and they all go together. The style itself ties things together, so you can easily vary the fabric, colors or materials. Read the rest of this entry »