A simple guide for decorating your living room

The Furniture

1.    We begin setting up the space with the sofa, placing it against the longest wall in the room.

2.    We didn’t stick the sofa to the wall. In this layout there’s about 12 inches of space between the two, but this also depends on the space in a room. Keeping a bit of a distance also prevents heads touching the wall and the artwork that’s on it.

3.    We then placed the coffee table, aligning it with the centre of the sofa.

4.    We’ve kept the coffee table at a distance of 14 to 18 inches from the sofa so there’s plenty of leg room, and the table is also within arm’s reach.

5.    The side table is close enough to the sofa to easily reach and place a drink on it. Test this out while seated on the sofa to decide the spot for your side table.

6.    The placement of any additional seating like a lounge chair should provide room for movement but be close enough for conversations. Neither too close nor too far, we’ve kept about 18 inches between the sofa and the lounge chair.

7.    An area rug helps define the space. Here we’ve placed the rug under the coffee table. For a larger room, a bigger rug that could encompass the sofa would also work.

Wall Decor

1.    Decorative items like wall art, frames can be used in living rooms. The art frame we used has been aligned to the centre of the sofa.

2.    The frame should be at an average eye level, not too high and not so low that a person sitting on the sofa might hit their head on it.

The living room is the hardest working room in a house, and a multi-purpose, multi-identity space. It is a makeshift dining space, a naptime spot, and entertainment room. A room that works so hard deserves a little extra attention after all…