The subject of living room furniture placement is of utmost importance because of many reasons. I am going to discuss some of the most important points about furniture placement in a living room.

First it is necessary to make a note that a living room in any home plan is the first room of the any house. In most cases it is the first room where any person enters and then travels to other rooms such as bedrooms, dining room, kitchen, kid’s bedrooms etc.

This makes the placement of living room furniture very crucial. Because the entrances to all other rooms are through living room it becomes necessary to carefully examine the movement patters from the entrance to other rooms.

The furniture must carefully be placed in such a way that there is enough circulation space available without any destructions. Not only enough circulation space but the shortest route from the entrance to other rooms is also advisable.

Any standard living room will have common set of furniture items such as

1) Sofa sets
2) TV unit
3) Storage or shelves for books/other items
4) Coffee tables
5) Accessories such as picture frames/statues etc.

It is necessary to come up with a unique and functional furniture placement plan. While placing the TV unit it must be taken into consideration that the TV screen does not receive glare because of direct sunlight falling on it.
This can cause poor picture quality.

Also sofa sets must be placed in groups so that a habitable space is formed where the whole family can sit and enjoy. Normally sofas are arranged around the TV unit or the fireplace (if you have one).

Thus the living room furniture placement can greatly affect the functionality of a living room design and its interior design outcome. Learn more about living room design.

Living room in any home is the most important space as far as interior design is concerned. The reason behind this is simple. It is the first room (in most cases) in which any person enters. Living room design will create the first impression of your home in the visitor’s mind.

When it comes to designing a living room interior space, furniture plays a major role. If you carefully examine the position of your living room in a home plan you will notice that all other major rooms such as bedrooms, family rooms, kitchen, dining room are connected to the living room via a passage or a lobby.

This makes the furniture arrangement of a living room very important. If the architect has taken enough care about the circulation spaces then it becomes easier to create a clear circulation area fro living room to other rooms after the furniture has been arranged.

A typical living room will have the following furniture pieces.

1) Three seat sofa
2) Two single chairs
3) Coffee tables
4) Side tables
5) TV Unit with storage

Depending upon the size and shape of the living room these items may change. The furniture items you choose for a living room must reflect a design theme that goes well with the color scheme as well. In most cases the color scheme has been painted the house gets occupied y the owner. That is why if you are low on budget, a furniture design theme that matches the color scheme of the living room will serve the purpose.

Here is a simple living room furniture idea. If your living room area is small, go for furniture, which is not bulky in volume. A kind of furniture, which is made up of steel members, reveals more of wall areas behind, giving an impression of more space. Such kind of steel furniture is light in weight and it is easy to alter the furniture arrangement of you are not happy with the visual balance after a few days. You can try out all sorts of experiments with lightweight steel furniture.

You can learn more about living room design and furniture layouts at my website.

A table is a furniture unit which is seen in every home used for a variety of purposes from study to dining, tables are a very popular type of furniture unit. Theoretically speaking a table is nothing but a horizontal platform with legs that support various activities in everyday work.

Since the primary function of a table can not be defined with 100% guarantee the form and shape/size of tables greatly vary. For example tables for studying/dining/coffee/in restaurants/in bedrooms/in living rooms all have different sizes.

In living rooms two types of tables are primarily used. First are the end tables that come with a living room furniture set as part of the other furniture units like sofas and chairs and the second type is a coffee table. As the name suggests a coffee table is normally placed in the center of the “loop” formed by sofas and is used to serve eatables or drinks etc. because of this the overall volume of the coffee table is short and does not “over occupy” the living room.

On the other hand end tables are only used as fillers to occupy the small corners at the “end” of sofa units where living room ends. These kind of tables are also mostly used to keep a flowering arrangement or statues that will hide the unwanted corners of the room. The typical height of both end and coffee tables measures to be 450 mm (1 feet 6 inches approx.) This height does not obstruct the vision of the people occupying  the living room.

The coffee table normally comes in a two layer design. The upper layer is used to serve coffee or other eatables and the lower layer can be used to keep magazines/newspapers.

One very creative way to break the old pattern of decorating is to use the end tables as a coffee table but in more numbers. For example instead of using a single rectangular coffee table with glass top you can use two wooden end tables and two glass+steel end tables to create an interesting pattern. Since the end tables measure shorter in demission around 450mmX450mm such type of design will not obstruct the human movement between the sofa loop.

Also the variation in top surface material will give rise to interesting material themes that can be repeated elsewhere also. Some possible shapes of such an arrangement could be

* A big square using 4 small squares end tables of different  top surface finish
* 2 small square tables with 2 half round tables at both ends to form a “capsule” shape in plan.
* Two rectangular end tables to for a “L” shape.

The variations can be unlimited if done creatively. But one thing remains to explore here, what happens to the “end” space where these end tables need to be placed primarily? Of course this space is a good one to place a attention grabbing feature such as a medium height plant or even designer lampposts. The advantage of using these is they will
evenly balance the visual focus away from the center tables and form a visual frame in the living room by providing good lighting at the same time.

Many more creative ideas are possible using simple tables in the living room. I hope you will find more new ways to use them in your home. I have tried to mark a few ones here

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Shrinivas Vaidya is the webmaster of http://www.livingroomdatabase.com/. Visit today to get more free tips on making use of living room tables and other furniture models such as chairs, sofas, and living room sets in home decorating. 

Sofa in a living room is a very special way to occupy space for a special purpose. The main purpose of any sofa unit is to not just to provide seating, but create a secured environment where the home owner and his family can enjoy moments of togetherness. 

That’s why sofas come in a variety of shapes and sizes. In most cases sofa units come in a category of “number of seats”.

3seats in a row, 2seats in a row (commonly called as a “love seat”) and a single seat sofa are available today in the furniture market. Apart from these special designer sofas for placing in corner on the living room are also popular. These designer sofas are sometimes in the form of a letter “L” in plan, with the longer side of the “L” has a back rest with 3 seats in a row.

The most preferred arrangement of sofas in a living room furniture unit is making use of one 3seat sofa along the longer length of the sofa and two single seat sofas with an end table in between them. A living room set is also available for customers. This living room set contains a 3 seat sofa, a love seat, a single seat sofa, end table(s) and a coffee table.

Depending upon the design/dimensions/shape and volume of the living room various combinations of the sofas can be done to utilize space. While deciding the arrangement of the sofas keep one thing in mind that as soon as you arrange a sofa layout, the volume of space occupied by the sofas and surroundings immediately becomes the focus of attention. For example if the sofas have been arranged around the TV unit, see that the rest of the space gets enough attention or it will look unoccupied. Also make use of small elements such as end tables and coffee table of various shapes to create some interest in the living room.

Before defining a living room furniture layout first finalize your main activity of interest in a living room. What does this mean? What I mean is for do you use the living room most. Is it reading? watching TV, sleeping, home office in a short corner with a computer etc. Answering this question first is very important because in a living room furniture layout sofas play a major role. Since sofas are the heaviest furniture elements you can not move or shift them every other day for a different layout. I’m not saying you can never change the layout once it’s done, but if you arrange the sofas around a TV unit then naturally watching TV becomes your main activity.

On the other hand if you place them around the exit to patio then naturally you will have to spend a lot of time watching nature and birds in the outside garden.

I hope this article was a good start in thinking about more creative ways to use sofas in a living room decorating.

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Chairs provide a very simple yet effective way to relax and spend some good time in a comfortable body posture. But not all chairs are designed to “relax” . This is especially true about chairs in the workplaces. In the workplaces we are supposed to be alert hence the office furniture is designed to be alert at work. They keep your body in a manner which will keep you from relaxing.

But things are different in a living room. the whole and sole purpose of chairs in the living room are to provide better comfort and maximum relaxation. But there is one more important aspect to this situation.

let’s see a small experiment. If you have been given a choice in a living room to watch a good movie and provided with two different types of seating arrangement. First a big stuffed leather sofa and a small chair with fair amount of seating space a person should have, which one would you choose to sit. Of course most people will unconsciously choose to sit on a large sofa and ignore the chair altogether.

Why does this happen? It’s simple a sofa has a much different psychological impact on the human mind because of its sheer volume and form. Because of his a chair in a living room is always considered as a “option” for seating arrangement. If your more friends join the movie viewing with you then you might consider getting a few “chairs” to sit around the TV and fulfill the need of emergency occupancy.

So chairs are always considered a fillers rather than core furniture elements in a living room. But this same principle can be very effectively used, let’s see how.

If you observe the furniture arrangement in any living room you will notice that sofa sets are arranged in living rooms that overlook some object of interest such as a fireplace, TV, outdoor patio, backyard etc. So such kind of arrangement is used to create a focus in the living room. Go right now to http://images.google.com and search for “living room” images. View at least 10 images and you will see that all attention has been focused around this furniture arrangement.

We can easily use this method with chairs as well. An arrangement of chairs in a large living room will definitely be used to balance the attention elsewhere and create another focal point. For example if the exit to patio has been overlooked an arrangement of even 4 chairs with a small coffee table will make the space look more used and
balanced.

In this way chairs do have a lot of “power” in decorating when used in groups and with creative arrangements. I hope this article has shown you the importance of chairs as a design element in living rooms.

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