![]() Illustration 2 shows two 3 cushion sofas in a room. The side chairs and chest combinations at the far ends of the room counterbalance each other. Notice that the sofa and chairs on the right counterbalance the fireplace and chairs on the left. They can easily be moved around as needed. Additional seating (in the form of dining room side chairs, which have seats and backs, but no arms) are placed in front of the windows at both the front and back of the room. Upholstered chairs are grouped around the sofa and fireplace. The arrows in this drawing and all the other drawings for this post show you how the room’s traffic pattern goes. In Illustration 1 we have a sofa placed on the far wall directly opposite the fireplace, which is the room’s focal point. If you are introducing an entertainment center, large flat screen TV, etc into the space, you are counterbalancing that/those product(s) with furniture as you did with the fireplace. In the living rooms shown in the illustrations, the sofa and chair combinations are counterbalancing the focal point, which is the fireplace. Interior Decorating is all about Equal Balance. If your room has no architectural / built-in focal point, your entertainment center, large flat screen TV, etc is your focal point, and you will be building your room around that. When looking at all the room illustrations I have come up with, just imagine your entertainment center in the space where I have placed a fireplace in the rooms. I know in these modern times, everyone is into entertainment centers, flat screen TVs, etc. I think it looks warm and inviting, when you first enter a room, if you see something soft and comfortable looking like a sofa or grouping of cozy chairs in front of a fireplace. If you have an open concept house, with few long walls, look for the longest windowed wall in the room and back your sofa against it, and arrange your furniture out from there. From that spot, look across the room for the longest wall, that will probably be the best wall to locate your sofa and start making your furniture arrangement around it. If your room had no focal point to build upon, First stand in the entry way to your room. The fireplace would be your starting point and all your furniture would be grouped around it. When it comes to placing furniture in a room, it is easiest to do if your room has a focal point like a fireplace. The room has a long wall on the right side that you see when you enter it that has no architectural details, or there is a fireplace on either the left or right side of the room. Two entries bring you into the space, they are both on the left. The Room that I have chosen has windows on both the far end walls (front and back). I hope after looking at what I have come up with, it will inspire you when it comes to placing furniture in your own home. I used the information I presented in my Sept 7th post titled Arranging Living Room furniture, so sofas talk to chairs, like the pros do to make the different groupings in the spaces. This post was an exercise for me, and I came up with Twelve Different Ways of placing furniture in the same room. Sometimes with a little extra thought, and some imagination a person can come up with a few extra furniture arranging options for the space. ![]() ![]() When it comes to arranging furniture in a room, most people will come up with one or two ideas about how they want the furniture placed.
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