10 Tips: HOW TO DESIGN A SMALL LIVING ROOM

All spaces present style and design challenges, yet as the living room is the place you likely invest the most energy (and surely the one guests experience the most of), planning a little one can be particularly tricky and confusing. How would you find some kind of harmony between making the room feel as open and spacious as possible while also adjusting in some additional seating? What furniture would it be a good idea for you to pick, and where do you put it? Here are 10  tips on how to decorate a small living room for benefiting as much as possible from your space. So let’s get started with part one of this two-part article.

1. Use Mirrors and Wallpaper

A small living room, particularly if it’s lacking in windows, can feel somewhat confined. Make a point of focus, boost lighting and include profundity at the same time by papering a wall and hanging a mirror on top. If it is possible to position the mirror across from a window, all the better. The mirror will reflect the view outside, giving the impression of an additional window. 

Arrangement

Center the love seat/small sofa seat on the papered wall, flanked by a couple of matching side tables and lights. A large ottoman can function as a coffee table or as an extra seat. If there is room, room, you could work in an extra chair or two across from the loveseat or small sofa in this arrangement. Seats: two to four.

2. Choose Small-Scale Furniture

There is a whole lot more living room furniture than full-size sofas and bulky chairs. Collectibles shops are an extraordinary spot to search for little scale furniture, on the grounds that the normal room size was regularly very little until the last 50 years or something like that. Search for small size seats, including love seats/small sofas or any set of chairs that can work for your space. 

Arrangement

The small sofa must be centered in front of the front window, with petite tables on either side. A couple of armchairs sit opposite to the couch, with a trunk as a coffee table in the middle.

3. Ceiling

On the off chance that your family room is small spaced but blessed with high roofs, exploit that additional room. While vertical space doesn’t assist you much with adding in an additional seat, drawing the eye upward helps give the feeling that your living room is far bigger and more excellent than it would really appear.

Arrangement

Fill the vertical space with an eclectic art gallery or a vertical library.

4. Fill A Corner

It’s to some degree illogical, yet if you have a little corner living room space, going with the largest part of furniture conceivable can truly make it feel bigger. Why? A generously measured sectional is comfortable and ready to situate a huge number of people, but since it perused as just one piece, it empowers the space to feel uncluttered. An advanced sectional with perfect, straight lines work ideally in a little space over an overstuffed structure.

Arrangement

A customized sectional sofa is in one corner, with a couple of leather folding stools placed closed to each other to form a conversational group. Fill out the group with a slipper chair on the off chance that you have the room.

5. Downsize The Sofa

In some spaces, a full-size sofa just won’t do the job. Try a slimmed-down small sized sofa or an armchair instead. Choose one with clean lines and exposed legs for the airiest look.

Arrangement

A small sofa slides in the middle of this open-space, facing a media center on the wall. One comfortable armchair and an upholstered ottoman (that can serve as an additional seat) balance the setup. 

6. Add Ornamental Plants

Like wallpapers and mirrors, decorative plants are an incredible method to add depth to small living rooms. Rich greenery softens the corners and fools the eye into imagining that there is an entire other world to the room than there truly is. Plants are especially reasonable in corners and close by or behind seats and lounge chairs.

Arrangement

A backless sofa drifts in the center point of this open-plan space. A couple of upholstered armchairs with a small table between sits underneath a bank of windows opposite to the sofa. A small side table that can serve as an additional seat sits next to the sofa. And during a gathering, the backless sofa can deal with two individuals perching on each side. 

7. Use Multi-Functional Furniture

In a small living room, each furniture item ought to acquire its keep. Consider using ottomans that work as a coffee table or additional seating, nesting side tables that can be moved around as required or adaptable little stools that can be seats or tables. 

Arrangement

A smooth, armless sofa floats marginally away from the wall; two large, low ottomans double as a coffee table and seats.

8. Keep A Stash Of Spare Seats

In a really small space, it may not be conceivable to have the same number of seating options as you might want. One approach to get around this is by putting away a couple of folding chairs or stacking stools in a storage room (or under a bed), where you can without much of an effort to pull them out.

Arrangement

This built-in storage wall has a hideaway TV, bookshelves and cabinets; a small scale sofa seat is opposite. A low-slung plywood seat has been slipped before the media wall without obstructing the storage.

9. Skip The Sofa

Who says a living room must have a sofa at all costs?.  If that space is confined, try arranging 3 or 4 chairs around the coffee table. For included adaptability, make the coffee table a tray topped ottoman. That can be utilized as a seat, or add a stool to the arrangement. 

Arrangement

Set a low, round coffee table in the center point of the room with three armchairs around it.

10. Put low seats in front of the fireplace

Place a couple of small backless seats, stools, benches, ottoman before the fireplace in a little family room to sneak in some extra seating without hindering the room’s point of convergence. Truth be told, a long way from hindering the fireplace, a couple of adorable, low seats can really make the fireplace region look all the more welcoming. And if they come with hidden storage capacity, that would be preferable.

Arrangement

Put a couple of armchairs in front of a bay window and a long sofa against the wall opposite the fireplace add a nifty, clear coffee table. Set a couple of little upholstered ottomans before the fireplace for storage. 

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