Depending on the way you arrange your home you can either make it look crowded, spacious, cold or distant. You can arrange your furniture to bring out the positive aspects in a room to create a pleasant mood.
So if you’re redecorating or rearranging a new home or your exiting home, arrange your furniture in a way that it works best for you and your family.
Here are a few tips on how to arrange your furniture and create a warm and inviting atmosphere in a room.
Make a graph of your room
Use paper and draw the dimensions of the room. Clearly mark the doors, windows, staircases and entrance and exit. You should also mark the power outlets. Use measuring tape to measure the room and the furniture.
Placing the furniture in the room
• Clean the furniture and the room before moving the furniture.
• Use a thick rug or moving pads to move furniture around.
• Check for the power outlets first before moving electrical appliances.
• Before actually moving the furniture into the room, check the spaces of the room and draw the largest item on the graph and the other furniture that go with it.
• Plan your traffic route. Keep large furniture from obstructing the traffic route.
• Leave some space at the back of the dinning table chairs, as they need to be moved back to sit on, Avoid having the dinning table toward the wall as constant knocking of furniture can damage the walls.
• Have enough space for cupboards, so that the doors can be opened with a problem.
• Have some distance between the television and the couch you sit on. The distance should be more than 3 times the size of the televisions.
• Have sufficient lighting above the dinning area, reading areas and study areas.
• Have enough space around the bed.
• Make sure you have a lot of space and less furniture in toddlers play rooms.
• Create a balance in the room with tall and short furniture, with a mix of color and shades, lighting and rugs.
Some home makers rely on the feng shui to arrange their furniture.
A few tips on arranging furniture the feng shui way:
• Furniture should face the door
• Add a prosperity frog for wealth
• Avoid television on the bedroom
• Less furniture is the best
• Add mirror to increase the size of he room
• Have comfortable furnishing
• Make sure there is enough space between furniture especially in the living room, bedroom, bathroom and the kitchen
• Have big mirrors specially in the hallway and bathroom
• Have the bed against a wall and the foot of the bed should not face the door
You home is an expression of your personality, therefore keep your furniture and décor simple and clean. More and more home makers are opting for the feng shui way of arranging their furniture.
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