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How to Arrange Your Family Room or Living Room

Arrange Your Furniture Like a PRO

How to arrange the furniture in your living room or family room can be a confusing task.
It doesn’t have to be if you follow these easy furniture arrangement tips.

Choose a focal point
Whether it’s your tv, a fireplace or even a window with a beautiful view, choose what you’d like to be the focal point of the room.
Once you’ve decided on your focal point, you want your furniture arrangement to be facing that.
People sometimes struggle with whether the focal point should be the tv or the fireplace. I say it can be both.
If you want the fireplace AND the tv to be equal focal points, you do have a few options. You can hang your tv above your fireplace.

You can arrange your furniture facing each other and have the fireplace at one end and the tv at the other.

Or, you can place your tv right next to the fireplace so that the furniture can be facing both of them.

Arrange your furniture in conversational groups
You want people to be able to sit on your furniture and be able to comfortably speak to each other without yelling.
Place your furniture so that it faces each other and is close enough to each other so that people on the sofa can chat with someone in the chair.
If need be you CAN pull furniture in away from the wall. You can always add a sofa table between the sofa and the wall if need be. And, an area rug can anchor the furniture in a seating arrangement.
If you are trying to figure out what size area rug to buy there’s a Free Tip Sheet for that HERE (Link to Tip Sheets tab)

Break up a long, narrow room
If you have a long narrow room you’ll need to create 2 or 3 seating arrangements, depending on the length of the room.
You can anchor each space, again, with an area rug.
If you need to figure out what size area rug to buy there are 2 blog posts about that.
https://www.detailsfullserviceinteriors.com/how-to-know-what-size-area-rug-to-buy
https://www.detailsfullserviceinteriors.com/guide-choosing-right-area-rug

Create a tv viewing arrangement at one end and then maybe a reading area at the other, or a game playing area at the other end.
If you need more help with this there happens to be a Free Tip Sheet HERE

You really do need a coffee table
I can’t tell you how many houses I go into that don’t have a coffee table.
I’ve asked them why. Their answer is always the same, they didn’t think of it.
So, I’m telling you. You need a coffee table. It helps to create that conversation area. It should be 18-24” from the front of your furniture.
We went over how to know what size coffee table to buy back in this blog – https://www.detailsfullserviceinteriors.com/size-matters-furniture

Fill up any overly obvious empty corners
Once you’ve arranged your furniture there may be a corner or two that are obviously too empty. Here are 2 tricks that can help that.
If you have enough space you can place a chair and a little side table in the corner. It could become the perfect reading nook. NOTE – this chair does not need to be close enough to the conversation area furniture arrangement. If it needs to be pulled in temporarily at any time it can be.

Or, tall plants always come in handy. They fill up empty corners. And, they add texture and life.

If you still need some help putting your room together you can pick up our free eBook Decorate Like a Pro – 7 Steps to a Beautiful Room – HERE
There will also be 5 corresponding videos from our Facebook LIVE show, The Daily Details. You can view them on this page at the end of this week or always on our Facebook page – www.facebook.com/detailsfullserviceinteriors and go to the videos tab.