Maybe you’re
in your first apartment or starter home. Or you’re leading a nomadic lifestyle
with corporate transfers or military assignments. Whatever the reasons, don’t let
a square-footage challenge put a damper on your living room furniture dreams. At Roses our accumulated years of experience
serving households just like yours plus our research into the world’s top
interior designers’ picks are now at your service. Even in a tiny space you can
still live large, entertaining with a style that will make your living room furniture the standard that
your friends hope to equal. Here then are some design sense and free advice for
your small living room.
Coziness Is Your Friend
Okay, we
admit we’re redefining “cramped” as “cozy.” But a good attitude plus smart
design sense in your home furniture
will win over your guests every time. The experts say one way to do this is to
create an instant homey feeling in your small space, rather than pretend your
room is bigger than it is (we’ll get to those tips in a bit). Embrace the smallness!
Keep your loveseats and recliners close together, like on a talk-show set (imagine
you’re interviewing Brad Pitt or Taylor Swift), and pull these and your well-chosen
low coffee table together with a visually
and texturally striking area rug.
Simple but effective! You and your guests have immediate rapport. On to our next
suggestion…
Tricks with Color
Light creates
the illusion of more space. So you can do one or all of these with your intimate
living-room space. Go nuts with the cool accent lamps, deck the walls with lovely mirrors, amplifying your room’s natural
and artificial light, and/or make your walls a brilliant white. Display a
favorite collection of paintings or photos in matching white frames for an art-museum
look that won’t come off as cluttered. On that note, if your little living room
has one or two windows letting the sun in, go for light-colored window treatments
such as draperies or shades.
The Versatile Ottoman
While we love
coffee tables as much as you likely
do, they’re not for everybody. Maybe the best way to make your small room “pop”
visually is by using two or more living room ottomans as tables instead. Better still, for a bigger party you can
clear them off and voila, extra chairs at your service!
Check out
your living room and accent options for less at our Bluefield, WV furniture store or any of our other locations.
