5 Furniture Essentials for Living Room Décor
The living room is in a literal sense the room where you live with your family during the day time. Whole of the family uses this room and hence it needs to be strategically designed. Unless you have separate family room or the room to entertain guests, the living room will also serve as the place to entertain guests. Due to varied and extensive uses, it is important to furnish this room strategically to blend design, utility, comfort, and space appropriately so that it offers utmost relaxation. While there are many things that you can include in the living room, the five bare essentials are mentioned here.
- A sofa
The sofa has always been the top essential for the living room. Modular sofas are becoming more popular as they take up less space and offer maximum utility. The number of seats in the sofa would be decided based on your family size. Even if you are just two, you will require at least five seats to entertain guests. The new age modular sofa comes in separate pieces. One can either use it whole or divide it to get the separate seating in multiple areas of the room. With modular sofas, you will have great flexibility and more designs to work on!
- Coffee Table or Center Table
Whether you have a guest to attend or you are chilling out with the family, a center table is quite essential. It should be selected in glass or wood depending on your room décor. Go for a big one if the space in the room permits as it will become the center of attraction too. The size of the table would depend on the space available between the sofas as there should be room to move around and at the same time things kept on the table may be reachable while sitting on the sofa. You will be using this piece of furniture to serve coffee and snacks too. There are tables with storage available too for those who want to keep the top surface clutter free.
- Lounger or Pull-out Couch
The living room is meant for relaxing and nothing would be as relaxing as a couch or lounger. Choose a good quality lounge with a sofa to relax while chatting with your family. The pull-out couch is also a very important selection that you can make. It works as the sofa as well as a bed when pulled out. It will be one important piece of furniture if you are not having separate guest room. There are special recliner sofas available in different designs that can be used to sit and relax without taking up much of space.
- Nest of tables
Apart from keeping a big sized center table, it is also a great idea to have small sized side tables in the living room as well. Instead of keeping a single side table, go for a nest of tables that take up space equivalent to one table but serve utility of multiple tables. The nest of tables comes with three to four tables placed one under the other. The space that is used by the nest of tables is equal to the biggest table while all other tables are placed under that. These tables can be used when you have more guests to entertain and multiple things to serve. Though these tables may not add anything to the looks and décor, they are still important because of the utility they serve.
- Bookshelf and display unit
The bookshelf is not the bare essential for the living room, however, it gives the distinguished look to the whole place. By placing a bookshelf, you will imbibe the reading habit in the entire family. Displaying some good books in the living room would allow your guests to browse through them while you are busy in some other work. The display unit is usually placed in the living room for displaying the priceless possessions or sharing the memories. It would take care of various artifacts that you have fetched from different travel locations. You can display all your favorite picks on this unit.
Make your living room the place to relax and rejoice with these 5 furniture essentials that add both comfort and utility to the room.
