The process can either be a
pleasurable experience or a nightmare, depending on your approach.
Merely having four walls and a
roof over your head does not make a home. Filling up that inner space with
furniture and furnishings in a well thought out, planned and systematic manner
holds the key to this transformation.
For this, it is essential to
take into consideration the number of people that will be occupying the house,
their preferences and the amount of socializing that should be done on a
regular basis.
Measure Elements
Starting with the basics,
before ordering any furniture you need to ensure that it will fit in the room
it’s intended for. First decide on your furniture layout and once you’ve chosen
it, measure its dimensions out in the room. Scale is also very important when
selecting furniture.
Measuring the floor area with
tape and marking out dimensions on a rough floor plan will give you a really
good idea of the size of furniture that will fit in. It’s also crucial to make
sure that there is enough space to get the furniture into your house and shift
it from one room to another whenever necessary.
Factor Accessories
If you will be watching
television in a particular room, ensure that there is space for accompanying
gadgets like a Blue Ray player and integrated home theatre system.
Lighting will again depend on
the nature of the activities that are done in a room.
Whether it is a small table for
your laptop or a trolley for snacking while you work, a comfortable chair for
reading thick reports, all of these will require different types of lighting in
accompaniment.
Maintain Proportion
Similarly, pre-arranging your
ideal furniture groupings and the space available will help you to get the
right items.
Again, you need to consider
your needs otherwise you will find that you have a lot of awkward spaces to
fill or even worse, certain items of furniture that don’t quite fit in the
space available.
Smaller items can look list in
a giant room and even a single huge furniture item can dwarf a budget home.
You may have some great
accessories to display, but then you don’t want to overwhelm the other
furnishings in that room. You want everything in a room to complement the
overall decoration of your home, so study the shapes of objects, their colours
and texture. So think about scale before buying.
Seating Arrangements
Sofa sets are a regular fixture
in most living rooms. Before buying a sofa armchair or any upholstery item, ask
yourself how long you expect the furniture to last, check the colour to ensure
it matches the room, does the fabric suit your requirements and will it fade if
subjected to direct sunlight?
Natural leather is not
advisable if you have a house-full of energetic children and pets. Lightly
colour-coated surface protected grain leather is a safer choice.
