Part 2. Arranging your furniture

Part 2. How to Arrange your furniture.

Posted by Mary Smith on Wednesday, 04 April 2012 in Blog

Part 2.

Traffic Flows.

Hi welcome back to a continuation of my previous blog about How to Arrange your Furniture.

We are looking at traffic flows and how important it is to get this right.

Things to look out for are doors.  Do you have doors in this space??? Which way do they open???

In living rooms always take into account the size of the Television and if people are going to pass through your viewing area.

Group your seating in a television area close together to help prevent someone passing by whilst your watching your comedy show.

Place your chairs and sofa close enough to give your room a feeling of intimacy and every body can be heard.

As a guide the coffee table is usually set a minimum of 60cm - 70cm  from the sofa.. Not always to be treated as the golden rule.

If the coffee table is closer that this your special table becomes  a foot stool.

Your Television needs to be set back at lease 3 - 4 times the size of the screen.   Too large a screen will dominate a room.

Your pathway for traffic is best to be a lease 1 metre wide.  The more used pathway the wider it should be.  Up to 1.5metres wide is extremely comfortable.

A pathway of 75cm  is acceptable for infrequent used pathways.

Be smart when purchasing furniture.  If your rooms double for multi purposes than think hard about the furniture you should choose.

Does your TV room double as a toy room???   Mine does.  Then put in a coffee table with storage draws or baskets for all the toys.

Create a toy box (chest) to hold the toys, then add a simple cushion padding on top to then transform this to aseat or as a coffee table with out the padding.

Throw in an ottoman which provides additional seating when guests come over.

Our Office becomes spare room when visitors arrive.  Throw in a sofa lounge that can be whipped out to be a sofa bed.

The office desk then can double for a dressing table.

Think smart you can utilise valuable space wisely.

I do hope all this helps with your arrangement of furniture.  Keep an eye on more exciting blogs coming up in the near future.

My next blog will be about Combining Fabrics just like the Designers do!

Happy rearranging your home and creating your unique style for your family.

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