How to choose the right furniture for your living room

It can be a really fun experience when designing and shopping for your home!

Many people subconsciously choose themes based on their personality, where they are at in their lives at that moment, a good amount of residents have to compromise with their better half or family, and others choose strictly on base of the home’s aesthetic or strategically placed.

The living room is the most common and used room out of the whole house usually. Hence the name "living room". It’s where the family all meet together after a long day to rest together and on weekends to enjoy eachothers company.

It's a living room thing

Choosing furniture pieces for this common area can be a crucial decision because the level of comfort needs to be prioritised in most cases along with the whole theme of the room.

If you like to host parties or have friends and family over often, then this is also another factor to take into account.

Many favorites for people when choosing seated furniture for the living room is:

• Color coordinating sofas, chairs and tv recliners
• Matching all furniture pieces with sets of 3 of sofa, loveseat and single recliner
• Opposites attract by having a completely different color, pattern or theme from a brown leather sofa to a leopard print chair or a multicolored swivel chair
• Size of the room can only fit 1 sofa recliner or loveseat
• A bachelor’s apartment with 2 tv recliners
• Extra space in the room can invite many extra pieces such as a 6 to 8 seat sofa with recline options, ottomans, fun bean bags, kids chairs and recliner
• A sofa in a studio apartment that turns into a bed

There are even more different ways to structure and create a living room, alot of it is up to the space in size, who is living there and their style and use of the room and overall aesthetic and atmosphere they want to achieve.

A quirky room is fun and exciting with some chairs or loveseats that aren't the most comfortable alot of the time. If someone doesn't spend too much time in the living room space then maybe comfort isn't the most important. Whereas families who spend all their time in the living room when they are home, comfort needs to be of importance.

The longevity and endurance of the upholstery, frame of the recliner and sofa to be durable and strong and factoring in everyday use so wear and tear, even uv protection and a water resistant fabric are all features that many furniture companies have and sell today and at a pretty affordable price.

Since the seating area takes up most of the space usually and is the focal point when designing the living room space, other pieces can make the whole room come together such as:

• Table
• Side table(s)
• Rug
• Tv media stand or table
• Armoire

Taste, space, theme are all different factors when creating a living room space.