Furniture Placement 102: Odd Shaped and Unusual Roomsby Andrea Hermitt | More from this Blogger 18 Jun 2009 06:24 AM
In Furniture Placement 101 I gave some basics about placing furniture that will help you greatly in arranging a room. The rules are simple enough to follow in a normal rectangular room with only one traffic pattern, but what do you do in rooms that are oblong, filled with windows, or L or other oddly shaped rooms? Long Rectangular rooms: Create multiple furniture arrangements in a long room. Have each portion of the room serve a different purpose. You should however avoid splitting the room evenly in two. For example, you can have music or a reading area at one end of the room, and have the rest of the room serve as a sitting area, or TV entertainment. Show the separation of the room by having an area that is devoid of furniture, using a dividing screen, or with the placement of area rugs. Window Filled Rooms: Rooms with lots of windows are for the enjoyment of the view, so don't over fill it with furniture. In such a case, I advise creating a conversation area with two small sofas or several chair facing each other. It it is not possible to pull the furniture away from the windows in such a room, then be sure to use light wicker or low profile furniture to help you get the most of the view. Oddly shaped rooms: You need to look at the room objectively and try to decide what arrangement of the room might be. Personally, I like to draw the room on paper, so I can look down at it and break the room into section, and imaging a few scenarios without moving heaving furniture. Your options are to break the room up into two or three functions and/or use large furniture items to balance out the room. Read: Three Furniture Placement Styles Rearrange Your Furniture to Save Money Furniture 102--Other Key Terms Learn more about Andrea Hermitt  Andrea Hermitt is a native New Yorker currently residing in GA. She has been married for over 16 years and has two teenage children. Relevanthome tags Kids | ideas | christmas | relationships | parenting | family | holidays | weight loss | baby | children User Comments dmm465 (5) 10 Oct 2009 11:59 AMI have a very hard room to arrange. The room is 18x24' with many focal points. The front long wall is full of windows (30' high) and is not straight across, but actually slightly arrows out coming to a point in the center. To the right of this (right wall), is our stone fireplace, going all the way to the ceiling (30' up), and back wall is a stair case. The Left is a small partial wall, but mainly open to the rest of the house. We cannot find a place for a TV, due to the fireplace being a focal point. And its really hard to put our furniture in the room because it is so large. We bought a large (108" couch), chair & half, large rectangular coffee table, and a mission style recliner chair. Its hard to imagine without a picture. Where can I get help with this? Discuss this article
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