5 Tricks for a Better Living Room, According to Home Stagers
Living rooms are, well, for living—you know, Scrabble marathons with friends, meditating to Lizzo, spending quality time with your plant babies, or whatever it is that makes you feel happy at home. So, on the one hand, you don’t want this living space to feel delicate. But, on the other, it’d be nice to have an inviting, well-curated space.
How to create a living room you love:
Don’t cram in too much furniture
The key to creating a calm and comfy room? Making sure there is enough of a walkway between your furniture, explains Nathan Thompson with Pavilion Broadway, a U.K.-based luxury homeware and interior design company that offers staging services. But, how much space do you need? Thompson recommends a minimum of 18 inches of walkway between your furniture pieces, but if you’ve got a larger space double that to 36 inches.
Pay attention to proportions
You know that large furniture items can be overwhelming in a small space. Similarly, placing smaller furniture items in a large room, or a room with a high ceiling, can drown them out and cause your space to look out of scale, Thompson explains.
Two more rules from Thompson: “Coffee tables should be around half the size of your sofa,” he says. And a correct-sized rug should be large enough to touch at least the front legs of your furniture.
Don’t be too matchy-matchy
The best way to make a living room look cohesive is to make sure very few things match, says Justin Riordan, interior designer, architect and founder of the Portland-based home staging company Spade and Archer Design Agency. While he loves a good pair of matching lamps, he says matching furniture is tricky to sophisticatedly style.
“If you purchase a matching sofa, loveseat, and chair, anything else you put with it will look like the odd man out,” he says.
On the flip side, it’s easy to introduce new pieces to a coordinating—but not matching— living room, he says.
Jody Wallace of Greylyn Wayne Interior Design & Home Staging in Portland, Oregon, says she likes to think of designing a living room as a unique puzzle:
“Make the space you decorate more interesting by adding multiple layers of textures, pops of color, and adding a mix of vintage and modern decor,” she says.
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