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Location of the Living Room
The living room should be positioned near the entrance for easy movement of guests and homeowners alike. This location will truly showcase your furniture and arrangement style.
Ensuring sufficient light for the living room space is also crucial. Besides natural light sources, light from lamps creates a spacious feel for your living room. A well-lit space creates a sense of openness for the home.
Allocation of Dimensions and Arrangement of Objects, Furniture in the Living Room
Depending on the size of the living room space, you should make appropriate decisions regarding the dimensions of the living room furniture, neither too large nor too small.
Additionally, you should limit the selection of decorative items, overly elaborate furniture to ensure that your living room space does not become cramped and cluttered.
Maintaining balance in decorating the walls is something you need to pay attention to when decorating the living room. Leaving your walls too bare or overusing wall hangings and decorations will create a significant imbalance in the space.
Some common principles for arranging living room furniture:
- Maintain a distance of at least 2m between the sofa and the TV to protect your eyes while using the TV.
- Position the center of the TV screen higher than 70cm from the height of the sofa seat so your body can relax comfortably without needing to strain when watching TV.
- The height of the table surface should not be more than 10cm higher or lower than the sofa arm to conveniently access items on the table during use.
After sketching out the interior decoration of the living room, it's crucial to consider the mobility space within the room.
It can be said that determining the dimensions and layout of furniture to optimize space is essential and time-consuming.
Color Scheme
When decorating the living room interior, overall, interior designers and many households tend to opt for basic and neutral color tones such as white, gray, navy blue, and various shades of wood brown for easy selection and arrangement of furniture items.
A notable example is the off-white color tone - a common hue chosen for its safety and effectiveness in arranging furniture. Not only that, this white hue also helps brighten and expand your living room space, regardless of its size.
Additionally, wooden tones are also highly favored for their simplicity, natural closeness to nature, and durability when used over time.
Using basic and neutral color tones as a background, other details such as furniture (sofa, coffee table, cabinet, etc.) or decorative items (carpets, vases, paintings, etc.) can easily stand out and make a lasting impression.
A useful tip from interior designers is to avoid using more than 3 color tones when coordinating colors to create harmony and comfort for your living room space.
Prioritize Green Spaces
Prioritizing the selection of arranging the living room with various types of plants will make your living space closer to nature, reducing the heaviness and awkwardness of the room.
Moreover, some types of plants also serve as air purifiers, purifying and regulating the air in your living room.
Feng Shui
In feng shui for the living room, airflow is considered the most important. Therefore, when arranging furniture, you need to avoid obstructing the walkways.
Feng shui-based living room arrangement needs to be accurately determined to bring luck to the family. For example, planting money plants to attract wealth, or positioning the TV and computer - items containing yang energy, should be placed in the South or North to support the career path of the homeowner.
Some furniture suggestions when choosing according to feng shui:
- Wooden furniture: Choose the energy direction of Wood (East, Southeast)
- Metal objects: Choose the energy direction of Metal (West, Northwest)
- Furniture with red color: Choose the South direction - symbolizing the Fire element.
- Furniture related to water (watercolor paintings, boats, waterfalls, etc.) should be placed in the North direction - symbolizing Water.
- Decorative items made of precious stones, ceramics, glass: Choose the Northeast and Southwest directions - suitable for Earth energy.
