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How to Choose Living Room Furniture: 3 Important Points
07.01.2023 08:00
Updated: 13.04.2023 07:32
Choosing furniture for the living room is not an easy task. Of course, you need to think it over carefully - after all, furniture is usually bought for years.
Living room furniture should be, first and foremost, practical and functional, but also correspond to the character of the interior and the prevailing style.
Regardless of what it will be, when choosing furniture for the living room, it is worth following several useful tips.
Recommendations were shared by the expert of the online publication "BelNovosti" in the field of design and interior design , Yulia Tychino .
Durability and quality of workmanship
Since living room furniture is an investment, the first thing to consider is its quality, durability, and reliability of manufacture. The selected living room furniture should be free of damage and neatly finished.
The materials used to produce furniture are of great importance - if they are of poor quality (a suspiciously low price should alert us to this), they wear out very quickly, which in turn may force a quick repair or even replacement.
On the other hand, a very high price does not necessarily guarantee high quality, so before buying it is always worth consulting with manufacturers and choosing the best solution. Manufacturers of system furniture offer an excellent price-quality ratio, and a large selection of collections means that everyone will find their dream living room furniture.
Functionality
Living room furniture should be practical. Before we decide to buy, it is worthwhile to first design the space and determine what specific pieces of furniture we will need.
Modern system furniture, also called modular, allows you to choose the necessary furniture options from the entire collection. Thanks to this, we can choose the elements we need (we do not need to buy all the furniture at once and buy it later).
Of course, you shouldn't overdo it with the amount of furniture, so as not to clutter the room. It's worth focusing on functional elements, such as a chest of drawers, a TV stand or bookshelves. Depending on the amount of space we need for storage, we should decide on the number of cabinets or drawers in which we can freely hide our things.
Style and versatility
Before buying furniture for the living room, we probably already know what style will prevail in the interior. Depending on its character, we should choose furniture that matches the color or design.
However, it is worth betting on furniture that will be universal - changing the color of the walls is much easier than replacing all the elements in the living room, including furniture (even in the case of repairs or a desire to change the interior style). This will also give the opportunity, if necessary, to move furniture from the living room to another room.
In this matter, it is worth using the services of interior designers who will suggest the best solution. If you want to shorten the path, you can choose uniform, universal colors of furniture that will match many styles of arrangement, for example, white or natural wood.
