Modern Furniture Design – Home Living Ideas and Furniture Decorating

Where do the family members usually gather and having warm conversation? The living room…. Where will host welcome the guest and showing friendliness? The living room…. It is right that unconsciously, living room becomes the heart of our home. Thus, living room furniture design should be patterned on the personality and style of the owner. Here are tips on choosing the living room furniture design:

1. Coffee table

Coffee tables are usually put in the center of a living room. A design with clean, simple lines in natural wood would be required in actualizing functional and attractive living room furniture design for coffee tables. Natural wood furniture will also give natural sense in your living room whether it’s traditional or contemporary style. Try to avoid glass tables that need constant wiping.

2. Sofa

Quality sofas are those that have simple back cushions and plain scroll arms. These types of sofas will work best for families and are great pieces in the living room. This simple design will make the items fit for any theme and for any generation all through the years. Functional sofas should let your feet be able to touch the ground when you are sitting normally. Hence, when choosing sofas, it is best that you check the seat height and see if it is proper. If it is too high, ask to try different seat cushions.

Want to have a great contemporary style for your house? You should not forget about your bedroom. Never think that bedroom is a private area where no one will pay attention to instead it is a place where you will rest your self and feel the comfort there. One thing you should remember is that the furniture takes a hand in making you feel comfort.

What will bedroom without bed be? Don’t let your bed be an afterthought. Your bed will be the most prominent object in your room, so it has to go with your bedroom’s theme, color-wise, size-wise, and style-wise. A huge bed in a small room will likely look out of place as would a four-post bed in a room with sleek modern furnishings.

Bed Sizes

The most popular bed sizes are king, queen, twin and the increasingly popular California king. A California king is narrow and long, rather than the traditional king bed’s square shape. Just make sure you have the exact dimensions of your bed before you go mattress shopping, since bed manufacturers sometimes don’t follow the standard bed sizes exactly.

Bed Styles

Don’t confuse bed sizes with bed styles. Bed styles refer to the headboard and footboard. The basis of any bed is still the mattress and frame, which only vary outwardly in terms of the sizes listed above.

• Daybed

Daybeds are twin beds. What makes them special is that they can double as couches if you position them against a wall. Being compact and versatile, daybeds are great for small spaces.

• Platform

Platform beds are elegantly simple, fitting in with just about any style of decor.

• Sleigh bed

Sleigh beds have curved headboards and foot boards that look like, well…a sleigh. There are simpler and more modern sleigh bed designs, so you can get one even if you are going for a more modern-looking room.

• Four post bed

You know this bed already: it’s the one with a post sticking up out of each corner. The posts can support a canopy, but the canopy is optional.

• Pencil post bed

Pencil post beds are like four-post beds, only the posts are tall and tapered like…well, pencils. Harking back to their heyday in the 1700s, pencil-post beds fit a room with colonial furnishings especially well.

Well, which bed will be your contemporary bedroom furniture? Don’t bet your bed.

Bedroom is the most private room in the house. In this room people are get off from their physic and emotional activities. That is why people often specially design this room. The main principal element of a bedroom is must be comfortable and calm. A bedroom must full fill its two main functions;

Physical function, bedroom will provide which accommodating every kind of goods and activities of the owner, especially the private one.

Psychological function, bedroom is expected to be a place which give the optimal coziness when the owner really need some break.

Bedroom must be designed using eased interior element and natural colors. If your house is not so big and does not have many rooms, it will be better to apply bright tint on those rooms. Bright color will afford good impression, just like clean, wide and roomy. However, we must consider using these bright colors to the room that is functionally used for public area, just like living room, guest room, dining room etc. Do not forget to match or suit the color to any contemporary furniture in your house, so that it will look harmonic.

To the more private room, it will be better to use your favorite colors. For instance, you cannot force the bright color on your room or your children’s room if they are not like it.

However, you have to consider again and again in choosing the proper color for the room so that it won’t end in some shade colors; purple, silver or turquoise, because all of those color will affect to the children to be lazier in studying.

Tough your house has been decorated using small furniture, without any partition, or the wall is painted with bright colors, but you fell that it still looks crowded. May be there’s something that you may forgot. This little thing may impact to your interior design.

What is gone wrong? Try to recheck again, have you clear up all these things:

Bedroom

Does your cloth spread everywhere, not only in your cupboard? May be on the corner of the room, behind the door, even there are any other cupboards that still keeps your clothes. Probably it’s time for you to sort out all of your clothes and keep only of those which is really needed. Commonly, the daily clothes which are needed are only about 20% from all of the clothes. In the other words, at about 80% of your clothes are seldom used and only make your cupboard and bedroom mess up. By donating them, you will not need any cupboard more and the bedroom will feel roomy.

Kitchen

Sometimes you are not realized that all the stuff on the kitchen are only just accessories which never been used. The corner of the kitchen is full with toaster, blender, microwave and etc. It is not a problem when these stuffs are always been used. How if they’re not? These things are only make your kitchen dirtier. It will be better if these things are put in a special cupboard so that your kitchen looks clean.

Magazine and news paper

If you are subscribing news paper or magazine, you should do a kind of cleaning which done periodically, so that the news paper and magazine do not heaped up on the corner of the room. Besides, it can be a source of disease because of the dust on it.

Furniture

Sometimes our parents move up their old furniture. Actually, it does antique and contemporary furniture but do you realize that sometimes it only become unused thing? If you think that it is not used anymore, you may consider selling it. However, for some people, throwing their stuff which has unforgettable memories is hardly done. Besides, this thing is only more and more in quantity and narrowing the room. So all you have to do is sorting out those things periodically and moving up any thing which is unused and invaluable. Just keep out some of them in one or two safety box.

Commonly furniture made in natural colors such as brown color variety; darken or lighter. However, there is some brighter color furniture, just like yellow, lime green or even red and blue that usually for children bedroom set.

Natural color is timeless, it is compatible to be applied to any wood furniture; chair, table or bookshelf, etc. The effects of those natural colors bring the nature to the furniture and make it not dominant. These natural colors should be cleared with distinctive accent so that the wood furniture is not looked dark. The color of accent is usually seen on the chair pillow, vase, and accessories on the table.

The accent also arouses room atmosphere quality. The sources of the accent are gathered from many things, first, from the finishing wall material. This material can be in the form of tint, natural material or wall cover. The other sources can be gathered from floor color. The floor colors mostly come from its material; ceramic, parquet or marble. In the furniture store, we can see the blend of furniture and the room. So, actually, we can learn to combine the best blending on the store.

The other sources instead of room element are furniture and accessories. Actually, the furniture and accessories come in after the room element build up. It can be easier to place the furniture and accessories, just right after the room’s been colored. It can be so because the effort of making the atmosphere has been done. Then, all we have to do is just find the best mix of the room’s color with the furniture and accessories.