Furniture Arrangement Tips For a Harmonious Home

Harmonious home environments provide an oasis of harmony and serenity. To achieve such an ambience, furniture arrangement should enhance aesthetics while simultaneously stimulating positive energy flows.

Begin by locating the space’s central point and placing furniture symmetrical around it. Add some compatible wood pieces, then gradually introduce upholstered furnishings that also relate to the ones before them in terms of scale and placement.

Balance

Balance is one of the primary tenets of design. It ensures a sense of comfort and of being rooted firmly to the Earth. Some ways to achieve it are through repetition, or symmetry, or by anchoring a space with furniture. If you have decor that is skewing to one side, and there is no counterweight to balance it out, then your room might not feel centred. Feng shui represents the ancient teachings on how to create balance and harmony for living with nature. The timeless principles, once understood, can help to select and arrange furniture such that it supports life at its best. It also doesn’t hurt to create dwelling spaces that reflect your core being.

Cohesiveness

Cohesiveness is creating a sense of flow and visually linking spaces through a common thread of design – it could be a common colour palette, furniture lines and finishes that support each other, or smaller details such as trim and window coverings. No matter which décor style you choose, whether it be farmhouse chic, traditional elegance or sleek modern lines, creating a cohesive style that flows throughout all the rooms of your home is enjoyable and pleasing to live with – and reflects you and your personal aesthetic. But don’t overdo it: too uniform a look creates an artificial effect, in a space that can feel unyielding and inhospitable.

Flow

The aesthetic considerations applied in such a home decor must be obviously intertwined, as must one’s conscious and subconscious consideration of how to create a home that feels in a very particular and appealing way – not just to look at but also to react to emotionally. Every space in the home should strike one as one’s space alone: an environment in which, if it is to function as a diary, you create your own entries. Another efficient way to create flow is by designing the space using furniture. We always make sure that the flow of movement is not restricted by furniture. It’s also important to consider the way that natural sunlight (if you’re lucky enough to have that) flows through your space when you’re arranging furniture. Say your living room has windows on both sides – if you place with furniture against those windows, there’s a greater chance that light can enter the room and illuminate your space freely.

Function

Home environment plays a crucial part on the health and wellbeing. A relaxing living space creating a lovely haven, a perfect setting for relaxing, recovering and renewing; besides that, it bridges the communication and reduces the stress. Mixing styles and periods of furniture carefully and in harmony form the foundation for a workaday home – the kind with rooms that are both practical and aesthetically delightful. Teamwork is also key to a smooth household; otherwise, couples can begin to bicker over who does whom from the housework, or be in competition over what needs to be done.

Texture

Harmonious home living require the right mix and offer a sophisticated space with personality. By following a couple of basic tricks, your living spaces will be ready for serenity with style and full of character. And bring detail and depth into any interior with natural fabrics, textures and plants. Or play with one key colour to anchor the scheme, complemented with tones such as grey and blue for a relaxing vibe, or reds for warmth.

Details

It’s often the smallest details that make the biggest difference when creating a home: organic cotton, linen and timber will provide tranquillity, while wool, sisal hemp and jute will add natural qualities as well. There’s nothing worse than combining fabrics with colours from the opposite side of the colour wheel (yellow with violet for example). An easy way to guarantee both colours go together is to choose your fabrics in a range of core colours (blue, yellow, green) which you can add accents to. Using these principles, you can design spaces for people to congregate, particularly in rooms that are used frequently, so people are positioned to conduct face-to-face conversations. Allow 30 inches between respective seating, and 14-18 inches between a coffee table and sofa so a beverage can be easily accessed while still within reach.

Personality

Harmonising your ambiance is a matter of making your home so personalised and in tune with your style that it doesn’t overwhelm you. If your home is a place you feel comfortable in, it means that you feel relaxed, unstressed, accepted and able to behave naturally. In order to create harmonious ambiance in your family home, family members need to communicate regularly with each other: for example, praising each other daily, complimenting each other or forgiving someone for whatever hurt they cause you. Working together is the key to creating a happy home, and especially to carrying out all the drudgery of housework and other chores. If each family member doesn’t get time every now and then with other members to do their share, it will only lead to arguing and fighting.