How to Layer Furniture Accessories to Elevate Your Home

Accessories for furniture: They are accents that bring life and style to the room where they live. From teapots for relaxing purposes to vases that are from the past, there is an assortment of home accessories you should own.

Getting it right is the trick when it comes to furniture accessories – learn your own style and theme first then layer and mix, form focal points, and scale to create visually appealing spaces.

Assessing Your Furniture
Furniture is cool, but home decor is what really makes it all come together. From teapots to vases, art work to houseplants, they show off your style while giving the ambience of comfort that will make a house feel like home.

Measure the room and doorways you plan to place your furniture in so it will easily blend in before you shop. Length, width, height: these are measurements you want to be aware of when shopping for furniture; diagonal depth (from the frame in front to back of sofa or chair) is also a good one to remember.

Before buying furniture online, calculate how many doors and corridors it will have to cross from its truck to its end point. Aim for furniture to be 4 inches smaller in total width than these dimensions for easier transport when being shipped.

Selecting the Right Accessories
While it’s easy to over-use cheap ornaments to make your space look even bigger, that ends up taking up too much space. Instead, spend on good pieces that tell your story of personal style and will brighten up the entire interior of every room of the house.

While it is advisable to buy pieces that fit your style, you should always remember to consider function. An elegant basket or table runner may keep some unattended bits and pieces on your coffee table but will help keep the design in check.

Consider, also, the size and arrangement of each as well when buying accessories for your home. A postage stamp rug might be too big for a large living room, an oversized art piece unwieldy on a small wall. When you keep these things in mind when picking your accessories, your space will be well balanced and balanced.

Layering and Mixing
Even if you’re more for the classic furniture, you get the trendy home décor that brings in something new and fresh. So think of pillows, rugs, and wall paintings that blend both styles together, such as blue and white ceramic and porcelain pieces that disengage from the wrought iron elements but that bring together elements of both the contemporary and the classic look.

Combining furniture styles makes a personal space that’s your own, and shows off your artistic side, though mix styles well so they don’t look like Frankenstein sets. Mixing too often can overload our eyes with competing sights that can conflate and cause visual clutter.

Creating Focal Points
Points of focus are what catch the eye and create interest in any room, whether they’re architectural elements such as fireplaces, windows and staircases or interior designs such as statement art and furniture.

Finding focal points and prioritizing those are the foundations of making rooms visually appealing and functional. To make them pop, take distracting things out of the frame, declutter, style furniture to surround and draw attention to said centrepiece, and decorate accessories to highlight its individual features.

For instance, fanciful curtains punctuate a beautiful scene and direct the eye towards a grand window, and Velazquez’s Las Meninas makes its drama all the more powerful. Furthermore, Velazquez has a way of using elements to produce focal points in which viewers are moved.

Balancing Proportions
If you place furniture elements, be proportionate. For example, if the lounge suite is too small for its room, consider replacing it with bigger furniture or smaller accessories like rugs or wall art to round out the ratio.

If you presume one-third, two-thirds proportion, then it can be very easy for you to accurately judge proportions in the furniture and home decor. So if you have an expensive piece of art in your living room, its coffee table should be two-thirds as wide so it will be balanced and your room can be balanced.

Part of how you balance proportions is to keep to the 30 per cent proportional rule for your accent colour – that you don’t want to fill up with – pillows or throws. Just a little, but can have a huge impact!