Modern Living Room Ideas

England Furniture Modern Living Room IdeasLiving rooms are the center of many households. They represent places for entertaining, entertainment, and relaxation. It’s no wonder that many people focus their attention on decorating their living rooms and living rooms with a modern design remains a popular choice. Modern living rooms are typically defined as sleek and smooth designs, but can be customized across a wide range of individual tastes. Here are some ideas you can consider if you’re developing a modern look in your living room.

  • Modern designs are  often simple, spacious, elegant, and calm.
  • Modern designs are often “airy.”  Lucite dining chairs, an open-weave coffee table, and an unobstructed wall of windows are a few ways to keep the room from feeling too cramped.
  • The use of accent walls is one way of created a modern living room.
  • Create a living room with neutral colors.  This can become an easy canvas that allows for pops of color that can be changed with the seasons.
  • Cool touches of metal can give your living room a sophisticated air.
  • A room filled with white and light is a common way to create a modern look.
  • Create a dynamic seating arrangement by placing two sofas back-to-back in the center of the living room.
  • There’s also the question “Where should I put the TV?”  Try placing it in a corner so the flow of the room is uninterrupted and the room remains an “airy” feel.
  • A mix of polished and unfinished wood pieces, along with a neutral shade on the wall, can make a living room feel modern and chic.
  • Create a modern space by throwing caution to the wind.  Mix in a bunch of different patterns together for a lively look. Be sure to pick complimentary colors.

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Living Room Staging Tip and Tricks

If you are planning to put your house on the market it’s important to understand the basics of staging.  When it comes to staging rooms, and arranging furniture, there are often personalized and subjective choices to be made.  Generally speaking, however, the goal is to highlight your home’s strengths and to downplay its weaknesses.  Doing so will help to appeal to the greatest possible number of prospective buyers.  Consider some of these general guidelines from England Furniture as you begin to stage your living room.

Light it up!
Make sure you have light sources all around the room and that every corner gets attention. Keep light balanced. If, for example, you have end tables on either side of your sofa, have matching lamps on either side.

Pack it up!
Pack up unnecessary furniture (and personal items) before you show the house to prospective buyers. An overpacked living room is a warning sign to buyers that your home lacks storage space. Move furniture to your garage or a storage facility. Many professional stagers prepped for market by taking away almost half of the owner’s furnishings, and the house looks much bigger as a result. You don’t necessarily need to cut that much, but be sure to take some pieces out of the room.

England Furniture Living Room Staging Tips
Bring it in!
There’s a common belief that living rooms will appear larger if all of the furniture is up against the walls. This isn’t true! If necessary, furnish your living room by keeping furniture away from walls. Create a cozy, conversational area with your sofa and chairs in the center. Place pieces so that the traffic flow in a room is obvious. Symmetrical arrangements usually work well in a living room.

Use Your Rugs Too!
It’s important to show your living room flooring, but you also want to use large area rugs in the living room. A smaller rug will make a small room seem even smaller. Place the rug underneath at least the first set of legs of your couch or chairs to create a cohesive look. Generally speaking, furniture looks better when all the furniture is on them. Need a new area rug? Check out our selection of beautiful England Furniture rugs.

Tips for Arranging Your Sectional Sofa

England Furniture Lilly Sectional
England Furniture Lilly Sectional

A sectional sofa is extremely comfortable and it can provide ample seating for your family or for entertaining. It’s a large piece of furniture, however, and its’ size can make it difficult to arrange the room in a functional way. Some people are hesitant to buy sectional sofas for this reason, but with a better understanding of furniture placement, you can create a comfortable atmosphere with a sectional that will work in almost any space.

Achieve Balance
Creating a sense of balance is important. Sectional sofas are large and a room can quickly appear to be weighed down on one side. Position your sectional sofa across from other big pieces of furniture, such as a large armchair, a big entertainment stand, a noticeable fireplace, or a big bookcase. While you may be tempted to separate the pieces of your sectional, avoid the temptation. Doing this often throws off a sense of balance and creates an awkward looking room.

Accessibility and Openness
If you have a good amount of square footage, place the longest section of a sectional into the corner that is opposite the entry into your room. This will create a sense of space that will appear easily accessible, inviting, and open. If the sectional sofa includes an armless, interchangeable chaise lounge, keep it away from the entry side. The chaise should be out of the way to avoid tripping. You also want to avoid having to walk around to sit.

Create a Good Sense of Flow
Sectional sofas initially seem awkward to position in your room. Many individuals tend to place large furnishings up against walls, assuming that’s the only option. It isn’t! The middle of the room can often be the perfect place for your sectional as placing it in the middle enables you to use an otherwise open space. It also makes every seat of sectional accessible and the wall space can be used for other pieces of furniture. Try placing your coffee table or the sectional’s footstool in the center of the room and then place your sectional sofa in – and around – the coffee table or stool. Make sure you leave room for accessing each seat and room for the recliner’s footstool.

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What to look for in a recliner

Recliners are pieces of motion furniture that are among everyone’s favorite pieces of furniture.  As such, people often pay more attention to the internal parts that make them work than they would with other pieces of furniture. When looking for a recliner, people are going to need to make sure that the motors are quiet enough, or using the recliners will be a noisy and frustrating experience for people to endure on a regular basis.

England Furniture Frances Recliner
England Furniture Frances Recliner

Shoppers should make sure that the screws of the recliner are heavy enough in order to support all of the changes that they’re going to have to endure when the chair is used. The levers of some recliners are also easier to use than others. Some of them respond more smoothly to touch than others as well. People should really try to imagine them using these recliners each and every day, including when they’re exhausted after a long day at work and when they just want to relax. If they could imagine really using a particular recliner each and every day, they’re going to be that much more likely to make the right decision.

People are shopping for a recliner need cushioning that is full and firm enough, and they’re going to need the headrests and the armrests to provide all of the support that they need. Shorter people should make sure that when the chair is reclined all the way backward they are still able to easily touch the floor with their feet. Otherwise, the chair is going to get uncomfortable quickly when they’re using it every day.

Some people are going to prefer fabric recliners and some people are going to prefer leather recliners. The care requirements for these two materials are going to vary. People who cannot maintain leather surfaces easily should think twice before getting leather recliners.

England Furniture has a great line of England Furniture recliners and there’s something available for everyone!

 

 

 

 

England Furniture Reviews: DIY Wall Décor

Wall décor can be the hardest thing to look for and find, and when you find the perfect piece it can be really expensive. The next best thing to buying your perfect piece is making your perfect piece! Do it yourself wall décor can be easy and inexpensive. Here are a few pieces you can make today.

Patterned Canvas – If you want to give your living room that pop of color you can easily make a patterned canvas. All you need is a piece of plywood and your favorite fabric to go with your living room style. You can either leave the plywood as one piece or cut it into three separate pieces. Once your plywood is ready you’re going to take your fabric and drape it over one side. Take a staple gun and staple along that one side, you’re going to do this to all the sides but make sure you pull the fabric tightly. This should give you beautiful “canvas’” to hang on your wall.

Pallet Quote – If you have some old wood pallets lying around you could use them as wall décor as well. Just paint over the wood with your favorite color, let it dry. Once your paint is dry you can use some stencils to paint the quote you want on the pallet. Let it dry for a day and you’re all set to hang your new art piece.  Check out this one great example from the blog, Life as a Losey

wooden pallet sign with quote "home is wherever i'm with you" LARGE

Source: Life as a Losey

Mirror Frame – A great must-have piece in your living room is a mirror. An alternative to going out and buying an expensive already made mirror, is making it yourself. For this project, you’re going to need to buy some paint, a mirror, and a wood frame. You simply paint the wood and secure your mirror to the frame. Now you have another accent piece which will make your living room look elegant.

Hang your DIY décor pieces over your England Furniture sofa and give your living room a POP!

 

 

England Furniture Reviews: Out With the Old And In With the New

Are you planning to buy yourself some new furniture soon? If you are, you may be selling your old pieces and that can be hard sometimes. You’ve become so attached to them and you can’t see perfectly good furniture go for less than what you feel its worth.

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England Furniture is here to help you get a bang for your buck!  First thing make sure your furniture is clean before you start to take pictures. The pictures you post for selling is key. Make sure your surrounding area is clean and your furniture items are the main focus.

Second, price appropriately. If your furniture has a big stain or tear accept that you won’t get much for them. While they may still hold a great amount of sentimental value to you have to think of yourself as a buyer as well.  Would you spend a lot of money for a furniture item with a rip or stain?

Third, decide where you want to place your ad. With so many yard sale sites you can post multiple ads to see where you get the most. Also don’t feel like there isn’t going to be any haggling, you and your buyer will need to negotiate a price that works for both.

Once your old furniture items are sold visit England Furniture online.  We can help find you something new that will fit beautifully into your home and work with your family’s lifestyle and aesthetics senses.

England Furniture Reviews Five Ways to Put Your Ottoman to Use

  • Bring a room together with a color coordinated ottoman! Use the colors and fabrics from the room’s surrounding décor to match your ottoman perfectly to the space. You can do a bold contrast color to really make a statement, or a soft neutral allow other features to shine. We have a wide array of fabric and colors choices among our England Furniture ottomans
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Our England Furniture Devin Ottoman
  • Use your ottoman for extra storage! Many ottomans are designed to offer you extra space to store things. You can put games, blankets, computers, or even your remote controls in the ottoman hidden away inside, while keeping it close by for regular use. Consider, for example, our England Furniture Olena storage ottoman.
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Our England Furniture Olena Ottoman
  • Offer extra seating in a smaller room! An ottoman offers a lot of functionality in a room, the most notable being extra room to sit. If you have company over, and the couches make you feel a little bit too cozy, a plush ottoman can be a nice escape from the crowded love seat.
  • You have a place to put your feet up! At the end of the day, all you really want to do is kick back, and relax. Having an ottoman gives you a place to put your feet up, without destroying the sofa. Most ottomans are large enough to offer this convenience to more than one person too!
  • Versatility never goes out of style! Ottomans have so many uses; you will have a hard time going without it once you’ve experienced all they have to offer! Different shapes, colors, and fabrics make them great for any room, including the kids’ room! Use the flat top surface for board games and family fun, while adding a touch of style to your home.

England Furniture Reviews our England Furniture Locator

England Furniture proudly serves customers all throughout the United States and we can help you find places to view England Furniture selections no matter where you reside. Visit our England Furniture Dealer Locator and simply enter your zipcode or city/state. A list of dealers and retail locations in your area will be provided. View their address, phone number or click on the name to see their website. We even can provide you with directions to a given location. Check out England Furniture Dealer Locator today and discover our commitment to quality and comfort firsthand.

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England Furniture Reviews the England Furniture Room Planner

So you’ve decided to purchase a new home and need some furnishings to make it come alive. Perhaps you’ve decided it was time to redesign your living room. Or maybe you just want to dream a little as you consider what a given room in your house could look like some day. Whatever the reason you may be planning a room design, England Furniture is here to help you with our England Furniture Room Planner.

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First choose from our large selection of England Furniture offerings and place them in the room of your choosing. If you love a certain England Furniture Collection simply choose that collection from the menu and see all the offerings on one screen. Then add special items like entertainment centers, appliances, curtains, doorways, lighting, mirrors, and throw pillows. You can move and resize any items at will! The choices are endless! After creating your new room you have the option to save the design, print it out or email it.

Discover all these – and many more – wonderful ideas inside our England Furniture Room Planner and let us help you make the best choices possible for your furnishing needs.

England Furniture Reviews the Quest for the Perfect Loveseat

england-furniture-loveseatThe loveseat remains a popular room to furnish rooms in your home. They are comfortable and they provide a little more seating than a single chair, but they take up less space than a common couch. Finding the perfect loveseat can be a exciting journey and typically involves the consideration of the following factors.

1. Choice of fabric. When you go in search of your perfect loveseat you’ll want to plan in advance whether you are looking for leather or fabric. Leather can be very durable and often comes in a single color. Fabric options on a loveseat are endless and should match the décor of the room you plan to put it in.

2. Plain fabric or print? If you decide on fabric, you’ll need to choose between all sorts of fabrics. One benefit of choosing a single color fabric over a print is accessorizing. This choice allows you more flexibility on the choice off colorful pillows or afghans that can be changed out with the seasons. A print fabric has multiple colors that you can accessorize around as well, with one color chosen from the print to place a single color throw or pillow that matches other furniture in the room.

3. Charm or durability or both? Do you prefer a rugged, hearty loveseat that is welcoming to kids and pets, a fine fabric that you know will look great on your loveseat or do you want it all?

4. Convertible or regular loveseat? Some loveseats can be converted into a single bed. This is convenient prospect for a single bed and is much more comfortable than sleeping on regular loveseat.

5. Ottoman or no ottoman? Many loveseats can be purchased or ordered with a matching ottoman. An ottoman is basically a foot rest, but in the right environment it can serve as a table. The ottoman can also provide additional seating as necessary.

Whatever you decide, the key to finding the perfect loveseat is to plan ahead and consider the ways you wish to use it in your home. Consider all the loveseats offered by England Furniture and find your perfect loveseat.