My name is Karen Beckhart of Beckhart Interiors, The Key to Professional Home Staging and Redesign, and I will continue to be your guide on this journey of setting up your home.
Trinidad Realty has helped you find this lovely new home and surely you are anxious to jump in and begin decorating. I suggest taking your time. Focus on your main living spaces. Decorating it just so, helps you show off your home’s lovely features. Attention is in the details as they say!
Beckhart Interiors can help you with those details. This week, we are focusing on a new sofa. Let’s get right to it so you can sit back on it and relax! To begin, keep in mind the following questions that only you can answer:
- Define Your Style – Modern, Traditional, Casual or Formal
- Select Your Fabric – from versatile twill to family-friendly fabrics or leather
- Measure Before You Buy – you don’t want to end up with a sofa way too large or too small for the space
- Ask for Help! – When you have answered the above questions, visit the store of your choice and ask for help. The people that will assist you are professionals. If you have a picture of the space, that would be helpful for them to see
As important as style is, nothing impacts a room more than the power of placement. Balance in a room begins with the placement of the core furniture – the sofa. Feel free to sketch it out on a piece of paper first. Take note of the focal point you want to build the room around. Whether it be an ocean view, the fireplace or a great piece of artwork, anchor your sofa in front of it. Once you have it placed there, the rest of the furniture will take place much more easily. You can try an L-shaped, U-shaped, V- shaped or a Wagon Wheel. Just so you know, a wagon wheel placement is a lovely conversational circle around a coffee table; this is great for a room that doesn’t have space for a large sofa or for an odd-shaped space.
Just like last week’s rug placement, you need to take a look at the shape of the room. Is it a square, a rectangle, L-shaped, a bowling alley, or does it have a pre-existing angle? Remember that we can be more flexible in our decorating style. The furniture does not need to flank the walls anymore. Floating furniture in the center of the room is trendy and keeps the space airy and light. Play around with the space.
If you have an open-plan living area or a large room, you may even have enough space to create two separate seating areas that are subtly differentiated.
Follow me next week through Trinidad Realty and see some more great tips from Beckhart Interiors. Remember, your new home is the stage so to speak, make sure that you present it according to the function of that room. Next week, we will look at the importance of lamps and lighting. Above all else, enjoy the process!
Beckhart Interiors
(210) 882-0311
beckhartinteriors@gmail.com
