How To Choose The Right Furniture For Your Home
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By Crawleys Furniture
We have all walked around a furniture store, or an antique shop and have clearly seen that a collection of nice furniture pieces does not necessarily create a nice room.Buying furniture piece by piece, just because you like them, is going to give your living room the same effect. Unfortunately, there are a few more considerations to take into account when choosing your new furniture than just what catches your eye. After all, furniture is expensive and hopefully will last a long-time, so you need to choose the right pieces to enhance your home.
An initial appraisal: Stand back and look at what you are working with. Some things cannot be changed, such as the age and style of your property.
Some things may not be cost-effective to change, such as carpets or flooring. Mahogany furniture looks rich on a light coloured carpet, but is lost on a dark brown carpet or tiles. Some things can easily be changed, for example the colour of the walls, so try to look beyond what is currently there but temporary.
Analyse in your mind what sort of style will be in keeping with your home. Is it a Victorian property, with large rooms, high ceilings and ornate cornices? Or is it a modern purpose-built Pied-a-Terre in a loft style design with floor-to-ceiling glass? Heavy mahogany furniture would look incongruous here, just as all-glass furniture would not easily complement an antique home.
The Range of Materials: Along with the age and style of the property, consider what type of materials would look good in your room. Rules are made to be broken, so nothing is taboo, but mixing antique with modern, or dark oak with stainless steel takes a little ingenuity and creativity to get it right. A pine refectory table beneath a chandelier may work in certain rooms, but generally would be considered inappropriate and unsuitable.
Antique or traditional-style furniture comes mainly in solid wood, and has carving, heavy or delicate, depending on the era. Look at all the options in www.crawleysfurniture.co.uk before deciding on your preference. Mixing different woods can be difficult. Generally a good contrast is better than a bad match.
More modern furniture styles are made of a wide range of materials, from leather to chrome, and from glass to glossy coloured PVC. Modern furniture tends to blend into most settings, so if you plan to move home, it will always be a safer choice. The identity and focal point of the room can be created with a single designer piece of glassware or a dominating piece of modern art. Simple accents can make a statement about your style, without a lot of expense.
Room Size – No matter what style you choose, the size of the furniture is most important. Furniture needs to be bought to fit the scale of your room. A tiny dining set in the centre of a huge Victorian room will look lost, and will need a lot of accompanying furnishings to fill the gaps. On the other hand a gracious grandfather clock, cramped into a small flat, and scraping the ceiling will not make the room look grand, no matter how hard it tries. Buy everything in proportion to your room, and to your other furnishings, and be very aware of scale.
Age of Users – If you are furnishing a family home, with active young children, then buying the right furniture is a must if you are to keep your sanity. In the living areas at least, man-made materials or wood with a matt lacquered finish are preferable to hand-polished beeswaxed furniture. Everyday family furniture, especially tables, need to be practical and durable. They should be very stable, and easily wiped down with a damp cloth so that they outlast the wear and tear that will be inflicted upon them.
Finally, remember the analogy of the antique shop, and choose your furniture with an eye to the whole room to create a comfortable, pleasing atmosphere to suit your own personal karma.
Let the pages at Crawleys Furniture open up to show you a whole wealth of styles, modern and antique, that you can enjoy today, featuring Antique Furniture and Modern Furniture ranges.
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Crawleys Furniture is a UK based company which has some of the finest furniture from around the world, including living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom furniture.
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