Olena Bohovyk
If something is feeling "off" in one of your rooms, I'd say that that "something" could be balance. It helps to think of any space in your home as an equation. What you do to one side needs to balance, not necessarily match, the other side. Let me explain.
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Matthew Izzo Home
A common complaint I hear from clients is that they struggle to find furniture to fit in tight spots like entry ways, or near a pass-through doorway, or in small bedrooms. These areas are often narrow or small and larger, rectangular furniture won’t fit. The answer is a demilune table. Here’s why.
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The curved furniture trend is hot this year. But, for small and tricky rooms with angled walls it could be the very best solution to get maximum seating, optimal flow and superior function. Let’s explore a shared living room and dining room where every piece of furniture has rounded curves.
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Square living rooms limit where you can place your furniture because all the walls are the same size. There’s no long wall to anchor a sofa, sectional, or chairs. What if the room also has 3 doors on 3 separate walls? Let me show you how to design a room like this.
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Living rooms with multiple doorways can be tough to arrange. If the room is narrow or long, that makes it even harder. Have you ever thought of using only chairs to arrange your awkward, small living room? A layout like this can be very versatile and functional.
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Here’s some of the most innovative and creative uses for challenging small spaces I’ve ever come across. If you need help figuring out how to make tight spots in your home or apartment functional and beautiful, this post is for you! These experts will show you how to rethink, embellish and fine tune tricky and awkward rooms so you can turn eye sores into eye candy!
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Small bedrooms can be very challenging. But finding furniture with the right dimensions that will also fit nicely into a room that’s less than 10’ square is even more challenging. Add an angled wall, a bumped-out closet, and an off-center window and you have a super tricky room to lay out. Here’s how to make a small bedroom with multiple challenges work!
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What do you do with that empty space in the corner of your room or along a short wall? It's too small for a large piece of furniture, but it's big enough to look awkward without anything there. I have 9 suggestions to make this empty space practical and purposeful. Let me show you how.
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It’s important to consider the placement of furniture and décor in small or awkward rooms. Some things that work in bigger spaces will overwhelm a smaller space. Proper planning of furniture size and placement is important for any size room, but it can mean success or failure in a smaller room. Here’s what to do.
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The ‘L’ shaped living and dining room. It’s a challenge to say the least. The issue is that there’s always going to be an awkward corner that bends at 90 degrees. That corner makes this shared space difficult to layout because it feels like separate spaces even though it’s not. There’s no wall or architectural feature to show where one room ends and the other begins. Got a room like this? Let me show you what I learned.
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