Need a kitchen command center? A homework nook for your
middle-schoolers or even yourself doing postgrad research? Or maybe you joined
the legions of 21st-century workers enjoying more productive use of
their time working from home instead of driving long distances daily. Whatever your
home office furniture needs, and whatever square footage you may have at your
disposal, there is an ideal design with its accompanying pieces that will help
you reach your goals.
Clever Solutions for
the Smallest Home Offices
If you’re just starting out or you have no spare bedrooms to
convert into your home office or study space, don’t panic. Even a wall or corner
can be profitably (pun intended) converted into a trim, efficient workstation. The
home office furniture we can order for you includes ideal solutions as
manufacturers understand your dilemma. For example, you can squeeze a cool
multipurpose desk complete with built-in shelves underneath so you have a
simple, uncluttered spot at which to sit and tap away on your laptop, free from
distractions. You can also have drawers and USB ports in your desk, conserving
precious space.
Stretch Out a Bit: Midsize
Home Offices
If you enjoy having a bit more room for your home office
furniture but you’re still sharing a room, check out corner desks or the slightly
longer L-shaped versions that can occupy about a fourth of the space. Again
consider a piece that includes drawers and/or shelves. These desks afford you
more room to lay out documents or to park your printer.
Full-Sized Home Offices
When you have a dedicated room for your home office, some excellent
choices include impressive executive desks with Victorian design details,
perfect for receiving clients in your home. Also popular are credenza desks
with hutches.
Traditional living room furniture often fits one of two
patterns. First, there was the formal parlor sometimes with plastic slipcovers
on the long-coveted “good furniture” that was often just for show. Children and
pets were forbidden almost all the time and even the grownups only used the
room a couple of times a year, such as having guests over for the holidays. Second,
you had riotous displays of chintz and other clutter from travel souvenirs to
the umpteenth “pretty collection” of something, in its own way as off-putting as
the parlor. With today’s casual, friendly approach to life and open floor
plans, such living room arrangements have become a thing of the past. Living room
furniture from Furniture Distributors is meant to be lived in, truly USED. Your
living room is part receiving area, part true lounge both for family and friends,
part homework and music-practice location, and even more. Contemporary living
rooms are both inviting and uncluttered, also reflecting Asian ideas about living
spaces as popularized by feng shui and downsizing maven Marie Kondo. Here are
some design tips to get the most joy out of your modern living room and its
furniture.
Clarity and Focus:
Zen-Like Simplicity
One approach to contemporary living room furniture comes
from the idea that the best-looking living rooms, of those with the most affluence
and taste, resemble art galleries with the spare purposefulness of the decor,
as clear as a Zen garden. Yet the space is eminently livable, reflecting the modernist
idea last century of the home as a machine for living. Many living room pieces
and sets fit this idea. One example is a living room sofa in black leather, its
stark lines accentuated by its gleaming chrome frame. An ideal companion piece
for this sofa would be a coffee table with a tempered glass top. It doesn’t
take too much imagination to fill in the rest of the decor details, from
ultramodern accent lamps, the bulbs seeming hanging from metallic stalks or
ensconced in glass balls, to Patrick Nagel prints, car posters or even fine original
signed and numbered art on the walls. Another approach nods to the recent past,
popularized by TV shows such as “Mad Men.” Midcentury modern, also called
Danish modern, was considered unhip a couple of decades ago and thrown out; now
decorators can’t get enough of it. Thank goodness you don’t have to comb
vintage shops to find a fragile old sofa or bar to make this decor statement.
Choose among the top brand furniture in our stores to channel your inner Don
Draper or Joan Holloway.
Spot Color to Add “Pop”
Once you’ve got the noble-simplicity vibe going in your living
room furniture, it’s time to have a little fun. Why not an accent ottoman or pouf
in faux fur dyed fuchsia? Maybe an accent chair or armchair in hubba-hubba
electric line green or ice-cream shop orange. The possibilities for spot color
as an exclamation point to your decor statement are virtually endless!
Get started on fitting out YOUR dream contemporary living
room furniture with the help of our Newport, NC store and other Furniture
Distributors locations.
