Furnishing and Layout
Creating conversation areas in long or narrow rooms
How to split a long or narrow room into zones, pull seating together, and use rugs, side tables and lamps to make each area feel like a place to talk.
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Furnishing and Layout
How rooms are arranged and furniture is scaled and placed so that focal points, paths and seating work together and a home suits the way people live in it.
Furnishing and Layout
Dining room layouts that suit the original plan of a house
How to plan a dining room around a house's original layout, covering where the room historically sat, table size and clearances, kitchen routes and existing doors.
Furnishing and Layout
Furniture placement mistakes that undercut older rooms
The placement errors that weaken older rooms, from blocking windows, doors and radiators to floating furniture and ignoring the house's original layout.
Furnishing and Layout
Furniture scale and proportion in rooms of different sizes
How to match furniture size to a room's floor area and ceiling height, test layouts with floor outlines, and adjust pieces for small and large rooms alike.
Furnishing and Layout
How to arrange a living room around one focal point
Learn how to choose one focal point in a living room, group seating around it, and keep walking routes clear so the room feels settled and easy to use.
Furnishing and Layout
Sightlines and flow: planning how rooms connect
How sightlines between rooms, the paths people take through doorways and the design of thresholds shape whether a house feels coherent and easy to move through.