Designing and furnishing a living room in a modern style can hide pitfalls: learn to avoid mistakes and make your living space perfect for you.
When we analyze our clients’ desires and home usage habits through the Diagnostic of Housing®, the analysis often shows that
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the living room is the environment where people prefer to spend most of their free time at home.
Designing and furnishing a modern living room is not a task to be taken lightly: for you to be satisfied with the design of your living room, it must meet both your aesthetic tastes and your daily needs as well as those of the people living with you.
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Otherwise, you would end up with a pleasant environment that you would stop using and might even come to hate!
Moreover, today providing a living room is even more challenging than in the past.
What we now commonly call a living room is actually very different from what the same word would have described twenty or thirty years ago.
What was a living room thirty years ago?
Try to think of your parents’ or grandparents’ old house!
First, I bet that the living room and kitchen were two separate rooms divided by an entrance, then I would say that in the living room there was:
- a sofa
- a television placed on a dedicated cabinet or on a large sideboard that occupied one or more walls
- finally a beautiful dining table, the one for special occasions.
In short, the living room was once a small special room, which had to be adapted both for moments of relaxation — but not too much, there were also those who opened the living room only for fantastic “big occasions” — and for more casual gatherings.
Let’s be honest, how many of you today want such a room in your own home?!
Let’s start with a hypothesis:
in many modern homes, whether out of necessity or personal taste, the typical separation between living room/kitchen no longer exists and furniture filled with knick-knacks has ended up forgotten.
There is only one key word that best describes a modern living room: lightness!
However, be careful: lightness does not mean a sofa, a coffee table, and a TV unit placed randomly!
Furnishing a modern living room is not as simple as it may seem!
Before you start designing a modern living room, you need to understand what this definition means
First of all, we need to define what we mean by “modern living room”.
Yes, because the Dwelling Diagnostic® confirms that you can request a description of a modern living room for ten people and you will get ten completely different descriptions from one another.
- How minimal should it be?
- Should it be completely cold, or have warm wood tones to enhance the environment?
- Imagine your modern living room warmed by a soft taupe?
- Or with cold metallic grays, featuring elements in steel or aluminum?
- But do you prefer there to be touches of gold, bronze, or copper to refine the environment?
It may sound silly, but modern can mean many things.
The Habitativo® system helps you focus and translate this generic definition into concrete guidelines.
How will you use your living room?
In order to design and furnish the living room, you need to clarify your ideas about how you will really use it.
Before thinking about the appearance, try to ask yourself:
- What is the living room for me?
- How will I live in it every day?
- How much time will I spend there?
- Is it a space I will often use alone, with family, or with many guests?
For a family we recently worked with, for example, the living room is the environment dedicated to relaxing in front of the television.
In this case, the television becomes the protagonist of the environment, a true decorative element around which the design revolves: its use must be comfortable and pleasant.
A similar case is also for a young couple for whom we designed the entire house:
On the contrary, a couple of recent clients revealed that they watch television occasionally, but primarily have a preference for evenings spent with a good book.
As a result, their living room could not lack a modern library, spacious enough to satisfy all their desires for relaxation and reading.
Often, then, you make the mistake of thinking:
“modern=lots of empty space.”
You must first evaluate the spaces well, because while a room filled to the point where it has no 5 cm of free wall is suffocating, it is also true that a semi-empty environment is dark!
Of course, to harmonize a modern living room within an environment, you can draw from a multitude of styles copied from a magazine or a website, but it should not necessarily just be an artificial image influencing your choices.
A modern living room will be a space where you will spend a lot of time in the coming years, it cannot be designed from a photo, without considering how you will use it, how much time you want to spend there, and with whom!
A second mistake often made is thinking that furnishing modern living rooms means simply choosing furniture.
Designing your living space means much more!
For a modern living room, it is very important to devote the same time for evaluation and care to analyzing old floors or choosing new ones, for example, to the colors of the walls, doors, and windows, and the finishes – all elements that must be combined carefully and harmoniously.
However, it is not said that it will be enough to choose a color from a sample to create the perfect combination, but it could materialize with the use of particular wall coverings.
All these things, however, you cannot know unless you are a decorator!
(And even many of them, in fact, would need a refresher…).
A modern living room, to be beautiful, must also be coherent
Another important element that is often underestimated is coherence:
not only among the furniture of the modern living room but also between the living room and the rest of the house.
It is necessary to take into account all the decorative and design elements that define the character of the dwelling: the appliances, the floors, the colors, the shapes, and the materials used in other rooms must be in balance with those in the living room.
Otherwise, the whole house will look like a cobbler’s shop of different styles and moods without head or tail.
For this reason, the Living System® comes to your aid from the moment of building or renovating the house.
The intervention of Abitativo® at this stage is essential to ensure that what you create will be a room perfectly suited to you and in harmony with the rest of the house.
Furnishing a modern living room with DIY can lead to irreparable mistakes
One of the typical mistakes I see made by those who want to furnish a modern living room without having the necessary experience is mixing different styles and eras thinking that they have found the key to interior design and originality.
If you are considering mixing antique style with hyper-modern solutions to create an impactful environment, take some advice: sit down, take a deep breath, and set aside your dreams of glory for a moment!
I absolutely do not want to undermine your abilities, the example I just gave can work if it is done with an understanding of the cause, but if you do not have the skills that only a professional in the field can have, prepare to spend your evenings watching your favorite TV series in a makeshift bazaar!
Abitativo® designs your modern living room based on your real needs
As you will certainly understand, the problem that may arise when you decide to furnish a modern living room is not finding a style or finding ideas, but rather knowing how to choose the right details and combine them to give the room and the house the harmony you deserve.
If the best or worst adjectives can be attributed to the quality of the products, they certainly cannot be linked to the style and the look you want to give to your room.
The Living System® comes to your aid precisely to help you understand your real desires and needs, and to create a perfect modern living room for you and your family!
The most important task for achieving your satisfaction is yours, but we will ask you the right questions to shape the idea you already have within you but cannot define. Thanks to the Housing System®, we will ensure that your desires become reality.
There are many factors you need to keep in mind that are instead underestimated when you do not follow the right design path.
For example, the lighting design:
lighting is essential to avoid making the living room trivial and to make it beautiful and functional.
The design must then take into account many other factors:
- will the television system be suspended or set up?
- How to organize the Dolby surround setup?
- Where are electrical outlets needed?
- How can I use plaster panels to personalize and enhance the environment?
At Abitativo® we take care of everything, considering all these factors in the planning phase and following the work until complete realization.
We design everything for you, and once you confirm the project, you no longer have to think about anything:
we will take care of all the intermediate steps until you reach your Perfect living room!
The realization of the new modern furniture for your living room with the Living System® keeps you safe from uncertainty and the risk of creating something that could tire you out already after a few months for a fleeting enthusiasm.
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