A room that doesn’t have an obvious center or is lopsided is often a turn-off to the amateur eye. To a designer, though, it is a chance to flex your creative muscles. This particular room posed major challenges. The fireplace is on a slanted corner but the only obvious wall for the television was adjacent. The space needed to be designed to accommodate a slightly formal feel in the home’s main room.
Other tips:
1) Add symmetry
Matching chairs, side-by-side pictures, and a creating a rectangular shape that doesn’t naturally exist makes this room feel as if it were built for the furniture, not the other way around. Use duplicate, parallel furniture to add order into a structurally disorganized space.
2) Anchor the corners
Don’t be afraid to make a statement to draw your attention to a faux corner! This very large and funky art piece does the trick. Pictures placed on the end of each walls makes it look as if the wall on one side is continuous rather than two walls at a non-right angle.
3) Level the heights
Galleries are amazing, but not in a room that is screaming for order. Your pictures don’t need to be perfectly matched. But they do need to line up. A television poses an added problem in a large family room space. Use it to your advantage by making that the first thing you hang, then match your other pictures on a horizontal plane.
4) Work with the weird, not against it
The worst rooms are boring. Once you’ve stopped your space from giving you spacial anxiety, embrace its fun sides with unique decor - funky art or dramatic pillows help, but subtle threads of color can add a bit of creativity without throwing you back into a tailspin.
