Arrange and highlight your rectangular living room
A rectangular living room offers many layout possibilities to create a harmonious living space. However, making the most of this type of space can be a challenge. Fortunately, with a few decorating tips and the right lighting, your rectangular living room will easily take on the air of a cocoon. We offer you a selection of ideas and advice to enhance your rectangular living room. Solutions exist to delimit living areas using furniture, to give an impression of a larger space thanks to colors and patterns or to better diffuse light. Our selection of Hoopzi designer lighting will meet your lighting needs while enhancing your interior.
What is a rectangular living room?
Unless you live in an unusual house or apartment, or have knocked down walls to change your interior architecture, your living spaces probably have relatively traditional shapes. Among the standards of architecture, the rooms of a home are based on basic geometric shapes, and do not have any angles that are too complicated to arrange. In short, your home plan will probably look like a collection of squares and rectangles, right?
The living room, the main communal living space, is very often designed on a rectangular model. But be careful, there is not just one kind of rectangular living room! The configuration of a living room depends on multiple factors. Thus, depending on the differences between the length and width of the room, but also on the ceiling height, the number and location of the distribution doors to adjacent rooms, or even the windows and other sources of natural light, the overall impression can vary greatly.
In the extreme, your rectangular living room could even look more like a square or, conversely, a hallway… In any case, you will need to set up specific areas there, to receive your visitors or to gather with your family for your moments of relaxation, discussion. If this living room must also house a dining area, an office space or a TV area, you will have to take these various occupations into account.
How to enhance a rectangular living room?
To enhance your rectangular living room, you will have several options. To do this, we will need to think about your habits to adapt your room to the activities you plan to carry out there.
Create demarcated areas
To start, what are the dimensions of your living room? And is it your only living room? Depending on the answers to these first two questions, different scenarios will emerge. Will your living room be just a room dedicated to entertaining and relaxing, or will it also have to accommodate your dining room? Do you plan to install a TV corner there? Will you need to set up an office space there?
Once you have looked at the specific needs of your lifestyle, You will need to estimate the space you can devote to each of these dedicated areas , to combine functional furniture, while taking care of your decor and your comfort.One thing is for sure, you can't push the walls indefinitely and the surface area of your living room will not be infinitely expandable. You must therefore work with the available surface area, and play on all the possible tricks to give the impression of an enlarged space.
Visually expand the space
The notion of space does not depend solely on measurements of length and width, and fortunately so! There are several tools that can help you optimize the impression of space , and decoration magazines devote a good number of articles to it every year.
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Among these tools, the choice of colors is fundamental. And assuming that you won't be repainting your walls every day, it's best to think about it before you start. Opt for light colours, which will give your living room a light feel and naturally lighten the room. These light colours can be white of course, which you can enhance with touches of colour through a selection of trinkets or textiles, but also more nuanced tones such as cream, beige, natural or even a palette of pastel shades. A combination of colours can also be an excellent recipe, especially if you make the right choices for decorating the walls and ceilings. Did you know that it is often recommended to paint ceilings in lighter shades than the walls, to amplify the volumes? Or, if you choose wallpaper, that stripes will give the illusion of a larger space, but only on condition that you choose fine stripes?
Stripes… Yes, patterns also exert an influence on your space... Whether they appear on your walls or on your floors, for example with the choice of your parquet or your tiles, well-chosen patterns can help to visually enlarge your space.
Finally, You will also have to watch out for your furniture , since it will be a determining factor for the occupation of your space. Be careful not to overload your rectangular living room. You will need to be able to arrange your furniture comfortably for your relaxing breaks or your discussions with friends: sofas, armchairs, coffee tables, these pieces of furniture must enhance your decoration, be practical and functional, and be discreet. You have to be able to keep a smooth circulation, but also allow the eye to move from one area to another without stumbling upon visual obstacles. Goodbye to the corner sofa and the family sideboard, make way for smart furniture! Furniture with well-chosen dimensions and materials will allow you to air out your space without sacrificing comfort.
Accentuate natural light
Of course, as with any other room in your home, there light is a key factor to enhance your decoration and accentuate comfort.
If you are lucky enough to have several windows, natural light will already be able to flood your living room, which is a good thing! Remember not to weigh down the decoration with opaque or overly thick curtains which would block the light. , but prefer light-colored curtains or voiles, sewn from airy textiles. Whatever the situation, especially enhance your decor with mirrors that will give this natural light the opportunity to reflect everywhere and bring light into the corners of the living room. A mirror offers so many advantages: volume, depth, play of reflections and lights, it is an essential accessory for your rectangular living room.
Finally, it is difficult not to think about the lighting fixtures ! Natural light is a must, but beyond certain hours, you can no longer count on it... You will have to provide other sources of light, once again by cleverly combining decoration and practicality!
Arrange your rectangular living room with Hoopzï
We have good news: in the Hoopzï range, there is something to equip your rectangular living room, even if you need to light up the living room, dining room, office or reading areas at the same time!
Indeed, this manufacturer of smart lighting products offers you a collection of suspension lights that can equip your living room, or dress your ceilings. If you have an electrical supply to the ceiling, you can consult the range of Hang suspensions. These woven wire suspensions are available in several colors , which you can match to your decor; do you prefer natural colours? No problem, we also have what you need with our suspensions made from natural materials . But in addition, Hang suspensions exist in 1, 2, 3 or 5 wires, and depending on the size of your room and the area you wish to illuminate, you can therefore adapt your selection for a remote light fixture. See for example our 5-lamp pendant light , which you can mount in spider , to distribute light in an original way.
Do you also need additional lighting? ? So it is rather towards the Bala portable lamp that you will have to turn. The aptly named Bala is a portable lamp: with its 4.5 meters of wire, its plug and its switch, it will find its place in your living room - but also in other rooms of the house, like the bedroom. You can also equip your Bala with equally clever accessories, and give it your touch of decoration. By choosing from our selection of decorative bulbs , or by dressing your Bala with a colored or stainless steel cage, you will create your own version of Bala. The cage gives you a support to place your Bala on a side table or a sofa end for example.Above a desk or workspace, the Bala transforms into a wall light thanks to wall lights that help you place your light point high up, and in the orientation that suits you best...
You can also decide to pair your Bala with an Asym floor lamp, and place it next to your favourite armchair or sofa: we can already imagine you, comfortably installed to read peacefully under this very practical flow of light...
As you will have understood, there is necessarily a Hoopzï suspension light for your needs and desires! Are you eager to try? That's good... delivery is fast, and is free for your purchases from €60. See you soon on the Hoopzï website!
