Design and enhance your rectangular living room
A rectangular living room offers many design possibilities for creating a harmonious living room. However, making the most of this type of space can be a challenge. Fortunately, with a few decorating tricks and the right lighting, your rectangular living room will easily take on the air of a cocoon. Here's a selection of ideas and tips to help you make the most of your rectangular living room. Solutions exist for delimiting living areas using furniture, giving the impression of a larger space thanks to colors and patterns, or diffusing light more effectively. Our selection of Hoopzi design lighting fixtures will meet your lighting needs while enhancing your interior.
What is a rectangular living room?
Unless you live in an atypical house or apartment, or have broken down partitions to alter your interior architecture, your living spaces probably have relatively traditional shapes. Among architectural standards, the rooms in a home are wedded to basic geometric shapes, and don't present angles that are too complicated to arrange. In short, the floor plan of your home will probably resemble an assemblage of squares and rectangles, right?
The living room, the main communal living area, is very often designed on a rectangular model. But beware, there isn't just one kind of rectangular living room! The configuration of a living room depends on many factors. So, depending on the differences between the length and width of the room, but also on the ceiling height, the number and location of distribution doors to adjacent rooms, or windows and other sources of natural light, the overall impression can vary greatly.
At the extreme, your rectangular living room could even look more like a square or, conversely, a hallway... Whatever the case, you'll need to set up specific areas in it, to receive visitors or gather with the family for your moments of relaxation, discussion. If this living room is also to house a dining area, office space or TV area, you'll need to take these various occupations into account.
Highlighting a rectangular living room: how to do it?
To highlight your rectangular living room, you'll have several options. To do this, you'll need to think about your habits to adapt your room to the activities you plan to carry out in it. The role of a suspension for living room is also going to be important.
Creating delimited zones
For starters, what are the dimensions of your living room? And is this your only living room? Depending on the answers to these first two questions, distinct scenarios will emerge. Will your living room be just a room for entertaining and relaxing, or will it also house your dining room? Do you plan to install a TV corner? Will you need to set up an office area?
Once you've taken stock of the needs specific to your lifestyle, you'll need to estimate how much space you can devote to each of these dedicated areas, to accommodate functional furniture, while taking care of your decor and comfort. One thing's for sure: you can't push the walls out indefinitely, and the surface area of your living room won't be infinitely expandable. So you have to make do with the available surface area, and play on every possible trick to give the impression of an enlarged space.
Expand the space visually
The notion of space doesn't depend solely on length and width readings, and fortunately so! A number of tools can help you optimize the impression of space, and decorating magazines devote a good number of articles to it every year.
Discover our lighting fixtures and accessories for living rooms
Among these tools, the choice of colors is fundamental. And on the assumption that you won't be repainting your walls every day, it's best to think things through before you take the plunge. Go for light colors, which will give your living room an air of lightness, and brighten up the room naturally. These light colors can be white, of course, which you can enhance with splashes of color from a selection of knick-knacks or textiles, but also more nuanced tones such as cream, beige, natural or a palette of pastel shades. A combination of colors can also be an excellent recipe, especially if you make the right choices for wall and ceiling decoration. Did you know that it's often recommended to paint ceilings in lighter shades than walls, to amplify volumes? Or, if you choose wallpaper, that stripes will give the illusion of a larger space, but only if you choose fine stripes?
Stripes ... Yes, patterns also exert an influence on your space.... Whether they appear on your walls or floors, for example with your choice of parquet or tiles, well-chosen patterns can help visually enlarge your space.
Finally, you'll also need to keep an eye on your furniture, since it will be a determining factor in the occupation of your space. Be careful not to overload your rectangular living room. You'll need to be able to arrange your furniture comfortably for relaxing breaks or chatting with friends: sofas, armchairs, coffee tables, these pieces of furniture will need to both enhance your decor, be practical and functional, and be discreet. You need to be able to keep circulation flowing, but also allow the eye to move from one area to another without coming up against visual obstacles. Say goodbye to corner sofas and family sideboards, and make way for smart furniture! Furniture with well-chosen dimensions and materials will allow you to air out your space without giving up comfort.
Accentuate natural light
Of course, as with any other room in your home, the light is a key factor in enhancing your decor and accentuating comfort.
If you're lucky enough to have several windows, natural light will already be able to flood your living room, so that's a good point! Think about not weighing down the decor with opaque or overly thick curtains that will block the influx of light, but prefer light-colored sheers or curtains, sewn in airy textiles. Whatever the situation, you'll want to embellish your decor with mirrors, which will give this natural light the opportunity to reflect everywhere and bring light into the nooks and crannies of your living room. Mirrors offer so many advantages: volume, depth, reflections and light, they're a must-have accessory for your rectangle-shaped living room.
Finally, it's hard not to think of luminaires ! Natural light is a must, but beyond certain hours, you can no longer rely on it... You'll need to provide other sources of light, once again cleverly combining decor and practicality!"
Furnish your rectangular living room with Hoopzï
We've got good news: in Hoopzï's range, there's plenty to equip your rectangular living room, even if you need to light living room, dining room, office or reading areas all at once!"
In fact, this manufacturer of clever lighting products offers you a collection of luminaire pendant lights that can equip your living room, or dress up your ceilings. If you've got an electrical feed to the ceiling, you can check out Hang's range of hanging lights. These woven-wire hangers come in several colors, which you can match to your decor; do you prefer natural colors? No problem, we've got just the thing for you too with our suspensions in natural materials. But what's more, Hang pendant lights come in 1,2, 3 or 5 wires, so depending on the size of your room and the area you want to light, you can tailor your selection for a remote fixture. Take a look, for example, at our 5-lamp pendant light, which you can mount as a arrow, to come and distribute the light in an original way.
Do you also need auxiliary lighting ? Then the Bala portable lamp is the one to turn to. The aptly-named Bala is a walking lamp: with its 4.5-meter cord, plug and switch, it will find its place in your living room - but also in other rooms of the house, such as the bedroom. What's more, you can equip your Bala with equally clever accessories, and give it your own decorative touch. By choosing from our selection ofdecorative bulbs, or by dressing up your Bala with a colorful or stainless steel cage, you'll create your own version of Bala. The cage provides a support for your Bala on a side table or sofa, for example. Above a desk or work area, the Bala can be transformed into a wall lamp, thanks to sconces that help you position your light point at the height and orientation that suits you best...
You can also decide to combine your Bala with an Asym floor lamp, and place it next to your favorite armchair or sofa: we can already imagine you, comfortably installed to read quietly under this flow of light so practical...
As you can see, there's bound to be a Hoopzï suspension light to suit your needs and desires! Can't wait to try it? That's good news... delivery is fast, and is offered to you in point relay for purchases over €80. See you soon on the HOOPZI website!
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