Modern Living Room Furniture
So, are you ready for the Modern Living Room experience? Ready to live with modern style furniture but don’t know where to start? Let’s start…
What I would recommend you is to first choose the right modern wall unit, modern TV stand or modern entertainment center for your living room because your modern sofa position and measurements will very much depend of the placement of your TV entertainment center, TV stand, or the complete modern wall unit. You can, of course, choose to just get a modern TV stand but I strongly recommend you to get a complete wall unit. This could be the most creative and unique furniture piece in your modern living room, the piece that will give your living style not only modern but absolutely unique look. These days, with so many options and choices of modern wall units out there it all depends only on your creativity to build your own style from what furniture manufacturers are offering you.
Modern sofas, modern sectional sofas, dinette area tables – all of these units you see in stores usually look somewhat alike to what your neighbors have. But modern wall unit gives you an opportunity to create something really eye catching, nice, unique and futuristic piece of modern furniture. And to make that happen, let me offer some helpful hints that always work for me:
A wall unit is usually what you see first when enter a living room so work hard on it. First, you really need to start with choosing the right size – yes, it does matter here. There is a very simple rule for the wall unit I use: “90-60-90”, or I would say “90-60-45-90” J. What it means is that, usually, wall units geometrically come in standard sizes like 90, 60 and 45 cm. Sometimes you will find 120 and 100 cm units existing but those usually are TV bases or base units. Depth typically does not exceed 15-17” for wall mounted units or storage units and 20-24” for base units. Trust me, if you’ve done this part of your homework correctly, it will serve you right.
These days, plenty of colors and finishes are used for modern wall units. Lacquer, wood veneer…. I especially like black / white, black / red lacquered color combinations; however, even though white color looks nice, be very careful with it. The color of your wall might spoil the effect (means if your wall is painted in white, beige or of white then white wall unit will blend in and you won’t have that contrast effect you’ve been looking for).
Please…. Do not try to make your modern wall unit spacey and useful at the same time…. It won’t work… there are lots of closets in your house so do not kill the look, make it simple, low to the ground, open and airy.
Last but not least – do not overplay and do not forget about your components… Some modern wall units like low boards with the TV on top look nice in the catalog BUT in the real life if you try to set up a TV there, you will have lack of space and lots of cords to hide. So be careful when choosing a TV unit in your wall unit, make sure you know measurements of all your components you buy the wall unit for and try to visually hide everything into the TV unit. Sometimes a back panel works nice to hide cords under the panel. Sometimes TV units are made this way to hide all those ugly cords. So be careful – this is very important.
Modern sofas… or modern sectional sofas are the most commonly used pieces of living room furniture today. Here are some recommendations when choosing one: it is always better if you position the sofa and your chase lounge the way that they both face your TV (wall unit). I also like the idea of putting chase lounges on both sides of your modern sectional sofa. The result is: it will make a sitting place cozier…. The whole place feels more secure and separated from other areas that way, making it a space for easy relaxation, a living quarter inside a living quarter.
It is always your choice to choose between a modern leather sofa and a modern fabric sofa. I like fabric sofas myself. It is more comfortable for me and you have lots of different colors to play with but, once again, it is always your choice.
Now, let’s get to the modern coffee table choices. If your room is big or even huge, low profile tables in wenge finish would look very nice there. If you ask me, I would prefer arm tables. They save lots of space; they’re not heavy, they are convenient enough to put a newspaper or a cup of coffee on them when you need it. Or you can hide it when you are not using it. There is a wide selection of these kinds of tables these days in wenge, glass (almost all of then have adjustable height).
Do not use a rug, even if it has a modern print on it, use cow hides. Natural and / or faux will always work the right way on your floor accenting a modern look of your room. Also a few chairs or foot stools in matching colors could be used if there is a need to increase the number of seats.
Modern Dining or Dinette area… Wrong choice here could kill your entire job of creating your modern living room. Dinette table and chairs, even if you choose a modern ones, still looks heavy and attracts too much attention to itself, taking it all away from the rest of your beautifully created ensemble. To solve this problem and not to kill all previously done work, I would recommend selecting a console table, either in wenge finish or glass. One side of it usually gets permanently attached to the wall. The other side has nice modern chrome legs. These consoles are usually hard to find but they can be custom made easily (and mostly not expensive).
To complete your composition, install a nice, modern adjustable bar / counter chairs instead of the dining chairs. Now you have a place to eat in or use as a bar table if you’re having a party. All simple, nice unique and inexpensive.
Gennadiy Tverskoy
Modern Sofa Bed
Modern sofa bed (also known as modern convertible sofa) is one of the key components of a modern living room. These days, modern sofa beds cover a huge chunk of the modern sofas’ market.
An ordinary sofa bed can no longer satisfy the requirements of a modern urban middle-income customer since it does not have the biggest advantage of a modern sofa bed, completely said by its name and so useful in the small to medium size apartments or condos: it could be turned into a bed in seconds thanks to the famous European click-clack mechanism. The old-fashioned squeaky, complicated opening device is now history.
There is one slight downside of this new innovation – you can’t position your sofa directly next to the wall because it needs some extra space in the back when it opens so it won’t touch and damage your wall paint or wallpaper. But really, you can take this sacrifice, when you remember that you no longer need to carry a folding bed in you closet for your mother-in-law, who arrives every now and then do her shopping in her favorite mall, which is most unfortunately happen to be within close proximity to your place.
Some convertible beds or sofa beds have the adjustable back option (try Wieder or Aminach sofa beds, a lot of their models have this benefit). It comes really handy when you want to half sit half lay down to watch TV but do not want your body crumpled as when you use a regular armchair).
Another advantage of a sofa bed is its storage opportunity. Nearly all of the modern sofa beds have a storage space in them, usually big enough to fit complete bedding set for two people. This comes really handy if your living room does not have enough closet space.
And don’t be bound by the word “sofa”. Nowadays, there is a convertible armchair, convertible loveseat, even convertible chaise lounge. Usually, an armchair could be transformed into a sleep place for one person, loveseat opens as a bed for one to two, and a convertible sofa usually hosts two people when turned into a bed. Modern furniture manufactures usually try to give both options to their customers for almost every model of the modern living room furniture set. A European furniture manufacturer called Istikbal carries a full line of such furniture, including sectional convertibles described below.
Sofa beds come from the same furniture family that features futons but sofa beds certainly have what traditional futons don’t: the combination of comfort and style (a traditional futon might be great for your mobile getaway home, but won’t exactly look good in your modern living room).
Modern bed evolution gave sofa beds the style you were looking for and, at the same time, all advantages of your regular mattress including but not limited to its firmness and comfort. Now you can put the sofa bed in your child’s room making it a really great alternative to a regular bed and not having to worry about your child developing back problems because of the bad mattress. It is a great choice for a teenager, since it gives him or her more space to hang out with friends when they come over.
There is another modern living room furniture term, which is really good to know: convertible sectionals. Practically every piece of modern living room furniture can now be a part of a convertible sectional assembly. You can find a loveseat, ottoman or even chaise lounge performing as one convertible sectional ensemble, being able to be detached and positioned separately across your modern living room at your will. Also, convertible sectionals really allow you to play with dimensions. Modern convertible sectionals are extremely popular these days.
modern sofa
Modern convertible sofas, modern loveseat beds, modern armchair beds – almost every model on the market is now available in both leather and fabric. Fabric gives you more choices in color and texture, it is always easier in care, especially, when you choose a removable cover (and I heard you can now order another set of covers in a different color/texture, which can give your furniture a second life, let’s say if you renovated your living room or just can’t stand this color anymore, or you two-year old son decided to add some of his own design to it by applying your pen all over the place). Leather can’t do it all, but leather gives you far more luxurious look, even if you are into a moderate priced sofa bed. So it all depends on what you’re looking for.