We’ve all seen an idyllic image of our dream home. But the reality is that when it comes to choosing home furniture, it can be quite complicated to achieve a specific style that perfectly suits your needs and lifestyle: the sofa you love is too big for your living room, you need more storage, it’s less practical and durable than you imagined, or it’s simply beyond your budget. These are all common situations that the COREME team often faces, and we aim to address them in this article. Whether you’re building a new home or upgrading your existing one, follow these 8 basic tips for choosing the right furniture.
1 – DEFINE THE STYLE OF FURNITURE YOU LIKE
Before you start looking for furniture, you should take a few minutes to think about your true style, the one that reflects your personality and suits your lifestyle. Being swayed by trends or buying in haste isn’t necessarily a good idea: you risk quickly becoming bored with your choices. Buying furniture is no small investment, so keep in mind that you’ll have to deal with it for a long time if the furniture doesn’t suit you.
At COREME, customer discovery is paramount. To understand your style, our team will first do everything it can to inspire you.
You should first immerse yourself in various images of decorative objects or furniture in general and then select your favorites. A few days later, review your selection and try to visualize yourself in your home.
It may take some time, but it’s important to develop a visual culture and criteria to know what truly excites you. Once you have a clearer idea of your style, that’s where we come in to help you play with styles and combine them to give your space a personal touch.
2 – ANALYZE YOUR FURNITURE NEEDS
At COREME, we believe there’s no point in furnishing your home like everyone else: the living room should have a sofa, a television, a dining table with chairs, etc. Nothing could be more logical, but we recommend you stop for a few minutes and think about how you use your home.
If you always eat in the kitchen or outside the house, is it really necessary to dedicate half of a living room to a dining area that you use twice a year? Take a good look at your daily life: which room is your living and sleeping area, and how many hours you spend in each? Our team is here to make your home adapt to you, not the other way around.
3- SCALES AND PROPORTIONS: TAKING MEASUREMENTS
It’s vitally important to find furniture with dimensions appropriate for the space in which it will be placed. You may have fallen in love with your friend’s corner sofa and want a similar sofa, but is it suitable for your mini-living room? COREME is here to answer all your questions and meet your needs, offering products tailored to your tastes and desires. Indeed, our team is capable of adapting the sofa of your dreams to your interior! Custom-made is our spearhead.
Take careful measurements of the space to furnish it and reproduce it on paper. Don’t know how to draw? Don’t worry, we’re talking about drawing rectangles and squares here. A simple and intuitive way to organize furniture in space and check its scale is to cut out pieces of paper with the dimensions of the furniture you like and check if it fits in the room you’ve designed. In addition to checking the dimensions and proportions, you can play around and see the different placement possibilities to best optimize the space.
4 – HARMONY: MATERIALS AND COLORS
Furniture must be in harmony with the space in which it is located. That’s why at COREME we take into account the color of your floors, walls, and even ceilings to advise you and avoid potential matching problems. If you have a neutral space with light, soft tones and continuous or wooden floors, you can combine styles and colors without fear.