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A Living Room With a Softer Landing
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items Somewhere to settle, a lamp for the evening, a place for the book you’re halfway through. This Target edit brings together furniture and smaller finishing touches, so one corner can be the whole project.
Sections
5
Choose Your Corner
Light for the End of the Day
A Place for the Little Things
Layers and Shelf Details
Finish With Something Personal
Choose Your Corner
Choose Your Corner: A lounge chair or armchair starts the seating nook; an ottoman rounds it out. Let seat proportions, floor space, and a need for storage guide the combination.
Sometimes the room needs a seat that’s just for you. Start a reading corner with the Berea, then add a lamp and somewhere for your book. Leave a clear path past the chair, even with an ottoman in front.
Threshold Berea Slouchy Lounge Chair
A seating nook can start with two pieces. Pair your chair with the Lynwood when a cube shape feels right for the arrangement. Ottoman height is worth weighing against the chair’s seat height.
Threshold designed with Studio McGee Lynwood Cube Ottoman
The mushroom shape brings a little playfulness to the furniture mix. Storage gives it another reason to join a corner with a few loose things to tuck away. Choose what you’ll store first so the compartment size has a purpose.
Room Essentials Mushroom Storage Ottoman
An empty corner is an invitation to pull up a chair. The Esters gives you an armchair starting point for a seat away from the sofa. Seat depth helps narrow down the proportions you’ll want.
Threshold Esters Armchair
Light for the End of the Day
Light for the End of the Day: Floor lamps work from the ground up, while a table lamp puts an existing surface to work. Choose a silhouette that suits the space around your seat, with a small vase for the finishing touch.
Give the evening corner a lamp with some reach. This cantilever swing arm style makes the space beside and above the chair part of the plan. Allow room for the arm and shade as well as the base.
Threshold Cantilever Swing Arm Floor Lamp
A tripod base makes the lamp part of the furniture arrangement. Try this direction when there’s an open patch of floor beside the sofa. Keep the legs out of the route people take through the room.
Threshold Modern Tripod Floor Lamp
That side table could have an evening job, too. Add a table lamp when your seating corner already has a surface waiting for one. Save a little tabletop space for a drink or book.
Threshold designed with Studio McGee Table Lamp
A Place for the Little Things
A Place for the Little Things: A coffee table serves the sofa, a console fills a stretch of wall, and a side table keeps things near one seat. Pick the surface for the spot you actually use, then give loose odds and ends a basket.
The sofa needs somewhere for the evening’s small collection of things. Put the round Castalia at the center when cups and books need a shared landing spot. Tape out the diameter to picture the space between table and sofa.
Threshold Castalia Round Coffee Table
A bare stretch of wall can do more than hold another picture. The Castalia console gives you a surface to plan a lamp, framed photo, or small display around. Set aside one part of the surface for everyday drop-offs.
Threshold Castalia Console Table
Your favorite seat needs a nearby spot for the mug. The Woodland is the tall side-table choice for one end of the sofa or a separate chair. Use the seat’s arm height as a guide for table height.
Threshold Woodland Tall Side Table
The loose bits don’t all need a place on the coffee table. Give this large herringbone weave basket one job, from gathering throws to holding a reading pile. Keep the basket near the things it’s meant to gather.
Threshold Large Herringbone Weave Basket
Layers and Shelf Details
Layers and Shelf Details: A rug takes on the seating area; a throw, bookends, and framed art work in smaller doses. Start with the empty floor, bare wall, or shelf that catches your eye, and let that set the scale.
One small detail can be enough for a quiet tabletop. This short textured vase gives you a starting point without planning a whole display. An empty vase can be the entire arrangement.
Threshold Short Textured Vase
Look down when the seating area still feels unfinished. A 7-by-10-foot rug is a larger change to plan around the sofa and chairs. Lay out the footprint with tape before deciding where the furniture legs go.
Threshold 7′ × 10′ Area Rug
You don’t have to start with new furniture. A knit throw gives the sofa or chair another layer when you’re ready for a smaller change. Fold it over an arm so it’s easy to reach.
Threshold Knit Throw Blanket
Let the books have their moment on the shelf. This pair of bookends gives a short row of favorites a place in the display. Group the books you reach for most in one easy-to-find row.
Threshold Bookends, Set of 2
A blank wall doesn’t need a whole gallery. Silent Still is a framed-art starting point for the space above a console or beside your reading chair. A paper template makes it easier to settle on a hanging position.
Threshold Silent Still Framed Wall Art
Finish With Something Personal
Finish With Something Personal: Mirrors give a wall a focal point, while photo frames make room for your own pictures. Let the wall space guide the mirror shape and the photograph guide the frame.
For a fireplace wall that’s waiting for its main piece. This French Country mantle mirror gives the display a clear stylistic starting point. Use the specified securing method for your chosen display.
Threshold French Country Mantle Mirror
Give a small photograph a little breathing room. This 4-by-6-inch matted gallery frame makes one picture the focus of the arrangement. Choose the photo before planning the surrounding display.
Threshold designed with Studio McGee 4″ × 6″ Matted Gallery Frame
Some pictures are worth keeping close to your favorite seat. The 4-by-6-inch Thin Grain frame gives one of them a spot on a shelf or side table. Place it where you’ll see it from the chair, not just the doorway.
Threshold 4″ × 6″ Thin Grain Frame
Let the outline do a little of the decorating. This scalloped wall mirror is a finishing piece for a bare spot that could use a distinct shape. Plan its placement around the view you want reflected.
Threshold Scalloped Wall Mirror