Moving into a new home can be one of life’s great joys, but it can also be a time of uncertainty, especially when it comes to furnishing.

How to best enhance a space so that it reflects your personal sense of style? Furnishing a home is not as easy as it seems, and perhaps that’s why the free app Homestyler interior design has been gaining so much popularity in recent months (for professionals, we suggest ours).

Choose the right furniture and you’ll end up with a comfortable and likely happy home. Do it poorly, and you’ll find yourself with a mix of furniture, fabrics, and colors that don’t communicate with each other.

With a bit of planning and with our help, you’ll have a much better chance of success.

Don’t Start at the Furniture Store

A well-known piece of advice is not to go grocery shopping when you’re hungry. The same concept applies to furniture stores: don’t go just because you have an empty house. Yes, you need a sofa, but if you choose it just because you like it in the store, without measuring or thinking about the rest of the room, you’ll soon stop liking it. The rest of the room will have to be designed around it, and if it’s too large for the space, the result will be underwhelming.

Where should you start? With a tape measure and a notepad: take all the room’s measurements to have a sort of floor plan you can refer to when needed.

How Do You Want to Live?

There are no right or wrong answers here. The style can be traditional or modern, formal or relaxed… You need to understand how you want to live in a given space. How many people will be there? Are there children?

Decorating a home for someone who hosts friends for dinner, for example, should be different from a home for someone who often eats out. The person who plans to host frequently should have a different living room than someone who just dreams of lounging on the couch in front of the TV.

Display Furniture Pieces in Odd Numbers

This is a small secret, but it can provide an overall pleasing aesthetic. Place three ornaments on your tables, always decorate in odd numbers because it’s simply more pleasing to the eye. Try it: they are aesthetically more appealing!

Take Your Time!

You don’t need to furnish all the rooms at once. Purchase the essentials (a characterful coffee table, for example), then take a breath and imagine exactly how you want your home’s decor to be.
Don’t rush, you don’t have to furnish it completely right after moving in. Initially fill it with pieces you love, even if it means keeping the walls bare for several months or not having all the seating for a while. Take time to get to know your home: let it speak to you… Stay tuned.

Shop in Unexpected Places

Don’t settle for simple white sheets when you can have something playful that better suits your style, even if it comes from the children’s section.
If you love bright colors and quirky patterns and can’t find the bedding you like in stores, check out the children’s selection. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to find more personality-filled and truly trendy offers at the moment. But this is just an example of what you can do by letting your imagination run free.

Learn the Art

And Set It Aside!

Look in design books and magazines, research online on how to furnish a home or specific environments, as well as online resources like Pinterest and Instagram to refine your personal style and develop a “dossier” of favorite images.

Once you have the images you like, study the details, how the furniture is arranged, and how color is successfully used. It will help to unify everything, don’t you think?

These are our tips for not losing your way in the sea of furnishing. If you need any more suggestions, don’t hesitate to contact us.