Style Comfort! Style Comfort! Why do I have to choose one or the other? Why can’t I have both? With good design you can.

If you ask anyone in the street what qualities they expect from their home, comfort is probably one of the first to come to mind. It’s no secret that we all want to be as comfortable as possible in our homes.

Yet, the process of actually making your home comfortable can be surprisingly difficult. And sometimes it can seem tricky to make it work while still maintaining your sense of style and own unique decor.

Fortunately, there are always ways designing a home so the style comfort dilemma NEVER happens. It just takes a keen focus on details, large and small, to make it all happen. Let’s take a look at some of the ways to make your home comfortable without sacrificing any style.

The Style Comfort Space Ratio

If you want your home to be comfortable, you need to first focus on how much space there is to work with. If you have too much space, then you may find your home doesn’t feel at all cozy. Whereas if you have too little space, it will be cramped and nobody will feel truly at home.

You need to find a healthy balance. In a big room delineate areas of the room with rugs and furniture positioning. For example, place a large rug dunner the dining table and chairs to delineate the dining area. Arrange a three-seater sofa and to occasional chairs in an L-shape around a rug and a coffee table to delineate a lounge space. Use a hall table or console behind a sofa and place a lamp, stacks of books, a vase of flowers, etc to some some height.

It’s crucial to have a balance of size and placement. Don’t put loads of small furnishings in a big room; choose generous pieces and have fewer of them.

In a small room, choose pieces with legs so they appear to be ‘off the floor’, wall hang shelving, and have glass-top or transparent horizontal surfaces for dining and coffee tables. Hang mirrors to reflect light and keep window treatments minimal.

The Style Comfort Temperature Issue

This one is so useful to investigate because it doesn’t have any affect on the way a home looks. If you want your home to be as comfortable as possible, and you don’t want to change anything about the look at all, then you can achieve a lot by simply paying attention to the temperature within the home.

There are plenty of perfectly practical solutions to temperature issues, such as some simple residential air conditioning or a heater if you need it. Do whatever is necessary, and you will find this improves the comfort of the home greatly. – and you don’t need to worry at all about the decor.

Bold New Designs

Conversely, sometimes you are not comfortable in your home simply because the decor has outgrown you, or vice versa. When this happens, it can be surprising what a subtle but pervasive difference it can make to how you feel in the home. That is why it is absolutely worthwhile considering a change in decor from time to time.

You might even discover that doing so fixes the style comfort issue altogether, in which case you have killed two birds with one stone. Go for something bold and fresh, and something you really enjoy the look of, and you will feel more at home, and more comfortable within your home.

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