Interior designing your room can be quite a challenge, even more, if it is around a specific furniture or decor item.
You want to make sure that your room looks beautiful, without clashing elements and your intuition might not always be right about what works and what doesn’t. So here are the top 10 essential tips to know for designing your room around a table or desk. It doesn’t matter if the statement table or desk is a coffee table, nested table, side table, or even an office desk – the focus should be to blend it with the entire room set up and not make it look out of place.
- Start With An Empty Room:
For an overall home improvement, start with an empty room and go from there. To begin with place the table or desk in the area you want to and from there on choose the wall color, windows, light fixtures and then start adding bigger furniture and move on to smaller decor accessories. Try to always start with big things and move on to smaller ones, building the room bit by bit.
- Avoid Furniture Set:
If you are specifically arranging the room around one item, avoid furniture sets, or else the item might look out of place. Don’t make your room look cluttered by getting all pieces in a furniture set. Your home decor should be unique and have a character that evolves over time, it shouldn’t look like something you did overnight. The table or desk you buy should be evaluated and blended with the rest of the room decor and look natural, even if it be a coffee table, a side table, a nested table, or even an office desk.
- Don’t Go Overboard With The Theme:
Following a theme is a good idea as long as you don’t go overboard with it. For example, you can choose a metallic color scheme but when it’s all shiny and glossy and overpowers the rest of the decor, your room starts looking like a strange theme park. So avoid that and keep the theme subtle. Whatever theme you choose, it should be in sync with the table which is the focal point of your room.
- Take Time:
The most important thing to consider here is that you’re not going to complete the interior design of the room in a day. So don’t rush into buying your furniture especially if you’re on a budget. Take time to choose furniture and decor accessories for your room in terms of their functionality. Each piece of room decor has to live in your home and your interior design will grow over time.
- Choose Your White:
If you paint in white, you have to choose the right shade of white since there are thousands of whites to choose from. For example, if the table of your choice is a white one, you could choose the other furniture and decor items in shades of white but also ensure that it should not be too white as it will look unflattering and way too dull. Go for gradients, or shades and mix and match other neutral colors that complement the whites. Paint a board with a select color and go around the room to see how it looks in the layout and lighting.
- Experiment With Your Decor:
There’s a good home decor and there’s great home decor. What makes it great is that it surprises with personalized room decor tricks. You could paint your table, add an accent wall, set up the mood with floor lamps or ceiling lights, or add a shelf of houseplants around the coffee table in the room. Experiment with what you want to see in that room!
- Incorporate Splashes Of Colours:
Avoid making your room decor dull with too many neutral tones. If you have a neutral base for the statement table, then mix colors for the rest of the furniture. You could just use accent color throw pillows to add some color to your sofa beside the table, do it without going overboard.
- Create Vignette:
Vignettes create characters out of decor accessories on the statement table. But don’t make the mistake of placing all your personal belongings on display on the table. Group them in vignettes by carefully choosing what you want to show off and putting away the rest. Remember that you can change them up from time to time.
- Don’t Make The Corners Edgy:
Your table could have a lot of sharp edges so try to add decor accessories with rounded corners such as a round rug or round furniture like an ottoman or pouffe.
- Use Area Rugs:
What compliments a statement table is an area rug. It livens the space and makes it look bigger at the same time warmer. Rugs can create warmth and add layers to the room. Area rugs help the space to give a sophisticated look so ensure that you choose the rug carefully to add a pop of color, pattern and texture to the area where you place the statement table.
You might think that a table is not furniture that should be given too much time to think about but if you place it in the center of the room and want the area to look good and complement the space – you need to think wisely and make some really good choices for the items in and around it. Have you come across those rooms which look effortlessly beautiful? Well, if you have got these ideas right your room decor will be no less than an image out of a magazine. Try them right away and don’t forget to share your thoughts with us.
Ossie Barragan – A geek turned DIY & Woodworking enthusiast. From home decor, wood crafts and woodworking projects of any magnitude, I want to master it all.
