You can find a wide array of home furniture styles today to fit your tastes, your needs and the needs of your family. Whether you plan to use your home furniture for lounging around the den watching movies, or if you want to use your home furniture to make a strong statement when you have friends over for entertaining, you can find something that fits the bill. Here are a few of the popular home furniture styles and where each type of furniture is most “at home.”
Relaxed
The relaxed style has been around for years but has recently gotten an update. In the past, relaxed home furniture had the stigma of being ugly brown velour on overstuffed rocking recliners. Not anymore. Give your old worn out home furniture the boot and make way for classy, new home furniture that still fits your relaxation requirements. Not only are these pieces re-engineered for extra comfort, but they also look so much better than your old “broken in” home furniture.
Some new comfort styles include the chair-and-a-half — an overstuffed lounging chair, which is as wide as one and a half chairs. It is basically half a seat short of a loveseat. You can also get an updated twist on the hide-a-bed — add it to the chair-and-a-half. If you’re looking for a great place to store all those toys sitting around the room, try dumping them IN your ottoman. Now you can get overstuffed ottomans that open like piano benches and have amazing storage capacity.
The relaxed home furniture style is a great choice for families to put in their den or TV room. This home furniture is wonderful for lazy days and completely lives up to its name — relaxed. You probably will not plan to use the relaxed style home furniture for your formal living room or for entertaining guests, but it will quickly become your favorite furniture.
Urban
The urban home furniture style has been coming into popularity over the last few years as the industrial look has been coming back into style. Home furniture designers are enjoying creating new and different looks, which hearken back to the industrial designs of the 50s but with a modern flair.
The urban look uses wire and metal accents to create the industrial feel. Tables, chairs and accessories will all tie together with seamless, straight lines and strong angles. Everything will be designed with the idea of access to technology in mind. For example, a great new urban living room entertainment set would make a statement with plenty of space for a big screen TV, open glass shelving, and angular wood and metal lines.
This type of home furniture, with its youthful lines, is great for singles or young couples. It is also perfect for a contemporary living room for a family — if you can keep your kids behaved in the room.
Custom-made
Custom-made home furniture is an option for those of you who are choosy about your home furniture and want it designed exactly to your specifications. When you have your home furniture handmade, you can also make it fit a room’s style perfectly. The quality of handmade furniture is usually superior to store-bought home furniture.
The drawback to custom-made furniture is the cost. Unless you can find an amazing deal, you will usually end up paying more for handmade furniture. But for those of you who are handy with a saw, you can download plans from New Yankee Workshop or rent videos from the public library and get to work on making your own custom-built furniture.
By D. Blair Thompson