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Copyright 2008 Welcome Home Magazine

Fail Proof Furniture Placement Tips
If you are struggling with where your furniture, art and accessories should go in your new home, you should consider a new method to approaching these furniture dilemmas. It is called Visual Coordination and was developed by Carole Talbott.
• Empty the room of its contents; this allows you to see the architecture and start with a clean slate.
• Determine your FOCAL POINT. This will be a permanent architectural feature such as a fireplace, window or largest wall.
• As you put your furnishings back into a room, place largest piece of seating furniture first to directly face and look into the FOCAL POINT! Place next largest piece perpendicular to the largest and where they meet is the WEIGHT POINT! At the weight point you place light and build height.
• Sectional couches can be split up and wall units of 3 or more units can be separated and used to balance height in the room.
• Keep like pieces of furniture together. Example: matching couch & love seat or matching chairs. Don’t separate like pieces. Impact and volume is created when like items are kept together.
• In Visual Coordination couches are not set up across from each other. It sets up a separation and prevents a weaving traffic pattern.
• Next place area rugs, lamps and trees.
• Once your furniture is placed, it is time to hang art. There are two reasons to hang art. 1) Amplify an architectural space. 2) Extend a piece of furniture up the wall. Art should be hung no more that 6” above what is below it.
• Accessories are the last step to building your new room. Keep like things together and remember to create high points and low points with your accessories.
Lynne Abreu-Martin is a certified Visual Coordinator and a certified instructor. Lynne owns Westview Design, LLC and can be contacted at 303-521-7939.