Where have you placed your sofa in the living room? The sofa is one of the most important furnishing elements in our home, and deciding where to place it is definitely an important choice. A sofa, in fact, can be positioned in any part of our living room, for example against the wall or in the middle of the room. The sofa can also be an excellent strategic solution for dividing the kitchen and living area. In this article we recommend some solutions for positioning your sofa strategically, in order to achieve a good result both from a furnishing point of view and in terms of practicality.
What to put behind the sofa in an open-plan space
Let’s consider this first possibility: we have an open-plan room that includes the kitchen and the living room. Our sofa can be a valid alternative to replacing a wall as the divider between the kitchen and the living area. But how do you integrate the sofa into the décor? Is it better to leave it free in the middle of the room or place a piece of furniture right behind it? Here are 3 good solutions:
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The sofa in the middle of the room.
Placing the sofa in the middle of the room is a good way to keep space on all sides so you can move around easily and also enjoy time together with family or guests while meals are being prepared. Think of a family: while the parents are busy preparing dinner in the kitchen, the children could sit comfortably on the sofa watching a cartoon, without the worry of having to check on them every 5 minutes because they’re right in front of our eyes.
Sofa in the middle of the room – divani.store
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Furnishing elements behind the sofa.
Placing the sofa in the middle of an open-plan space also allows us to have enough room to decide to add some furnishing elements right behind it, such as a lamp! Whether you’re a writer or someone who keeps working on the sofa at home until late in the evening, having a lamp right above us to light up our book or computer could be a strategic solution to avoid straining our eyesight too much.
Sofa bed with lamp – divani.store
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Furniture behind the sofa in an open-plan space.
The sofa can also be placed next to a more substantial piece of furniture if space allows, such as a sideboard, for example. With an open-plan space available, the possibilities are truly endless, and having an additional piece of furniture between the living room and kitchen could simply give us extra space to store dishes or plates.
What to put behind a sofa against the wall
If we don’t have an open-plan space available, or if we simply prefer to place our sofa against a wall in the room, we can think about adding some furnishing elements right above it.
- Pictures: pictures are a great way to create a more comfortable, chromatically balanced environment. Whether they’re compositions of multiple pictures, photographs, or graphic prints, the wall will certainly be decorated just enough to make our guests feel at ease.
Linear sofa against the wall – divani.store
- The clock can certainly be a useful and design-forward element at the same time, which could complete the wall behind our sofa.
- Finally, why not consider some shelves? We could place souvenirs from our travels on them, some photographs, or vases with trailing plants to maintain a green, natural style.
