An L-shaped living room is a challenge, both to organize the furniture and to decorate and make the most of it. But don’t be put off by that, as you can make the most of it and enjoy it accordingly.
In this article we will give you some tips so that the design is not only beautiful, but also functional and according to your particular tastes.
Tips for organizing an L-shaped room
If you have an L-shaped living room, you don’t have to feel sorry or anything like that… It is an environment with a lot of potential! And you will also have the advantage of combining the dining room and the living room in the same space, if you know how to organize it well. Pay attention to these tips:
1. Pay attention to the light
This is extremely important since the deficiency of natural light can be responsible for a design that we do not like so much or that no matter how you decorate, the environment is in darkness.
If you are lucky enough to have large windows, make the most of them. How? With light and semitransparent curtains that allow light to pass through at any time of the day. In this way, the environment will appear much larger.
But if the windows do not have interesting dimensions or if due to the location of the room you do not receive sun, then you will have to find a way to illuminate artificially. That does not mean that you install lamps everywhere, but it does mean that you arrange them in strategic areas, such as on top of the dining room table or on the side of the sofa.
2. Choose an L-shaped sofa
With an L-shaped room , you will have to think everything in ‘L’. And that includes buying a sofa that simulates this letter. It will be more than good and will adapt perfectly to the environment. In addition, it is very comfortable and allows you to invite many people or lie down to watch television at night.
3. Everything in its place
Continuing with the premise of thinking in L, you must imagine this letter to determine where you will place the dining room and in which the living room. It all depends on your tastes and activities.
For example, if there are many to dinner or you invite people every weekend to taste your gastronomic delights, we recommend that you place the dining room table in the longest part of the room.
If the main protagonist of your conferences or your events is the sofa (you are a movie buff, you prefer to lie down to read every night, etc.) then leave the room for the longest area and the table for the shortest.
In any case, you can differentiate between the spaces in some specific way : with different tiles on the floor, with a carpet in the living room, with the walls painted in another color, etc.
4. Same decoration?
It is becoming more and more fashionable for environments to have a specific design. For example, Japanese style for the bedroom, Mediterranean for the kitchen, minimalist for the living room and modern for the desk.
In an L-shaped room you must be very careful in this regard, since although there are differences between the environments, they are also united due to the lack of dividing walls. Therefore, you can always highlight each room within the color palette or following the same decorative trend.
5. Separate the zones
If you do not want the L-shaped living room to be so ‘open’ and you want to separate the living room from the dining room well, you always have the possibility of placing a physical separation. This does not mean that you should build a wall. There are other alternatives for each part of the L to be separated from the other.
For example, some opt for a smoked glass partition, others for a wooden screen (or oriental style) and there are those who buy the famous wooden cubes that are arranged like a pyramid and serve to decorate and separate at the same time.
There is also the option of putting a library or divider furniture, but you will always have to pay attention to the direction of natural light, depending on where the windows are. If you put a very robust object that covers the brightness, it is not a good idea.
As you can see, there are different ways to decorate and organize an L-shaped room, it is just a matter of imagining how each space would look according to our daily activities.
read also this article from forsimplytech to learn how to decorate your living room
